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
Administrative Director
Boston Medical Center
natalia.gnatienko@bmc.org
Lydia Carlson, MPH
Project 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
Michael 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 Fatch, MPH
Statistician/Data Manager, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
robin.fatch@ucsf.edu
Christine 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
Co-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
Victor 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.