Nava Barman

Nava Barman

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Nava Barman is a current MPH-45 student in Global Health, completing his Master’s during a year away from medical school. After his year at HSPH, he will return to Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia, PA to complete his final year of medical school before applying into pediatrics or child neurology residency.  Nava Barman’s fieldwork will focus on qualitative analysis of various stakeholder data regarding water practices and quality within…

Rosanna Batista

Rosanna M. Batista

Rosie is a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. She earned her MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Boston University School of Public Health. She volunteered in Uganda, East Africa where she focused on program development and writing policies to protect orphans impacted by HIV/AIDS. She worked at AIDS Action Committee, Boston, coordinating…

Rosanna Batista

Rosanna M. Batista

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Rosie is a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.   She earned her MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Boston University School of Public Health.  She volunteered in Uganda, East Africa where she focused on program development and writing policies to protect orphans impacted by HIV/AIDS. She worked at AIDS Action Committee, Boston coordinating…

William Bean, PhD

William Bean

Instructor and Practice Advisor
Office of Education

William (Bill) Bean is an Instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Before coming to Harvard, Bill spent 20 years as an independent management consultant, working primarily with Fortune 50 companies around the world.  He worked primarily with senior executives to formulate and implement innovative strategies that would generate measurable, bottom-line results within relatively short periods of time – typically within 100 days. Early in his career he worked largely…

Esias Bedingar

Esias Bedingar

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Esias is a doctoral student in Health Systems in the Global Health and Population department. Esias is interested in identifying health system priorities, designing health insurance schemes, and measuring their impact on access and quality of care in Chad. Esias’ project focuses on assessing the perceptions and beliefs of the Chadian youth (aged 15-24) on sexuality as it relates to HIV and AIDS transmission and prevention.

Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell, Jr.

Field Education and Practice Coordinator
Office of Education

Andrew is the Field Education and Practice Coordinator in the Office of Educational Programs. Andrew graduated in Spring 2022 with a Masters in Public Health in Healthcare Management from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, one year after graduating with a Bachelors degree in Public Health. Andrew was part of Massachusetts’s COVID-19 contact tracing efforts with the Community Tracing Collaborative, experience that allowed him to help those directly impacted by the…

Ariel Bernstein

Ariel Bernstein

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Ariel Bernstein is a licensed midwife who has been serving rural populations for over 10 years. She is a midwifery preceptor and educator on sabbatical from her practice in Maine while pursuing her MPH at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Ariel is an executive board member of the Maine Association of Professional Midwives where she is working on legislation and expanding hearing screening access. She holds a BA…

Alina Bhojani

Alina Bhojani

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Alina is a first-year Master of Science student in the Department of Global Health & Population with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. She is passionate about early childhood development, with a particular interest in early childcare and education in low-and middle-income countries. In partnership with Kidogo, Alina’s project will focus on the holistic development of young children in Kenya.  

Alex Boyle

Alex Boyle

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Alex is an orthopaedic and trauma surgery resident from New Zealand currently undertaking a Master of Public Health. He has a strong research background, with his current research at Mass General Brigham/Harvard Medical School focusing on risk stratification and patient reported outcomes following orthopaedic surgery. Alex’s project focuses on rehabilitation support for trauma victims in a resource limited environment, namely those with physical disabilities receiving prosthetic limbs and other mobility-assisting…

Briggs

Janae Briggs

Rose Service Learning Fellow

Janae Briggs is a first-year, Master of Science student in the Department of Epidemiology. Her research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, implementation science, and health systems strengthening. She hopes to work in the field of global health delivery to help reduce health inequities and meet the health needs of underserved communities in low-resource settings. For her project, Janae has partnered with The Family Van, a mobile clinic in Boston, to…