Yerby Fellowship Program
Yerby Fellows work under the guidance of senior faculty at Harvard Chan School to develop research agendas, receive grant support, and pursue publication. They can also gain teaching experience and other professional development as they work toward entry-level positions in academia.
Former Fellows
To learn more about the Yerby postdoctoral experience, prospective applicants are welcome to contact our former fellows.
Yerby Fellow: 2013 – 2015
Current Title(s): Professor of Urban Planning and Public Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Contact: marcaya@mit.edu
Yerby Fellow 2016 – 2018
Current Title(s): Research Scientist, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI)
Contact: bekalu@hsph.harvard.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2002 – 2003
Current Title(s): Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience; Professor of Global Health and Medicine, Duke University
Contact: gary.bennett@duke.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2011 – 2013
Current Title(s): Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Contact: cbigman@illinois.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2020
Current Title(s): Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
Yerby Fellow: 2006 – 2008
Current Title(s): Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Contact: jchavarr@hsph.harvard.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2011 – 2013
Current Title(s): Head of the “Ageing” Research Unit, Bern Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Switzerland
Contact: patricia.chocano@biham.unibe.ch
Yerby Fellow: 2017 – 2019
Current Title(s): Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contact: adicke10@jhu.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2006 – 2009
Current Title(s): Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Contact: drakeb@wudosis.wustl.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2011 – 2013
Current Title(s): Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Contact: dd3018@cumc.columbia.edu
Yerby Fellow 2014 – 2016
Current Title(s): Assistant Professor (Health Sciences), Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences (by courtesy) Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY)
Contact: gfrankli@buffalo.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2021 – 2022; Yerby Research Associate: 2022 – 2023
Current Title(s): Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
Contact: patricia.grace@pitt.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2013 – 2015
Current Title(s): Associate Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences
Contact: hurtadod@ohsu.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2014 – 2016
Current Title(s): Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contact: john.jackson@jhu.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2004 – 2006
Current Title(s): Professor, Department of Mental Health; Deputy Director, Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contact: rejohnso@jhsph.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2016 – 2018
Current Title(s): Associate Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea; Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health
Yerby Fellow 2016 – 2018
Current Title(s): Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Systems Group, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koç Üniversitesi (Istanbul)
Contact: okaranfil@ku.edu.tr
Yerby Fellow: 2010 – 2012
Current Title(s): Professor, Department of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Contact: Jonghan_Kim@uml.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2017 – 2019
Current Title(s): Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Demographic Studies, Spain
Yerby Fellow: 2011 – 2012
Current Title(s): Professor, Department of Family Medicine. Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Division of Biostatistics, Oregon Health and Science University
Contact: marinom@ohsu.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2010 – 2012
Current Title(s): Donald and Sue Pritzker Associate Professor of Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Contact: jmattei@hsph.harvard.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2004 – 2006
Current Title(s): Professor and Chair in the Department of Health Disparities at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Contact: lmcneill@mdanderson.org
Yerby Fellow: 2001 – 2003
Current Title(s): Research Associate, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Contact: lupita.montoya@colorado.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2022 – 2024
Current Title(s): Assistant Professor, Agriculture Food and Environment, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
Contact: khristopher.nicholas@tufts.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2020 – 2022
Current Title(s): Director of Research, Us Helping Us, People Into Living Inc.
Yerby Fellow: 2020 – 2023
Current Title(s): Research Scientist, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Contact: lpacheco@hsph.harvard.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2017 – 2019
Current Title(s): United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Officer, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service; Visiting Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Yerby Fellow: 2019 – 2022
Current Title(s): Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Contact: rnsalas@mgh.harvard.edu
Yerby Fellow 2017 – 2018
Current Title(s): Assistant Professor (Health Services Research), Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago
Contact: lsaulsberry@uchicago.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2022 – 2024
Current Title(s): Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Contact: jrcs@hawaii.edu
Yerby Fellow 2016 – 2018
Current Title(s): Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University
Yerby Fellow: 2006 – 2008
Current Title(s): University Professor, Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Contact: ett@wharton.upenn.edu
Yerby Fellow: 2015 – 2016
Current Title(s): Director of the Center for Toxicology and Human Health, Chemical Insights Research Institute (CIRI)
Yerby Fellow: 2020 – 2021
Current Title(s): Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University – Shanghai, China
If you were a former Yerby Fellow that is not listed and would like to be or would like to provide any up-to-date information, please contact the Office of Faculty Affairs (OFA) at facultyaffairs@hsph.harvard.edu.