Faculty Directory
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Executive and Continuing Education programs are taught by esteemed Harvard faculty and industry experts in health care and related fields.
Harvard Chan Executive and Continuing Education Faculty
Dr. Edmund W. J. Lee is an Associate Professor (tenured) at the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. He previously was an Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he served as Assistant Director at the Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube).As a public health communication scientist, Dr Lee’s research focuses on developing health technologies to tackle health inequalities, as well as examining how to take advantage of digital traces—data from social media, smartphones, wearables, and electronic health records—in an intelligent and…
Pam has 22 years of experience as a public company director, serving on seven public company boards where she has been chair of the board, presiding director, and chaired audit and compensation committees. She has been involved in IPOs, equity and debt financings, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, auditor changes, sale of the company, cyber breaches, activist negotiations, and planned and unplanned CEO succession. Pam is currently a director, chair of the audit committee and member of the Nominating & Governance committee of ATN International (ATNI). Previously she was on the boards of Rithm Capital, Monotype Imaging, Civitas Solutions, American Superconductor, Spartech…
Dr. Jennifer Lerner is the Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, Management and Decision Science at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is the first psychologist in the history of the Harvard Kennedy School to receive tenure. Professor Lerner also holds appointments in Harvard’s Department of Psychology and Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. Drawing on experience teaching decision science to senior executives in the public and private sector, Professor Lerner took a one-year leave from Harvard to serve as the U.S. Navy’s first Chief Decision Scientist, reporting to the Chief of Naval Operations (2018-2019). Research: Drawing insights from psychology, economics, and neuroscience, Lerner’s research aims…
Jeff Levin-Scherz is a managing director and the Population Health Leader of the North American Health and Benefits Travel of WTW, formerly Willis Towers Watson, where he helps large employers develop, implement and evaluate their health management strategy, including care management programs, incentive programs, and technology programs. Jeff leads intellectual capital development for Willis Towers Watson in the Health Management space. Jeff has written and spoken widely on health care policy, especially around employers and the pandemic, the adoption of disruptive innovation, and the use of behavioral economics to drive performance in the health care delivery system and behavior among employees…
Emily completed her PhD in the Harvard-MIT joint division of Health Sciences and Technology. Her career has centered around building data science and analytics teams and infrastructure within the health tech industry at companies such as IBM Watson Health, Wellframe, and Cityblock. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Data & Healthcare Innovation at Morgan Health, where her role involves developing a robust data strategy for the organization from analytics, infrastructure, and investment perspectives, as well as deriving meaningful insights from the rich data sources at Morgan Health. She also leads all maternal health innovation work for Morgan Health.…
Mr. Thomas J. Loughman is the Vice President of EHS Program Management and Transformation at Amentum. He provides safety, health, and environmental leadership to a group of over 45,000 employees in more than 250 locations worldwide, performing design, construction, operations & maintenance, and technical services. In Mr. Loughman's role he leads strategic and transformational initiatives and manages policy, training programs, and performance measurement.Tom ahs his CSP, an MBA, and is also an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School's Executive Education.
Gene Lupton is a graduate of UNC-Charlotte with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. Gene started his career as a junior engineer with a consulting firm performing machine design on packaging and material handling equipment for clients such as Proctor and Gamble and Ford Motor Company. He then moved into the filtration industry in 1996 at the Flanders Filters Washington NC facility as a product engineer for HEPA filters and commercial metal products. Not limited to those product lines, Gene was the lead engineer for large scale projects for pharmaceutical isolators/gloveboxes and laminar flow hoods. Gene also participated in the AG1 Section…
Bertha K Madras, PhD is a Professor of Psychobiology at Harvard Medical School (at Harvard 36 years). She is based at McLean Hospital and cross-appointed at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She directs the Laboratory of Addiction Neurobiology at McLean Hospital.Scientific Research. Her research has focused on neurobiology, pharmacology, brain imaging, drug discovery and medications development, neuropsychiatric disorders, and drug policy. Her lab discovered a class of compounds now in widespread use for detecting Parkinson’s disease in living brain, has clarified molecular targets in brain of specific psychoactive drugs, and discovered contrasting behavioral and molecular responses of adolescent and adult nonhuman…
Candy Magaña, MPA, is a nationally respected health equity leader, practice facilitator, master trainer and public health professional with expertise in capacity building and innovation adoption for healthcare systems and organizations domestically and internationally. Candy currently serves as the Director of Health Equity Innovation, Solutions and Transformation on the Health Equity and Social Impact team at Humana Inc. In this role she leads a workstream dedicated to enterprise health equity innovation, employee and clinician learning and capacity building, including establishing health literacy as a key pillar to improving the patient experience and quality of care. Prior to this, Candy served…