Staff

SENIOR STAFF

Jocelyn E. Finlay is Director of the Research Core. She holds a PhD in Economics. Jocelyn works on research topics that relate reproductive health, fertility and female labor supply using a range of statistical techniques. She also works on child and maternal health issues using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys. She works with Stata and ArcGIS. jfinlay@hsph.harvard.edu

Kirk Kinder serves as the Director of Administration and Finance for all the center’s activities. He is responsible for budget planning, endowment and grants management, proposal preparation, plus operations functions and staffing needs of the Center. He has many years of experience at HSPH as administrator in the Department of Environmental Health where he managed a large portfolio of sponsored funding, and at FAS in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures where he worked with faculty and students on all aspects of departmental administration. kkinder@hsph.harvard.edu

Laura Price serves as Program Director. This arm of the Center encompasses the educational and training initiatives, regular and special events including seminars, and marketing/development areas. Laura leads these efforts and is responsible for setting programmatic goals, building strategic partnerships both domestically and internationally, and disseminating the work and accomplishments of the Center. She has over 20 years experience in project management, marketing, and development at both Harvard and other academic institutions. lprice@hsph.harvard.edu

RESEARCH CORE STAFF

Principal Analysts:

Mariana Arcaya is a Research Scientist whose work focuses on the intersection of urban planning and public health. She holds a ScD in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health and a Master of City Planning from MIT. She previously managed the Public Health Division of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, assisting Massachusetts municipalities in implementing community-based wellness initiatives and overseeing the agency’s Health Impact Assessment Practice. Her research interests include neighborhood effects on health, health disparities, and correlated data analysis. She works with Stata, SAS, MLwiN, MPlus, and ArcGIS. mca767@mail.harvard.edu

Iván Mejía is Research Associate/Principal Analyst. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and he was a postdoctoral fellow and associate specialist in the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging at UC Berkeley. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. His research interests include applied statistics, population aging and intergenerational transfers. He has significant experience in statistical modeling. He works with Stata, SAS, R, Matlab, Java, etc. imejiag@hsph.harvard.edu

Sze Yan (Sam) Liu is a Principal Analyst. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology. Sam’s main research interests are lifecourse epidemiology, health disparities, and the relationship between education and health. She has experience  working with various statistical techniques using SAS, Stata and R. szeliu@hsph.harvard.edu

Research Support Staff

Rachel Boyce is Data Coordinator. She manages acquisition, harmonization and maintenance of large data sets (DHS, IPUMS International, Gallup, Eurostat, NHIS, CPS) for Pop Center members to use through the RCE. Additionally, Rachel provides higher level technical support for hardware, software for both Mac and PC. She has experience working in SAS and Stata and is available to troubleshoot programming logic. She is also a key member of the grant making team in developing methods for streamlining the grant application process. rboyce@hsph.harvard.edu

Martha Fay is Research Analyst. She holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy of Science and a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology. Martha works with faculty, fellows, and students in developing sound research design, implementation, and management. She assists with both the broad conceptual design as well as the finer details of rigorous implementation. She assists faculty with meticulous and critical editing of articles and proposals, is part of the grant writing team and assists with developing methodologies for data collection, data management and data sharing plans. mfay@hsph.harvard.edu

Maria Joy is Program Coordinator for the Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) and Research Assistant for the research Core. She holds a Master of Public Policy.  Her responsibilities include managing operations for PGDA and providing research support for projects examining reproductive health, fertility and female labor supply. mjoy@hsph.harvard.edu

Meghan Perdue is Project Coordinator and Research Assistant for the HCPDS. She is in charge of coordinating and submitting grants and advising in the grant writing process. She assists in post-award grant management and research reporting. She assists faculty members assemble and write grants, from inception and submission, continued through the acceptance and research process. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in government at Harvard. mperdue@hsph.harvard.edu

Mack Ramsey is Information Manager. He compiles codebooks and documentation for data collection efforts run by Pop Center faculty. Mack manages the acquisition and management of the public use HRS (and all other public use longitudinal retirement survey data), and maintains these datasets on the RCE for Pop Center members to use. Mack also administers RCE account access, all of the IRB applications, manages the enclave data rooms, and works on data security compliance. mramsey@hsph.harvard.edu

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Claudette Agustin is Executive Assistant in the Center, reporting to Director Lisa Berkman. She is responsible for maintaining Professor Berkman’s schedule, setting up and maintaining files, coordinating travel arrangements, among other duties. Claudette also provides support in grant preparation, event planning, marketing/communications and other center-wide initiatives. cagustin@hsph.harvard.edu

Panka Deo serves as Office Manager/Financial Assistant for the Center. His responsibilities include processing of reimbursements and vendor payments, and assisting the director of finance with grants management, new hire paperwork and payroll.  Panka manages basic IT and audiovisual issues, and oversees all building operations and maintenance. pdeo@hsph.harvard.edu

PROGRAM STAFF

Anna Mirny is a Research Associate at the HCPDS. Anna is an educational researcher holding an Ed.D. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has extensive experience working in curriculum development and evaluation of international educational programs. Dr. Mirny serves as director of education for HCPDS’s work on INTREC, an international collaborative action envisioned to address health inequities in LMICs of Africa and Asia. The training activities for which she’ll develop with a team of Harvard faculty will target health researchers and policy makers in seven developing countries. amirny@hsph.harvard.edu

Angela Smith Waxman is the HCPDS Program Coordinator. Ms. Smith-Waxman assists in the planning and administration of the Center’s numerous seminars, special events and exploratory workshops. She manages seminar speaker arrangements, program materials, publicity and budget. She also provides support for the postdoctoral training programs, assists with coordinating grant proposals and maintains the Center’s social media and communication efforts. asmithwa@hsph.harvard.edu