New faculty join Brown’s MPH and Online MPH programs

Dr. Karen Andes is a broadly trained social scientist with three decades of experience in public health research, training and practice. She has worked extensively on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, positive youth development, health disparities in African-American and Latinx communities, and the social determinants of health. As a qualitative methodologist, she has provided qualitative analysis expertise for teams working on a variety of issues, including pediatric oncology, emergency preparedness, COVID vaccine hesitancy, HIV/AIDS, and menstrual hygiene management, among others. She is a certified trainer for MAXQDA qualitative data analysis software, and is the author of a three-course specialization on qualitative research methods for public health on the Coursera platform. Professor Andes holds a Ph.D. and MA in Political Science from Northwestern University.

Professor Doshi began her work in public health and human rights with Avahan, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s India AIDS Initiative, through the American India Foundation’s William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service. She was a member of the technical team that initiated the first HIV prevention program in the state of Karnataka through BMGF funding. More recently, she has expanded her research to examine the impact of policy, community, institutional, and interpersonal level factors within the context of immigration on the health and wellbeing of USbased Latinx communities. For nearly 20 years, Monika has consulted on public health research and practice projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Her research areas include HIV prevention, treatment, and care; mental health; immigration and health; public health and human rights; women’s health; gender and sexuality; stigma and discrimination; qualitative and mixed methods; intervention development; monitoring and evaluation; health equity; and policy. Professor Doshi received her Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Monika also holds a Master in Public Health and a Certificate in Health and Human Rights from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Monika is also the Founder and Principal of Saath, a public health consulting firm based in Connecticut.

Professor Harvey is a social scientist and qualitative methodologist with interests in academic public health education, public health theory, and access to specialty care within indigenous Guatemalan communities. His research to date has sought to characterize the theoretical content of public health instruction, and the implications of that content for the field’s ability to address pressing public health issues. Within the literature, he has advocated for the inclusion of social theoretical perspectives to complement behavioral theoretical ones. He has contributed to the development of the emerging instructional framework of structural competency, which entails the trained ability to recognize and respond to disease and its unequal distribution as the outcome of social structures, such as policies, laws, systems, and institutions. For the past 10 years, he has been involved in rural Guatemala collaborating with colleagues there to expand access to health care services. He has a passion for the classroom and has taught courses on the US health care system, health policy analysis, comparative health care systems, global health, and public health theory, among others. Professor Harvey holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Glazier is President & CEO of New England Donor Services (NEDS), formed in 2017 as an affiliation between two Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) together designated by US Health and Human Services to coordinate organ donation for transplant at over 200 hospitals, 14 transplant centers and a population of 14 million people in a six state service area. NEDS has 275 employees and a $95M annual operating budget. NEDS has been named as a top 100 Female Led Business by the Boston Globe and The Commonwealth Institute for 4 years in a row (2018-2021). Alex previously served as the elected regional councilor on the national OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors tasked with overseeing donation and transplantation in the U.S. and as Chair of the Policy Oversight Committee leading the strategic coordination of national organ transplant policy development. She also previously served on the OPTN/UNOS medical peer review committee and as Chair of the Ethics Committee. Alex was twice appointed to the U.S. Sec of HHS, Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation. Alex is on the Board of the American Society of Reconstructive Transplant (ASRT) and the Board of Donate Life America including work on the venture with Apple to enable donor registration through the iPhone. Alex started her career practicing health law at the firm Ropes & Gray and became New England Organ Bank’s General Counsel before serving as its CEO. Professor Glazier holds an undergraduate degree in bioethics from Brown University and a JD-MPH from Boston University where she then taught as law faculty for a number of years.

Professor Ziobrowski is a psychiatric epidemiologist. Her research focuses on the development and treatment of mental disorders, with a particular interest in how stress and trauma impact mental health across the life course. Her research encompasses eating, mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders, and PTSD. Professor Ziobrowski earned her Ph.D. in Epidemiology at Brown University School of Public Health, her MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Washington University in St. Louis, and her BA in Neuroscience and Behavior from Vassar College. She completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.