Linda Geralde Marc

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Biography

Dr. Linda Marc is a public health practitioner who is currently the Associate Dean of Public Health Practice & Continuing Education at Walden University, College of Health Sciences, and was formerly the Associate Vice Chair of Research within the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center.

At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, in 2024, Dr Marc was appointed a Senior Research Fellow within the Division of Policy, Translation and Leadership Development, and since 2017 she has been an Instructor of Applied Practice and Integrative Learning in the Quantitative Methods Program, Department of Biostatistics. Immediately prior, Dr. Marc held an appointment as a Lecturer in Public Health Practice at the Yale School of Public Health (2006-2017), and served as the Principal Investigator of a DEI strategy implemented by the Dean's Office, Board of Directors and Emerging Majority Affairs Committee (https://ysph.yale.edu/alumni/association-yale-alumni-in-public-health/emerging-majority-affairs-committee/).

As a practitioner, Dr. Marc is the CEO and Chief Science Officer of Behavioral Science International, LLC (https://behavioralscienceintl.com/), a public health consulting firm, which she founded in 1997 concurrent during her doctoral work at Harvard Chan. Dr. Marc's research interests have included diversity in clinical trials and measurement of patient reported outcomes (i.e., quality of life). A partial list of clients include Aventis,GSK, Pfizer, and Warner Lambert. She was formerly employed as a Scientist/Epidemiologist at Astra Merck, Novarits and Wyeth Ayerst Research. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled, "Social Determinants of Therapeutic Effectiveness During Initial Therapy of HIV-1 Infection, funded by GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Novartis.

As a practitioner in the field, from 2017-2021, Dr. Marc was the National Implementation Director of a $21 million ($5.325 million/year) HRSA-funded HIV initiative. She was responsible for the design and delivery of technical assistance to adapt and implement 11 HIV behavioral interventions across 26 Ryan White HIV program-funded sites in the US (including Alaska and Puerto Rico).

From 2011-2017, Dr. Marc was the Education and Curriculum Development Director within the Harvard Center for Public Health, and served as the lead faculty ensuring that topics on social determinants were included in online instructional modules. In this capacity, she concurrently served as an Advisor on HIV and social determinants of health to the Haitian Ministry of Population and Public Health. Haiti projects focused on: (1) the utilization of mental health services for female victims of sexual violence; (2) uptake to post-exposure antiretroviral prophylaxis for victims of sexual violence; (3) measurement of sexual violence amongst internally displaced women living in post-earthquake camps; and (4) measurement of depression in the Haitian LGBT communities in collaboration with the Haiti PEPFAR Team on the first Bio-Behavioral Surveillance Study of MSM.

Due to her knowledge and research on the Haitian population, in 2006, Dr. Marc was appointed by the US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Guitierrez, to serve as an Advisor to the US Census Bureau, Race & Ethnicity Advisory Committee (REAC) through 2011.(https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/miscellaneous/cb12-r42.html)

In 2012, the Census Bureau re-appointed Dr. Marc to serve as the Convenor of the Race & Hispanic Origin Research Working Group, for the newly formed National Advisory Committee on Race, Ethnicity and Other Populations (NAC). Throughout her 10 year tenure, both the REAC and NAC Committees were charged to explore alternative approaches for collecting race and ethnicity data from hard-to-reach and hard-to-count populations, for the 2010 and 2020 decennial census.

Education and Training

• MPH, Psychosocial/Chronic Disease Epidemiology
  Yale School of Medicine
• MS, Epidemiology (Pharmco)
  Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
• ScD, Social Determinants of Health
  Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
• MS, Health & Social Behavior
  Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Publications

• Closing the Dissemination Gap: Accessible Toolkits for the Rapid Replication of Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve Health Outcomes Among People with HIV.

  Goldhammer H, Marc LG, Massaquoi M, Cancio R, Cahill S, Downes A, Rebchook G, Bourdeau B, Head J, Psihopaidas D, Chavis NS, Cohen SM, Mayer KH, Keuroghlian AS. AIDS Behav 2024 Oct 07

  PMID: 39375289

• Correction: A Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Learning Approach for the Implementation of Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve HIV-Related Health Outcomes.

  Keuroghlian AS, Marc L, Goldhammer H, Massaquoi M, Downes A, Stango J, Bryant H, Cahill S, Yen J, Perez AC, Head JM, Mayer KH, Myers J, Rebchook GM, Bourdeau B, Psihopaidas D, Chavis NS, Cohen SM. AIDS Behav 2024 Mar 04

  PMID: 38436808

• A Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Learning Approach for the Implementation of Evidence-Informed Interventions to Improve HIV-Related Health Outcomes.

  Keuroghlian AS, Marc L, Goldhammer H, Massaquoi M, Downes A, Stango J, Bryant H, Cahill S, Yen J, Perez AC, Head JM, Mayer KH, Myers J, Rebchook GM, Bourdeau B, Psihopaidas D, Chavis NS, Cohen SM. AIDS Behav 2024 Feb 10

  PMID: 38340221

• Condom Use Self-Efficacy Score and Risky Sexual Behavior among High School Students in Southern Ethiopia

  Bassore GK, Danawi H, Marc LG, Kennedy C. Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences 2025

• Interventions for Integrating Behavioral Health Services Into HIV Clinical Care: A Narrative Review.

  Goldhammer H, Marc LG, Chavis NS, Psihopaidas D, Massaquoi M, Cahill S, Bryant H, Bourdeau B, Mayer KH, Cohen SM, Keuroghlian AS. Open Forum Infect Dis 2022

  PMID: 35967264