Kathleen Hamill, JD, MALD, is a human rights lawyer. She has taught courses on human rights and international law at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, since 2002. During this time she also worked as an independent researcher, advocate, and consultant in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Her recent scholarship and related policy work has focused on promoting and protecting the rights and wellbeing of children as…
Clay Heaton is a Data Scientist at Imangi Studios in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he develops software and uses advanced analytics and machine learning to provide data-driven insights in support of mobile software that has seen over one billion users. Clay has a background in international health with a focus on data management during the response to complex humanitarian emergencies. He has extensive experience producing focused and actionable analysis for…
Dr. Josyann Abisaab is an attending physician in the Emergency Department at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and a faculty member of the Global Emergency Medicine Program at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her areas of interest include global health, complex humanitarian emergencies and refugee protection. She has conducted human rights research and advocacy in the Middle East and, in 2014, joined a team of Harvard FXB researchers on a rapid…
Dr. Jay Lemery is an assistant professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College and has an interest in the effects of environmental change on health and human rights. He is the director of Cornell Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, a university-wide collaboration promoting education, research, and training in unpredictable and austere environments. He serves as a member of the Global Health Steering Committee at Weill Cornell. Lemery is a consultant to…
Onisha Etkins is a 4th year PhD Candidate in Population Health Sciences/Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her dissertation work explores the impacts of racism on mental health in Black communities through the lens of Intersectionality Theory. She also combines her experience as a dancer with her research to explore how healing processes already existing within marginalized communities can be used to foster joy, pleasure, and positive mental health. Whether she is conducting…
Ta-wei Lin is a Doctor of Public Health Student in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Ta-wei is currently working as an epidemiologist for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in the Bureau of Community Health and Prevention. Ta-wei has managed the development, implementation, and evaluation of a number of state and local interventions addressing inequities related to health care access, substance use, oral health, rural health, gun violence,…
Sherine Andreine Powerful, MPH (ID: Sherine, Mx., she, they) is a Doctor of Public Health candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As a Black Caribbean Feminist, she is committed to celebrating and furthering pleasure, healing, and liberation for Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples and persons of diverse a/genders and a/sexualities, particularly those from the Caribbean. Her present interests include feminist global health and development; gender and sexual…
Ms. Amanda Taffy is a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and remains committed to resolving the most pressing health challenges. She is currently a Fellow at the FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, where she is working on a doctoral thesis, The Role of the Arts During Covid-19, Gendered Expressions of Resilience & Empowerment. Before returning to school, Ms.…
Emily Unger is an MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her doctoral work in social epidemiology focuses on gender, uncompensated caregiving, and the impact of social policy on caregivers’ health. Prior to beginning graduate studies, she worked as a paralegal at the New York Legal Assistance Group, where she advocated for low-income elderly and disabled people’s access to health benefits and…
