Center Alumni

Mentoring and training doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows in occupational health and safety is critical to the Center’s mission. Using their experiences with our researchers, these Center alumni have gone on to work in academic, government, private sector, and non-profit organizations, both nationally and internationally. Center Alumni are listed below, including their current professional positions and the years during which they were at the Center.

Alumni

Oscar E. Arias-Fernandez, MD, ScD (2009-2014)
Senior Manager, Occupational Health & Safety North America
The Coca-Cola Company

Alberto Cabán-Martinez, DO, PhD, MPH, CPH (2011-2014)
Professor, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Public Health Sciences
Deputy Director, MD-MPH Program
Assistant Provost for Research Integrity

Caitlin Eicher Caspi, ScD (2009-2012)
Associate Professor, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut
Director of Food Security Initiatives, UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity

Winnie Chin, ScD, MS (2020-2021)
Human Factors Researcher, Hardware Industrial Design Group
Amazon Lab126

Ellen Connorton, MPA, ScD (2010-2012)
Head of Policy, The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change

María Andrée López Gómez, MPH, PhD (2017-2019)
Director, Réseau Santé en français de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador

Michael Grant, ScD (2011-2016)
International Representative, Health and Safety Department Industrial Hygienist
The International Union, UAW

Amy Harley, MPH, PhD (2005-2008)
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Academic & Student Affairs
Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Karen Hopcia, ScD, APRN-BC, COHN-S, FAAOHN (2008-2010)
Former Director for Occupational Health Services, Mass General Brigham

David A. Hurtado, ScD (2013-2015)
Associate Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences
Oregon Health and Science University

Henrik Børsting Jacobsen, PhD (2012-2013)
Professor of Psychology, University of Oslo

Felipe Muñoz Medina, PhD (2024-2025)
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management
Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Lauren Murphy, PhD (2011-2014)
UX Researcher, MathWorks

Stephanie Neidlinger, PhD (2023-2024)
Data Strategist & Analytics, Work and Organizational Psychology
Helmut Schmidt University

Candace Nelson, ScD (2012-2014)
Public Health Consultant

Susan Peters, PhD, BOccThy(Hons) (2016-2019)
Senior Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lisa Quintiliani, PhD (2006-2009)
Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Silje Endresen Reme, PsyD, PhD (2010-2012)
Professor of Health-, Developmental- and Personality psychology
University of Oslo

Ricardo Diego Suárez Rojas, MSW (2023-2025)
Adjunct Professor, Boston College School of Social Work

Erika Sabbath, ScD (2012-2014)
Associate Professor, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work
Adjunct Associate Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Grace Sembajwe, ScD, MSc, CIH (2007-2010)
Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
Indiana University Bloomington, School of Public Health

Emily Sparer-Fine, ScD (2015-2018)
Director, Occupational Health Surveillance Program
Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Sonja Stoffel, PhD (2009-2010)
Projektleiterin Evaluation and Qualitat,
Gesundheitsforderung Schweiz, Switzerland

Sara L. Tamers, PhD, MPH (2010-2013)
Strategic Advisor & External Affairs Lead
Philosophie Vivante-Université du Lien

Torill Helene Tveito, PhD (2008-2010)
Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway

Jessica Williams, PhD (2013-2015)
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Penn State College of Health and Human Development

Visiting Researchers

The Center welcomes esteemed colleagues from around the world to collaborate with us while based at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. These visiting researchers then apply their experiences to their work in academic, government, private sector, and non-profit organizations. Our most recent visiting researchers are listed below, including their affiliation at the time of their visit and the years during which they were at the Center.

Yasmine Bezzaz, MSc Management (2019-2020)
Doctoral Student at the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences
Rabat-Agdal Mohammed V University, Morocco

Tarek Benedict Carls-Littwin (2025)
Doctoral Student and Research Associate
University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland

Emma Cedstrand, PhD (2022)
Licensed Psychologist
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Adam Chati, PhD (2022)
Professor of Human Management and Organizational Behavior
Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco
Principal Investigator, Thriving Lab

Siw Tone Innstrand, PhD (2022)
Professor, Occupational Health Psychology
Director of the Center for Health Promotion Research
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Seung-Sup Kim, MD, MPH, ScD (2019-2020)
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Seoul National University, South Korea

Ann Sophie Lauterbach, PhD (2022)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Technische Universität Dresden

Marta Pilotto, LL.M. (2019-2020)
Doctoral student in Comparative and European Legal Studies
University of Trento, Italy