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. Hirschhorn is currently the Concordia Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics at Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, the Director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, and an Institute Member of the Broad Institute. He received his A.B. summa cum laude in biochemistry from Harvard College and later earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard Medical School. He completed a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at Boston Children’s Hospital and postdoctoral training with Eric Lander at the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research. In 2001, he started as a faculty member at Boston…
Albert Hofman, MD, PhD is the Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Dr. Hofman was the Chairman of the Department of Epidemiology of the Erasmus Medical Center/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from 1988 until 2016. Dr. Hofman is the initiator of two population-based cohort studies in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands: the Rotterdam Study (1990) and the Generation R study (2002). These studies have as shared features that they target multiple common diseases,…
Dr. Will Holland is the Senior Director of Physician Informatics at Banner Health with direct supervisory responsibilities over a team of Physician Informaticists working to leverage Banner’s information systems to provide highly coordinated, evidenced based, patient centered care. He and his team are focused on integrating the experience of the member, patient, provider, and care team across multiple venues of care. He is involved in system projects ranging from development of new care delivery models, applying real-time evidence based clinical decision support, Meaningful Use, to population health and member engagement. Dr. Holland earned a B.S. in Microbiology, magna cum laude…
Monique Holley is the Executive Director of Human Resources at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where she manages HR for a workforce of approximately 3,500 employees. Previously, she served as Senior Director of People Operations, concentrating on improving employee experience and optimizing workforce planning. Before joining Year Up, Monique held HR leadership positions at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University Dental and Medical Schools, and Mass General Brigham. With a substantial background in human resources, Monique has demonstrated success in leadership, career development, and promoting a positive and inclusive work environment. Monique holds a Master of Science in Human Resources Management from Emmanuel College…
Tonya Hongsermeier, MD MBA is currently Vice President and CMIO at Lahey Health, an integrated healthcare system serving New England. Formerly, she was a Principal Informatician in Clinical Informatics R&D at Partners Healthcare System and has served as a Team Lead on both the AHRQ-funded Clinical Decision Support Consortium project and the ONC-funded Advancing Clinical Decision Support project. Prior to this, she served for 5 years as Senior Corporate Manager for Clinical Knowledge Management and Decision Support. In this capacity she built a knowledge management team and lead implementation of a collaboration, CDS authoring and content management platform for enterprise…
Martin is a graduate of the Masters Program at the Harvard School of Public Health with a degree in Industrial Hygiene. He spent 14 years at Polaroid Corp. in the Corporate Industrial Hygiene Office and Divisional Semiconductor Manufacturing Group. Duties included industrial hygiene monitoring and control evaluation, radiation and laser safety officer. From 1996 to 2010, Martin worked at the Micromachined Products Div. of Analog Devices in Cambridge as the Health and Safety Manager. This included industrial hygiene, safety, and hazardous waste management at a semiconductor fabrication facility. He helped to decommission this facility and moved to the Analog Devices…
Dr. Hswen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Bakar Computational Health Institute at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Hswen graduated with a Doctoral Degree in social and computational epidemiology at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health where she focused on leveraging online big data to uncover social patterns of disease and to inform the development of interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of the most marginalized subgroups of the population.Dr. Hswen is in the pursuit of detecting uncomfortable truths. Dr. Hswen’s current research seeks to identify authentic attitudes,…
Dr. Curtis Huttenhower is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Associate Member at the Broad Institute. He participated extensively in the NIH Human Microbiome Project and co-leads the "HMP2" Center for Characterizing the gut microbial ecosystem in IBD. His lab focuses on computational methods for functional analysis of microbial communities. This includes systems biology reconstructions integrating metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, and other microbial community 'omics, the human microbiome in autoimmune disease such as IBD, and its potential as a diagnostic tool and point of therapeutic intervention.