Anne Merewood
Anne Merewood, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is Affiliate Faculty at the BU Center on Forced Migration. Her primary research focus is health equity, breastfeeding, and public […]
Roberta Micallef
Roberta Micallef is Professor of the Practice in World Languages and Literatures in the Department of World Languages and Literatures. She teaches courses on modern Middle Eastern Literature, Modern Middle Eastern Film, Turkic Literatures, and Travel Literature. Micallef is a core faculty member in the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Program. Micallef is an active member […]
Allyala Nandakumar
Dr. Nandakumar is a Professor of Practice and leads the Global Social Work and Public Health Lab. He directs research on the economic impact of social work and examines how global health investments—particularly through PEPFAR—affect health systems and outcomes. His work bridges economics, public health, and social policy to advance more equitable and sustainable solutions. […]
Rachel Nolan
Rachel Nolan is a historian of modern Latin America. In archives and through interviews, she researches migration, political violence, the Central American armed internal conflicts, and U.S.-Latin American relations. Her first book, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions from Guatemala, was published in January 2024 by Harvard University Press. Until I Find […]
Monica Onyango
Monica Adhiambo Onyango, RN, MPH, MS, PhD, is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). Dr Onyango is the current director of the Global Health Context Certificate. She is also a visiting Professor at the Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University […]
Kevin Outterson
Kevin Outterson, J.D., LL.M., is Professor of Law and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University, where he leads the Social Innovation on Drug Resistance program, and is Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, London. He is also the founding Executive Director and Principal Investigator of Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria […]
Ayşe Parla
My first book, Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey, explores the tension between ethnic privilege and economic precarity through a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with Turkish migrants from Bulgaria as they navigate legal and bureaucratic spheres, as well as the complexities of cultural belonging. The broader theoretical intervention is a rethinking […]
Ioannis Paschalidis
Joshua Pederson
Joshua Pederson is an Associate Professor of Humanities in the College of General Studies. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan and then went on to earn a Ph.D in Religion in Literature from Boston University. Joshua’s teaching and research interests include literature, trauma, moral injury, religion, the Bible, and ethics. He […]
Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz
Carlos is an academic activist, public health scholar, and academic leader whose work centers community-engaged and culturally grounded strategies to address disparities in HIV, sexual health, and broader public health outcomes across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean. Through scholarship, policy engagement, and advocacy, he advances equitable health systems and social justice–oriented public […]