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
Allison R. Larson, MD, MS is Professor and Chair of the Department of Dermatology at Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Health since 2021. Prior to this time she was the Vice Chair for Education for the Boston University Department of Dermatology and Program Director for the Boston University Dermatology residency program. She previously served as an Assistant Dean for Medical Education at Boston University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, completed her residency in dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and her dermatopathology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Kimberlyn Leary, executive vice president at the Urban Institute, works with Urban’s president, Sarah Rosen Wartell, to enhance Urban's impact and forge new partnerships. Previously, Leary was Urban’s senior vice president for research management and program development.Before joining Urban, Leary held full-time academic roles at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she directed the Enabling Change program. She led the Center of Excellence in Women's Mental Health at McLean Hospital as its first executive director and was chief psychologist at Cambridge Health Alliance. Her career began at the University of Michigan.Leary has advised…
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…
Mark Lemke has been the Emergency Planning Manager at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, located in central California, since 1998. Mark has a BS degree in Nuclear Technology and has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health Emergency Planning Course. Mark held a Senior Reactor Operator license for over 15 years and participated in the startup of both units at Diablo Canyon. Mark is a member of the NEI Emergency Planning and Event Communications Working Group, participates with NEI on various task forces, and provides input to the NRC on EP Industry issues. Mark helped pioneer the Emergency Preparedness…
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…
Dr. Leesa Lin is an internationally recognized expert in global health, specializing in risk communication, behavioral science, artificial intelligence (AI), and implementation science. She serves as an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and as Co-Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project™, leading interdisciplinary teams that apply AI, machine learning, and advanced modeling techniques to enhance behavioral and social analytics, preparedness, and responses to global health threats.With over a decade of experience, Dr. Lin has developed and implemented innovative research strategies and digital interventions addressing pressing public health challenges, including infectious disease outbreaks, vaccine hesitancy, misinformation,…
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.Emily…