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
Gina McCarthy is Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment. In this capacity, she leads the development of the School's strategy in climate science, health, and sustainability; strengthens the climate science and health curriculum; and liaises with climate science leaders across the University. McCarthy has been a leading advocate for common sense strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years. She served under President Barack Obama as the j 13thAdministrator of…
James J. McDevitt received his master's degree in Industrial Hygiene and PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore Maryland and completed a 3 year post-doctoral fellowship in Environmental Health Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is diplomat of the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. He has over 10 years of experience practicing industrial hygiene as an active duty member of the United States Air Force and in private consulting. He is currently a senior scientist at 9 Foundations.
John E. McDonough, DrPH, MPA, is Professor of Public Health Practice in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Center for Executive and Continuing Professional Education at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2010, he was the Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Hunter College in New York City. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as a Senior Advisor on National Health Reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions where he worked on the development and passage of the Affordable Care Act.Between 2003 and 2008, he…
Dr. LaShawn McIver is a proven public health leader with over 20+ years of experience driving successful health initiatives and public policy efforts aimed at promoting health equity, improving health outcomes, increasing access to quality care and promoting health system reform. In July of 2023, she joined AHIP as its new Senior Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer. In this role she serves as a thought leader for AHIP’s health equity strategies and programs and provides strategic leadership to drive an overall industry wide Health Equity Strategic Roadmap for AHIP as a member-driven association.Dr. McIver is the former Director…
Eric J. McNulty holds an appointment as Associate Director for the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. He is an Instructor at the Harvard Chan School. His work centers on leadership in high-stakes, high-stress situations. He most recent book, You're It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most is based on meta-leadership, the core leadership framework of the group’s curriculum. He teaches in graduate-level courses on public health leadership, conflict resolution, and negotiation as well as…
Emily is a co-founder of Threshold. She is looking for entrepreneurs who are genuinely excited about being agents of change and have an almost irrational drive to make things better. Her portfolio includes BetterUp, Brightline, Calibrate, Elation Health, Imagen, Livongo (NASDAQ: LVGO), Ooda Health, Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN), Shift (NASDAQ: SFT), Tia, Verge Genomics, Vineti, Vital, Viz, and Wellframe.In 2019, Forbes recognized Emily on the Midas Brink List as an investor destined for success based on her reputation and momentum in the industry. Emily is an active founding member of All Raise, a non-profit dedicated to improving access for women and…
Farhad Memarzadeh is the Director, Division of Technical Resources (DTR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the United States medical research agency—making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world. With the headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, the NIH has more than 18,000 employees on the main campus and at satellite sites across the country. NIH is the premiere biomedical research institute in the United States and the largest,…
Dr. Nicolas Menzies is Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population, and part of the core faculty of the Harvard Center for Health Decision Science. Professor Menzies uses decision science and quantitative research to understand the consequences of policies to combat major infectious diseases, and help design effective disease control programs when resources are limited. His research focused on tuberculosis, HIV, and COVID-19, and his current work involves collaborations with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria.
Gregg S. Meyer, MD, MSc, is the President of the Community Division & Executive Vice President of Value Based Care for the Mass General Brigham health care system in Boston, Massachusetts. He is responsible for six of Mass General Brigham’s hospitals – Newton-Wellesley Hospital and North Shore Medical Center –where he previously served as interim President, Nantucket Cottage Hospital, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, Cooley Dickinson Hospital and Wentworth-Douglass Hospital as well as Mass General Brigham Home Care and Mass General Brigham Community Physicians. Dr. Meyer is also responsible for building and leading a best-in-class Value Based Care Program by leveraging Mass…