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. K. “Vish” Viswanath is Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and in the McGraw-Patterson Center for Population Sciences at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). He is also the Faculty Director of the Health Communication Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC). Other additional administrative and scientific leadership positions held by Dr. Viswanath include: Director of the Center for Translational Communication Science, DFCI/Harvard Chan; Director, Harvard Chan, India Research Center and Co-Director, Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness,…
Dr. Waggoner was responsible for the design, fabrication, and operation of test stands used to conduct life cycle testing of filters to NQA-1 quality requirements. Filter testing activities have been conducted at MSU for 20 years. Initial filter testing was conducted under a joint effort between the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management and EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response with respect to the proposed Hazardous Waste Combustor Maximum Achievable Control Technology. Work has since been conducted for various DOE sites and also for the National Nuclear Security Administration. Dr. Waggoner served as a member of the…
Throughout his career, Dr. Wagner has provided organizational leadership at the juncture between scientific research and public health policy, both nationally and internationally. At Harvard, he teaches about the science behind occupational and environmental policies and regulations and the limits of regulatory health protective strategies.Until recently, he served as Senior Advisor to the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH/CDC). At NIOSH, he developed and led the WorkLife Initiative, the precursor to the NIOSH Total Worker Health program. From 2009 to early 2012, Dr. Wagner served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health,…
Dr. Rochelle Walensky served as the 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021-2023), Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (2012-2021), and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital (2017-2021). Dr. Walensky is an infectious disease clinician whose research career is guided by a belief that the clinical and economic outcomes of medical decisions can be improved through the explicit articulation of choices, the systematic assembly of evidence, and the careful assessment of comparative costs and benefits. She has focused these beliefs on mathematical model-based research toward the promotion of global access to HIV prevention, screening, and…
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.
Louise Keogh Weed is an Instructor at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health and at Harvard Division of Continuing Education, Affiliate Faculty at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, and the Founder/ CEO of KW Facilitation. Louise teaches, coaches, and facilitates groups on topics such as leadership development, change management, team building, and strategic planning. She has worked with a wide range of organizations, including major hospital systems, international public health organizations, safety net institutions, and community-based organizations.She has designed at taught several masters-level courses including “Strategic Management in a Global Setting”, “Data Management for Healthcare…
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…