Collaborators

Mosoka Fallah, PhD, MPH, MA

Mosoka Fallah is the former Director-General of the National Public Institute of Liberia (NPHIL). He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dan Kelly MD, PhD

Dan Kelly is Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics and faculty member of the Institutes for Global Health Sciences and Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco. Dan has worked with Dr. Richardson since the 2013-2016 Ebola virus disease epidemic in West Africa, and together they have collaborated on ~20 publications investigating infectious disease ecology using a global health equity framework.

Mohamed Bailor Barrie, MBChB, PhD

Bailor Barrie grew up in rural Sierra Leone and was one of the first students to graduate from Sierra Leone’s new national medical school. Upon graduation, he founded Wellbody Alliance in Kono district, a clinic offering healthcare to the poor in a region heavily affected by the country’s civil war. From 2021 to 2023, Dr. Barrie was the Executive Director for Partners In Health-Sierra Leone. In addition to his training as a medical doctor, Dr. Barrie holds a Master of Medical Science in Global Health Delivery from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Global Health from the University of California, San Francisco. He conducts social epidemiology research in Sierra Leone.

Mônica Nunes, MD, PhD

Mônica Nunes is a psychiatrist and medical anthropologist whose work focuses on mental health care models, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian medical systems, and the respective social health determinants. She is a Titular Professor at the Institute of Collective Health of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Maurice de Torrenté, MSc

Maurice de Torrenté is a social and cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on transcultural psychiatry, psychiatric reforms, and Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian medical systems. He is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Collective Health of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Maxine Burkett, JD

Maxine Burkett’s research examines the relationship between environmental change and inequity and its impact on frontline communities, both domestic and international.  With a background in law and diplomacy, her areas of expertise include climate change (international, national, subnational law and policy), ocean and coastal law, climate-related migration, and climate change and human security. She is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Fisheries and Polar Affairs at the U.S. Dept. of State and the former Assistant Director for Climate, Ocean, and Equity in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.