Program Faculty
John Quattrochi, Associate Professor
John Quattrochi is the director of the M.S. in Global Health program. His research expertise coalesces global health and sustainable development with a focus on interventions to improve the well-being of vulnerable populations affected by fragility, conflict, and violence, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ellen Moscoe, Assistant Teaching Professor
Ellen Moscoe is the experiential learning director in the M.S. in Global Health program. Her research expertise intertwines global health, development economics, and behavioral science. She designs and evaluates interventions focused on improving the health and well-being of women and children in resource-scarce settings.
Anca Dragomir, Professor
Anca Dragomir is aprofessor in the Department of Oncology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics. Her vast experience as an epidemiologist includes subject recruitment, questionnaire design, data collection, biospecimen collection/storage, biomarker measurement and evaluation, epidemiological analyses, and manuscript preparation.
Eva Jarawan, Associate Professor
Eva Jarawan’s areas of expertise span health system analysis and strengthening, health policy, and measuring the burden of non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries. She is also interested in strengthening project management to ensure results.
- In November 2019, Dr. Jarawan was featured in an episode of the Georgetown Global Health Podcast.
Vincent Turbat, Associate Professor
Vincent Turbat is a health economist with twenty years of practice at the World Bank. His expertise focuses on health financing, digital health and the Demographic Dividend in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also co-directs the Graduate Certificate in Health Economics, Financing and Outcomes.
- Learn more about Dr. Turbat’s recent research on the economic dependency ratio as it relates to African demographic challenges.
- Listen to a podcast interview with Dr. Turbat from May 2019, in which he describes his career.
Matthew Kavanagh, Associate Professor
Matthew Kavanagh works at the intersection of global health, politics, and law and directs the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics at Georgetown. With expertise in global health policy and politics, his research focuses on the political economy of health policy in low- and middle-income countries and the political impact of human and constitutional rights on population health.
- Listen to a podcast interview with Dr. Kavanagh from February 2020, in which he talks about his research, teaching, and the ways in which politics determine health outcomes.
Myriam Vuckovic, Professor
Myriam Vuckovic directs the B.S. in Global Health program, its experiential learning course, the Minor in Global Health and the Minor in Public Health. Her expertise spans HIV & AIDS, SRHR, MNCH, urban health and global health education.
Deise Galan, Associate Professor
Deise Galan is the program director for the M.S. in Climate, Environment and Health program at Georgetown. Working at the nexus of climate, environment, and health, her expertise is focused on emergency preparedness, water, sanitation and hygiene, infectious and zoonotic diseases, and One Health.
Wu Zeng, Associate Professor
Wu Zeng’s expertise lies in health financing, health systems, and cost-effectiveness analysis of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions in low- and middle-income countries. He also examines fund flow gaps in health care systems to promote efficiency and co-directs the Graduate Certificate in Health Economics, Financing and Outcomes.
Bernhard Liese, Professor Emeritus
Bernhard Liese founded and formerly directed the M.S. in Global Health program at Georgetown. With decades of experience in health and development, his expertise focuses on governance and organization of global health partnerships, particularly disease-related ones, and the effects of globalization on health.