Mrinalini Darswal, DrPH '23
Sarah Tsay, DrPH ’23
2021
February 2021
Mrinalini Darswal, DrPH ’23, wrote an article for News 18 titled “Covid-19 Vaccines: How Global Research Answers FAQs” discussing how India was able to leverage her position as a global leader in vaccines to reach shots to poorer nations and is also able to make cover shortfalls in richer countries
January 2021
Sarah Tsay, DrPH ’23, collaborated and contributed to Professor Satchit Balsari’s Team at Crisis Ready, a translational data readiness group that was created at Harvard and Direct Relief during COVID-19 response
2020
November 2020
Sherine Andreine Powerful, DrPH ’21, won a research grant from the Center for Positive Sexuality for intersectional research on race and sexuality that centers Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples.
October 2020
Sherine Andreine Powerful, DrPH ’21, co-authored an essay on collective thriving built on shared cultural values of community-and-self-care, connections via crossing borders, and intergenerational knowledge(s) during COVID-19. The essay is titled “Thriving Despite, Worlds-Shifting through Corona“.
August 2020
Anton Castellanos Usigli, DrPH ’22, was selected to join the 2020 cohort of Adrian Cheng Fellows by The Social Innovation and Change Initiative (SICI) at Harvard Kenndy School
May 2020
Sachin Silva, DrPH ’20, co-authored an article for Global Policy Journal titled “Closing the Equity Financing Gap during the COVID-19 Crisis: The Emergence of Sovereign Wealth Funds with Expiration Dates”.
Tariana Little, DrPH ’20, published a video series titled #StayHopeful, which features 8 individuals across Greater Boston, from a 6th grade artist to a best-selling author, on reflections, advice, and visions for themselves and our future in COVID-19
April 2020
Sachin Silva, DrPH ’20, co-authored an article for Project Syndicate titled “What Caused the COVID-19 Testing Deficit”.
Bhargav Krishna, DrPH ’21, joined the NewsLaundry podcast to discuss questions about the COVID-19 pandemic, from the accuracy of prediction models for India to the media’s coverage of the crisis.
Sachin Silva, DrPH ’20, co-authored an article for the Global Policy Journal titled “Factoring Pandemic Risks into Financial Modelling”.
March 2020
Sachin Silva, DrPH ’20, co-authored an article for The Economist titled “COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerates the Rise of Digital Payments”.
Sachin Silva, DrPH ’20, co-authored an article for Project Syndicate titled “The COVID-19 Cash Out”.
January 2020
Anton Castellanos Usigli, DrPH ’22, had an article published by NBC News on his HIV prevention work in Brooklyn, NY
2019
December 2019
Amy Bantham, DrPH ’20, describes her research (Doctoral Project) on physician-prescribed exercise referral programs for cardiac rehabilitation at the AHA Scientific Sessions.
November 2019
Akosua Adu-Boahene, DrPH ’22, opened a non-profit free clinic (WTL Health Clinic) in Pawtucket RI. WTL Health Clinic was recently granted its full license from the Rhode Island Department of Health to operate as an Organized Ambulatory Care Facility in the state of Rhode Island.
October 2019
Cristina Alonso, DrPH ’21, offered her impromptu services as an interpreter for Justice Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá
August 2019
Bryan Buckley, DrPH ’20, was profiled as a Lifelong Scholar and Agent of Change at Michigan State University (MSU) Division of Public Health.
June 2019
Chia En “Allen” Lien, DrPH ’20, gave the 2019 Commencement address at National Taiwan University.
May 2019
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, presented a poster at the Global Health Security Conference titled: “‘One ASEAN’: Can It Deliver Universal Health Coverage and Global Health Security?” in Sydney, Australia
Joseph Fitchett, DrPH ’20, wrote an article for British diagnostic company Mologic on its development of a new lateral flow testing platform and its partnership with West African Dx Center
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, wrote an article for the International Health Policies titled “From “Health for All” to “Universal Health”: The Americas Region Seems to Get it. Again”
Faraaz Mahomed, DrPH ’19, wrote an article for the Harvard Gazette focusing on mental health care and how it is provided around the world, particularly in resource-poor settings, and on how that care can be improved through an emphasis on the human rights of those using mental health services
April 2019
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, with Gianna Gayle Amul wrote an article titled “‘Sin tax’: making clear who commits the sin.” via BMJ Global Health
March 2019
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, is one of five women in Boston selected for the Young Philanthropist Fellowship led by The Philanthropy Connection (TPC). TPC’s mission is to inspire, teach, and enable women in Massachusetts to engage in collective philanthropy. The first of its kind nationally, the TPC Young Philanthropist Fellowship aims to support and encourage the next generation of philanthropists.
Margaret Sullivan, DrPH ’19, The Relational Aspect of Primary Care with Immigrant Patients via The Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery
Margaret Sullivan, DrPH ’19, will be speaking at a webinar titled Trauma-Informed Cervical Cancer Screening in Women with Experience of Homelessness: Translating Principles Into Practice presented by The National Health Care for the Homeless Council
February 2019
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, “#DecolonizeGlobalHealth: Rewriting the narrative of global health.” via International Health Policies
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, “Political Economy of PMAC: Who Gets Invited, Who Doesn’t, and So What.” via International Health Policies
January 2019
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, received a Civic Leadership Fellowship from the New Leaders Council (NLC). The NLC is the hub for progressive millennial thought leadership. Anchored by its six-month training program, the NLC Institute, NLC equips young leaders with the skills to run for office, manage campaigns, create start-ups and networks of thought leaders.
2018
December 2018
Elvis Garcia, DrPH ’19, and Sana Mostaghim, DrPH ’18 help develop global vaccine access strategy at Takeda
November 2018
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, named one of the Raffles Fellows by the National University of Singapore. The Fellowship recognizes emerging scholars and leaders in global health from Asia.
Sherine A. Powerful, DrPH ’21, wrote her first article as a Voices in Leadership Writing Fellow titled Culture Change, Flourishing, and Thriving: On Inclusive Excellence At and Beyond Harvard with John Wilson
Bryan O. Buckley, DrPH ’20, elected as the new Chair of the Community Health Planning and Policy Development of APHA (American Public Health Association)
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, selected in El Mundo newspaper’s Boston Latino 30 Under 30 which spotlights the 30 most influential young Latinos in Boston
October 2018
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, “Climate and Health: The Heart of the Health Policy Nexus.” via Global Health Now
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, “A journey of friendship: how Alma-Ata made us young global health leaders.” with Roopa Dhatt via International Health Policies
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, “ALMA-ATA at 40: Time to Expand to Planetary Health Care.” via Health and Human Rights Journal
Eric Coles, DrPH ’20, wrote an article as a Voices in Leadership Writing Fellow titled Principled Leadership: Lessons from David Shulkin, Former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, selected to participate in a regionally competitive fellowship sponsored by the 2018-19 Food Solutions New England’s Network Leadership Institute
Eric Coles, DrPH ’20, wrote an article for The Harvard Crimson titled The Mental Health Crisis on College Campuses
September 2018
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, “Want to transform global health? Start with WHO interns” via PLOS Blogs Global Health
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, interviewed by Boston Network News on racial inequities in maternal health and her short documentary, Stories of Black Motherhood
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, was profiled by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health about the program she launched that provides homeless students with easy-to-prepare food.
August 2018
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, named a “Thought Leader (Columnist)” by Rappler, the Philippines’ largest online news organization, writing articles on different topics relevant to Philippine health, environment, and development. View his first article here
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, writes about her Summer Field Immersion as a fellow in the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (Boston, MA) via medium.com.
July 2018
Morissa Sobelson, DrPH’19, discusses her collaborative work in Utah to prevent suicide via Deseret News – work continuing from her Winter Team-Based and Summer Field Immersions as her DELTA Doctoral Project.
June 2018
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, interviewed for American Public Health Association’s The Nation’s Health looking back at experience in American Journal of Public Health inaugural Think Tank.
May 2018
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, featured in a short film “Achieving Global Health Security and Universal Health Coverage”, which features participants in a workshop convened by The University of Edinburgh and Georgetown University, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (Begin video at 30:35)
Ramon Lorenzo Luis Guinto, DrPH ’19, delivered a presentation entitled “Universal Health Coverage in ‘One ASEAN’: Are Migrants Included?” at the First World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health in Edinburgh, Scotland
Lamees El-Sadek, DrPH ’20, What do you say to a four-year-old white supremacist? via The Guardian.
Tayeisha Jackson, DrPH ’18, Humaniartian heart, analytical mind.
April 2018
Morissa Sobelson, DrPH ’19, asks There’s No Federal Money For Gun Research. Will Private Funders Step Up? in WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
March 2018
Denizhan Duran, DrPH ’19, selected as the first Harvard Ministerial Doctoral Fellow for his upcoming DELTA Doctoral Project.
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, speaks with Boston University’s Neighborhood Network News to promote the Youth & Public Health Summit to be held in partnership with the Harvard Chan Offices of Diversity and Inclusion and Community Engagement.
Bryan O. Buckley, Allen Chia En Lien and Mohd Lutfi Fadil Bin Lokman, all DrPH ’20, take deep dive into field of tele-mental health for their Winter Team-Based Field Immersion at McLean Hospital.
January 2018
Jun Nakagawa, DrPH ’19, Nudging ER Doctors to Prevent Opioid Overdoses in WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, reflects on workshopping ideas as a Four94 Scratchpad Fellow this winter.
2017 Archive
November 2017
Eric Coles, DrPH ’20, Skip the Game in the Harvard Crimson.
October 2017
Harvard DrPH Graduate Profile: Jeremy Lapedis, DrPH ’17, reflects on his time in the DrPH Program.
September 2017
Harvard DrPH Graduate Profile: Gabriel Seidman, DrPH ’17, reflects on his time in the DrPH Program.
Chris Wheelahan, DrPH ’18, has DELTA Doctoral Project, a nonprofit, tech startup called Huntington Health Innovations, accepted into the 2017 Accelerator Program at Propeller, a social venture incubator in New Orleans.
August 2017
Tariana V. Little, DrPH ’20, reflects on her work in the Dominican Republic through the lens of the Enabling Change Program and her Summer coursework.
July 2017
Cohort 4 students visit the Massachusetts State House as guests of Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez during New Student Orientation.
May 2017
Guilherme Trivellato, DrPH ’17, reflects on his experience in the DrPH Program as part of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “Why Public Health” video series.
Claire Chaumont, DrPH ’18, Understanding the Ebola Narrative published in the Harvard Kennedy School Review (KSR).
April 2017
Renzo Guinto, M.D., DrPH ’19, Building the Social Foundations of Planetary Health.
March 2017
Paola Abril Campos, DrPH ’19, Awarded Best Overall Poster at Harvard T.H. Chan School State of Global Health Symposium Student Poster Session at 3rd Annual Global Health Week: Experiences of street harassment and social cohesion among women in Mexico City. Original research accepted by Salud Pública de México September 2016.
January 2017
Jazmine Garcia Delgadillo, Paola Abril Campos and Maggie Sullivan, all DrPH’19, receive Agents of Change grant from Harvard Center for Primary Care to research hospitalization of homeless in Boston.
Update March, 2018 – Over the past year, the team aimed to create tools and training programs that enable the integration of care and services for homeless persons to improve health outcomes and decrease avoidable ER and hospital usage. BHCHP is one of nine service providers taking part in a two-year pilot of the Health Policy Commission Consortium to integrate care of homeless persons; the Social Determinants team were a critical contributor to the Consortium’s work. Moving forward, the team encourages case managers at BHCHP to incorporate monthly lunch talks on social determinants of health to teach each other new skills (via HMS Online).
January 2017
Nathan Blanchet of Results for Development (R4D) and Rebecca Hope of YLabs discuss experiences as DELTA Doctoral Project supervisors via Harvard T.H. Chan Office of Alumni Affairs.
2014 - 2016 Archives
September 2016
Vanessa Brizuela, DrPH’18, reflects on student partnership with Harvard Global Health Education and Learning Incubator.
August 2016
Pablo Villalobos, DrPH’18, spends Summer 2 Field Immersion working with the Superintendecia de Salud in Santiago, Chile: International Experiences in Reforming Health Insurance. Pablo presented a general panorama of global health insurance reforms in order to highlight alternatives available for the Chilean reform. The international experience will allow the Chilean decision makers to understand the main advantages and disadvantages of diverse insurance schemes, learning from others’ experiences in designing health insurances and implementing reforms.
Renzo Guinto, DrPH ’19, co-authored letter to the editor, Threats to Malaria Elimination in the Himalayas, published in The Lancet Global Health.
July 2016
Kuanysh Yergaliyev, MD, MPH, DrPH ’19, spends Summer 2 Field Immersion Project at Boston Children’s Hospital with Harvard T.H. Chan faculty member, S. Bryn Austin, ScD: A Policy Translation Project Under Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders Program (STRIPED).
Yadira Almodóvar-Díaz, DrPH ’17, focuses her DELTA Doctoral Project on improving the health care system in her native Puerto Rico.
April 2016
Joe Fitchett, DrPH ’20, co-led development of patient-centered mobile app nominated as finalist for President’s Challenge.
Cohort 2 team spends three-week Winter Field Immersion at Intermountain Healthcare looking at how to work with local leaders and internal stakeholders to meet the health needs of people in Salt Lake City region.
Claire Chaumont, DrPH ’18 and Joe Fitchett, DrPH ’20, collaborate on Forum of Finance Ministers Report: Poverty Alleviation and the Economic Benefits of Investing in Health.
February 2016
Daniel Vigo, M.D., DrPH ’17, collaborated with Prof. Graham Thornicroft, Ph.D. and Prof. Rifat Atun on the article Estimating the true global burden of mental illness, published online by The Lancet Psychiatry.
September 2014
Faculty members Peter Berman Ian Lapp introduce DrPH Program at Harvard Symposium: Rethinking Public Health Education.
July 2014
Assistant Secretary for Health for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Howard Koh to rejoin HSPH Faculty.
