Karen Emmons, PhD

Karen Emmons, PhD

Karen Emmons, PhD is a Professor of Social and Behavioral Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a behavioral scientist with a strong track record of funded research in community-based approaches to cancer prevention in a variety of settings that serve under-resourced communities, including low income housing and community health centers. Her work targets a range of cancer risk factors, including nutrition, physical activity, sun exposure,…

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…