Elaine O. Nsoesie, Ph.D., M.S.
Elaine O. Nsoesie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is an internationally recognized data scientist and a leading voice on the use of data and technology to advance health equity. She is a Data Science Faculty Fellow and was a Founding Faculty […]
Rachel Oblath
Urban H Interests: Mental Health, Housing Rachel Oblath, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and the Director of Research Methodology in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center. Her research focuses on the provision of psychiatric emergency services in vulnerable communities. She also uses electronic […]
Molly Richard
Urban H Interests: Housing, Health Molly Richard received their PhD in 2023 from Vanderbilt University, in the Community Research and Action department. Dr. Richard’s research aims to inform strategies to prevent and end homelessness. Their current projects focus on how structural inequality contributes to homelessness, and what local and national actors can (and should) do […]
Kaila Rudolph
Urban H Interests: Mental Health, Housing Dr. Kaila A Rudolph is an Attending Psychiatrist and Instructor of Psychiatry at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Rudolph received her medical degree from Dalhousie University in Canada. She has special interests in Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health Concerns in Older Adults, Mental Health Symptoms Related to Caregiver […]
Emily Ryan
Urban H Interests: Heat Professor Ryan conducts research in the area of computational modeling of energy systems. Computational modeling investigates the physical phenomena of a system using a mathematical model to describe the complex governing equations of the system. Computational modeling can be used to investigate the design, operation, and degradation of complex systems. Professor […]
Caterina Scaramelli
My research centers on mutual constitutions of ecologies, scientific expertise, and infrastructures as conduits for people’s claims about livelihood and moral subjectivity. I am completing a large ethnographic and archival research project that examines the dynamic multivalence of wetlands. In Turkey, as in many other places, the wetland became an important site of everyday contestations over […]
Karin Schon
Karin Schon, Ph.D., received a joint B.A./M.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Hamburg in Germany in 1998, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University in 2005. Her dissertation focused on functional neuroimaging studies of working memory and long-term (episodic) memory formation under the mentorship of Prof. […]
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 […]
Anne Short Gianotti
Anne Short’s research and teaching focus on the social and political dimensions of conservation, natural resource management, and climate change. By integrating concepts and approaches across the broad fields of natural resource management, institutions and the environment, and political ecology, she seeks to better understand how socio-political and ecological processes shape human interactions with nature […]
Ian Smith
Ian Smith received a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth & Environment at Boston University in spring 2023. He graduated from Boston University in 2017 with a major in Environmental Science and minor in Economics. Ian is a research scientist at Boston University’s Earth & Environment Department and is the instructor of BU URBAN’s Urban […]