Investigators
Principal Investigator:
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-Investigators:
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Staff
Sigrid Mendoza Sánchez, PhD –Principal Project Coordinator
FDI Clinical Research 998 Luis Muñoz Rivera Ave, San Juan PR 00927
Email: smendoza@fdipr.com; smendoza@hsph.harvard.edu
Phone: 787-722-1248 Ext. 246
Areas of interest: Social and Community Psychology, Social Determinants of Health Related to Gender and CVD risk, Sexuality and Health, Minority Research
Jonathan Orozco-González, BA – Data Coordinator
FDI Clinical Research 998 Luis Muñoz Rivera Ave, San Juan PR 00927
Email: jorozco@fdipr.com
Phone: 787-722-1248
Areas of interest: Gerontology, Community Services, Drug Addiction, Pharmacology, Business
Martha Tamez, ScD, MS –Postdoctoral Research Data Analyst
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Email: m.tamez@mail.harvard.edu
Phone: 857-272 3619
Areas of interest: Nutritional Epidemiology in Hispanics/Latinos, Traditional Diets, Diet Quality, Cardiovascular Disease
Abrania Marrero, PhD, SM – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Email: amarrerohernandez@fas.harvard.edu
Areas of interest: Nutrition, Climate Change, Food Sovereignty, Traditional Food Cultures, Cardiometabolic Disease, Small Island Developing States
Karla Medina, MS – Assistant Coordinator
FDI Clinical Research 998 Luis Muñoz Rivera Ave, San Juan PR 00927
Email: kmedina@hsph.harvard.edu; kmedina@fdipr.com
Areas of interest: Molecular Biology, Immunology, Virology, Social Determinants Related to Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes Research
Kimberly Martínez, BA – Graphic Artist
Email: kmartinez@fdipr.com
Consultants and Collaborators
Andrés Calle, MS
CEO-Founder of AppLivio Company
1250 Ave Ponce de Leon, suite 400, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00907
Email: info@applivio.com
Phone: 939-545-0097
Areas of interest: Industrial Engineering, Healthcare Management Systems, Business Development, Materials Science Research
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.
Jerrold S. Meyer, PhD – Stress Biomarkers/Hair Cortisol Laboratory
Research Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Neuroscience & Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 441 Tobin Hall Amherst, MA 01003
Email: jmeyer@psych.umass.edu
Phone: 413-545-2168
Areas of interest: Accumulation of the stress hormone cortisol in growing hair and nails as a biomarker of long-term activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis and its responsiveness to chronic stress both in adulthood and during early development.
Andrea Lopez-Cepero, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Email: andrea.a.lopez-cepero@emory.edu
Areas of Interest: Behavior and Health, Cardiometabolic Diseases, Health Disparities, Nutrition, Social Determinants of Health
Jose Ordovas
Senior Scientist, Nutrition and Genomics Team, Professor, Nutrition and Genetics, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Email: jose.ordovas@tufts.edu
Areas of Interest: Molecular Biology, Nutrition, Genetics, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Mayra Estrella, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Brownsville
Areas of Interest: Hispanics, Latinos, Psychosocial Factors, Allostatic Load, Cognitive Reserve and Resilience
Collaborators from former partnerships:
Charmaine Alfonso, RD, EdD– Nutritionist
College of Nutritionists and Dietitians of Puerto Rico. 1430 Portales de Altamesa 2303, San Alfonso Street, San Juan PR
Email: charmainealfonso70@gmail.com
Phone: 787-644-8210
Areas of interest: Nutrition, Data Analysis
Patrick Vinck, PhD – Natural Disaster Response
Research Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Assistant Professor, Global Health and Population, Harvard Chan School of Public Health; Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Lead Investigator at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 14 Story Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: pvinck@hsph.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-384-8368
Areas of interest: Resilience to Disasters, Conflict and Health, and Technology and the Ethics of Data
Research Assistants
Darwin D. Rugg Ramos, BA
Camila Maldonado Cintrón, BS in process
Francheska Carrasquillo Díaz, MA
Jorge Villares González, BA
Keziah Valles Torres, BA
Kiara Vega-Bellido, BS
Naomi Y. Pérez García, BA
Nayaret Hernández De Jesus, BA
Orlando Román Marrero, MA
Rafael Calderón Pérez, BS in process
Stephanie Maldonado Silva, BS in process
Valeria Pérez Rosado, BS in process