Corryn Barter
Corryn Barter received her MPH from the Community Health Department at the Boston University School of Public Health in December 2025. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from George Washington University, where she first experienced the intersection between public service and population health. Corryn plans to use her Master of Public Health in […]
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba
Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, PhD, MPH, is an applied health services researcher with methodological expertise in qualitative, survey, and mixed methods. Her research focuses on children and families, health, the intersections of race/ethnicity and nativity, and the structural and policy factors underpinning these relationships. In particular, her expertise is in health inequities experienced by families […]
Deborah A. Frank
Deborah A. Frank serves as BUSM professor of Pediatrics; director, Grow Clinic for Children at Boston Medical Center (BMC); and founder and principal investigator of Children’s HealthWatch, a network of pediatric and public health researchers working to improve child health. A highly respected national authority, she has testified before both the United States and Massachusetts […]
Jonathan S. Jay
Dr. Jonathan Jay studies urban health, with a concentration in youth exposure to gun violence, as an assistant professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He works at the intersection of data science and community health, focusing on relationships between the built environment and health and safety risks. He leads Shape-Up, a project using […]
Sylvia Shangani
Urban H Interests: Health/Mental Health, Housing Sylvia Shangani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is also a visiting research scientist at Yale University School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her primary research is focused on HIV prevention […]
Kathryn Thompson
Urban H Interests: Mental Health/Health, Housing Dr. Thompson finds dynamic and methodologically rigorous ways to collect, analyze, and convey her research and results as an interdisciplinary health services researcher. Dr. Thompson’s research employs tools from health services research and population health science to demonstrate how macrolevel and microlevel health systems are determinants of health inequities. […]