Milestones

2025

January 2025 | 

• Launched Tufts University course Public Health and Community Power: Strategies and Implementation for Health in Partnership with Melissa Hector, Director of Equitable and Strategic Initiatives at the Boston Public Health Commission.

• Collaborated with senior leaders in planning Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health "Big Read," a school-wide discussion of Vidya Krishnan's remarkable book, "Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History." 

February 2025 |

• Convened Tufts University course panel including Barbra Rabson, Chief Executive Officer of Mass Health Quality Partners and Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, Founder of Grapevine Health on "The Power of Communication and Measurement in Health Quality and Trust."

• Faciliated Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health "Big Read" discussion group of students, faculty and staff on "Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History."  

March 2025 |

• Co-panelist at Tufts University Global Month with Dr. Anatole Manzi (Partners In Health) and Melissa Hector (Boston Public Health Commission) and student facilitators.  Topic:  All Health is Global - Lessons from the Past and Our Path Forward. 

• Support Rx Foundation in reviewing 700+ grant submissions, developing a map of national advocacy activity. 

April 2025 |

•  Led Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health DrPH Health Leadership Insight Forum with guest Anatole Manzi, PhD, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Partners In Health.

• Served as Project Director for Thriving Together Summit: Advancing Health, Cultivating Leaders and Collaborating on Community Solutions, hosted by the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, and People Power Health.

2024

January 2024 | 

• Conceptualized, designed, and co-facilitated Beacon Academy's "Workplace Readiness Workshop" program for first generation college students.

• Designed and edited University of Global Health Equity's Implementation Research Toolkit, the inaugural resource in the Transforming Healthcare Delivery Leaders Series. 

• Completed Industrial Areas Foundation comprehensive community organizer training with Groundwater Institute.
  
  

February 2024 | 

• Developed strategic plan for the Institute of Global Health Equity Research at Rwanda's University of Global Health Equity, collaborating with the Institute's Executive Director and senior leadership, advancing research and impact through training and human resource development, scaled population science initiatives, and cutting-edge clinical trials and bench research. 

• Co-taught Enabling Large Scale Change for DrPH students at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. 

March 2024 | 

• Led Advanced Grantee Training Series for Rx Foundation, five modules for non-profit leaders covering topics including: theories of change, board strategies, finance and budgets, and AI and non-profit engagement. 

• Moderated "Trust, Transparency, and Transformation," a national foundation panel for the Rx Foundation exploring possibility and collaboration in foundation grantee partnerships. 

• Taught DrPH Case Writing Immersion course at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in partnership with Traumalink, American Medical Association, and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

April 2024 |

• Redesigned curriculum for Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health courses: Fundamentals of Public Health and Enabling Teams.

• Participated in Groundwater Network's Annual Multisector Convening with focus on bringing structural lasting change to complex organizations.  

May 2024 |

• Launched strategic planning process with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, engaging with Board of Directors, and Councils of health plans, providers, and consumers to explore priorities, landscape, needs, and organizational capabilities. 

• Participated on Beacon Academy video panel describing this 10-year program arc that prepares highly motivated students from communities with limited resources to succeed in competitive high schools, colleges, and careers.  

June 2024 |

• Synthesized external reviewer inputs evaluating Institute strategic plan and developed Advisory Council model for University of Global Health Equity's Institute for Global Health Equity Research and Innovation.

• Engaged fifteen industry experts in landscape analysis for Mass Health Quality Partners Strategic Plan, gaining insight on trends and concerns across health equity, experience, and access in Massachusetts and nationally.

• Collaborated with Groundwater national clients to refine the groundwater case for equity in the biotech and pharma sectors.  

• Walked 120 mile route of Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, averaging 15 mile days from town to town in timeless and beautiful region in County Kerry. 

July 2024 |

• Launched reimagined course, Fundamentals of Public Health, for incoming Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health doctoral students. Developed new curriculum, engaged leading thinkers in the field and created cohesive cohort. 

• Completed strategic plan for the Institute for Global Health Equity Research and Innovation (IGHERI) at Rwanda's University of Global Health Equity. Collaborated with Dean for Research on landscape analysis, content, budgets, narrative, and long-term sustainability strategy.     

August 2024 |

• Supported dissemination and engagement for the national rollout of the Roadmap for Opioid Settlement Funds, in partnership with National Sea Change Coalition. This a crucial tool for elected officials, government agencies, and others involved in the just allocation of these vital funds.  

• Credited in the documentary Twin Towers: Legacy for editing of chyrons for final film cut working with Academy Award winning director. 

September 2024 |

• Led Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health DrPH Health Leadership Insight Forum with guest Darshak Sanghavi, who leads Women's Health initiaitves for ARPA-H.

• Launched 8th year co-teaching Tufts University's Global Health: A Practitioner's Approach to Real-World Problems with Dr. Anatole Manzi.

October 2024 |

• Facilitated Mass Health Quality Partners Board Retreat, engaging board members in rich reflection and ideation session mapping out a five year plan to support healthcare organizations, health plans, employers and the Commonwealth to provide better, more equitable patient care by understanding patients’ experience and access across specialties and disease states, provider models, and settings of care.  

• Convened and led Harvard DrPH Multi-center Panel including Ariadne Labs, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard Global Health Institute and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative elevating a range of global health and equity efforts across Harvard University for doctoral student audience. 

• Guest lectured at Tufts University Health Equity Club on non-profit funding environment and opportunities to expand support to critical non-profit organizations.

November 2024 |

• Delivered Plenary session lecture at Kazakhstan Republican Forum of Healthcare Managers Annual Conference at Almaty University. Virtual presentation on the topic of "Leadership Qualities and Managerial Competencies of Healthcare Managers to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals."  

• Represented Harvard's DrPH Program in preparation and site review for Council on Education for Public Health accreditation.  

December 2024 |

• Supported research and writing of Groundwater Institute's "Case for Health Equity" White Paper.

• Collaborated with National Sea Change Coalition on a needs assessment survey for harm reduction organization partners nationally.  

2023
January 2023 |
Named Instructor and and joined leadership team at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, DrPH Program. 

February 2023 |
Elected to Finance Commmittee of Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE), a partnership with the Navajo Nation Community Health Representative Outreach Program to improve the lives of those living with chronic diseases in Navajo.

March 2023 |
Guest lectured at University of Global Health Equity in Kigali, Rwanda, on Philanthropy and Multilateralism in Global Health. 

April 2023 |
Served as Project Lead for Boston Public Health Commission's Health Equity Symposium, bringing together more than 200 community, academic, policy and clinical leaders to drive Boston forward through lessons learned from COVID. 

May 2023 | 

• Panelist on Health Begins Webinar: Examining the Groundwater - Understanding History as Context for Upstream Structural Interventions to Advance Health Equity.   

• Guest lectured and served as Project Review Panelist in Program Design For Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health. 

• Engaged in Groundwater Network Convening in Atlanta, Georgia, building a movement for racial equity across sectors. 

June 2023 | 

• Taught Theory of Change workshop with remarkable Ireme team, a program of Move Up Global, in Musanze, Rwanda. 

• Completed strategic plan for the Center for Leadership in Global Health Equity, University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda.  

• Toured Rwanda's national parks in Musanze, Akagera, Nyungwe, and hiked a portion of the Nile Congo Trail. At a rare loss for words to describe the exquisite beauty of Rwanda and the exceedingly generous communities we were welcomed into. 

July 2023 |
Supported EqualHealth's fundraising strategy and recruitment, submitting multiyear grant to support critical social medicine education and healing justice work globally.  

August 2023 | 

• Taught Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health "Introduction to Public Health" to DrPH students, revising long-standing curriculum to reflect nuance of power, equity, and collaboration in public health globally.   

• Supported National SeaChange Coalition and partners in rollout of National Roadmap for Opioid Settlement Funds, including developing roadmap content, media advisory development, and media roundtable event.  

September 2023 |

• Launched sixth year co-teaching at Tufts University: A Practical Introduction to Global Health in partnership with Anatole Manzi, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Partners In Health. 

• Co-facilated Groundwater Basecamp Sessions with Rhode Island Department of Health. 
  
  

October 2023 |
Supported Boston Public Health Commission's "Boston Measurement for Health Equity" strategic planning and partnership model.  

November 2023 |
Panelist at Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Leadership Forum on Re-Examining Racism in health care.

December 2023 | 

• Co-Taught HSPH "Enabling Teams" and taught "Case Writing Immersion" in DrPH program.

• Researched, co-authored and recorded Groundwater Institute's video series: "Racial Equity in Health Care" and "Health Equity in Action," which were included in engagements with Groundwater's national health care clients.  

2022

August 2022 |
Named Health Equity Consultant to Groundwater Institute, driving forward best practices and powerful narratives around racial justice and health equity in the US. 

September 2022 | 

• Co-taught Tufts University Experimental College Course, Global Health: A Practitioner's Approach to Real-World Problems, as Distler Family Foundation grantee in recognition of mission and excellence in teaching. 

• Convened Brigham and Women's Hospital Health Equity Innovation Pilot Grant Annual Grantee Symposium. 

October 2022 |
Named Rx Foundation Mentor to National Seachange Coalition. 

November 2022 | 

• Supported Board strategy and convening for Vital Connections. 

• Envisioned and implemented EqualHealth's Health Equity Heroes virtual celebration.