International URBAN ARCH Center Directory

Admin Core | BDM Core | TRAC Study| TALC Study | Program Advisory Committee

Principal Investigator

Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH
Vice Chair for Public Health, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center
John Noble, M.D. Professor in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Community Health Science
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and School of Public Health
jsamet@bu.edu 

 

Administrative Core

Project Lead
Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH
Vice Chair for Public Health, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center
John Noble, M.D. Professor in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Community Health Science
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and School of Public Health
jsamet@bu.edu 

 

Natalia Gnatienko, MPH
Clinical Research Director
Boston Medical Center
natalia.gnatienko@bmc.org

 

Lydia Carlson, MPH
Research Coordinator
Boston Medical Center
lydia.carlson@bmc.org

 

Biostatistics and Data Management Resource Core

Project Lead
Debbie Cheng, ScD
Professor of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health
dmcheng@bu.edu

 

Sowmya Rao, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Boston University School of Public Health
srrao@bu.edu 

 

Sandra Deluccia, MPH
Senior Project Manager
Boston University Epidemiology and Data Analytics Center (BEDAC)
sandraf4@bu.edu

 

WinterMichael Winter, MPH
Associate Director, Statistical Programming
Boston University School of Public Health
mwinter@bu.edu

 

Tuberculosis Risk by Alcohol Consumption (TRAC) Study

Project Lead
Judith Hahn, PhD, MA
Professor in Residence
University of California, San Francisco
judy.hahn@ucsf.edu

 

Co-Investigator
Winnie Muyindike, MBChB, MMED
Director of Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
wmuyindike@gmail.com

 

Co-Investigator
Gabriel Chamie, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Gabriel.Chamie@ucsf.edu

 

Nneka Emenyonu, DrPH, MPH
Project Director, Infectious Diseases, San Francisco General Hospital
University of California, San Francisco
nneka.emenyonu@ucsf.edu

 

robin fatchRobin Fatch, MPH
Statistician/Data Manager, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
robin.fatch@ucsf.edu

 

scan0002Christine Ngabirano BA(SS), MPH
Project Coordinator
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
Department Of Internal Medicine
cngabirano@must.ac.ug

 

Tuberculosis, Alcohol, and Lung Comorbidities (TALC) Study

Project Lead
Kaku So-Armah, PhD
Associate Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
kaku@bu.edu

 

Co-Investigator
Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH 
Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center
John Noble, M.D. Professor in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Community Health Science
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
jsamet@bu.edu

 

SANYO DIGITAL CAMERACo-Investigator
Winnie Muyindike, MBChB, MMED
Director of Immune Suppression Syndrome Clinic
Mbarara University of Science and Technology
wmuyindike@gmail.com

 

Co-Investigator
Karen Jacobson, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
karen.jacobson@bmc.org

 

Co-Investigator
Karsten Lunze, MD, MPH, DrPH
Associate Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
lunze@bu.edu

 

Co-Investigator
Bashar Staitieh, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
bashar.staitieh@emory.edu

 

Sally Bendiks, MPH
Senior Research Project Manager
Boston Medical Center
sally.bendiks@bmc.org

 

Sarah Rossi, MPH
Research Project Manager
Boston Medical Center
sarah.rossi@bmc.org

 

Program Advisory Committee

Kendall Bryant, PhD
Director, HIV/AIDS Research
National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
kbryant@mail.nih.gov

 

Kenneth Freedberg, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

kfreedberg@mgh.harvard.edu

 

VictorVictor Hesselbrock, PhD
Senior Associate Dean of Research
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
hesselbrock@uchc.edu

 

Mimi Kim, ScD
Professor, Epidemiology and Population Health
Albert Einstein School of Medicine
mikim@aecom.yu.edu

 

Geetanjali Chander, MD, MPH
Professor, Medicine – General Internal Medicine
University of Washington
gchander@uw.edu

 

 

C. Robert Horsburgh, Jr, MD, MS
Professor, Global Health
Boston University School of Public Health
rhorsbu@bu.edu

 

 

To view past investigators and collaborators, please visit the archived URBAN ARCH Directory.