Lynn N. Ibekwe, PhD, MPH is a postdoctoral research fellow whose primary research interest is to reduce the disproportionate burden of cancer morbidity and mortality among Blacks and African Americans in the United States. To that end, she pursues research geared towards (1) documenting individual and contextual level determinants of racial and ethnic cancer-related disparities, including investigating racism as a fundamental cause of such disparities; (2) developing and testing culturally…
Dr. Erica Warner, ScD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a cancer epidemiologist, studying how the social and physical environment including policies, stressors, lifestyle, and behavior affect cancer screening, risk of cancer, and intermediate markers of cancer risk, with a particular interest in racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities and promoting health equity. Dr.…
Alan Geller has been a Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) faculty member since 2010. He took a very circuitous path to a public health career, moving to Boston in 1973 and working for years as a day care worker, steelworker, and then obtained his nursing degree in 1984. He worked on a surgical oncology floor and through caring for many patients with preventable but late-stage cancers, began to see first-hand…
Dr. Adjoa Anyane-Yeboa, MD, MPH was most recently a Gastroenterology Fellow at the University of Chicago Medicine. She was previously a Chief Gastroenterology Fellow at the University of Chicago, and Chief Medical Resident in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Anyane-Yeboa is focused on public health advocacy, with the goals of advocating in the public sector, leading diversity retention and recruitment efforts, and designing health disparities…
Nancy A. Rigotti, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Associate Chief for Academic Advancement in the Division of General Internal Medicine at MGH, Director of the MGH Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, co-Director of the MGH Career Development Program in Substance Use and Addiction Medicine, and Past President of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco. Her research…
Travis P. Baggett, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Assistant Physician in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Director of Research at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP), MGH Site Director of the HMS Fellowship in General Medicine and Primary Care, and MGH Research Scholar 2021-2026. He conducts community-based research focusing on the health and health care needs of people experiencing…
Natalie Smith, PhD, MS, aims to advance public health by improving the adoption and implementation of evidence-informed programs and policies. Her research program emphasizes applying a variety of decision science methods to implementation and dissemination related questions, including economic evaluation, simulation modeling, and stated preference methods. She earned her PhD in Health Policy and Management and her MS in Biostatistics from UNC Chapel Hill. Her work is currently supported by…
Melanie Racine, MPH is Director of Special Projects at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. In this role, Melanie supports BHCHP’s teams and initiatives with the planning, implementation, and evaluation of new clinical initiatives. She is also a student in the Doctor of Public Health program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her interests are in health services design, implementation science, community-engaged research, homelessness, and community…
Talya Salant MD, PhD is a primary care physician and the Medical Director of Community Health Equity and Research at Bowdoin St. Health Center, a community health center in Dorchester, MA. Dr. Salant graduated from the University of Chicago Medical Scientist Training Program. She completed her Internal Medicine residency in the primary care track at Brigham and Women’s hospital and she was a Kraft Fellow in Community Health Leadership. Dr.…
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…
