Rebekka Lee

Rebekka Lee, ScD

Bekka Lee is a Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Bekka is also the Director of the Community Engagement Program at Harvard Catalyst providing capacity building on mixed methods, implementation science, and community-engaged research to faculty, staff, students, and community partners. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating community-based interventions that translate into real world policy and environmental change, focusing in particular on investigating the…

Shoba Ramanadhan

Shoba Ramanadhan, ScD, MPH

Shoba Ramanadhan, ScD, MPH is a behavioral scientist with expertise in implementation science, cancer disparities, and community-based participatory research. Her work focuses on strengthening systems in underserved communities to leverage the best available evidence for cancer prevention and control. Her research falls into three streams. First, she designs and evaluates workforce development interventions to promote the use of research evidence within community settings in the US and India. This work also…

James Daly, MPH

James Daly, MPH

James Daly, MPH is a Research Project Manager at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences where he supports research at the Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control Equity (ISCCCE), Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity. (HPRC) and the Community Engagement Program at Harvard Catalyst. This work involves conducting and overseeing mixed-methods research involving interviews, observations, and surveys with city and state…

Trang Nguyen

Trang Nguyen-Dafforn

Trang Nguyen is the Program Coordinator for Harvard Catalyst Community Engagement Program (CEP), and provides project management and administrative support for CEP. Before joining the team in June 2020, she worked as an Executive Coordinator at Harvard Medical School Executive Education, and worked on building programs that engage business leaders whose work impacts health care and expose them to the real-world practice of medicine, cutting-edge trends in science, clinical workflows…

Gina Kruse, MD, MPH

Gina Kruse, MD, MPH is a clinician investigator in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She trained in internal medicine and primary care at Mass General. She completed a Harvard Medical School General Internal Medicine research fellowship, earned her MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cancer Prevention from the Harvard School of Public Health Department of…

Maddie Davies, MPH

Maddie Davies, MPH

Maddie Davies, MPH is the Implementation Team’s Senior Project Manager. Before joining the team in January 2020,  she worked at Boston Children’s Hospital in the Office of Community Health. In her role at Children’s, she managed the Fitness in the City program, a childhood obesity intervention in health centers, and also worked on health center capacity building and professional development projects. Prior to Children’s, she was on the MGH Center for…

Deepinder Singh

Deepinder Singh

Deepinder Singh a Clinical Research Coordinator on the Implementation Team and Methods Unit. Prior to joining the team in July 2020, he worked as a research technician in a GI oncology focusing on analyzing and overcoming mechanisms of adaptive resistance in colorectal and other GI cancers. Deepinder holds a Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cell Biology with a minor in Psychology from the University of Connecticut and Graduate Certificate of…

Stephanie Martinez

Stephanie Martinez

Stephanie Martinez a Clinical Research Coordinator on the Implementation Team. Alongside providing support to the ISCCCE team, she also works closely on the RADx-MA grant which aims to increase COVID-19 testing in underserved communities in MA. Prior to joining the team in November 2020, she worked at Beth Israel Lahey Health as a Project Coordinator on the Community Benefits team. Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Science and a…

Sanja Percac-Lima

Sanja Percac-Lima, MD, PhD

Sanja Percac-Lima, MD, PhD is a clinician investigator and primary care physician at MGH Chelsea Community Health Center serving low-income diverse population. Her research focuses on improving equity in cancer care in low-income ethnic and racial minorities. In her role as the Physician Leader for Cancer Outreach Programs at MGH Cancer Center and Center for Community Health Improvement, she develops, oversees, and evaluates programs to improve cancer equity from screening, follow-up,…

Stephen Bartels

Stephen Bartels, MD, MS

Stephen Bartels, MD, MS is the inaugural James J. and Jean H. Mongan Chair in Health Policy and Community Health in the Department of Medicine; Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School; and Director of the Mongan Institute at MGH. Steve co-leads the Methods Unit and is an investigator on the adaptation pilot and a member of the Implementation Support and Research Team. Select Publication:  Implementation…