Program Leadership and Staff
Elvin Geng, MD, MPH
HIGH IRI Director | Washington University in St. Louis
- Email: elvin.geng@wustl.edu
Ross Brownson, PhD
HIGH IRI Co-Director | Washington University in St. Louis
- Email: rbrownson@wustl.edu
Ashley Underwood, MPH
HIGH IRI Program Coordinator | Washington University in St. Louis
- Email: ashley.underwood@wustl.edu
Thomas Odeny, MD, MPH, PhD
HIGH IRI Associate Program Director | Washington University – St. Louis
- Email: odeny@wustl.edu
Isheeta Gupta, MD
HIGH IRI Student Worker | Washington University – St. Louis
- Email: g.isheeta@wustl.edu
Core Faculty
Elizabeth Anne Bukusi, MBChB, M.Med (ObGyn), MPH, PhD, PGD (Research Ethics), MBE
HIGH IRI Faculty | African Academy of Sciences
Carolyn Audet, PhD
HIGH IRI Faculty | Vanderbilt University and University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg
Stefan Baral , MD, FRCPC, CCFP, MPH, MBA, MSc
HIGH IRI Faculty | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
- Email: sbaral@jhu.edu
Laura Beres, PhD, MPH
HIGH IRI Designer in Residence | Johns Hopkins University
- Email: laura.beres@jhu.edu
Rani Elwy, PhD
HIGH IRI Faculty | Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- Email: rani_elwy@brown.edu
Maria Fernandez, PhD
HIGH IRI Faculty | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
Hikabasa Halwiindi, PhD, MPhil
HIGH IRI Faculty | University of Zambia School of Public Health
- Email: Hikabasa.Halwindi@unza.zm
Mark Huffman, MD, MPH
HIGH IRI Faculty | Washington University in St. Louis and George Institute for Global Health at the University of New South Wales
- Email: m.huffman@wustl.edu
Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
HIGH IRI Faculty | Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice
- Email: Iwelunmorj@slu.edu
Yodi Mahendradhata, M.Sc, Ph.D, FRSPH
HIGH IRI Faculty | Universitas Gadjah Mada
- Email: ymahendradhata@ugm.ac.id
Ginger McKay, PhD, MA
HIGH IRI Faculty | Washington University in St. Louis
- Email: Virginia.mckay@wustl.edu
Mosa Moshabela , MBChB, MSc, PhD
HIGH IRI Faculty | University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
- Email: Moshabela@ukzn.ac.za
Byron Powell , PhD, MSW
HIGH IRI Faculty | Washington University in St. Louis
- Email: bjpowell@wustl.edu
Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD
HIGH IRI Faculty | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
- Email: Rohit.Ramaswamy@cchmc.org
Nadia Sam-Agudu , MD, CTropMed
HIGH IRI Faculty | University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Email: nsam-agudu@ihv.umaryland.edu
Radhika Sundararajan, MD, PhD
HIGH IRI Faculty | Weill Cornell Center for Global Health
- Email: ras9199@med.cornell.edu
Joseph Tucker, MD, PhD, AM
HIGH IRI Faculty | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Email: jdtucker@med.unc.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Ana Baumann, PhD
HIGH IRI Affiliated Faculty | Washington University in St. Louis
- Email: abaumannwalker@wustl.edu
JoAnn Kirchner, MD
HIGH IRI Affiliated Faculty | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Email: KirchnerJoAnnE@uams.edu
Douglas Luke , PhD
HIGH IRI Affiliated Faculty | Washington University in St. Louis
- Email: dluke@wustl.edu
Enola Proctor, PhD
HIGH IRI Affiliated Faculty | Washington University in St. Louis
- Email: ekp@wustl.edu
Rachel Tabak, PhD
HIGH IRI Affiliated Faculty | Washington University – St. Louis
- Email: rtabak@wustl.edu
