Investigators

Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Principal Investigator:

 

Josiemer Mattei, PhD, MPH

Donald and Sue Pritzker Associate Professor of Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston MA 02115

Email: jmattei@hsph.harvard.edu

Phone: 617-432-3017

Areas of interest: Nutritional Epidemiology, Cardiometabolic Health, Allostatic Load, Psychosocial Factors, Minority Health, Mixed Methods Research, Dietary Interventions

Co-Investigator:

Sebastien Haneuse, PhD

Professor of Biostatistics and Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Email: haneuse@hsph.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 432-3980

Areas of interest: Epidemiology

 

FDI Clinical Research

José F. Rodríguez-Orengo, PhD

CEO & CSO, FDI Clinical Research 998 Luis Muñoz Rivera Ave, San Juan PR 00927. Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Medical Sciences Campus-University of Puerto Rico

Executive Director, Puerto Rico Public Health Trust, Street 21 Int Pr 18 Bo Monacillo Urbano
San Juan, PR 00927

Email: jrodriguez@fdipr.com

Phone: 787-722-1248 x.293, 787-602-0336

Areas of interest: Biochemical Pharmacology and Nutrition, Public Health Policy

 

Edna Acosta-Pérez, PhD, MSc

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus-University of Puerto Rico, and Research Director at University of Puerto Rico’s Behavioral Sciences Research Institute. PO Box 365067, San Juan PR 00936-5067

Email: edna.acosta2@upr.edu

Phone: 787-672-0670

Areas of interest: Health Disparities Clinical Research, Prevention Services Research, Implementation Research and Intervention Efforts in Topics such as: HIV, Gender issues, Violence, Sexuality, Mental Health, Asthma, and Obesity.

 

Carlos Ríos-Bedoya, ScD, MPH

Corporate Director of Scholarly Inquiry, McLaren Health, Grand Blanc, MI, Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Investigator, FDI Clinical Research 998 Luis Muñoz Rivera Ave, San Juan PR 00927

Email: cfriosbedoya@gmail.com

Phone: 517-974-7665

Areas of interest: Epidemiology, Adolescent drug use, mobile technology in population-based research, quantitative epidemiology, minority health.

 

UMass Lowell

Katherine L. Tucker, PhD

Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Population Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell. Editor-in Chief of Advances in Nutrition, an international review journal.

Email: katherine_tuker@uml.edu

Phone: (978) 934-4066

Areas of interest: Nutritional Epidemiology, Health Disparities

Luis M. Falcón, PhD

Dean of the College of Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Email: Luis_Falcon@uml.edu

Phone: 978-934-3843

Areas of interest: Social Networks, Aging, Depression, Stress

 

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Robert C. Kaplan, PhD

Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Dorothy and William Manealoff Foundation and Molly Rosen Chair in Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus 1300 Morris Park Avenue Belfer Building, Room 1315, Bronx, NY 10461

Email: robert.kaplan@einstein.yu.edu

Phone: 718.430.4076

Areas of interest: Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Health Disparities, Metabolomics