Our People
Center Director
Core Directors
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David Hamer, MD
Co-director, CEID EIDs, Climate Change, and One Health research core;
Professor, Global Health, Boston University School of Medicine -
Traci Hong, PhD, MA
Director, CEID Trust and Public Health Communication research core;
Professor, Media Science, Boston University College of Communication -
Britta Lassmann, MD
Co-Director and Co-Founder, BEACON;
Research Associate Professor, Boston University School of Medicine -
Kayoko Shioda, PhD, DVM, MPH
Co-director, CEID EIDs, Climate Change, and One Health research core;
Co-director, CEID Data Science & Surveillance research core;
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health;
Subject Matter Expert, BEACON
CEID Staff
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Anna Bakanova, M.Ed.
Associate Director for Finance and Operations
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Emily Goldsmith, MALD
Program Manager, BEACON
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Cassandra Kennedy, MPH
Communications & Outreach Associate
CEID Core Faculty
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Luis Alvarez-Hernandez, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Social Work
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John Connor, PhD
Associate Professor, Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine
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Robert Davey, PhD
Director, ad interim, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories;
Professor, Virology, Immunology & Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine -
Michael Dietze, PhD
Professor, Ecological Forecasting Lab at Boston University
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Kevin Gallagher, PhD
Professor & Director, Global Development Policy Center; Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
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Joseph Harris, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Arts & Sciences, Dept. of Sociology
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Andrew Henderson, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine
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Patricia Hibberd, MD, PhD
Chair of Global Health & Professor of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health;
Professor of Medicine & Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine -
Adam Hume, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, NEIDL, Boston University
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Juwon Hwang, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor, Media Science, Boston University College of Communication
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Jessica Ibiebele, PhD, MPH, RN
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Anoop Jain, DPH/DrPH
Assistant Professor, Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
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Jessica Leibler, DrPH, MS
Associate Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
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Maggie Lind, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
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Jai Marathe, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine -
Nina Mazar, PhD*
Professor of Marketing, BU Questrom School of Business
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Ellie Murray, ScD
Co-Director, Epidemiology Response Corps;
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health -
Brooke Nichols, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health
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Yannis Paschalidis, PhD
Director, Hariri Institute;
Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering;
Founding Professor, Computing and Data Sciences;
Co-Director, BEACON -
Cassandra Pierre, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
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Katherine Reifler, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine;
Outbreak Analyst, BEACON -
Pranay Sinha, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
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Andrew Stokes, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health
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Gianluca Stringhini, PhD
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University College of Engineering
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Michael R. Ulrich, JD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health and School of Law
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Jennifer Weuve, MPH, ScD
Co-Director, Epidemiology Response Corps;
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health -
Veronika Wirtz, PhD, MSc
Professor of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health
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Muhammad Zaman, PhD*
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University College of Engineering
* = Denotes member of CEID Faculty Steering Committee
CEID Affiliate Faculty & Scholars
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Salma Abdalla, DrPH, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
Washington University in St. Louis -
Rodgers Ayebare, MB ChB, DTM&H, CIC, MSc
Infectious Diseases Scientist, Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala
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John Brownstein, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School
SVP and Chief Innovation Officer of Boston Children’s Hospital -
Maria Cristina David, DVM, MS
Subject Matter Expert, BEACON
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Katinka de Balogh, DVM, PhD
Subject Matter Expert, BEACON
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Thibaut Demaneuf, MSc
Surveillance and Research Officer, Pacific Community (SPC)
Outbreak Analyst, BEACON -
Angel Desai, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, University of California Davis
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Madeline DiLorenzo, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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Mosoka Fallah, PhD, MA, MPH
President and CEO, Refuge Place International (RPI);
Health Security Technical Consultant, World Bank -
Kokulo Franklin, M.Phil, M.Soc.Sc.
Manager/Co-Lead, Regulatory Compliance & Ethics
FHI Clinical (FHIC) | PREVAIL-Liberia -
Angela Huang, MD, MPH
Director, Taiwan Field Epidemiology Training Program
Subject Matter Expert, BEACON -
Maria Jacobs, MD
Senior Technical Editor, BEACON
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Ian Johnstone, JD, LLM
Professor of International Law
The Fletcher School at Tufts University -
Deborah Kochevar, MGBA, DVM, PhD
Dean Emerita, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Senior Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Matthew Levison, MD
Senior Subject Matter Expert, BEACON
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Syra Madad, DHSc, MSc, MCP
Senior Director, System-wide Special Pathogens Program
NYC Health + Hospitals -
Larry Madoff, MD
Medical Director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
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Kudakwashe Magwedere, BVSc, PGDip, MSc, MPM, PhD
Subject Matter Expert, BEACON
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Amelie Martin-Darras, DVM, MSc
Subject Matter Expert, BEACON
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Preeti Mehrotra MD, MPH
Senior Medical Director
Division of Infection Control/Hospital Epidemiology
Silverman Institute for Health Care Quality and Safety, and
Division of Infectious Diseases Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School -
Lucas Monje, PhD
Subject Matter Expert, BEACON
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Marjorie Pollack, MD
Senior Subject Matter Expert, BEACON
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Nilufar Rakhmanova, MPH
Outbreak Analyst, BEACON
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Ma. Ivy Rozeth Saavedra-Iturralde, MD, PHSAE
Outbreak Analyst, BEACON
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Lara Salahi, EdD
Distinguished Professor, Journalism
Endicott College -
Lauren Sauer, PhD, MSc
Associate Director of Research, GCHS
Director, Special Pathogen Research Network
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, UNMC College of Public Health -
Jonathan Sleeman, MA, VetMB, Dipl. ACZM
Subject Matter Expert, BEACON
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Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine;
Director, Health Disparities Institute, UConn Health;
Faculty Affiliate, UConn School of Social Work -
Derry Wijaya, PhD
Associate Professor and Course Coordinator, Data Science, Monash University
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Christina Yen, MD
Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW)
Research Staff
Chad Milando, PhD, MS, Research Scientist