Jennifer Bouey is the Chair of the Department of Global Health at Georgetown University and the Tang Chair for China Policy Studies at RAND Corporation. Trained as a physician and epidemiologist, she has led immigrant health, HIV prevention, and pandemic response studies, targeting vulnerable populations. Her current projects focus on global health and geopolitics, and capacity building to promote gender and racial equity.
Jennifer Bouey, MD, PhD, MPH
Myriam Vuckovic has extensive expertise in the areas of HIV & AIDS, SRHR, MNCH and Urban Health and teaches a number of the department’s core and elective courses. She also serves as the Director of the Bachelor of Science Program in Global Health, Director for the Minor in Global Health, and Co-Director of the Minor in Public Health.
Myriam Vuckovic, PhD, MSPH
Eva Jarawan’s areas of interest are health system analysis and strengthening, health policy, and measuring the burden of non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries. She is also interested in strengthening project management to ensure results.
Eva Jarawan, PhD, MBA, MPH
Shabab Wahid is a global mental health researcher with a focus on examining the intersection of climate change and mental disorders; the influence of culture on mental health and well-being; and developing and evaluating community-based interventions to address mental illness and stigma — primarily in low-and middle-income country settings. He teaches global health courses in the Bachelor’s of Science in Global Health program.
Shabab Wahid, DrPH, MPH
Wu Zeng’s research interests are in health financing, health systems, and cost-effectiveness analysis of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions in low- and middle-income countries. He is also interested in examining fund flow in a health care system to identify gaps to promote efficiency.
Wu Zeng, MD, PhD
Jessica Kritz is a participatory action researcher focused on complex health challenges. She is a lawyer by training, with current projects in Ghana and the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.
Jessica Kritz, JD, MA
Matthew M. Kavanagh directs the Center for Global Health Policy & Politics, a cross-campus center spanning the School of Health and Law Center, and has spent a varied career in academia, the United Nations, and NGOs in the U.S. and Southern Africa. A political scientist by training, his research seeks to understand the legal, political, and inequality drivers of pandemics like AIDS, Ebola, and COVID-19 and how to build policies and institutions capable of preventing future health crises.
Matthew Kavanagh, PhD
Margaret Baker has worked twenty years advancing knowledge on the control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases. Her research uses an implementation science, multi-disciplinary approach and is focused on reducing inequities by increasing access to infectious disease interventions. She has lived and worked in Peru, Vanuatu, the Dominican Republic, Scotland, and England with academic, government, UN, and NGO organizations. She is currently the director of the Experiential Learning course.
Margaret Baker, PhD, MSc
Vincent Turbat is a Health Economist, with twenty years of practice at the World Bank. His research has three areas of focus: 1) Health Financing; 2) Digital Health; and 3) The Demographic Dividend in Sub-Saharan Africa. He teaches “Health Economics”, “Health Financing”, “Financing Global Health” and “Planning, Costing and Budgeting Health Projects/Programs” in the MSGH and HAPI masters’ programs; and “Introduction to Global Health”, “Population Health Concepts” and “Global Health Capstone” for undergrads.
Vincent Turbat, PhD, DES
Carlos Mendes de Leon is a social epidemiologist with a primary interest in the social and psychological determinants of health and well-being in late life. His current research focuses on common aging-related health outcomes such as dementia, disability, and quality of life in middle-and low-income countries.
Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD
John Quattrochi directs Georgetown’s M.S. in Global Health. He is broadly interested in global health and sustainable development, with a focus on interventions to improve the well-being of vulnerable populations affected by fragility, conflict, and violence, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has studied cash-like vouchers; water, sanitation, and hygiene; social support; empowerment training; health infrastructure; and public work programs. He has partnered with the World Bank, Unicef, National Institutes of Health, Innovations for Poverty Action, UK’s FCDO, 3ie, Panzi Hospital, and others.
John Quattrochi, ScD
Adam Koon has extensive experience in global health program management and research. His scholarship seeks to understand the role of ideas, language, and social values in health policy conflicts. Dr. Koon strives to strengthen health systems in areas such as financing, consumer products regulation, and workforce development. He also teaches in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and is a Honorary Senior Researcher in the Center for Health Policy at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Adam Koon, PhD, MPH
Brian Floyd is Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the School of Health and Engelhard Faculty Fellow/Adjunct Instructor within the Department of Global Health. He is part of an administrative team that works with departments, faculty and staff to provide educational programs for students pursuing degrees in a variety of health professional fields and advises undergraduate students in the Global Health major.
Brian Floyd, MADr. Galvão’s teaching and research foci are on sustainable development, environmental health, climate change, and health governance. He collaborates with FIOCRUZ on the Agenda 2030 and other international projects. He served 25 years at PAHO, including as Head of Sustainable Development, Environmental Health, and Health Equity, providing leadership and strategic advice on these issues and coordinating technical cooperation across the Americas.
Guto Galvão, DSc, MScPH, MD
Mr. Leslie has a longstanding involvement in healthcare and global health issues. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Duke Global Health Institute and has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Global Fund, as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF).
Jack LeslieDr. Kaboré teaches Community Engagement for Social Change and currently serves as Lead Advisor Community Health at Save the Children as well as Senior Community Health Advisor with “Inspire SBC”, the newly warded USAID global SBC flagship project. He is an expert in community-based programming for social and behavior change, and community capacity strengthening in maternal, newborn, and child health, HIV/AIDS prevention, nutrition, and education. With over 30 years of experience, he is providing technical leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Télesphore Kaboré
Cristina Schneider has more than 30 years of public health experience at local (state government), national (Ministry of Health of Brazil), and international (PAHO/WHO) levels, mainly working with zoonotic diseases from a One Health approach.
Areas of interest: One Health; infectious diseases; animal-human-ecosystem interface
Marta Molares-Halberg is an Argentine attorney with over 35 years of World Bank project finance and development experience. She has worked extensively on projects in the health sector addressing the role of institutions, pharmaceuticals and other stakeholders. Her expertise also focuses on international and domestic legal policies that have an impact on access to medicines, particularly the evolving intellectual property and trade regimes and their human rights’ implications. At Georgetown University, she has taught courses on Access to Medicines and Health and Human Rights to graduate and undergraduate students.
Marta Molares-Halberg, JD, MMA, LLMSam Halabi, JD, MPhil, is a Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy and the Director of the Center for Transformational Health Law at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He has published five books and more than 80 manuscripts in the fields of data sharing, the development and deployment of vaccines in routine and emergency circumstances, the philosophy of medicine, international technology transfer, public health ethics, universal health coverage, and vector-borne disease surveillance. He earned his JD from Harvard, his MPhil from Oxford University (St. Antony’s College) and undergraduate degrees from Kansas State University.
Sam Halabi, JD, MPhilDr. Rebecca Katz is a Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, and holds joint appointments in Georgetown University Medical Center and the School of Foreign Service. She teaches courses on global health diplomacy, global health security, and emerging infectious diseases in the Science, Technology and International Affairs, Security Studies, and Global Infectious Disease Programs. Dr. Katz received her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, an M.P.H. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Rebecca Katz, PhDDr. Debra Kosko is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Evaluation and Outcomes at the School of Nursing. She is a family nurse practitioner with expertise in infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS. As a Fellow with USAID, she helped launch PEPFAR. Dr. Kosko has developed study abroad programs for NP, MD, and DNP students in Haiti, Nicaragua, and Kenya. She serves on the Board of Project Health for Leon. Dr. Kosko is a consultant with the PEPFAR Nursing Leadership Initiative in Nigeria.
Debra Kosko, DNP, MN, FNP-BC, FAANPDr. Loffredo is a cancer epidemiologist with a background in toxicology and the
environment. At GU’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, he directs the
Office of Global Oncology and is a tenured Professor in the Department of
Oncology. Dr. Loffredo’s global cancer research program spans almost three
decades of epidemiological studies: in Egypt on liver and bladder cancer risk
factors, and tobacco prevention; in Thailand on liver cancers and their
environmental risk factors; in Eswatini on cancer screening in communities of
people living with HIV; and in Brazil on childhood cancer.
Dr. Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist, Guggenheim Fellow, and Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Mendenhall has published widely at the boundaries of anthropology, psychology, medicine, and public health. This work focuses on social and biological links between social trauma and diabetes, the theory and experience of syndemics, how and why people use idioms of distress, mental health and well-being, complex chronic illness, and the politics of pandemics. Her monographs include Syndemic Suffering (2012), Rethinking Diabetes (2019), Unmasked (2022), and Invisible Illness (2025).
Emily Mendenhall, PhD, MPHSteven Singer is an immunoparasitologist who specializes in the interactions among the intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia, the intestinal microbiome and the host immune system. His research lab has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for over 20 years for studies using animal models of giardiasis. He teaches courses in immunology, parasitology, and the biology of global health.
Steven Singer, PhDClaire is an Associate Professor with the Center of Global Health Science and Security, with a primary appointment in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. Her research focuses on multisectoral approaches to health systems strengthening, with an emphasis on prevention and control of zoonotic diseases. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Standley is a consultant at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), is on the editorial boards of several prominent scientific journals, and serves on the Scientific Program Committee for the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Claire Standley, PhD, MSc
A medical Anthropologist by training, Professor Gyapong directs the Institute of Health Research (IHR) at the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho, Ghana. Her interests lie in socio-cultural aspects of infectious diseases of poverty, implementation research, women’s health and capacity building. She was instrumental in the development of the TDR Implementation Research Toolkit with the WHO. She has collaborated with the MS and BS in Global Health programs since 2005.
Margaret Gyapong, BSc, MSc, PhD
Dr. Matilda Aberese-Ako is an organizational and medical anthropologist and senior research fellow at the Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana. She was a visiting scholar in the Department of Global Health in 2022 and has collaborated with MS and BS in Global Health programs since 2018.
Matilda Aberese-Ako, PhD
Mayumi Ohnishi is a professor at Nagasaki University in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She has been working as an advisor for the health sector in various countries including Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Ohnishi also worked as a Public Health Nurse in Tokyo, Japan. She has collaborated with the BS in Global Health program since 2023.
Mayumi Ohnishi, RN, MPH, PhD
Professor Sandra Thompson directs the Western Australian Centre for Rural Health (WACRH) and is a public health physician with extensive experience related to health disparities, including in rural and Aboriginal health. In 2022, she was awarded a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division) in the Australia Day Honours for significant service to tertiary education, rural, regional and Indigenous health. She has collaborated with the BS in Global Health program for 15 years.
Sandra Thompson, BSc, MBBS, UNSW, MPH, PhD
Dr. Rosario García-Miranda is a posdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de la Frontera and member of the Saberes en Práctica Association. Her research explores knowledge, mobilization, care policies, maternal and child health and chronic non-communicable diseases with a focus on vulnerable populations. It has been funded by the National Council for Humanities, Science and Technology (CONHACYT), BIOCODEX microbiota foundation, UNACH and the British Council. She has collaborated with the BS and MS in Global Health programs since 2005.
Rosario Garcia Miranda, BSc, MEd, PhD
Dr. Hector Ochoa is a medical doctor and a Senior Research Associate at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, ECOSUR and Head of the Academic Group of Emerging Epidemic Diseases at The College of the Southern Border in Chiapas, Mexico. He has extensive graduate teaching experience and consults on epidemiology, planning, evaluation and health systems research on Mexican and other international agencies. His primary research focus explores translational epidemiology, vector-borne diseases, health effects of malnutrition, health policy and systems research. He has collaborated with the BS and MS in Global Health programs since 2005.
Hector Ochoa-Diaz-Lopez, MD, MSc, PhD, MPHM
Professor John P.A. Lusingu is a Chief Research Officer with the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in Tanzania and faculty at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. His expertise in malaria research spans clinical trials of malaria drugs and vaccines, and maternal and neonatal health. His current research also explores enteric disease and antimicrobial resistance. He has collaborated with the BS and MS in Global Health programs since 2016.
John P.A. Lusingu, MD, PhDMs. Sia Malekia has been a Senior Research Scientist with the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) in Tanzania since 2007. She has a master’s in health policy, management and bioethics (MBE) from the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), and a bachelor’s in sociology from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Her research areas include bioethics, human resources for health and health workers’ retention and task shifting. She has collaborated with our experiential learning programs since 2010.
Sia Malekia, MSc, MBE
Dr. Angie Settle has been the CEO of WV Health Right since 2014. Prior to that, she served as the Clinical Coordinator for eight years and as a Family Nurse Practitioner since 1997. She received her MS in Nursing from Marshall University in 1997, her DNP from the University of Alabama in 2014, and an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Harvard University. She has collaborated with the BS in Global Health program since 2023.
Angie Settle, DNP, APRN, BC, FNP
Tara Ford is the Director of Research Services at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and has worked in Alaska Native Tribal health for the past fifteen years. She has conducted research and provided direct community health services related to mental health, youth resilience, and social influences on health and wellbeing. Dr. Ford has collaborated with the BS in Global Health program since 2023.
Tara Ford, PhD
Dr. Gashongore is a public health leader and HIV physician specializing in HIV/TB management, health systems strengthening, and capacity building. He leads Georgetown University’s TIDE and SCORE programs in Cameroon and has directed significant PEPFAR-funded projects in Zambia. He primarily focuses on sustainable health interventions and leadership and joined the BS in Global Health collaboration in 2024.
Ignace Gashongore, MBBS, MSc, MPH
Dr. Maheshwar directs the Extension and Training Division at the ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (NIN). With a government mandate to generate high quality evidence for important public health nutrition problems among India’s population, NIN has pioneered studies in nutrition research especially related to protein energy malnutrition (PEM). The institute’s activities encompass the whole spectrum of food and nutrition and have closely integrated its research between the laboratory, clinic and the community. It celebrates over 100 years of outstanding national service in ameliorating nutritional disorders. They have collaborated with the MS in Global Health program since 2018.
Mekam Maheshwar, MCJ, LLB, MCom, MA, MPhil, PhD
Dr. Manju Rahi directs the ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre in Pondicherry, India. Her scientific contributions span public vector-borne disease health policy including a Triple Drug Therapy (Ivermectin, DEC, and Albendazole) mass drug administration for filariasis and pioneering national diagnostic and management scrub typhus guidelines. Her instrumental role in pesticide evaluation has helped to bring several vector control products to public health use for control of vector borne diseases. She has supported establishment of ICMR-VCRC’s Wolbachia research laboratory, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), malaria control and other entomological aspects of disease elimination. The Centre has collaborated with the MS in Global Health program since 2016.
Manju Rahi, MD
