Abby spearheads strategic planning, fundraising and development efforts, and project management for COVID-19 and other infectious disease research at CCDD. She previously served as CCDD Project Manager from 2017-2018, preceded by positions at Harvard Global Health Institute, and the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard. She brings deep connections to the global and public health community at Harvard and beyond. Most recently, Abby led department administration in the sciences at…
Laurie Coe will be joining the CCDD as the Director of Research and Administration on Nov 1, 2022. She’s a seasoned project manager with 20+ years of experience managing public health programs. Laurie has worked with the Cochrane Collaboration supporting the development and dissemination of systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials; the MA Department of Public Health implementing programs to improve health outcomes related to stroke and multiple chronic diseases;…
Tia joined the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics in February 2017. She attended Royal Holloway University of London and received a Bachelor’s degree in English. After graduating, Tia moved to the USA from England in 2013 and operated her own business as a franchisee. Prior to coming to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she was a Development Assistant in the Office of Foundation Relations at MIT, and…
Jesse Aspinwall-Rezende was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and raised in Hingham, MA. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in International Management from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2011. After graduating, Jesse wanted to pursue a job where he would have a mission in helping people. After working one year as a fund account administrator at Brown Brother Harriman, Jesse decided to change jobs and found Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese…
Zach joined the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics in June 2022 and serves as Research Project Coordinator for the program. He previously worked in the Department of Epidemiology’s Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics from 2019 to 2021. Zach holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Brandeis University as well as an M.A./M.Sc. dual degree from Columbia University and the London School of Economics, where he had been pursuing…
Manyee joined the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics in March 2015 and is responsible for managing the MIDAS award, a Center Grant and portfolio of other sponsored, non-sponsored research funds and unrestricted accounts for all Faculty, Researchers and Postdoctoral Fellows of the Center. Prior to joining the Center, Manyee was the Senior Grants Manager at the Department of Epidemiology, providing financial and grants administration management to the Faculty in the…
Al Xin is a member of the Harvard College Class of 2023 and is studying Statistics with a secondary in Linguistics. They have an interest in machine learning and hope to incorporate their skills in computer science with medicine, possibly pursuing an MD-PhD program. Al maintains the website, updates social media, and provides graphics for the CCDD. They have previously researched with the von Recum lab at Case Western Reserve…
