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Dr. Theresa Stichick Betancourt, Sc.D., M.A. is Assistant Professor of Child Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a member of the faculty in the Department of Population and International Health and of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. Dr. Betancourt has over 10 years of experience as a children's mental health specialist and has worked as a mental health clinician in both school and community settings as well as consulting to international NGOs and UN Agencies on international children's mental health issues.
Her research focuses on the mental health and psychosocial development of children and adolescents affected by complex humanitarian emergencies and other forms of adversity. She has led several collaborative field research projects on the mental health and psychosocial development of war-affected children in numerous settings including the Russian Federation (2000), Ethiopia (2001-2002), and Sierra
Leone (2003-2004). Most recently she served as Co-PI of a randomized controlled trial of interventions for depression symptoms among adolescent survivors of war and displacement in northern Uganda.
Arachu Castro, Ph.D., MPH, is Assistant Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Project Manager for Mexico and Guatemala at Partners In Health, and Medical Anthropologist in the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
Her major interests are how social inequalities are embodied as differential risk for pathologies common among the poor and how health policies may alter the course of epidemic disease and other pathologies afflicting populations living in poverty. As a medical anthropologist trained in public health, she works mostly in infectious disease and sexual and reproductive health.
Dr. Castro teaches social medicine at Harvard Medical School and has previously taught in Spain, Argentina, France, Mexico, and Cuba. At the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, she serves on its Policy Committee and is Co-Director of the Cuban Studies Program and Co-Chair of the Committee on Social Policy in Latin America.
Galit Lahav, Ph.D., joined the Department of Systems Biology in the fall of 2004. In 1996, she received her B.S. summa cum laude, and in 2001 her Ph.D., both from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. From 2001-2003, Dr. Lahav completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
She then spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Bauer Center for Genomics Research. She has received a number of awards for excellence in teaching and research, including the Smith Family New Investigator Award (2004) the Biomedical Engineering Society Award (2003), the Katzir Scholarship from the Weizmann Institute (2001), and over seven awards from the Technion for outstanding teaching and for "extraordinary excellence in research and studies."
Dr. Lahav's discoveries emphasize the importance of developing new technologies to allow quantitative single-cell studies of protein and network behavior. Her new lab combines experimental and theoretical approaches to study the temporal dynamics of biological signals in individual human cells and to understand cellular decision-making.Dr. Mukhopadhyay joined the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in 2003. He earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2001, and from 2001 to 2003 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institute of Washington.
Dr. Mukhopadhyay's research uses noble gases as tools to answer fundamental questions in Earth and Planetary sciences. The inert nature of the noble gases make them unique geochemical tracers for studying a variety of processes including the accretionary history of extraterrestrial material to Earth, formation of the terrestrial atmosphere, low temperature thermochronometry, exposure age dating, geochemical evolution of the Earth’s mantle, and magma degassing.
The Harvard laboratory is capable of measuring all the noble gases, from He to Xe, and has unique analytical facilities that allow Dr. Mukhopadhyay and his researchers to tackle a variety of scientific applications that require high productivity, high precision, and ultra low blanks. Specific research projects include measurements of extraterrestrial 3He to assess the distribution of time in sediments, surface-exposure dating, geochemical evolution of the mantle, and low temperature thermochronometry.
Anne Pringle graduated from Duke University with a joint Ph.D. in Botany and Genetics. She was awarded a Miller Fellowship from the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, and spent the years after her graduation at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Pringle joined Harvard in the summer of 2005 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
Her current research encompasses many questions directed at understanding the immense biodiversity of fungi, and focuses on the biogeography and ecology of a fungus introduced to California from Europe. Dr. Pringle is married and has two children, Zoe (age 6) and Penelope (age 4).
Mary C. Smith Fawzi, Sc.D., is an epidemiologist trained at the Harvard School of Public Health with direct experience running NIH-funded research and training projects. She has international experience in study design and/or implementation in Tanzania, Iraq, Thailand, Peru, Haiti, and Kazakhstan. She has trained healthcare professionals in study design, statistical analysis, and proposal development at technical workshops funded by the Tropical Disease Research branch of the World Health Organization.
Dr. Fawzi also serves as the Co-PI of an FIC-funded training grant in rural Haiti entitled “Scale-up of Community-based HIV Prevention and Care,” a research training program linked with the expansion of HIV services through support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Most recently, Dr. Smith Fawzi has assumed the role of Co-PI of an NIH-funded research study entitled “Psychosocial intervention in HIV-affected children in Haiti.”
Since 2002, Dr. Taylor has served as Associate Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard. He is also an Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, and Anthropology and Director of the Media Anthropology Library. He earned his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
He is co-author of Cross-Cultural Filmmaking, which has been listed since 2000 as a "University of California Bestseller," and is the editor of Transcultural Cinema and of the forthcoming Cinema of Robert Gardener.
Dr. Taylor will use his Research Enabling Grant to help complete production of his lon-form ethnographic film "Big Timber," and to take his family with him on field research.