Meet the Team – Center on Gender Equity and Health (GEH) – UC San Diego

ABOUT OUR CENTER

MEET THE TEAM

Marilyn Akinola, MDP
she/her
Research Project Coordinator
Kathryn Barker, ScD, MPH
she/her
Co-Investigator
Growing Up GREAT!

Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
Sabrina Boyce, PhD MPH
she/her
Postdoctoral Fellow

Wendy Cheung
she/her
Predoctoral Fellow
Department of Education Studies
Kalysha Closson, Ph.D., MSc
she/her/hers
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar
Hunter Davis, MPH
she/her/hers
Research Project Manager

Arnab Dey
he/him
Pre-doctoral Fellow
Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health UCSD/SDSU
Marlene Flores, MA
she/her
Qualitative Researcher
Katherine Hay she/her
Co-Director
Senior Strategy Advisor

Richard Inwards-Breland
he/him
Administrative and Research Coordinator
Kevin Iredell, MPH Project Research Manager
Emma Jackson, MPH
she/her
Research Project Coordinator

Nicole Johns, MPH
she/her
Research Analyst
Gennifer Kully, MSc
she/her
Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator
Tina Le, BS
she/her
Graduate Student Researcher

Annika Li Predoctoral Fellow
Princess Luna, BS
she/her/hers
Research Project Coordinator
Rebecka Lundgren, MPH, Ph.D. she/her
Co-Director

Project Director
Agency for All

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health

Araz Majnoonian, BS
she/her
Qualitative Researcher
Courtney McLarnon BA, MSc
she/hers
MEL Advisor
Lotus McDougal, PhD, MPH Agency for All
Technical Director for Measurement

Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health School of Medicine

Megan Nguyen, BS
she/her
Staff Research Associate
Vinton Omaleki, MPH
he/him
Qualitative Researcher
Erin Pearson, PHD, MPH
she/her/hers
Research Supervisor

Namratha Rao, MSPH
she/her
Research Program Manager - India
Anita Raj, PhD, MS
she/her
Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health, School of Medicine
Erika Rosete, BS
she/her
Financial Analyst

Jay Silverman, PhD Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health, School of Medicine
Sarah Smith, MPH
she/her/hers
Research Project Manager
Edwin Elizabeth Thomas, BA
he/him
Senior Research Coordinator

Shweta Tomar
she/her
Pre-doctoral Fellow
Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health UCSD/SDSU
Jasmine Uysal, MPH
she/her
Research Project Manager & Pre-doctoral Fellow
Ricardo Vera-Monroy, MS
he/him
Research Associate

Anh Vo, BA
she/her
Qualitative Researcher
Francine Wood, PhD, MPH
she/her/hers
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jennifer Yore, MPH
she/her
Senior Research Program Manager

Karissa Smith, BS
they/them
Research Project Coordinator
Vedavati Patwardhan, PhD, MA
she/hers
Research Scientist
Jamie Menzel, MPH
she/her/hers
Research Data Analyst

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Sarah Averbach Associate Professor
Reproductive Medicine
School of Medicine
Holly (Shakya) Baker, PhD Agency for All
Deputy Director, Technical Director for Research

Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
School of Medicine
Prashant Bharadwaj, PhD, MPhil, MA Professor
Department of Economics

Amy Vatne Bintliff, M.ED, PH.D Lecturer PSOE
Department of Education Studies
Zea Borok, MD Chair/Professor
Department of Medicine
Karine Dube Associate Professor

Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
School of Medicine
James Fowler, PhD Professor
Department of Political Science
Gerald Mackie, PhD Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Co-Director, UCSD Center on Global Justice

Julian J. McAuley, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Jacobs School of Engineering
Craig McIntosh, PhD, MA Professor
Policy Design & Evaluation Lab,
School of Global Policy & Strategy Department of Economics
Sanjay Mehta, MD Associate Clinical Professor/Pathology
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Medicine School of Medicine

Sheila Mody, MD, MPH Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor Department of Reproductive Medicine
School of Medicine
Ramesh Rao, PhD Professor / Director
Qualcomm Institute, UCSD
Professor
Jacobs School of Engineering
Argentina E. Servin, MD, MPH Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
School of Medicine

David (Davey) Smith, MD, MAS Professor
School of Medicine
Laramie Smith, PhD Assistant Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
School of Medicine
Jamila K. Stockman, MPH, PhD Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
School of Medicine

Jakana Thomas, PhD Associate Professor
School of Public Policy and Strategy
Florin Vaida, PhD Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine

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