2025 Department of Global Health Annual Report by School of Health, Georgetown University

DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

Dear colleagues, students, alumni, and friends:

What a transformational year 2025 has been for the Department of Global Health. I am proud to share the milestones that have reshaped our department and positioned us for an exciting future.

A Historic Transition

JenniferBouey,Chair DepartmentofGlobalHealth

This year marked a pivotal moment in our history as three graduate programs — the M.S. in Global Health, the M.S. in Global Infectious Disease, and the Ph.D. in Global Infectious Disease — officially transitioned to the School of Health. This consolidation strengthens our capacity to train the next generation of global health scholars and practitioners under one roof, and it reflects the growing ambition and reach of our department.

New Programs and Faculty

Alongside this transition, we launched a brand-new joint M.S. in Climate, Environment, and Health, an interdisciplinary program between the School of Health and the Earth Commons built by Professor Jessica Kritz. We are thrilled to welcome its inaugural director, Dr. Deise Galan, a long-affiliated colleague whose expertise in environmental health, emergency preparedness, and One Health makes her ideally suited to lead this timely program. We also introduced a new Certificate in Health Economics and Finance, led by Professors Wu Zeng and Vincent Turbat, giving students specialized training in an area of growing demand.

We welcomed several outstanding new faculty and staff: Dr. John Quattrochi, Dr. Ellen Moscoe, Dr. Babatunji Oni, and Kathryn Baartmans, each of whom brings distinctive strengths in research, teaching, and program leadership. Their energy and expertise have already enriched our community.

Recognitions and Milestones

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS DEPARTMENT FACULTY

I am delighted to congratulate Dr. Wu Zeng and Dr. Matthew Kavanagh on earning tenure — a well-deserved recognition of their exceptional scholarship and service. I am also honored that Dr. Myriam Vučković and I were promoted to full professor this year. These milestones reflect the depth of talent within our department.

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Matt Kavanagh's Center for Global Health Policy and Politics successfully joined Georgetown's Hilltop campus, expanding the center's visibility and its engagement with the broader university community.

Alumni Impact and Philanthropy

Our alumni continue to inspire. Aleena Dawer (H '24) founded the nonprofit Ethica Global Alliance, bringing essential equipment to a maternal health clinic in Tanzania. Hannah Folau (H '25) delivered a TEDx Talk on work culture and well-being and returned to Georgetown as Executive Assistant to the Dean. Lindsay Horikoshi (NHS '16, G '17) led the development of the Women's Health Opportunity Innovation Map, convening over 250 stakeholders with support from the Gates Foundation and NIH. We are deeply grateful to our alumnus and board member Matt Cromett, who established the Bernhard Liese Scholarship with a generous $100,000 gift to support student experiential learning and research — a lasting tribute to a giant in our field.

Scholarship and Engagement

Our faculty published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals including The Lancet, BMJ Global Health, Health Affairs Scholar, PLOS Medicine, and Foreign Policy, spanning topics from infectious disease elimination and health financing to climate distress, aging, and global governance. Dr. Margaret Baker launched the Innovating on Infectious Disease Interventions Lab, and our department co-hosted major events with the World Bank, Malaria No More, and international university partners from Indonesia to Hong Kong.

As I look ahead, I am filled with gratitude for the dedication of our faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Together, we are building a department that is not only growing in scale but deepening in impact.

With warm regards,

Jennifer Bouey, MD, PhD, MPH Chair, Department of Global Health School of Health, Georgetown University

CLASSof 2025

BachelorofScienceinGlobalHealth

Baig, Zayan

Boucher, Lucie

Chhabra, Arjun

Dever, Jacqueline

Dudeja, Shreya

Dunn, Mary

Buckley, Clare

Folau, Hannah

Katary,Karem

Flaharty, Anabelle

Hammock, Chloe

Han, Buchen

Janus, Ashley

Joulapour, Ava

Kang, Hannah

Marran, Madeleine

Siva, Rupa

Trad, Beatrice

Wazni, Yasmine

Master of Science in Global Health

Milller, Alyssa

Pino, Sarah

Rocanello-Snow, Kyla

Kluge, Rebecca

Mashek, Rachel

Mazzeo, Clare

Rojugbokan, Sarah

Rowe, Audrey Rowe

Taylor, Sarian

Valbuena, Nick

Velasquez, Maria

Venkat, Shreyaa

Vernot-Jonas, Nicole

Yousif, Mayse

Zielke, Christina

Master of Science in Global Infectious Disease

Goff, Bailey

Koestler, Aimee

AWARD RECEPIENTS

Tropaia Student Speaker: Rachel Son

Pfahl, Natalie

Ryan-Castillo, Emily

Dean’s Medal: Jeff Huang, Magdelynne Buckingham Lowy, Victoria Segal

Sister Helen Scarry Award for Commitment to Social Justice: Arjun Chhabra

Marianne Cardillo Lyons Commitment to Cura Personalis Award: Logan Castellanos

Rose Anne McGarrity Service Award: Tara Haas

GLOH Department Outstanding Student Award: Chloe Hammock

HSCI Department Outstanding Student Annual Award: Nick Cohen

HSCI Excellence in Research Award: Michael Spellman

HMP Department Outstanding Student Annual Award: Wonnie Kim

COMMENCEMENT

On May 17, 2025, the School of Health proudly held its commencement ceremony in Gaston Hall, where students, families, friends, and loved ones gathered to celebrate this significant milestone.

In his address to the graduating class, Dean Christopher King described the Class of 2025 as “a new generation of trailblazers who realize that if we care for the most vulnerable—whether it’s a person or a community—the whole world will benefit.”

The School was honored to welcome Maria D. Van Kerkhove, PhD, as this year’s commencement speaker. Drawing from her distinguished global health career, Dr. Van Kerkhove emphasized the importance of values and resilience, reminding graduates: “You don’t need a perfect plan to do meaningful work, but you need grit, persistence, hard work, and a thick skin.”

The class of 2025 included 106 graduating students from the undergraduate and graduate programs. Read more about the 2025 commencement here.

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

The School of Health’s Tropaia Ceremony Celebrates Outstanding Students

Arjun Chhabra (H ’25) received the Sister Helen Scarry Award for Commitment to Social Justice for exceptional service toward health equity. Locally, he provided EMT care and coordinated homelessness outreach. With a Green Commons Award from the Earth Commons, he studied mental health impacts of climate change on the Oglala Lakota people culminating in his honors thesis. He also worked with the Western Australia Centre for Rural Health on improving diabetes education credentialing in rural and Aboriginal communities. Humility and dedication have imbued all of his pursuits that stand him in excellent stead for his medical studies and beyond.

Chloe Hammock (H ’25) received the Outstanding Student Award in Global Health. Her stellar academic record and deep commitment to equity spanned pursuits from community gardening to climate-smart Farm Bill legislation during a Capitol Hill internship, reflecting grassroots and high-level policy engagement. Her francophone research in Yaoundé, Cameroon produced a qualitative evaluation of performance-based pay in HIV programs. Meanwhile, her honors thesis examined the health impacts of redlining in her hometown of Evanston, Illinois, further highlighting her scholastic talent and dedication to health justice.

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Martha Cameron holds exceptional perspective on HIV. As a native of Lusaka, Zambia, she has lived with the disease for 22 years while building a globe-spanning career in HIV awareness. Her first tenure at Georgetown was as an advocate and researcher with the university’s Medical Center. In 2025, she began her PhD in Global Infectious Disease through the Patrick Healy Graduate Fellowship.

Ashley Jeong, B.S. in Global Health, has joined the Georgetown Storytellers for her second year. This cast of narrators produce the video series “Georgetown Stories” that follows a group of students throughout the academic year to highlight Georgetown scholastic and social life to showcase what makes the Hoya experience so special.

The Georgetown University Global Health Institute honored Jordan Pai (H’27) and Kayla Wontumi (H’27) as the 2025-2026 recipients of the Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Award, which supports student-led international fieldwork in global health and human rights. Jordan will study health equity and access to running in Iten, Kenya, an epicenter for elite long-distance runners. Kayla will study maternal group care models and holistic health modes in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Our global health students served as Global Health Institute Fellows and presented their research in 2025:

Elisabeth Point Du Jour

M.S. in Global Health “Enhancing Maternal Health in Zanzibar”

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Christina X. Marea

Nina Chereath

M.S. in Global Health

“Qualitative Research on Long COVID in Kenya”

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Emily Mendenhall

Shedrack Osuji

M.S. in Global Health

“The United States and China's Global Health Footprints”

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jennifer Bouey

Alyssa Miller

M.S. in Global Health “Pandemic Politics”

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Matthew Kavanagh

Alejandra Cova

B.S. in Global Health

“Consideration of Cyber Risks in Biosecurity and Broader Laboratory Capacity-Strengthening Programs”

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Claire Standley

ALUMNI NEWS

Aleena

B.S. in Global Health alumna, Aleena Dawer, conducted her senior year experiential learning course in Tanga, Tanzania with the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR). She has continued to build her NIMR network with her self-founded nonprofit, Ethica Global Alliance, to bring essential equipment to a maternal health clinic in Korogwe, Tanzania. She credited her placement in Tanzania as invaluable to her pre-med trajectory and will begin medical school in summer 2026. Learn more about Aleena’s experience.

M.S. in Global Health alumna, Hannah Folau, gave a TEDx Talk at Clemson University titled, "How to Hustle Less”. As an early careerist, her insights explored the impacts of United States’ work culture and productivity obsession on mental, physical, and emotional well-being. It was a great event to spur conversations on meaningful change and impact. Her path has led her back to Georgetown where she currently serves as the Executive Assistant to the School of Health’s Dean.

Selected for the Young Investigator session, M.S. in Global Health alumna, Nikita Kubal, presented her study: “Intersecting Epidemics: The Co-occurrence of Diabetes and Lymphatic Filariasis in South India” at the annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene conference in Toronto. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Learn more about her work.

Dawer (H ‘24)

Hannah Folau (H’25)

Nikita Kubal (GSAS ’24)

ALUMNI NEWS

Lindsay Horikoshi (NHS ‘16, G’17)

Since earning her M.S. in Global Health, Lindsay Horikoshi’s path has brought her to Camber Collective a social impact advisory firm where she leads engagements with foundations and nonprofits across strategic planning, partnerships, ecosystem strengthening, and research, particularly in global and women's health. In developing the Women's Health Opportunity Innovation Map, she convened 250+ stakeholders, with support from the Gates Foundation and NIH to identify 50 high-potential opportunities to advance women’s health research and development.

Alcir Santos Neto (GSAS ‘20)

Alcir Santos Neto became Manager, Health Policy and Insights at Economist Impact. He credits his M.S. in Global Health experience as foundational to his work through strengthening his analysis, policy synthesis and research skills. This has positioned him well to lead multi-country engagements and translating findings into impactful insights at the intersection of global health, technology, and society. He also fields business development through project, stakeholder and risk management and crafts thought leadership through panel moderation and other client events.

Ciara Weets (GSAS ‘24)

Ciara Weets chose the Science Policy concentration for her M.S. in Global Infectious Disease though credits the program’s flexibility to explore policy and modeling that created opportunities toward her position with Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Science and Security (CGHSS) led by GLID faculty member, Dr. Rebecca Katz. As a Junior Scientist at CGHSS, she leads their data integration, analysis, modeling and visualization portfolio, and creates policy analysis methodologies. With GLID faculty member, Dr. Shweta Bansal, she models spatial clustering of vaccine refusal behavior in the U.S. and in fall 2026, she will begin a PhD in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley as a Chancellor's Fellowship awardee.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Last year, our experiential learning portfolio welcomed new partnerships while maintaining longstanding collaborations that are foundational to our curriculum. Guided by the value that global health work is best learned not only in the classroom, but also in practice, we sent nine undergraduate students and twenty-three graduate students to Tanzania (National Institute for Medical Research), Western Australia (Western Australia Centre for Rural Health), Alaska (Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium), Ghana (University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dodowa Health Research Centre), the Philippines (Ateneo Center For Research And Innovation), Jordan (University of Jordan Public Health Institute), India (National Institute of Nutrition) and Mexico (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur). These singular field research placements offer a wealth of research opportunity spanning maternal and neonatal health, climate-related stress, infectious and communicable disease, behavioral science, and indigenous and rural health issues.

B.S. in Global Health students, Riya Sanghavi and Alejandra Cova, conducted research with the Western Australia Centre for Rural Health.

FACULTY and STAFF NEWS

2025 marked exiting growth for our department with the addition of the M.S. in Global Health, M.S. and Ph.D. in Global Infectious Disease programs and new faculty and staff:

Babatunji Oni is an Assistant Professor and Director of the M.S. in Global Infectious Disease program and Senior Program Director at the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact at Georgetown. His expertise in healthcare programs, medical education, and research covers more than two decades across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Islands. He teaches Interdisciplinary Perspectives in infectious disease and mentors graduate and undergraduate students.

Deise Galan is an Associate Professor who serves as the Program Director for the M.S. in Climate, Environment, and Health, a new interdisciplinary program between the School of Health and the Earth Commons. Dr. Galan’s vast experience intersects environmental health, emergency preparedness, water, sanitation and hygiene, infectious and zoonotic diseases, and One Health toward strengthening public health systems.

Ellen Moscoe is an Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Experiential Learning in the M.S. in Global Health program. With exceptional expertise intertwining global health, development economics, and behavioral science, she designs and evaluates interventions to improve women’s and children’s health in resourcescarce settings. Recently, she completed an evaluation of community-based mental health supports, COVID-19 vaccination communication strategies, and habit formation interventions for child nutrition.

Kathryn Baartmans serves as the Associate Director for the Global Infectious Disease and Global Health programs managing admissions, student and alumni relations, and event planning. She brings expansive marketing and media experience from her alma mater, the University of North Texas, in the Honors College and Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science (TAMS) departments.

FACULTY and STAFF NEWS

We congratulate our faculty on their promotions!

Dr. Jennifer Bouey is the Chair of the Department of Global Health, the Tang Chair for China Policy Studies at RAND and was promoted to full Professor.

Dr. Matthew Kavanagh directs Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Policy and Politics and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Dr. Myriam Vučković directs the department’s Undergraduate program and was promoted to full Professor.

Dr. Wu Zeng directs the department’s research initiatives, co-directs the Initiative for Health Economics and Financing Outcomes and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS

Dean Brian Floyd is an invaluable advisor, mentor and teacher to our global health students and others across the university. In honor of his exceptional dedication and advocacy, he received the Visions of Excellence - Faculty/Staff Award from Georgetown's Black Student Alliance.

In recognition of outstanding curriculum and career development, Dr. Vincent Turbat received the Faculty and Staff Career Champion award from Georgetown’s Cawley Career Center.

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Dr. Matthew Kavanagh and the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics (CGHPP) hosted “Pandemics and Politics: A Right to Health Perspective”. Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur and CGHPP Senior Scholar, spoke on human rights’ mobilization during crisis to secure the wellbeing of the most marginalized.

Alongside the 2025 World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings, the School of Health and Department of Global Health co-hosted “Preparing for an Aging Future” with H.E. Faisal F. Alibrahim, Minister of Economy and Planning, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the World Bank (VP, Middle East and North Africa). The panel explored the multidimensional challenges that demographic shifts and aging pose for policy reform, societal adaptation, cross-sector collaboration, and strategic preparedness.

Georgetown’s U.S. – China Dialogue on Global Issues featured Dr. Jennifer Bouey and colleagues to discuss their report: “Aid or Investment and What is at Stake”. They assessed the impact of China’s overseas’ development, demographics, pandemic response, global health aid and their presence in Africa’s healthcare sector.

DEPARTMENT NEWS

With Malaria No More and Georgetown’s Global Health Institute, the department cohosted “An African Perspective on the America First Global Health Strategy” with guest, Joy Phumaphi, African Leaders Malaria Alliance Executive Secretary. The discussion explored how U.S. and African leadership can partner to successfully transition country ownership of health programs while sustaining strides against malaria, HIV/AIDs, and TB.

The Innovating on Infectious Disease Interventions Lab (IN Lab) launched in 2025 under the direction of Dr. Margaret Baker. This research and learning hub based in the Department of Global Health, coalesces faculty, students and partners worldwide to address the most pressing challenges in infectious disease control and elimination.

The department welcomed Drs. Anton Rahardjo, Risqa Rina Darwita, and Armasastra Bahar, Universitas Indonesia and Dr. Diah Ayu Maharani, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia. The meeting explored developing non-degree programs, potential School of Health student community outreach placements, and international faculty engagement.

DEPARTMENT NEWS

The Center for Global Health Policy and Politics joined the School of Health in 2025. Led by Dr. Matthew Kavanagh, the Center’s foci include: legal and political institutions’ effects on health outcomes, constructing policy environments that bolster pandemic prevention, and expanding equity through greater medical technology access and removing barriers in women's and sexual health.

The Initiative on Health Economics, Financing and Outcomes launched the Graduate Certificate in Health Economics, Financing and Outcomes led by Drs. Vincent Turbat and Wu Zeng. The program will train students to analyze health financing systems, the cost-effectiveness of interventions, and assess health outcomes and equity as a complement to advanced degrees across disciplines such as global health, policy, development, and security.

Building on the Pan American Health Organization’s Elimination Initiative agenda for multi-disease elimination in the Americas by 2030, Dr. Margaret Baker presented “From Vision to Delivery: Leveraging Implementation Science to Advance Multi-disease Elimination” at the American Public Health Association’s Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Dr. Maggie Baker presented on the renewed importance of integration towards protecting, sustaining and accelerating disease elimination efforts with GLIDE (Global Institute for Disease Elimination) during the 78th World Health Assembly.

Dr. Matthew Kavanagh and the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics hosted a workshop in Nairobi for the Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. Participants explored how global financial systems drive health inequalities and Dr. Attiya Waris delivered an inaugural lecture as Africa's first Professor of Fiscal Law.

The Global Council on AIDS, Inequality and Pandemics presented its new report, “Breaking the inequality-pandemic cycle: Buil ding true health security in a global age” to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) in Brazil. The report highlights how inequalities leave communities vulnerable undermining effective response leading to longer and deadlier outbreaks.

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Dr. Margaret Baker presented, “Integrating Disease Elimination Programs into Primary Health Care Systems: A Multi-disease Scoping Review of Strategies, Facilitators and Barriers” in Toronto, ON at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s Annual Conference.

Dr. Shabab Wahid and Dr. Wameq Raza shared their findings from the “Assessing the Risk of Climate Change on Population Mental and Physical Health Outcomes (ACCLIMATE)” study. Their work explores the intersections between increased temperatures and mental health risks and productivity impacts in Bangladesh.

Dr. Myriam Vuckovic and B.S. in Global Health alumnus, Chandler Hinson, joined other stakeholders at the 2025 Consortium for Universities of Global Health Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA. It was a great platform to convene and explore the year’s theme, “Innovating and Implementing in Global Health for a Sustainable Future”.

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Dr. Adam Koon moderated the ”Opioid Documents in Action: Contracts to Shape Pain Medicine” webinar. The conversation explored the research of Drs. Maud Bernisson and Sergio Sismondo on medical communications, opioid marketing and the Opioid Industry Documents Archive.

PUBLICATIONS

Baker, Margaret

• Mogaji HO, Fatah IA, Dorris SC, *Baker MC.

“Exploring how infectious disea ses control interventions are del ivered in low-income urban com munities in low- and middle-inco me countries: a scoping review protocol”.

(December 10, 2025) PLOS One

• Vuckovic M, Mulinge J, Ledet S, Baker M. “

Host perceptions of an undergr aduate semester abroad: streng thening partnerships in global h ealth education”.

(October 28, 2025) BMJ Open

• Downs P, Tate A, Harvey D, Baker MC. (July 31, 2025)

“The changing neglected tropical di sease landscape in Africa: implicatio ns for policy, practice, and strength ening health systems”

Health Affairs Scholar

• Epling SWM, Bjork AM, Martinez Cruz L, *Baker MC.

“Approaches to increase access to community-based infectious disease control for ethnically, ra cially, and religiously marginalis ed populations: a scoping revie w”.

(May 25, 2025) Lancet Infectious Diseases

Bouey, Jennifer

• Bouey, Jennifer et al (October 24, 2025)

“Global Health Activities in Africa: Histor ical Perspectives and Case Studies”

RAND Corporation

• Pollard, Michael S., Jennifer Bouey, et al (September 22, 2025)

“Fertility Decline in China and Its Nation al Military, Structural, and Regime Securi ty - China Population Research”

RAND Corporation

• Hicks, Daniel, Jennifer Bouey, et al (June 2, 2025)

“Promoting Gender Equality in South Ko rea: Seeking Transformational Policies”

RAND Corporation

• Bouey, Jennifer, et al (January 6, 2025)

“The Future of U.S. Global Health Work i n Asia: How can U.S. Civil-Military Health Assistance Enhance Asia’s Health Securi ty”

RAND Corporation

• Zeng W, …Bouey J, et al (September 1, 2025)

“Economic evaluation of financial incent ives for maternal and child health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ): a decision-tree modelling based on a cl uster randomized controlled trial”

Global Health Research and Policy

• Bouey J, et al (January 6, 2025)

“The Future of U.S. Global Health Work i n Asia: How Can U.S. Civil-Military Health Assistance Enhance Asia’s Health Securi ty?”

RAND

PUBLICATIONS

Galan, Deise

• Tani Maria Ranieri, Eduardo Viegas da Silva,…Deise I. Galan et al. (April 17, 2025)

"Leptospirosis Cases During the 2024 Cat astrophic Flood In Rio Grande Do Sul, Br azil."

Pathogens

Jarawan, Eva

• Zeng W, Boiangiu M, Trachsel N, Jarawan E, Turbat V et al. (November 2025) “

What affects the performance of hospita l financing interventions in low and lowe r-middle income countries from the prog ram design and implementation perspec tive? A scoping review”

Health Policy and Planning

• Zeng W, Gao T, Jarawan E, et al. (July 7, 2025)

“The Economic Burden of Maternal Deat h in Jordan From 2018 to 2021: Social and Geographic Variations”.

Value Health Reg Issues

• Flourence M, Jarawan E, Boiangiu M, El Yamani FEK (January 9, 2025)

“Moving toward universal health covera ge with a national health insurance progr am: A scoping review and narrative synt hesis of experiences in eleven low- and l ower-middle income countries”.

PLOS Global Public Health

Kavanagh, Matthew

• Lynch S, Cohen RM, Kavanagh M, et al. (October 2025)

“Lessons for long-acting lenacapavir: cat alysing equitable PrEP access in low-inco me and middle-income countries”

• Hassan F, Abinader L, Kavanagh MM. (July 23, 2025)

“Law and Power in COVID-19 Vaccines Negotiations: South Africa’s Pandemi c Contracts with Multinational Pharm aceutical Companies”.

Global Public Health

• Kavanagh MM, Srivatsan V, et al. (April 21,2025) “

Global Legal Environment for LGBTQ + Sexuality: 194 Country Study

” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics

• Kavanagh MM, Abinader L, et al. (April 14, 2025)

“Law and Global Governance of Infec tious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID-19, AIDS, and Beyond”

Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics

• Katz IT, Thomson DR, …Kavanagh MM. (April 9, 2025)

“Intersectional forces of urban inequ ality and the global HIV pandemic: a r etrospective analysis”

BMJ Global Health

• Kavanagh M. (February 28, 2025)

South Africa, G20, and Racial Politics. World Politics Review.

• Kavanagh M. (January 23, 2025)

“WHO Withdrawal Could Be a Disaste r—or an Opportunity

” Foreign Policy

• Kavanagh M & Abinader, LG. (February 4, 2025)

“Abolishing USAID Is Both Unconstitu tional and Disastrous Foreign Policy” Foreign Policy

PUBLICATIONS

• Matthew Kavanagh et al. (2025)

Global Council on Inequality, AIDS, and Pandemics.

“Breaking the inequality-pandemic cy cle – Building true health security in a global age”

United Nations

Koon, Adam

• Shiffman, Jeremy, Innocent

Kamya, Adam D. Koon, et al. (2025)

"The governance of national care sys tems for orphans and vulnerable chil dren in Cambodia, Uganda, Zambia a nd other low and formerly low-incom e countries: Findings and implications "

Children and Youth Services Review

• Saxena, A., Koon, A. et al. (October 2025)

“Estimated health impact, cost, and c ost-effectiveness of taxation on unhe althy packaged foods in the Philippin es: a modelling study”

The Lancet Public Health

• Walakira EJ, Koon AD et al. (October 2025)

“Uganda’s system to care for orphan s and vulnerable children: a sociopolit ical analysis of its evolution”

Children and Youth Services Review

• Shawar YR, Meraj S, Koon AD, et al. (September 2025)

“Political factors shaping national sys tems of care for orphans and vulnera ble children in low-income countries: Scoping review and framework”

Child and Youth Services Review

• Champagne SN, Koon AD, et al. (2025)

“Pundits are saying this is “anti-poo r”’: Competing framing strategies f or child road safety policy in the Phil ippines”

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Kritz, Jessica

• Kritz, J., and Haruna, P.F. (November 11, 2025)

“Context, Culture, and Governance i n an Informal Community in Ghana: A Case Study for Community-Based Adaptation in Public Administration ”

Public Administration and Development

Mendes de Leon, Carlos

• Dhakal U, El Asmar K, Mendes de Leon CF (December 31, 2025)

“Food insecurity, food assistance, an d physical and cognitive functioning a mong older Americans”

PLOS One

• Mendes de Leon CF et al (December 26, 2025)

“Cohort profile: The Lebanon Study o n Aging and HeAlth (LSAHA)”

BMC Public Health

• Dang L, Antonucci T, Mendes de Leon C, et al. (November 2025)

“Work expectations, employment p atterns, and psychological distress during the Great Recession among older Americans and South

PUBLICATIONS

• Abi Nassif AK, de Jong J, Mendes de Leon CF, et al. (June 20, 2025)

“Challenges Conducting Cognitive Intervie ws in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Case Study with Older Adults in Lebano n”.

Survey Methods: Insights from the Field

• Kabalan M, …Mendes de Leon CF,et al.

(May 21, 2025)

“Cognitive assessment tools for Arabic-sp eaking older adults: A systematic review”

Alzheimer’s and Dementia

Moscoe, Ellen

• Nakawala Lufumpa, …Ellen Moscoe, et al. (December 13, 2025)

“Relief from stress via social protection in S enegal (RESTORE): Study protocol for a pilo t feasibility cluster-randomized controlled t rial of self-help plus (SH+) mental health int ervention in Senegal”

SSM - Mental Health

Quattrochi, John

• Holtz TH, …Quattrochi, JP, et al.

(November 3, 2025)

“Beyond emergency relief: The role of US foreign health assistance amid growing di splacement and climate change”

PLOS Global Public Health

• Quattrochi, JP, et al. (March 6, 2025)

“Effects of a community-driven water, san itation and hygiene intervention on child g rowth, diarrhea, and institutions: a cluster -randomised controlled trial in rural Demo cratic Republic of Congo”

PLOS Medicine

Turbat, Vincent

• Zeng W, Boiangiu M, Trachsel N, Jarawan E, Turbat V et al. (November 2025) “

What affects the performance of hospi tal financing interventions in low and l ower-middle income countries from th e program design and implementation perspective? A scoping review”

Health Policy and Planning

Vučković, Myriam

• Vuckovic, M. et al. (December 23, 2025).

“Strengthening Jordan’s Family Planni ng System: Evidence-Based Insights an d Adapted Global Best Practices to Im prove Modern Contraceptive Uptake”

Archives of Community Medicine and Public Health

• Vuckovic M, Mulinge J, Ledet S, Baker M. (October 28, 2025)

“Host perceptions of an undergraduat e semester abroad: strengthening part nerships in global health education”

BMJ Open

Wahid, Shabab

• Alam SA, … Wahid SS, et al (December 25, 2025)

“Economic shocks and mental health i n Bangladesh”

BMJ Global Health

PUBLICATIONS

• Lufumpa N, …Wahid SS (December 13, 2025)

“Relief from stress via social protection i n Senegal (RESTORE): Study protocol fo r a pilot feasibility cluster-randomized c ontrolled trial of self-help plus (SH+) me ntal health intervention in Senegal”

SSM - Mental Health

• Singh R, …Wahid SS et al (December 5, 2025)

“Translation and Adaptation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-Revised and Rugged Resilience Measure: A Mixe d-Method Study Among Adolescents in Nepal”

Child Psychiatry & Human Development

• Bosire EN, Wahid SS, et al (December 2025)

“Drought, Worry, and Preparing for the Future: The Ethnopsychology of Climate Distress in Kilifi County, Kenya”

SSM - Mental Health

• Wahid SS, et al (June 2025)

“Ecological grief among farmers and pa storalists in Ethiopia and Kenya”

SSM - Mental Health

• Gurung D,…Wahid SS et al (January 31, 2025)

“Development of a mental health-relate d structural stigma measurement frame work in the healthcare system setting: A modified Delphi study”

PloS One

• Wahid SS, et al (January 22, 2025)

“Cultural and contextual adaptation of t he Solastalgia subscale of the Environm ental Distress Scale in drought-affected Kilifi, Kenya”

• Annajigowda HH, …Wahid SS, et al (January 14, 2025)

“Cultural adaptation process of six stig ma assessment scales among Kannada speaking population in South India”

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health

• Kohrt BA, Wahid SS, et al (January 3, 2025)

“No prediction without prevention: A glo bal qualitative study of attitudes toward using a prediction tool for risk of developi ng depression during adolescence”

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health

Zeng, Wu

• Rahman L, … *Zeng W. (2025)

“The effect of digital interventions on th e uptake of HPV vaccination in the United States: A systematic review and meta-an alysis” Vaccine

• Gao TJ,…*Zeng W. (2025)

“Economic evaluation of the one-dose HP V vaccination program in Nigeria” Journal of Cancer Policy

• Zeng W, et al. (December 16, 2025)

“The impact of the single contract on hea lth service delivery in the Democratic Rep ublic of the Congo (DRC): Findings from a quasi-experimental study”

npj Health Systems

PUBLICATIONS

• Zeng W, et al. (November 12, 2025)

“What affects the performance of hos pital financing interventions in low- an d lower-middle-income countries from the program implementation perspecti ve? A scoping review”

Health Policy & Planning

• Gao TJ, …*Zeng W. (November 4, 2025)

“Allocation of the National Institutes of Health funding and burden of disease in 2008-2021”.

npj Health Systems

• Gao TJ, …*Zeng W. (October 20,2025)

“The maternal and child mortality in the Middle East and North Africa between 2 000 and 2020: The role of health financi ng. Global Health Research and Policy”.

BMC Global Health Research and Policy

• Zeng W, et al (September 1, 2025)

“Economic evaluation of financial ince ntives for maternal and child health in t he Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC): a decision tree modelling based on a cluster randomized controlled tria l”

Global Health Research and Policy

• Zeng W, et al (July 7, 2025)

“The economic burden of maternal de aths in Jordan from 2018 to 2021: Social and Geographic Variations”

Value inHealth- Regional Issues

• Pearson A, …Zeng W, et al (December 2025)

“Cost effectiveness of salpingectomy compared with vasectomy for perma nent contraception”

Obstetrics & Gynecology

• Agha S,… ‡ Zeng W. (May 5, 2025)

“Cost-effectiveness of a behavioral in sights-informed digital campaign for HPV vaccination in Bangladesh”

Human Vaccines &

Immunotherapeutics

• Jombart T, Zeng W, et al (April 15, 2025)

Contrasting the impact and cost-effec tiveness of successive intervention st rategies in response to Ebola in the D emocratic Republic of the Congo, 201 8- 2020

BMJ Global Health

RESEARCH GRANTS

Baker, Maggie

Agency: Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE)

Title of Project: Understanding integrated delivery of health services for neglected tropical diseases (Literature Review & Case Study)

Dates of Project Period: August 2024- November 2025

Total Direct Costs over all years of award: $20,003

Role on Project: Principal Investigator

Agency: Bridges for Development

Title of Project: PINE - Pacific Integrated Neglected Tropical Disease Elimination

Dates of Project Period: 2023-2025

Total Direct plus Indirect Costs over all years of award: $60,000

Role on Project: PI for Georgetown University component

Bouey, Jennifer

Agency: RAND Corporation

Title: Tang Chair (Endowment) in China Studies

Dates of Project Period: Jan 1, 2019- present (Current 5-year term ends in 2028, renewable)

Total Direct Costs: $195,000/year

Role: PI