Faculty Directory

Dr. Ware is an internationally recognized leader in health and quality of life (QOL) measurement and Professor at UMass Medical School (UMMS). He was Senior Research Psychologist for 15 years at RAND developing outcome measures for the Health Insurance Experiment followed by serving as Principal Investigator of the Medical Outcomes Study, which continued into a 12-year term as Senior Scientist at Tufts Medical Center. Prior to joining UMMS, he founded and led QualityMetric Incorporated for 10 years. Throughout his career, his goal has been to develop practical patient-reported measures that are useful in improving healthcare and, more recently, that meet…

Nathan Watson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of SciShield, a provider of integrated safety and research management software solutions. Prior to founding SciShield in 2003, he spent twelve years as a bench researcher and laboratory supervisor at the University of California San Francisco and Dartmouth Medical School studying the molecular underpinnings of cellular differentiation and metabolism of brain tumors. He serves on the Board of Directors of The Laboratory Safety Institute and the UC Center for Laboratory Safety. 

Michael P. Whalen Jr. has a BS and MS in Health Physics from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, MA and is a Certified Health Physicist (CHP). His work experience includes 7 years in the Harvard University EH&S Department as an Associate Radiation Safety Officer. He currently works for the State of Massachusetts Radiation Control Program (RCP) as a Senior Health Physicist and currently focused on implementing the NRC-mandated Increased Control (IC) security requirements, decommissioning Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station, and writing/maintaining the RCP databases. Mr. Whalen is a CRCPD and OAS representative on the NRC's Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation…

Linda Whitlock, a seasoned leadership advisor, was appointed by President Biden to the President’s Commission on White House Fellows in 2021. The Principal of The Whitlock Group, providing strategy consulting to boards and CEOs, Linda is the former Nicholas President and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston and the former Vice President of Harvard Real Estate. Linda taught at MIT, Tufts, and the University of Michigan, and served in the administrations of MA Governors Dukakis and King. Linda has served on more than 20 boards, including the boards of Cambridge Trust Company, where she was the board’s first Lead Independent Director;…

Dale Whittington is a Professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences & Engineering and City & Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), and the Global Research Institute at the University of Manchester (UK). He is also a Visiting Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Water Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of over 150 scholarly publications, including (with Professor Duncan MacRae) a…

Dr. Walter Willett is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, studied food science at Michigan State University, and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School before obtaining a Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Willett has focused much of his work over the last 25 years on the development of methods, using both questionnaire and biochemical approaches, to study the effects of diet on the occurrence…

Amanda P. Williams, MD, MPH, FACOG is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and strategic physician leader focused on eliminating maternal health disparities and leveraging virtual care. She currently serves as Interim Chief Medical Officer at March of Dimes leading their mission team to advance efforts in research, advocacy, education, and community programs that will prioritize the well-being of all moms and babies. Additionally, she oversees clinical innovations for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative at Stanford University where she is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Previously, she served as Medical Director of Mahmee, a tech-enabled maternal…

David R. Williams is the Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. An internationally recognized social scientist, his research has enhanced our understanding of the ways in which socioeconomic status, race, stress, racism, health behavior and religious involvement can affect physical and mental health. He is the author of more than 500 scientific papers and the Everyday Discrimination Scale that he developed is the most widely used measure…