Faculty Directory

Donald J. Largent is Director, High Purity Product Management for AAF Flanders and has been intimately involved in the global containment and high purity filtration industry since 2006.  Don holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and M.B.A. from Loyola University, Maryland. Prior to his tenure at AAF Flanders, Don was responsible for Sales, Marketing, and Technical Services for Air Techniques International (ATI), providing HEPA/ULPA Filter testing instrumentation to the market.  He has also worked in Technical Sales, Technical Marketing, Application Engineering, and Warranty Management roles for top tier, international HVAC and Elevator manufacturing companies.Don actively participates in…

Carlos A. Larrauri, JD, MSN, MPA, is a faculty member in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Executive and Continuing Education program, where he teaches in Mental Health Leadership: Transformation Through Innovation. He also serves as Co-chair of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia, a $117.7 million public-private partnership managed by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health that is accelerating the development of tools and data to enable earlier, more effective treatment for individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis.Working at the intersection of law, policy, and mental health, his scholarship has appeared in World Psychiatry, Nature…

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.

Jennifer Leaning is the Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. An expert in public health rights-based responses to humanitarian crises, Dr. Leaning is the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Prior to her current appointment, Dr. Leaning served as Co-Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. From 1999 to 2005, Dr. Leaning directed the Program on Humanitarian Crises and Human Rights at the FXB Center, during which time she also served as Editor-in-Chief of Medicine…

Lucian Leape is an Adjunct Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard in 1988, he was Professor of Surgery and Chief of Pediatric Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Leape is internationally recognized as a leader of the patient safety movement, starting with the publication in JAMA of his seminal article, Error in Medicine, in 1994. His subsequent research demonstrated the success of the application of systems theory…

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…