Colloquium Lecturers and Advisers

Colloquium Lecturers and Advisers will include:

Edith Balbach, Director, Community Health Program, Tufts University; her primary research interest is in drug policy issues, especially tobacco

Harris A. Berman, Dean ad interim and Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; former CEO, Tufts Health Plan

Diana W. Bianchi, Zucker Professor of Pediatrics and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts University School of Medicine; President, International Society of Prenatal Diagnosis

Jeffrey Griffiths, Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; he has a long interest in waterborne diseases

David M. Gute, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University; Former Assistant Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health; former Epidemiologist, Rhode Island Department of Health

Shafiqul Islam, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering and Professor of Water Diplomacy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Mary Y. Lee, Associate Provost for Tufts University, Professor of Medicine, and former Dean for Educational Affairs, Tufts University School of Medicine; Founder and Chair, Tufts Global Health Council

Joann Lindenmayer, Associate Professor, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine; Co-Principal Investigator, USAID’s RESPOND Project, which will take US partners to emerging disease hotspots in the Amazon Basin, Congo Basin, Gangetic Plain and Southeast Asia to improve responses to emerging infectious diseases

Elena Naumova*, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Tufts Initiative for Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Diseases, School of Engineering, Tufts University

Giuseppe J. Raviola, Psychiatrist; Instructor in Psychiatry and Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Mental Health, Partners In Health

Beatrice Rogers, Professor and Program Director of Food Policy and Applied Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University

Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights; has organized health and human rights investigations to dozens of countries

Linda Sprague-Martinez, Lecturer, Community Health Program, Tufts University; Co-author, “All public health is local: Revisiting the importance of local sanitation through the eyes of youth”

Allen Taylor, Senior Scientist and Director, Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University

Rosemary Taylor, Associate Professor of Sociology and Community Health, Tufts University; Co-Chair of The Health of Nations Study Group

Peter Walker, Director, Feinstein International Center, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University; former Director of Disaster Policy, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

*Pending Confirmation