Faculty Directory

Dr. Soroush Saghafian, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He also serves as a faculty affiliate for the Harvard Ph.D. Program in Health Policy, the Harvard Center for Health Decision Science, the Harvard Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG), the Harvard Data Science Initiative, and is an associate faculty member at the Harvard Ariadne Labs (Health Systems Innovation). He is an expert in healthcare operations management and has been collaborating with a variety of hospitals including the Mayo Clinic and Mass General Hospital (MGH) to improve their operational efficiency, patient flow, medical decision-making,…

Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD, is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research focuses on the comparative effectiveness and safety of biopharmaceuticals. He has developed analytic methods to improve the scientific validity of epidemiologic analyses using complex longitudinal healthcare databases for newly marketed medical products. The overarching theme of his research is applying advanced real-world data analytics for regulatory decision making transparently and in rapid cycles. His work is published in >400 articles. His work is funded by NIH, PCORI, Arnold Foundation,…

Joe Sciacca is currently the Enterprise Editor at Channel 7 News. Formerly, Joe was the  Editor in Chief of the Boston Herald, and he has nearly four decades of daily newspaper experience as a reporter, political columnist, and editor. He was the 2016 recipient of the Fitzwater Medallion for Leadership in Public Communication awarded by Franklin Pierce University, which honored him as a “disruptor” in the media industry. Under his leadership, the Herald has been named one of “10 Newspapers That Do It Right” by Editor and Publisher, and Innovator of the Year by the Associated Press Media Editors for…

Dr. Britney Scott, an expert at the intersection of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and process improvement, has devoted her life to advancing healthcare equity and inclusivity. She aligns these humanitarian goals with overarching business objectives to foster meaningful change within the industry. One of very few in this niche space, Dr. Scott holds a BS in Biology from Oakwood University, an MD from Howard University College of Medicine, a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma from IASSC, a certificate in Diversity and Inclusion through the HRCI, and a certificate in Women’s Entrepreneurship from Cornell. As CEO of The Clinic Doctor,…

Brooks E. Scott is an Executive Coach, Interpersonal Communications Expert, and DEI Strategic Advisor who specializes in leadership development and management training.Before becoming an executive coach, Brooks was the VP of Safety Operations for a $9 billion dollar cybersecurity company, was the Manager of Operations for the bodyguard team for the CEO and COO of Facebook, a New Jersey State Trooper, a 5th-Grade Elementary School teacher, and is also trained as a volunteer suicide crisis hotline volunteer.He has facilitated over 180 courses on Managing Unconscious Bias, and over 200 courses on Conversations of Race and Allyship in the Workplace at…

Dr. Howard D. Sesso is an Associate Epidemiologist at the Divisions of Preventive Medicine and Aging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is an expert in the design, methodology, and conduct of randomized clinical trials and epidemiologic studies, focusing on vitamin and mineral supplements plus other lifestyle factors in the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), hypertension, obesity, cancer, and other aging-related outcomes. Dr. Sesso is Associate Director of the Division of Preventive Medicine at BWH…

Jo Shapiro, MD, FACS, is an associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a consultant for the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.In 2008, she founded the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Professionalism and Peer Support where she served as the director for over 10 years. During that time the Center became a model for national and international institutions seeking methods to enhance a culture of trust and respect and improve clinician wellbeing. She continues to educate and assist organizations in developing specific programmatic and educational approaches such as peer support, wellbeing programs,…

Andy Shin, JD, MPH, MBA, is the Senior Vice President of Strategy at Mass General Brigham. In this role, he is responsible for shaping and advancing the strategy for one of the nation’s largest integrated academic health systems and leading biomedical research organizations in the world. Mass General Brigham also serves as a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.Andy has held leadership positions across the social, public, and private sectors in strategy, operations, business development, and policy roles. He formed and led the American Hospital Association (AHA) Center for Health Innovation- the combined health services research, performance improvement, data…