Faculty Directory

Julia Adler-Milstein is in her sixth year of the doctoral program in Health Policy at Harvard University (Management Track). Her research focuses on management and policy issues emerging from the use of information technology (IT) in health care delivery. Her dissertation, comprised of three empirical papers, examines the progress of IT adoption in the health care sector, the impact of such adoption on health care costs, and the productivity implications of work restructuring following health IT adoption. Prior to graduate school, Julia worked as an analyst at the Center for Information Technology Leadership at Partners HealthCare. There she built models…

Dr. Monica Agrawal is an incoming assistant professor at Duke University and a co-founder of Layer Health. At Duke, she will have a joint appointment between the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and the Department of Computer Science. 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 and was named a…

Dr. Alderman, 1958 B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, 1962 M.D., from the Yale Medical School, did post¬graduate training at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health while serving in the United States Public Health Service from 1964 to 1966. He was the Glorney Raisbeck Research Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine 1967 to 1968 and subsequently, 1973 and 1977, received Travelling Fellowships from the World Health Organization.Dr. Alderman is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the Association of American Physicians. He was Professor of Public Health and Medicine at Cornell…

David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist, is a founding core member of the Broad Institute and has directed the Broad’s Program in Medical and Population Genetics since 2003. In 2009 he was named deputy director and the Broad’s first chief academic officer. Altshuler studies human genetic variation and its application to disease, using tools and information from the Human Genome Project. He has been a leader in The SNP Consortium, International HapMap Project, and 1000 Genomes Project, public-private partnerships that have created public maps of human genome sequence variation. On this foundation, the Altshuler Lab has developed laboratory…

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…

José Alvarez was President and Chief Executive Officer of Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover from April 2006 through July 2008. José joined Stop & Shop, a subsidiary of Royal Ahold NV, in 2001. Prior to his tenure as President and CEO, José was Executive Vice President of Supply Chain and Logistics for the company. He also served as the Senior Vice President Logistics and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. He spent nearly 20 years in retail management before coming to Harvard Business School. Jose serves on the boards of the TJX Companies, United Rentals, Princeton University, the Joyce Foundation, Daily Table, Princeton…

John Ambler is Vice President, Strategy at Oxfam America. Within Oxfam America, he works on building up the agriculture program, identifying best practice across the Oxfam confederation, fund raising, and identifying strategic investments in Oxfam America's rights-based programming approach. He spends the other half of his time as a member of Oxfam International's Global Team, also heading up the Program Development Group under that body. The Group is responsible for leading efforts to improve program quality across all the Oxfam affiliates, to effectively implement the Oxfam confederation's initiative to coordinate and make more powerful all of Oxfam's work at the…

Global Public Health – Professor Rifat Atun, MBBS MBA DIC FRCGP FFPH FRCPDr. Atun is Professor of Global Health Systems and the Director of the Health System Innovation Lab at Harvard University at Harvard University. In 2008-12 he was a member of the Executive Management Team of the Global Fund as the Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation, where he chaired the panel that made investment decisions for ~$4-5billion each year in 120+ countries.Professor Atun’s research focuses on health systems performance, design and innovation. He has published more than 450 articles in leading journals including NEJM, Nature Medicine, Lancet, Lancet…