Sergio Aguayo, PhD, MA

Visiting Scholar

Sergio Aguayo is a Professor at the Centro de Estudios Internacionale, El Colegio de México, where he coordinates the Seminar on Violence and Peace and recently published a report investigating two mass killings in Mexico by gangs in the drug trade. The Wilson Quarterly recently published his analysis of the need for the United States and Mexico to join together to fight organized crime, and why it has not happened…

A. Kayum Ahmed

A. Kayum Ahmed, PhD, MSt, MA, LLM, LLB

Visiting Scientist

A. Kayum Ahmed is a South African activist-scholar who teaches health and human rights advocacy at Columbia University’s School of Public Health and serves as Special Advisor on the Right to Health at Human Rights Watch. In addition, he is a Visiting Scientist at Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, and serves as faculty co-lead on racial equity at New York City’s Pandemic Response Institute. Previously, he…

Stefano Angeleri, PhD

Stefano Angeleri, PhD

Visiting Scientist

Stefano Angeleri is an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University Belfast and Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá. He holds a PhD in Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights (University of Galway, 2019) and is the national coordinator of the Irish/UK section of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights. Alongside academic work, Angeleri has collaborated on research and training projects with the…

Cecile Aptel

Cécile Aptel, MA, MLitt, PhD

Visiting Scientist

Professor Cécile Aptel’s expertise covers child rights, human rights, peace and security, humanitarian affairs, international humanitarian law, transitional and international justice. She has a long international experience, having worked and lived in Africa, the Americas, Europe and the Middle-East, and held several leadership positions in the UN, the Red Cross, universities and NGOs. Currently, she is the deputy director of UNIDIR, tackling global security issues, i.e., arms’ control and the…

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Yara M. Asi, PhD

Visiting Scientist

Dr. Yara M. Asi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics. Her research agenda focuses on global health, human rights, and development in fragile populations. She is a Non-resident Fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, a 2020-2021 Fulbright US Scholar to the West Bank, a 2023-2024 Non-Resident Palestinian Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and the…

Amba-Rose Atkinson

Amba-Rose Atkinson, MPH

Visiting Doctoral Student

Amba-Rose Atkinson (she/her) is a proud Gumbaynggirr nyami from the mid-north coast of New South Wales, undertaking a PhD at the University of Queensland. Her research explores the health impacts of Indigenous cultural practices – such as language revitalisation and cultural burning – on Country and people, emphasising the vital role of Indigenous Knowledges in addressing environmental, climate, and health challenges. Amba-Rose completed her mid-candidature in June 2023 and is…

Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH

Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH

FXB Faculty Affiliate

Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH is a physician and founding co-director of the CHA Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy (CHEEA). He is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Basu is a Health Equity Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, and Faculty Affiliate at the FXB Center for…

Mihir Bhatt, MA

FXB Affiliate

Mihir Bhatt directs the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, which he founded in 1989. AIDMI began as a three-person team and has grown to a staff of 83 working in 11 activity centers. He is a member of the managing committee for the mumbaiVOICES project, a grassroots effort to record and discuss the Mumbai train bombing of July 11, 2006, and the response to that emergency (http://www.mumbaivoices.com). Bhatt has pushed for…

Susan Bissell

Susan Bissell, BA, MA, PhD

Visiting Scholar

Since 1987, Susan Bissell’s career has focused on the rights, safety and security of children and she is currently serving on a number of Boards, teaching, and writing.  Susan spent over twenty-five years working in various capacities for UNICEF, and from 2016 until 2018 led the establishment of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children and its associated Fund. From 2009 to 2015, Susan served as Associate Director and…

Emily Y.Y. Chan, MD, SMPIH, DFPH (UK)

FXB Affiliate

Professor Emily Y. Y. Chan is director of the Collaborating Centre at Oxford University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response, director of the Centre of Global Health, convener of the Climate Change and Health Study Group, and a member of the faculty of medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Apart from being a public health research expert, she is also an…

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Isaac Chan, MD, MPH

Research Associate

Isaac Chan is a physician and research associate at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. He currently leads a research team developing contextualised clinical pathways for primary care delivery in rural and resource-poor communities in India with Dr. Satchit Balsari, MD, MPH. His previous work has been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and NPR. Isaac studied medicine at UNSW Sydney and completed his Master…

Brigette Davis

Brigette Davis, PhD

FXB Affiliate

Brigette is a social epidemiologist, working as a postdoctoral scholar at the California Preterm Birth Initiative at the University of California San Francisco. Brigette’s research focuses on the impact of structural racism on health across the life course, with a particular interest in how structural racism is conceptualized and measured in epidemiologic research. She is also interested in studying racism as a type of trauma, social justice and community-level resilience,…

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Caleb Dresser, MD, MPH

FXB Affiliate

Caleb Dresser is an Emergency Medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where his academic work focuses on the health and healthcare implications of Climate Change. He is Assistant Director of the Fellowship in Climate and Human Health and is affiliated with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, the Harvard Chan Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment, the Harvard University Center for…

Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, educator, author, speaker, and podcast host. He is a commentator at CNN and his newsletter, The Incision, cuts into the trends shaping our moment. His three books include Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic (Abrams Press, 2020), which diagnoses our country’s epidemic of insecurity and the empathy politics we will need to treat it; and Medicare for…

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Justin Feldman, ScD

Visiting Scientist

Justin Feldman is a social epidemiologist who researches racism and health, with emphases on economic inequality and police violence. He completed a ScD in social and behavioral sciences from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2018, and worked as an assistant professor of epidemiology at the NYU School of Medicine. He is currently a Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Policing Equity at Yale University Lab.

Elizabeth Gibbons

Elizabeth D. Gibbons

Instructor

Elizabeth D. Gibbons, Instructor, is a key advisor on FXB Child Protection initiatives including its cross-graduate school Child Protection Certificate program and G. Barrie Landry Child Protection Professional Training program. One of FXB’s child protection experts, she advises students on case studies, presents her work and engagement across child protection systems, including at FXB’s monthly Work-In-Progress seminar series, and engages with HU graduate students and executive education students on issues…

Evelynn Hammonds

Evelynn Hammonds, PhD

FXB Faculty Affiliate

Professor Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.  She was the first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University (2005-2008). From 2008-2013 she served as Dean of…

Weeam Hammoudeh, PhD, MPH

Visiting Scientist

Dr. Weeam Hammoudeh is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Community and Public Health, where she teaches in the MPH program and serves as coordinator for the mental health unit. She holds a Ph.D. and MA in Sociology from Brown University and an MPH in Community and Public Health from Birzeit University. Her academic focus is on understanding how political and social transformations impact health, psychosocial wellbeing, health and social…

Lumas Helaire

Lumas Joseph Helaire, PhD

Assistant Dean for Population Health Management and Health Equity Education

Dr. Helaire currently serves as the Assistant Dean for Population Health Management and Health Equity Education at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He provides leadership for the creation of Population Health Management and Health Equity certificate and degree programs. Dr. Helaire also works with the Harvard HealthLab Accelerators, for social impact ventures that offers comprehensive support to Harvard University students who are entering the innovation space, with a…

Rita Issa

Rita Issa, MD, MPH, MRCGP

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Rita Issa is a visiting fellow at FXB where she explores how ill-health and loss due to climate change can be recognised and managed through structural responses such as the UN Loss and Damage mechanism. Rita‘s experience is in the intersections of health, climate change, justice, and building community agency and capacity. She is a family medicine doctor practicing in East London (UK), and a humanitarian medic, having worked…

Jaquelyn (Jackie) Jahn, PhD, MPH

Jaquelyn (Jackie) Jahn, PhD, MPH

Visiting Scientist

Jaquelyn (Jackie) Jahn, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity. She is a social epidemiologist whose research investigates how structural racism shapes maternal and child health and population health equity. Much of her work focuses on the health of individuals, families, and communities that are affected by the U.S. criminal legal system.…

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Monik C. Jiménez, SM, ScD

FXB Faculty Affiliate

Monik C. Jiménez is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received both her master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Certificate in Oral Epidemiology from Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Her work is centrally focused on the role of carceral control in creating and perpetuating racial/ethnic inequities in health. Her work aims to center the voices…

Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH

FXB Affiliate

Dr. Lara Jirmanus is primary care physician in the Family Medicine Department at the Cambridge Health Alliance. She has been involved in grassroots organizing, advocacy and research for many years, addressing worker and immigrant rights in the US, social movements and infectious diseases in Brazil and the impacts of conflict and displacement in the Middle East. Her current research focuses on the health of Syrian refugees and host populations in…

Lynne Jones, OBE, FRCPsych, PhD

FXB Affiliate

Dr. Lynne Jones is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, writer, researcher, and relief worker. Jones has been engaged in assessing mental health needs and establishing and running mental health services in disaster, conflict, and post-conflict settings around the world since 1990. Her latest book is The Migrant Diaries, published by the Refuge Press in 2021. This draws on reflections, which the FXB Center has been publishing on its website, about…

Ichiro Kawachi, MB.ChB., Ph.D

Ichiro Kawachi, MBChB, PhD

FXB Faculty Affiliate

Ichiro Kawachi, MB.ChB., Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Kawachi received both his medical degree and Ph.D. (epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught at Harvard since 1992. Kawachi is the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000…

Rohan Khazanchi, MD, MPH

Rohan Khazanchi, MD, MPH

FXB Affiliate

Rohan Khazanchi, M.D., M.P.H., is a health equity advocate, health services researcher, and future internist-pediatrician. He is a resident in the Harvard Internal Medicine & Pediatrics (“Med-Peds”) combined residency program at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Boston Medical Center. He has a wide array of research and advocacy focus areas including racial/spatial inequities in access to care; community-engaged research; intersections of incarceration, health, and health policy; cross-sector data linkage for public health…

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Nancy Krieger, PhD, MS

FXB Faculty Affiliate

Nancy Krieger is Professor of Social Epidemiology and American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor, in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. She received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. Dr. Krieger is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist, with a background in…

Jourdyn Lawrence

Jourdyn A. Lawrence, PhD, MSPH

Visiting Scientist

Jourdyn A. Lawrence, PhD, MSPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health as part of the FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) program. Her research examines racism as a cause of racial health inequities and how social policies, such as reparations, can act as health-related interventions to mitigate Black-white health inequities. Her work also explores how…

M. Rashad Massoud, MD, MPH, FACP

FXB Faculty Affiliate

Recognized global leader in improving health and social services, strengthening health systems, and producing results in resource constrained settings. Master at orchestrating complex, multinational activities, and virtual operations. Served as: Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Americares Foundation; Chief Medical and Quality Officer, University Research Co., LLC.; Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Inaugural Member of ISQua’s Quality and Safety Academy. Former Councilor and President of the Harvard…

Alecia McGregor, PhD

Alecia J. McGregor, PhD

FXB Faculty Affiliate

Alecia J. McGregor, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on the political determinants of health inequities, including the role of racism in health policy development, health system design, and health care outcomes (with a focus on maternal health). Dr. McGregor takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing politics and health policy, investigating how institutions shape…

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David Mills, MD, MPH

FXB Affiliate

Dr. David Mills is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and public health practitioner. He is a co-Director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights and an Assistant Professor in pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. He is a faculty affiliate in the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at the Harvard Divinity School and the co-Director of the Children in Crisis working group at…

Jumana Odeh, MD, MPH

Visiting Scholar

A pediatrician, public health expert, and director of the Palestinian Happy Child Center, Dr. Jumana Odeh is an acknowledged health leader in the Palestinian Occupied Territory. Odeh began her medical service to the Palestinian people in 1981 as a hospital pediatrician at Augusta Victoria Hospital – Jerusalem and as a project manager volunteer for Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, followed by a stint as a team leader at Caritas…

Pamela Steiner, MA, MEd, EdD

Senior Fellow

Dr. Steiner is a Harvard FXB Center Senior Fellow and an associate of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. She directs the Intercommunal Trust Building Project, which aims to contribute to an improvement in the relationship between Armenian and Turkish communities. More generally, the project seeks to add to understanding of the psychology that propels violence between communities as well as the psychology of healing and building productive relationships post-violence. The project’s…

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Pedja Stojicic, MD, MPH

FXB Faculty Affiliate

Dr. Pedja Stojicic is an Executive Director of People Power Health a group of community organizers and trainers focused on bringing the social movement and community organizing skills to healthcare professionals, caregivers, and healers. In the past, he was a Project Director at Rippel Foundation working with the Hospital Systems, RWJF, CMS, QIOs, Center for Public Health Leadership, Primary Care Progress, Way to Wellville, Healthcare Anchor Network and many others.…

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Osama Tanous, MD

Visiting Scientist

Dr. Osama Tanous is a pediatrician and public health scholar based in Haifa, Israel. Osama is a 2020-2021 Hubert H. Humphrey fellow of public health and health policy at the Rollin School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta and a visiting research professor at UC Davis, Department of Public Health Sciences. He is a board member of Physicians for Human Rights – Israel and B’tselem, The Israeli information center for…

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Neringa Tumėnaitė, MSc

Visiting Graduate Student

Neringa is a Ph.D. candidate at SOAS University of London and a visiting Fulbright Schuman fellow with the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University. Her research delves into the role of youth participation in advancing climate justice. In addition, Neringa is the director of Humanity Consulting and a co-founder of the Erasmus+ Global Partnerships collective, which engages in dialogues youth civic society in…

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Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH

FXB Affiliate

Dr. Bram Wispelwey is a co-founder of Health for Palestine, a community organizing initiative in Palestinian refugee camps that seeks to maximize wellness and address health barriers via social accompaniment and creative integration with existing facilities. He is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and he also teaches at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of…