Karen Andes Ph.D., MA

Associate Professor,
Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Dr. Karen Andes is a broadly trained social scientist with three decades of experience in public health research, training and practice. She has worked extensively on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, positive youth development, health disparities in African-American and Latinx communities, and the social determinants of health. As a qualitative methodologist, she has provided qualitative analysis expertise for teams working on a variety of issues, including pediatric oncology, emergency preparedness, COVID vaccine hesitancy, HIV/AIDS, and menstrual hygiene management, among others. She is a certified trainer for MAXQDA qualitative data analysis software, and is the author of a three-course specialization on qualitative research methods for public health on the Coursera platform. Professor Andes holds a Ph.D. and MA in Political Science from Northwestern University.

Monika Doshi Ph.D., MPH

Assistant Professor,
Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Professor Doshi began her work in public health and human rights with Avahan, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s India AIDS Initiative, through the American India Foundation’s William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service. She was a member of the technical team that initiated the first HIV prevention program in the state of Karnataka through BMGF funding. More recently, she has expanded her research to examine the impact of policy, community, institutional, and interpersonal level factors within the context of immigration on the health and wellbeing of USbased Latinx communities. For nearly 20 years, Monika has consulted on public health research and practice projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Her research areas include HIV prevention, treatment, and care; mental health; immigration and health; public health and human rights; women’s health; gender and sexuality; stigma and discrimination; qualitative and mixed methods; intervention development; monitoring and evaluation; health equity; and policy. Professor Doshi received her Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Monika also holds a Master in Public Health and a Certificate in Health and Human Rights from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Monika is also the Founder and Principal of Saath, a public health consulting firm based in Connecticut.

Beth Cameron Ph.D.

Professor of the practice of health services, policy, and practice

A national expert in health security, pandemic preparedness, biosecurity, biodefense, and bioterrorism, Beth Cameron Ph.D. has worked at the highest levels of government, including serving as the special assistant to the President and senior director for Global Health Security and Biodefense for the White House National Security Council. A key member of the School's pandemic preparedness and response leadership team, she will split her time, also serving as a senior advisor for global health security in the USAID Bureau for Global Health.

Through her various prior leadership positions across the U.S. Government in the past 20 years, including at the U.S. State Department and Department of Defense, as well as in the Obama administration and now Biden White House, Cameron was instrumental to the COVID-19 response, to re-establishing the National Security Council Directorate on Global Health Security and Biodefense, and to developing and launching the U.S. Government’s Global Health Security Agenda; she also helped counter global biological catastrophes, and bolster health security financing. Her work has helped address homeland and national security threats by enhancing pandemic preparedness, biosecurity and biosafety; improving emerging infectious disease surveillance, and countering the development and use of biological weapons. Most recently, she helped formulate and coordinate President Biden’s international strategy for fighting COVID-19, including the recent COVID-19 summit, and led administration efforts to build national and global preparedness and financing for pandemics and other emerging threats.

Beth Cameron holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the Human Genetics and Molecular Biology Program at Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Biology from the University of Virginia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Alexandra K. Glazier JD, MPH

Assistant Professor of the Practice,
Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice

Professor Glazier is President & CEO of New England Donor Services (NEDS), formed in 2017 as an affiliation between two Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) together designated by US Health and Human Services to coordinate organ donation for transplant at over 200 hospitals, 14 transplant centers and a population of 14 million people in a six state service area. NEDS has 275 employees and a $95M annual operating budget. NEDS has been named as a top 100 Female Led Business by the Boston Globe and The Commonwealth Institute for 4 years in a row (2018-2021). Alex previously served as the elected regional councilor on the national OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors tasked with overseeing donation and transplantation in the U.S. and as Chair of the Policy Oversight Committee leading the strategic coordination of national organ transplant policy development. She also previously served on the OPTN/UNOS medical peer review committee and as Chair of the Ethics Committee. Alex was twice appointed to the U.S. Sec of HHS, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation. Alex is on the Board of the American Society of Reconstructive Transplant (ASRT) and the Board of Donate Life America including work on the venture with Apple to enable donor registration through the iPhone. Alex started her career practicing health law at the firm Ropes & Gray and became New England Organ Bank’s General Counsel before serving as its CEO. Professor Glazier holds an undergraduate degree in bioethics from Brown University and a JD-MPH from Boston University where she then taught as law faculty for a number of years.

Michael Harvey DrPH, MPH

Assistant Professor,
Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice (HSPP)

Professor Harvey is a social scientist and qualitative methodologist with interests in academic public health education, public health theory, and access to specialty care within indigenous Guatemalan communities. His research to date has sought to characterize the theoretical content of public health instruction, and the implications of that content for the field’s ability to address pressing public health issues. Within the literature, he has advocated for the inclusion of social theoretical perspectives to complement behavioral theoretical ones. He has contributed to the development of the emerging instructional framework of structural competency, which entails the trained ability to recognize and respond to disease and its unequal distribution as the outcome of social structures, such as policies, laws, systems, and institutions. For the past 10 years, he has been involved in rural Guatemala collaborating with colleagues there to expand access to health care services. He has a passion for the classroom and has taught courses on the US health care system, health policy analysis, comparative health care systems, global health, and public health theory, among others. Professor Harvey holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Nuzzo DrPH

Director, Pandemic Center
Professor of Epidemiology

Jennifer Nuzzo DrPH, is a long-time academic and policy leader with strong connections to those on the front lines of pandemics. For more than a decade – and long before COVID-19 – Nuzzo has been a leader in seminal work around pandemic preparedness. She engages effectively across disciplines, across sectors, and at the Pandemic Preparedness Center being created at SPH, she will lead efforts to bring together people from different backgrounds and specialties to work together for progress on these complex problems, and to educate students training in public health who must understand how pandemics affect societies.

Irene Papanicolas Ph.D.

Professor of health services, policy, and practice

Irene Papanicolas Ph.D. focuses her research and teaching on assessing the performance of health systems, including methods to compare national health systems. She works closely with experts in policy, practice and research to identify cross-country learning. Papanicolas is also a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and serves as Associate Editor of the journal Health Policy.

Coming to Brown SPH from the London School of Economics, she will lead a new effort on Comparative Health Systems that will equip health systems with the knowledge and tools needed to address current and future challenges and improve their performance. She will join the School in September as professor of health services, policy, and practice.

Scott Rivkees M.D.

Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice

Scott Rivkees M.D., former Florida Surgeon General and Secretary of Health, brings to SPH unique frontline experience managing the COVID-19 pandemic in the nation’s third most populous state with the largest fully-integrated department of health system. He joins SPH as a Professor of the Practice.

Rivkees was on Florida’s and the nation’s front lines in the fight against COVID-19, interacting with local, state and federal partners. He was engaged in the development and implementation of strategies to slow the spread of the pandemic, improve healthcare, and encourage vaccinations. He brings unique, real-time, real-life public health and policy experience to Brown.

Andrew (Andy) Ryan Ph.D.

Professor of health services, policy, and practice

Andrew (Andy) Ryan Ph.D. is coming to Brown from the University of Michigan School of Public Health where he served as director of the Center for Evaluating Health Reform, and co-director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy, and associate director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation’s Data and Methods Hub.

A national leader in health policy research and training, Ryan will build out a new effort on Health Policy at Brown SPH focused on the effects of changes in health policy on quality of care, healthcare spending, and value, such as quantitative research to evaluate and improve payment policy in the U.S. He will collaborate across health policy researchers and centers at the university and beyond, and pilot partnerships with other disciplines, such as integrating legal scholarship to advocate for regulatory changes. Ryan will join the School in September 2022 as professor of health services, policy, and practice.

Malabika Sarker Ph.D.

Professor of the practice of behavioral and social sciences

Malabika Sarker Ph.D. is coming to Brown from Brac University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. An internationally known expert in public health implementation science research and practice, she founded the Center of Excellence for Science of Implementation and Scale Up at BRAC, and leads implementation science related education, training, research and advocacy. Sarker serves on multiple advisory boards, including Lancet Global Health, Medical Research Council UK, National Institute of Health Research UK, the Evaluation Advisory Committee of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, and she chairs the advisory board of the HRP Alliance for Research Capacity Strengthening.

At Brown SPH, Sarker will focus on implementation science research and teaching, build a partnership platform with other academic institutions and organizations in the global south, and lead new learning initiatives such as creating a structured global public health immersive experiential learning program for MPH and doctoral students. She will join the School in September as professor of the practice of behavioral and social sciences.

Craig Spencer M.D., MPH

associate professor of the practice of health services, policy, and practice

Craig Spencer M.D., MPH will join Brown from the Columbia University Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital where he served as director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine. He has worked on health crises around the globe, including coordinating the Doctors Without Borders national epidemiological response in Guinea during the Ebola outbreak. In 2021, Spencer won an Emmy award for a short film about the medical response to the COVID pandemic in the United States.

At Brown, Dr. Spencer will be focusing on the historical foundations of public health practice, especially with respect to global health, humanitarian response, and pandemic preparedness. Looking through the lens of history—at events as diverse as colonial sleeping sickness campaigns to the global response to COVID-19—his program will bring together learning from public health, historians, anthropologists, and other social scientists to highlight why understanding public health’s past is crucial for guiding its current and future development. Dr. Spencer will join the School in September as associate professor of the practice of health services, policy, and practice.

Adam Sullivan Ph.D., MS

Assistant Professor of the Practice,
Department of Biostatistics

Professor Sullivan holds a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from Harvard University and a M.S. degree in mathematics from South Dakota State University. He currently serves as a Senior Principal Statistician at Servier Pharmaceuticals in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to that he was a Senior Manager of Statistics at Takeda. Before Takeda, he was an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Director of Graduate Programs, and a Faculty Statistician at Hassenfeld at Brown. Adam received several teaching awards during his time here at Brown, including the 2018 and 2016 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2018 Sheridan Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow, and 2017 Teaching with Technology Award: Showcase Award. In his spare time, Professor Sullivan enjoys spending time walking or hiking with his dog Lexie. Many vacations are spent either camping or working on a friend's farm and being with family. Professor Sullivan lived in the Boston/Providence area for 10 years before relocating back to rural NY to be near his family.

Claire Wardle Ph.D.

Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice

Claire Wardle Ph.D., the co-founder of First Draft, will join an expanding effort at SPH on mis/disinformation and the information needs of communities as a Professor of the Practice. Building on the groundbreaking work she helped launch and grew to empower people with the knowledge, understanding, and tools needed to find and follow trustworthy sources of information, Wardle will work closely with SPH professor of the practice Stefanie Friedhoff in directing research, education, and policy efforts around these issues.

Wardle has done groundbreaking work at First Draft and elsewhere, helping to define and develop an entire new field of research and understanding around mis- and disinformation. At SPH, Wardle will return to her academic roots to build on this work and drive novel, multidisciplinary research on the harms of mis- and disinformation and effective ways to combat the intentional and unintentional spread of false information. She will also continue to lead strategy for First Draft, providing training for newsrooms, state and national authorities, and community-based organizations.

Hannah N. Ziobrowski Ph.D., MPH

Assistant Professor,
Department of Epidemiology

Professor Ziobrowski is a psychiatric epidemiologist. Her research focuses on the development and treatment of mental disorders, with a particular interest in how stress and trauma impact mental health across the life course. Her research encompasses eating, mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders, and PTSD. Professor Ziobrowski earned her Ph.D. in Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health, her MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Washington University in St. Louis, and her BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from Vassar College. She completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.