Faculty
Faculty are Harvard Faculty who hold a formal faculty academic appointment at Harvard University and who lead an established HHI program. Faculty serve as Primary Investigators (PI) on HHI grants, lead HHI teams, mentor HHI students and visiting scientists, represent HHI at conferences and convenings, and contribute to HHI’s global impact. As core faculty, they actively engage in HHI activities and events, provide academic and research oversight on their HHI programs, teach HHI courses, and write funding proposals.
Faculty need to have an official primary faculty or non-faculty academic appointment at Harvard University and be PI eligible at a Harvard institution. The Office of Faculty Affairs at the faculty’s primary institution is responsible for the appointment.
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH
Director
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH is the founding director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), an interfaculty initiative at Harvard University dedicated to advancing evidence and professional development in humanitarian assistance. He has led complex...
Irini Albanti, DrPH, MPH, MA
Executive Director
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Dr. Irini Albanti is the Executive Director at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), a Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Lecturer of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical...
Vincenzo Bollettino, PhD
Director, Program on Resilient Communities
Director, National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership
Dr. Bollettino is the Director of Resilient Communities Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He also leads HHI’s engagement in the National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership. Prior to his current academic appointment, Dr. Bollettino served...
Morgan Broccoli, MD, MPH, MSc
Faculty, Emergency Health Systems Program
Morgan Broccoli, MD, MPH, MSc is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and faculty in the Emergency Health Systems Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Her...
Claude Bruderlein, Esq., LL.M.
Adjunct Lecturer and Senior Researcher
Founder, Frontline Associates
Claude Bruderlein is a researcher and instructor specializing in complex negotiation. In 2023, he co-founded Frontline Associates, where he serves as Lead Instructor of a community of practice focused on advancing AI negotiation practices. He holds...
Valerie Ann Dobiesz, MD, MPH
Director, Front Line Indigenous Partership Program
Dr. Valerie Dobiesz has expertise in medical education and women’s health and is collaborating on developing an assessment tool to evaluate challenges to maintaining medical education during conflict and insecurity. Dr. Dobiesz is an emergency medicine...
Shawn D’Andrea MD, MPH, CEDE, FACEP
Faculty of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Shawn D’Andrea MD, MPH, CEDE, FACEP is a board-certified emergency physician and faculty of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he serves as the director of the Strategic Collaborations Unit and the Executive Director of the...
Timothy B. Erickson, MD, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT
Director, Humanitarian Action and the Environment
Dr. Timothy B. Erickson has expertise in the areas of humanitarian health, environmental toxicology, crisis in climate change, wastewater epidemiology, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE) and acute injuries in global...
Catalina González Marqués, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Emergency Health Systems Program
Dr. González Marqués works as an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in their Division of Global Emergency Medicine and Humanitarian Studies and is an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School...
Eric Goralnick, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Eric Goralnick, MD, MS is focused on improving patient care in two main areas: ensuring equitable access to healthcare for our most vulnerable patients and supporting collaborations between the civilian and military medical communities. He has served in...
P. Gregg Greenough, MD, MPH, MS
Co-Director, Humanitarian Geoanalytics Research and Education Programs
Dr. Greenough is an emergency physician and spatial epidemiologist who studies public health in conflict- and disaster-affected populations. After graduating from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (1989), he completed Emergency Medicine...
Sylvia Kehlenbrink, MD
Director, Diabetes in Humanitarian Crises
Sylvia Kehlenbrink is an Endocrinologist and Director of Global Endocrinology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Part-time Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and Founder and Director of the Diabetes in Humanitarian Crises Program at the Harvard...
Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH
Director, Emergency Health Systems Program
Director, Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative
Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Assistant Professor of Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He...
Brett D. Nelson, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Brett D. Nelson, MD, MPH, DTM&H is an Associate Professor and senior global health faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has been involved in clinical care and program management in dozens of countries on all seven...
Erica Nelson, MD, PhM, MAS
Co-Director, Humanitarian Geoanalytics Research and Education Programs
Faculty, Emergency Health Systems Program
Erica L Nelson, MD, PhM, MAS is an Emergency Medicine physician who conducts research on the use of geospatial methods for public health and humanitarian response. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin with an PhM in International Peace Studies and...
Eric Nilles, MD, MSc
Director, Program on Infectious Diseases and Humanitarian Emergencies
Dr. Eric Nilles, MD MSc, is the Director of the Program on Infectious Diseases and Epidemics at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, and an attending physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department...
Phuong Pham, PhD, MPH
Director of Education
Phuong N. Pham, PhD, MPH an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, serves as the Director of Education at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and is the co-founder of KoboToolbox. With an extensive...
Patrick Vinck, PhD
Director of Research
Patrick Vinck, Ph.D. is the Research Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He is assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and lead investigator at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. His...
