"The CSCD team fosters and conducts collaborative and trans-disciplinary research through the lens of systems science and design thinking."

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Our Team

Terry Huang, PhD, MPH, CPH, DirectorProfessor of Community Health at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and Director of the CUNY Center for Systems and Community Design.Focus: Systems-oriented prevention strategies and trans…
Terry Huang, PhD, MPH, CPH, Director

Professor of Community Health at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and Director of the CUNY Center for Systems and Community Design.

Focus: Systems-oriented prevention strategies and translational systems science.

terry.huang@sph.cuny.edu

Karen Florez, DrPH, Deputy Director

Assistant Professor of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Focus: Sociocultural determinants of diet and diet-related diseases

karen.florez@sph.cuny.edu


Resident Fellows

RESIDENT FELLOWS of the Center are current faculty within the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

NON-RESIDENT FELLOWS from both academic and practice-based settings outside of the CUNY, are invited to join the CSCD based on their unique areas of specialization in order to fill expertise gaps and create new collaborations.

Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management and Research Director of CUNY’s Urban Food Policy Institute.

Focus: Urban planning, food policy, and design

Link to publications

nevin.cohen@sph.cuny.edu

Marie Aline Sillice, PhDResearch Assistant Professor at the Center for Systems and Community Design Focus: Behavioral Health Prevention Intervention and  Technology ApplicationsLink to publicationsmarie.sillice@sph.cuny.edu

Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Systems and Community Design 

Focus: Behavioral Health Prevention Intervention and  Technology Applications

Link to publications

marie.sillice@sph.cuny.edu

Nasim Sabounchi, PhD, MS Research Associate Professor of Health Policy and ManagementFocus: Systems science methodologies, systems engineering and data analyticsLink to publicationsnasim.sabounchi@sph.cuny.edu

Research Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management

Focus: Systems science methodologies, systems engineering and data analytics

Link to publications

nasim.sabounchi@sph.cuny.edu

Lecturer in Community Health and Social Sciences and Director of Online Learning

Focus: Digital innovation in pedagogy and educational technolog

Link to publications

sergio.costa@sph.cuny.edu

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Focus: Mental health, quantitative methods, and evaluation research

Link to publications

katarzyna.wyka@sph.cuny.edu

Associate Professor of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences

Focus: Nutrition assessment, diagnoses and interventions, and translational research

Link to publications

ghada.soliman@sph.cuny.edu

Associate Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences

Focus: Mixed-methods study designs and Maternal, Child, Reproductive and Sexual Health

Link to publications

diana.romero@sph.cuny.edu

Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management

Focus: Substance use, policy systems research, and healthcare performance evaluation

Link to publications

sean.haley@sph.cuny.edu

Associate Professor of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences

Focus: Geo-spatial analysis, ecological health, and quantitative community health needs assessment

Link to publications

glen.johnson@sph.cuny.edu

Assistant Professor of Systems Science and Epidemiology

Focus: Infectious disease epidemiology, systems modeling, and machine learning.

sheng.li@sph.cuny.edu

Associate Professor of Media Marketing, & Communications

Focus: Communications, social marketing, public health nutrition

chris.palmedo@sph.cuny.edu

 

Non-Resident Faculty Fellows

Teresa Chahine, ScDLecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management and Innovation Advisor at AlfanarFocus: Social entrepreneurship and public healthLink to Publicationsteresa.chahine@yale.edu

Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management and Innovation Advisor at Alfanar

Focus: Social entrepreneurship and public health

Link to publications

teresa.chahine@yale.edu

David W. Lounsbury, PhDAssociate Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health at Albert Einstein College of MedicineFocus: Community psychology and systems science Link to publicationsdavid.lounsbury@einsteinmed.org

Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Focus: Community psychology and systems science

Link to publications

david.lounsbury@einsteinmed.org

Melissa Fuster Rivera, PhD, MSAssistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College Focus: Implementation and systems sciences, food policy, and public health nutritionLink to publicationsm.fusterrivera54@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College

Focus: Implementation and systems sciences, food policy, and public health nutrition

Link to publications

m.fusterrivera54@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Emily M. D'Agostino, DrPH, MEd, MAAssistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke UniversityFocus: Cardiovascular epidemiology and community-based interventionsLink to publicationsemily.m.dagostino@duke.edu

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke University

Focus: Cardiovascular epidemiology and community-based interventions

Link to publications

emily.m.dagostino@duke.edu

Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky, DrPHAssistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn CollegeFocus: Mixed methods research examining intra-ethnic risk Link to publicationsmargrethehr@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College

Focus: Mixed methods research examining intra-ethnic risk

Link to publications

margrethehr@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Vice Chair of Strategy and Planning in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health

Focus: Chronic disease prevention and public health surveillance

lorna.thorpe@nyumc.org

Christopher Walker, MPASocial Innovations Director at Mercy Corps and Lecturer at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign ServiceFocus: Impact investing and innovative financecwalker@mercycorps.org

Social Innovations Director at Mercy Corps and Lecturer at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service

cwalker@mercycorps.org

 

Research Associates

Hanish Kodali, MD, MPHResearch Associate, The Physical Activity and Redesigned Community Spaces (PARCS) StudyHanish.Kodali@sph.cuny.edu

Research Associate, The Physical Activity and Redesigned Community Spaces (PARCS) Study

Hanish.Kodali@sph.cuny.edu

Javier Otero Peña, PhD candidateResearch Associate, PARCSjavo01@gmail.com

Research Associate, PARCS

javo01@gmail.com

Hind Kasem, MPHProject Manager, PARCSHind.Kasem@sph.cuny.edu

Project Manager, PARCS

Hind.Kasem@sph.cuny.edu

Michael Crawley, MPHProject Coordinator, PARCSMichael.Crawley@sph.cuny.edu

Project Coordinator, PARCS

Michael.Crawley@sph.cuny.edu

Ewelina Swierad, PhD, MA, MS, EdMPostdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for Systems & Community DesignEwelina.Swierad@sph.cuny.edu

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for Systems & Community Design

Ewelina.Swierad@sph.cuny.edu

Mahdi Najafabadi, PhD, MPA, MBAPostdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for Systems & Community DesignMahdi.Najafabadi@sph.cuny.edu

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Center for Systems & Community Desig

Mahdi.Najafabadi@sph.cuny.edu

Weanne Myrrh Estrada, MPHResearch Assistant, Center for Systems & Community DesignWeanne.Estrada@sph.cuny.edu

Research Assistant, Center for Systems & Community Design

Weanne.Estrada@sph.cuny.edu

Priscila Lutete, MPH CandidateResearch Assistant, Center for Systems & Community DesignPriscila.Zito87@sphmail.cuny.edu

Research Assistant, Center for Systems & Community Design

Priscila.Zito87@sphmail.cuny.edu

Alessandro Ciari, MPHAssistant Director, Center for Systems & Community Design and Firefly InnovationsAlessandro.Ciari@sph.cuny.edu

Assistant Director, Center for Systems & Community Design and Firefly Innovations

Alessandro.Ciari@sph.cuny.edu

Pui Ying (Polly) Chan, MPH    PhD candidate & Research Associate, NYC Health Justice Network (HJN) of the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center (PRC)Puiying.Chan47@sphmail.cuny.edu

PhD candidate & Research Associate, NYC Health Justice Network (HJN) of the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center (PRC)

Puiying.Chan47@sphmail.cuny.edu

 

RECENT ASSOCIATES

Matthew Cato, MPHHEOR Research Associate at PfizerMatthew.Cato@sph.cuny.edu

HEOR Research Associate at Pfizer

Matthew.Cato@sph.cuny.edu

Emily Ferris, MPHSenior Project Manager, The Physical Activity and Redesigned Community Spaces (PARCS) StudyEmily.Ferris@sph.cuny.edu

Senior Project Manager, The Physical Activity and Redesigned Community Spaces (PARCS) Study

Emily.Ferris@sph.cuny.edu

Olivia Barata-Cavalcanti, DrPH(c), MIASenior Project Manager at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health PolicyOlivia.BarataCavalcanti94@sphmail.cuny.edu

Senior Project Manager at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Olivia.BarataCavalcanti94@sphmail.cuny.edu

Megi Gogishvili, DPHCOBATEST Network Coordinator at the Centre for Epidemiological Studies on HIV/AIDS and STIs of Catalonia (CEEISCAT), SpainFocus: Systemic barriers to health care access, health disparities, HIV testing and caremgogishvili@hotmail…

COBATEST Network Coordinator at the Centre for Epidemiological Studies on HIV/AIDS and STIs of Catalonia (CEEISCAT), Spain

Focus: Systemic barriers to health care access, health disparities, HIV testing and care

mgogishvili@hotmail.com

Tailisha M. Gonzalez, MPH, MSInstructor of Public Health & Health Services Administration at Lehman CollegeFocus: Structural determinants of diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseaseTailisha.Gonzalez59@sphmail.cuny.edu

Instructor of Public Health & Health Services Administration at Lehman College

Focus: Structural determinants of diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease

Tailisha.Gonzalez59@sphmail.cuny.edu

Carlos Devia, MA, PhD(c)Senior Clinical Quality Manager, New York City Department of Health and Mental HygieneFocus: Community-engaged research, chronic disease prevention, and health information technologyCarlos.Devia49@sphmail.cuny.edu

Senior Clinical Quality Manager, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Focus: Community-engaged research, chronic disease prevention, and health information technology

Carlos.Devia49@sphmail.cuny.edu