Abby is the senior project manager for a CDC-funded award focusing on mathematical modeling development to improve national and global responses to emerging health threats. She also spearheads strategic planning, fundraising and development efforts at CCDD, working closely with leadership. Abby brings deep connections to the global and public health community at Harvard and beyond, with past roles at the Harvard Global Health Institute and Global Health Delivery Project 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;…
Suzana Kim joined CCDD in January 2024 as the Program Coordinator. She completed her BS in Applied Nutrition at Montclair State University (NJ) and MPH with a Policy and Management concentration at the University of Arizona. Here, she also worked as an outreach coordinator to connect uninsured Arizonans with health insurance enrollment navigators; graduate research assistant to assist the University in making informed COVID-related decisions; and project manager on exciting…
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…
Caroline Thomas is the Research Program Coordinator for the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard Chan School. She received a BSA in Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin where she completed a thesis investigating the efficacy and epidemiology of employing pharmacotherapies for pediatric ADHD. Caroline has conducted clinical research investigating the link between cognition and emotion and managed the delivery of large-scale public health programming to…
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…
