Global Health Delivery Project

Sarah Arnquist, MPH, Case writer
Before earning her master’s degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Sarah worked as a journalist, reporting on public health issues. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and other publications. At GHD, Sarah is developing curriculum to evaluate strategy and implementation of large-scale HIV prevention programs. She grew up in rural Minnesota and completed her undergraduate degrees in journalism and Spanish at the University of St. Thomas.
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Aaron C. Beals, Manager of Software Engineering and Operations
Aaron came to GHD from the Boston software start-up scene, having worked for two major local companies that both build search and data analysis products. After graduating with a degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aaron joined Netezza and developed software with the engineering team and in the office of the CTO for several years. He then joined Endeca where he did both software development and technical product management.
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Aaron’s posts to the GHD Blog

Sophie G. Beauvais, Communications and Web Content Manager
Before joining GHD, Sophie led communications strategies and public relations campaigns for various non- and for-profit organizations. Past projects include revamping the corporate website for Vinfen, a leading human services provider in Massachusetts, where she received the Awards of Excellence for External Periodicals and for Corporate Brand Identity by the New England Society for Healthcare Communications in 2006 for The Vinfen Voice newsletter; co-creating Santepress.com; and managing campaigns at Capital Image, an independent health care PR firm. She holds a Master of Information and Communication Sciences from La Sorbonne Nouvelle.
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Sophie’s posts to the GHD Blog

Asaf Bitton, M.D., Faculty Adviser
In addition to his role at GHD where he developed and teaches the South Africa tobacco control case study, Asaf is a General Medicine Clinical and Research Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and practices at the Brigham Internal Medicine Associates clinic. His past work has centered on understanding the diabetes and obesity epidemic in the Samoan Islands, and how to utilize community health workers to improve chronic disease care in American Samoa. He served as temporary technical adviser on tobacco control in Europe to the WHO, is a member of the Harvard Tobacco Control Policy Group, and studies models of primary care reform including the patient-centered medical home. Dr. Bitton graduated from Brown University, University of California San Francisco Medical School, and completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Nikita Carney, Research Assistant
Nikita graduated from Wellesley in 2008 focusing on women’s studies – in particular the Chicago women’s health movement and access to heath care and social services for women in the Nomzamo and Lwandle townships outside of Cape Town, South Africa -  anthropology, and French. Nikita researched quality assurance and suppliers of 2nd line TB drugs during a 2008 summer internship at Partners In Health. At GHD, Nikita participated in the qualitative research portion for the World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives. She also helped coordinate the new Global Health Effectiveness program at Harvard.
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Andy Ellner, M.D. is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, practices at the Brigham Internal Medicine Associates clinic, and is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His previous research centered on essential drug policy and health care access in the United States, and he served as Clinical Policy Director for the Clinton Foundation Rural Initiative. At GHD, Andy managed the academic consortium for the World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives, and his current work focuses on improving health systems for underserved populations. Andy is a Harvard Medical School graduate and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also earned a Master of Science in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Amy House, GHDonline Communities Coordinator
After graduating from Trinity University in 2006 with a Bachelor’s in Sociology, International Studies, and French, Amy joined Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline, a cooking and nutrition education program for low-income families, as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Boston. Prior to joining GHD, she volunteered at Partners In Health.
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Amy’s posts to the GHD Blog

Amy Judd, Faculty Adviser
Amy joined the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital shortly after it was created in 2003 as Director of Program Development. There, she helped launch the Hiatt Global Health Equity residency, a physician volunteer program with the Indian Health Service, and from the outset managed the Partners In Health Russia-based MDR-TB training and research programs funded by the Eli Lilly Foundation, a $1 million annual grant that was recently extended through 2010. Her prior experience includes eleven years at Massachusetts General Hospital. Amy is an ’81 Harvard School of Public Health alum.
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Maria May, Case Writer
After graduating from Harvard College in 2006 with a degree in Sociology, Maria taught English in China and subsequently completed a Harvard Center for Public Interest Careers Fellowship with the National Quality Center AIDS Institute housed at the New York State Health Department. She has worked on case studies focusing on tuberculosis programs in Bangladesh and in Zambia, on health information technology in Rwanda, and on interactions between targeted funding and national health systems in Rwanda as part of the World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives project. Maria’s current activities center on documenting and analyzing large-scale HIV prevention efforts.
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Maria’s posts to the GHD Blog

Kileken Ole-MoiYoi, Case Writer
Kileken’s work focuses on malaria and the role of public-private partnerships in global health, and on developing curricula for executive education programs. He recently managed on-the-ground research in Kenya for the World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives project. Prior to GHD, he worked at TechnoServe, a Washington DC-based international development organization, and with Community Centered Conservation in the Comoros, integrating economic development with conservation efforts to improve marine park management and train community members on alternative income generation activities. While double majoring at Brown University (Political Economy of Development; Human Biology), he wrote an honors thesis on integrating sustainable economic development with malaria control in sub-Saharan Africa and co-founded EduVision, a Zurich-based organization that develops technologies to improve education programs in developing countries.
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Kileken’s posts to the GHD Blog

Bobby Shady graduated from Brown University in 2008 with degrees in Human Biology and Development Studies. Following graduation he completed a year of AmeriCorps service as a part of the “Residency in Social Enterprise” Program of the nonprofit firm New Sector Alliance and worked in Strategic Planning and Program Development for the start-up social enterprise Charity Partners, Inc. He has also worked with the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative in Papua New Guinea, the Johns Hopkins/NIH Minorities in Global Health Disparities Internship program in Cape Town, South Africa, and in a pathology laboratory at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. At the Global Health Delivery Project Bobby is contributing to research on large-scale HIV prevention efforts.

Erin Sullivan, Ph.D., Research Associate
At GHD, Erin conducts various research projects and contributes to teaching materials, notably on Tuberculosis, Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission, and supply chain management. She also helped develop a multi-method research strategy for the World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives project, and is serving as Faculty Mentor for the Fall 2009 G-Lab GHD. She received her PhD in Business Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, with a dissertation focused on the impact of research and development on the pharmaceutical supply chain. She previously served as a researcher for the Institute for International Integration Studies at Trinity College Dublin, Visiting PhD Fellow at Copenhagen Business School, and Research Assistant and Consultant at Harvard Business School. Erin holds a B.A. in Art History and History from Wellesley College.
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Erin’s posts to the GHD Blog

Julie Rosenberg Talbot, Senior Case Writer
Since 2007, Julie has contributed to several case studies and to the World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies between Health Systems and Global Health Initiatives project, and to Stemming the Tide of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Major Barriers to Addressing the Growing Epidemic, a Partners In Health white paper, an appendix to Addressing the Threat of Drug Resistant TB: A Realistic Assessment of the Challenges, an Institute of Medicine report. Prior to joining GHD, Julie worked in clinical research at Emory School of Medicine and in community-based nonprofit organizations in Latin America and the U.S. Julie has an MPH in epidemiology and global health from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a BA from Harvard College.
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Anat Rosenthal, Ph.D., GHD Fellow
Anat is a Fulbright research Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard School of Medicine. She has conducted fieldwork in Israel and Malawi on the social and cultural effects of HIV/AIDS, health policy, and undocumented migration. She has also worked with the Israeli AIDS Task force on developing prevention and care programs for undocumented migrant populations. Her current research focuses on the impact of AIDS on kinship systems and social institutions, the strategies rural communities adopt to cope with orphans and vulnerable children, and on the impact of ART roll-out on clients and health professionals in rural Malawi. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her published work focuses on migration and health; health policy and HIV care; and research methods and HIV/AIDS in rural communities in Malawi. As a GHD Fellow, Anat works to support the GHDonline communities.
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Keri Wachter, Project Coordinator
Keri joins GHD after assisting the Health and Human Rights Journal and OpenForum blog at Harvard’s FXB Center. Previously, she interned with the Aspen Institute’s Health, Biomedical Science and Society program and spent time in South Africa conducting research and advocacy on women’s health and justice issues. Keri completed her undergraduate studies at Columbia University.