Faculty Directory

Omar Abudayyeh is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Brigham’s Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, and is affiliated with the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. He previously was a McGovern Fellow at MIT where he directed his own research group and before that was at Harvard Medical School and MIT as a graduate student in Feng Zhang’s lab at the Broad Institute, where he earned a Ph.D. researching novel CRISPR enzymes for genome editing, therapeutics, and diagnostics. Dr. Abudayyeh has been recognized as Technology Review…

Dr. Monica Agrawal is an assistant professor at Duke University and a co-founder of Layer Health. At Duke, she has joint appointment between the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and the Department of Computer Science, and an affiliation with Duek AI Health. In her research, she tackles diverse challenges including scalable clinical information extraction, smarter electronic health records, and human-in-the-loop systems. Her work has been published at top venues in machine learning, natural language processing, computational health, and human-computer interaction. She has been the recipient of a Takeda Fellowship, a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship, and an MIT EECS Edgerton Fellowship…

In 2013 Dr. Peter L. Almenoff was appointed as Special Advisor in the Office of the Secretary (Healthcare Value), and Senior Fellow in the VA Center for Innovation. Dr. Almenoff was also appointed Director, Operational Analytics and Reporting in 2012. He oversees the Office of Operational Analytics and Reporting (OAR), including the Office of Productivity, Efficiency, and Staffing (OPES); Business Reporting; Operations and Management Support; and Field Analytics. Dr. Almenoff served as the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Quality and Safety from 2008-2012. He was the Network Director for the VA Heartland Network from 2002-2008, serving veterans in…

Yele Aluko MD, MBA is Chief Medical Officer in EY Americas Health Advisory practice. He advises health system C-suite and senior executives on strategy and business operations and provides insight on megatrends confronting the health industry. He is a proven physician executive and corporate leader with astute understanding of strategy that develops competitive advantage for healthcare organizations. As Director of the EY Center for Health Equity he leads EY teams in the design of customized strategy, solutions and competency building for health sector value chain participants seeking to achieve Health Equity.  Prior to joining EY in October 2016, he practiced…

Global Public Health – Professor Rifat Atun, MBBS, MBA, FRCP, FRCGP, FFPHDr. Rifat Atun is Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair for the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program. He was the senior advisor to the G20 Presidency last year and introduced VBHC to G20 as a priority and its inclusion in the Ministerial and The Heads of State Declarations. In 2008-12, he served as a member of the Executive Management Team of the Global Fund as Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation where he chaired the panel that oversaw annual investments of ~$4 billion USD…

Dr. Heather J. Baer is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an Associate Epidemiologist in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research focuses on the role of lifestyle factors in the etiology and prevention of chronic disease. Her work also examines strategies for management of overweight and obesity in clinical settings, with a particular focus on health information technology. In addition, Dr. Baer is actively involved in a variety of teaching and educational…

Junaid is a Senior Partner at Flagship Pioneering, leading the UK division and serving as a Science Partner for Pioneering Intelligence globally. He is also a practicing physician with the UK’s National Health Service. Previously, as Chief Medical Scientist at Microsoft Research, Junaid focused on integrating trusted, reliable, and human-centered AI into medicine, leading strategic partnerships and spearheading Responsible AI initiatives. With extensive experience in primary and secondary care, public health, and roles as a payer and policy maker, Junaid’s work spans healthcare systems across the US, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and Singapore. Academically, he holds positions as a…