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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

Contact: carlos_giovanni_silva-garcia@brown.edu 

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.