Dr Lartey graduated from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2022 with a Master’s in Global Public Health and as a 2020 Harvard Presidential Scholar. He also holds another Master’s in Public Health Promotion and Education from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He has over 5 years of experience in innovative youth advocacy and health promotion. He is the Founder/Executive director of Books for…
Bukhtawar Azhar, BDS, MPH
Dr. Bukhtawar Azhar, a dentist trained in Pakistan, completed her Master’s in Public Health at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2023. Prior to her master’s, she was the founder and program manager for the Program of Safe Dentistry, where she worked on improving infection prevention control policies and practices in Pakistan. She also dedicated her efforts to improving dental practice management in the region. During her master’s,…
Kiana Beheshtian
Kiana is a second-year Master of Public Health (MPH) student and Health Equity scholar at Brown University, concentrating in Epidemiology and Health Services. Before coming to Brown, she earned her B.A. in Public Health from the University of California, Merced, where she observed significant health disparities and inequities in California’s vulnerable Central Valley. Kiana’s goal is to apply her knowledge in public health to develop equitable, efficient, and effective solutions…
Emily Brown
Emily is a Research Associate for the lab focusing on digital health innovation and implementation. Emily has 6+ years of experience in strategic advisory and consulting specializing in healthcare financing, supply chain management, and product innovation. Emily has worked on projects spanning the globe including work in South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and North America. Her work has touched on diverse topic areas including but not limited…
Eunsoo Cho
Eunsoo Cho is a Master of Science student in Global Health and Population at Harvard University. As a Research Scholar and Graduate Research Assistant, she is actively involved in the Data Collaborative on Health Systems Performance (DC-HSP) and the Global Collaborative for Changing Diabetes in Children (GC-CDC). With two years of experience in public health and data analytics, Eunsoo has previously worked at the U.S. Embassy, the International Vaccine Institute,…
Johnattan García Ruiz, MPH, MBA, LL.B.
Johnattan Garcia Ruiz received his Law degree from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, a Master of Public Health degree in Global Health from Harvard University, and an MBA from Reuben College, University of Oxford. He is also a Lecturer at Universidad de los Andes School of Law and Universidad del Rosario School of Medicine and Health Sciences, both in Bogota, Colombia. Johnattan served at the Colombian Ministry of…
Christina Schweitzer MD, MPhil, BSc
Dr. Schweitzer is a current Master of Public Health in Health Policy student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. She is part of the Harvard Public Health Leadership Concentration and is a Horace W. Goldsmith Scholarship Fellow. An inaugural Health Systems Innovation Fellow at the Global Surgery Foundation and the Health Systems Innovation Lab at Harvard University, Dr. Schweitzer studies innovative global health systems financing…
Catalina Melendez Contreras, MD
Catalina Melendez-Contreras is a medical graduate from Colombia, currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Health, with a concentration in Global Health, from Harvard University. She collaborates with the Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab as a research assistant on the Integrated Cancer Control Initiative – Latin America project, focusing on the development of a learning network within this region, as a means to fill knowledge gaps and strengthen health system’s outcomes…
Vipul Aggarwal, MBBS, MBA, MPH(c)
Dr Vipul Aggarwal is a serving Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of 2001 batch, Gujarat cadre. He is a medical doctor turned cop who is known to be a pragmatic and proactive officer with more than 19 years of work experience behind him. A meritorious student all his life, Dr. Aggarwal was the All India Topper in the Secondary School Examination (Class X). He graduated from the prestigious Maulana Azad…
Carlo Keenan Ross, BSc, MBChB
Dr Ross is a Research Assistant at the Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab and a Master’s in Public Health 2023 candidate at Harvard University with a background as an academic doctor in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Carlo undertook his pre-clinical training at the University of St Andrews before completing his clinical training in Manchester. Carlo has worked with the Kenya-UK Health Alliance to coordinate an annual…