Faculty Directory

Professor Eyal works at the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Besides issues in research ethics including the ones he will mention at EIGHR, he works on a broad range of topics in population-level and clinical bioethics. They include health inequalities, universal health coverage, fair health resource allocation, health promotion and “nudging”, adherence monitoring, personal responsibility for health, corporate responsibility for health, ethical policy responses to critical health worker shortages; disaster bioethics, and the ethical grounds for informed consent. Homepage: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/nir_eyal.

Neal Fann is a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He has over 15 years of experience in conducting benefit-cost analyses of policies designed to improve air quality and mitigate climate change. These analyses combine evidence from the environmental epidemiology and economics literature to estimate the number, and monetary value, of reducing air pollution and slowing climate change. Examples of his work include the EPA’s mercury and air toxics regulations as well as a rule limiting the transport of air pollution across state boundaries. Fann has also quantified the number of premature deaths and illnesses from:…

Babak (Bob) Farahpour is a registered Mechanical Engineering serving as a program Officer at National Institutes of Allergy and Infection Disease (NIAID) at the Office of Biodefense Research Affairs. He has more than 15 years of experience in design and construction of Mechanical systems for Biomedical facilities. Bob was the prime mechanical reviewer for the latest and highly complex High containment facilities (BSL-3/BSL-4) built by NIH/NIAID. As the Chairperson of High Containment Committee he was responsible for finishing the new Biocontainment (High Containment) volume of the new guidelines for NIH Design Requirement Manual, which has been published on January of…

Dara Feddersen graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.Sc. in Chemistry in May 2007. Shortly after, she joined Hollingsworth & Vose as a technician in the R&D department. After 1 year, she went back to school completing a Ph.D. program in Chemistry with a focus on atmospheric aerosols at the University of New Hampshire in December 2013. During her time at UNH, she published papers and presented her research on particulate and gas phase mercury at various conferences. Upon completion of the program, she returned to Hollingsworth & Vose as a Scientist. Dara is active in the following…

Dr. Ferguson has worked in 100+ nations as a technical advisor, consultant, and facilitator for preeminent global health entities including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN). Based in Geneva Switzerland for 10+ years, she directed the ICN Leadership for Change Program, the ICN-Burdett Global Nursing Leadership Institute and served as an ICN Consultant for Nursing and Health Policy. Dr. Ferguson worked for more than 20 years at WHO headquarters and regional offices where she developed strategic plans and initiatives to strengthen nursing and midwifery services and evaluate global health care delivery systems, population health outcomes,…

Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is also a practicing Internist and Associate Physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the BWH Medicine Residency Management & Leadership Pathway.Dr. Figueroa received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.His main…

Mary Finlay is a former faculty member at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she directed multiple executive education programs, including Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers, and the Program for Chairs of Clinical Services. She also taught strategy and IT management classes. She currently provides executive coaching as well as consulting services in the areas of IT organization, project management, strategy and staff development. Her consulting, teaching, and coaching experience spans a range of industries including healthcare, technology, higher education, manufacturing, consulting, and banking.Previous positions include Professor of Practice at the Simmons School of…