Biography Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, PhD, DVM, MSPHÂ is an instructor in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Informatics in Perelman School of Medicine, and the scientific director of the Zoonotic Disease Research Lab (Penn and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Peru). He studies the eco-epidemiology of tropical diseases. His current research uses canine rabies as a system…
Biography Fernando Chang-Muy is the Thomas O’Boyle Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He also teaches courses at the Fels Institute, and the Graduate School of Social Policy and Practice on topics such as US Immigration Law, International Human Rights and Refugee Law, and Non Profit Leadership.He served as Legal Officer…
Biography Kelly Cleary is the director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, Penn’s unique dual-degree program in the College and Wharton that integrates language, the liberal arts, and business. Prior to joining the Huntsman Program in May 2018, she was the Dean of Career and Professional Advising at Haverford College. Before that she…
Biography Megan Doherty, MPH, is the Director of Operations and Programming in the Center for Global Health (CGH) in the Perelman School of Medicine. In this capacity, Megan provides high-level strategic input for the CGH’s direction and growth including partnership feasibility assessment, faculty engagement, project planning and management, and developing international agreements. She is responsible…
Contact Biography Manuel de la Cruz Gutiérrez, PhD, MLS, based in the Biomedical Library, Manuel’s work centers on liaising with research communities, forging and strengthening relationships with research cores and other campus partners, and spearheading new and innovative services. He also serves as the Libraries’ Liaison to the Biomedical Graduate Studies program at the Perelman School…
Biography Ocek Eke, PhD is the Director of Graduate Students Programming at Penn Engineering. In this role, Dr. Eke is responsible for spearheading strategies to increase retention of underrepresented minority students in all graduate programs at Penn Engineering, particularly those admitted as Dean’s Master’s Fellows and Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Fellows. Prior to Penn, Dr. Eke served as…
Biography Tulia G. Falleti, PhD, MA, is The Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America(Cambridge University Press, 2010), which earned the Donna Lee Van Cott Award to…
Biography Erick Guerra, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in City and Regional Planning at University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in transportation planning and quantitative planning methods. His research focuses on the relationship between land use, transportation systems, and travel behavior with an emphasis on rapidly motorizing cities, public health outcomes, and transportation technologies. He…
Biography Michael G. Hanchard, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the director of the Marginalized Populations Project, since 2016. Among his publications are Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006; Orpheus and Power: Afro-Brazilian Social Movements in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988, Princeton…
Biography Morgan Hoke, PhD, MPH is a biocultural anthropologist who received her Ph.D in anthropology and her Master’s in Public Health from Northwestern University in 2017. Her research centers on examining the impacts of economic transitions and precarity on health and wellbeing across the lifecourse. She has an active field site in the highlands of southern…