Our Team

Principal Investigator

Josiemer Mattei, PhD, MPH
Donald and Sue Pritzker Associate Professor of Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
Email: jmattei@hsph.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-432-3017
Areas of interest: Nutritional Epidemiology, Cardiometabolic Health, Allostatic Load, Psychosocial Factors, Minority Health, Mixed Methods Research, Dietary Interventions

Co-Investigators

Sebastien Haneuse, PhD
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
haneuse@hsph.harvard.edu
Areas of interest: Epidemiology

José F. Rodríguez-Orengo, PhD
FDI Clinical Research
jrodriguez@fdipr.com
Areas of interest: Biochemical Pharmacology and Nutrition, Public Health Policy

Edna Acosta-Pérez, PhD, MSc
University of Puerto Rico
edna.acosta2@upr.edu
Areas of interest: Health Disparities

Carlos Ríos-Bedoya, ScD, MPH
Michigan State University
cfriosbedoya@gmail.com
Areas of interest: Quantitative epidemiology

Katherine L. Tucker, PhD
University of Massachusetts Lowell
katherine_tucker@uml.edu
Areas of interest: Nutritional Epidemiology

Luis M. Falcón, PhD
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Luis_Falcon@uml.edu
Areas of interest: Social Networks, Depression, Stress

Robert C. Kaplan, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
robert.kaplan@einstein.yu.edu
Areas of interest: Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Health Disparities

Staff- Puerto Rico Team

Sigrid Mendoza Sánchez, PhD –Principal Project Coordinator
FDI Clinical Research
smendoza@fdipr.com; smendoza@hsph.harvard.edu
Phone: 787-722-1248 Ext. 246
Areas of interest: Social and Community Psychology, Social Determinants of Health Related to Gender and CVD risk, Sexuality and Health, Minority Research

Jonathan Orozco-González, BA – Data Coordinator
FDI Clinical Research
jorozco@fdipr.com
Phone: 787-722-1248
Areas of interest: Gerontology, Community Services, Drug Addiction, Pharmacology, Business

Karla Medina, MS – Assistant Coordinator
FDI Clinical Research
kmedina@hsph.harvard.edu; kmedina@fdipr.com
Phone: 787-309-9941
Areas of interest: Molecular Biology, Immunology, Social Determinants Related to Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes Research

Staff- Boston team

Elizbeth Petit, MPH – Data Manager
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
epetit@hsphs.harvard.edu

Martha Tamez, ScD, MS – Postdoctoral Research Data Analyst
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
m.tamez@mail.harvard.edu
Phone: 857-272 3619
Areas of interest: Nutritional Epidemiology in Hispanics/Latinos, Traditional Diets, Diet Quality, Cardiovascular Disease

Abrania Marrero, PhD, SM – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
amarrerohernandez@fas.harvard.edu
Areas of interest: Nutrition, Climate Change, Food Sovereignty, Traditional Food Cultures, Cardiometabolic Disease, Small Island Developing States

Consultants and Collaborators- Current Projects

Andrés Calle, MS
CEO-Founder of AppLivio Company
info@applivio.com
Phone: 939-545-0097
Areas of interest: Healthcare Management Systems

Jerrold S. Meyer, PhD – Stress Biomarkers/Hair Cortisol Laboratory
University of Massachusetts Amherst
jmeyer@psych.umass.edu
Phone: 413-545-2168
Areas of interest: Accumulation of the stress hormone cortisol in growing hair and nails as a biomarker of long-term activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical

Andrea Lopez-Cepero, PhD
Emory University
andrea.a.lopez-cepero@emory.edu
Areas of Interest: Behavior and Health, Cardiometabolic Diseases, Health Disparities, Nutrition

Mayra Estrella, PhD
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
mayra.l.Estrella@uth.tmc.edu
Areas of Interest: Psychosocial factors related to cognitive and brain health; Resilience and cognitive research

Jose Ordovas
Tufts University
jose.ordovas@tufts.edu
Areas of Interest: Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Consultants and Collaborators- Previous Projects

Charmaine Alfonso, RD, EdD – Nutritionist
College of Nutritionists and Dietitians of Puerto Rico
charmainealfonso70@gmail.com
Phone: 787-644-8210
Areas of interest: Nutrition, Data Analysis

Patrick Vinck, PhD – Natural Disaster Response
Research Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Assistant Professor, Global Health and Population, Harvard Chan School of Public Health; Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Lead Investigator at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
pvinck@hsph.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-384-8368
Areas of interest: Resilience to Disasters, Conflict and Health, and Technology and the Ethics of Data

Research Assistants

To be updated