Dr. Ryan McBain is the Health Economist for the Center for Integration Science and a faculty member of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Ryan holds a secondary appointment at the RAND Corporation—a global policy think tank. Dr. McBain received his Doctor of Science and Master’s degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health and his Bachelor’s degree from Gordon College and Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
A central focus of Dr. McBain’s work pertains to health program and policy evaluation. He combines econometric analysis, costing and simulation methods to assess the efficiency, equity, and cost effectiveness of interventions. Routinely, Dr. McBain has applied these tools in the context of health system strengthening and reform—at local, regional, and national levels.
Dr. McBain has published over 80 articles in top tier journals, and he has led projects sponsored by organizations ranging from the National Institute of Mental Health and Department of Defense to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Skoll Foundation. Dr. McBain’s work is also featured in news outlets such as the New York Times, U.S. News, and NPR, and he has written opinion editorials for outlets such as LA Times and The Hill.
Devashri Salvi is the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Lead at the Center for Integration Science. She is a physical therapist by training and has an MPH with a specialization in Environmental Health and the Design and Conduct of Public Health Research from Boston University.
Devashri has worked in NCD-related research since 2011 on projects conducted in India, Zambia, Kenya, and the United States. After spending five years in India conducting lung health and air quality related research, Devashri moved to Boston, Massachusetts. Most recently Devashri served as the Director of Program Monitoring and Evaluation at a Boston-based anti-poverty nonprofit where she designed the M&E strategy for 11 social programs while serving as a consultant for 110+ partner organizations. Devashri believes in continuous learning and has completed certificate programs in nonprofit leadership and management in 2020 as well as practical quality improvement in 2021.
At the Center for Integration Science, Devashri leads and supports M&E activities that will help scale‐up service delivery within the NCDI Poverty Network. Devashri works to establish and execute the near and long‐term strategy to grow M&E capacity at the local catchment, national, and regional levels within the PEN-Plus program.
Ada Thapa is a Senior Research Assistant at the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, focusing mainly in the qualitative analysis of the CGM trial.
Ada completed her MPH in Health Policy Analysis and Evaluation with a Global Health certificate from the University of Maryland, College Park. During her MPH program, she interned with Save the Children, US on their USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival project where she oversaw the qualitative analysis for a key pilot project in Mozambique called “Our First Baby”. Following her graduation, she worked in the Global Mental Health Equity lab at George Washington University as a Research Assistant and performed qualitative analysis for the Gates STAND STRONG project. Ada also worked as Research Associate at Health Foundation Nepal for more than two years on their Non-Communicable Disease project.
Lauren Brown earned an MPH in Healthcare Management from Boston University and a BSc in Public Health and Global Studies from Worcester State University. During her graduate studies, Lauren worked as a mobile health consultant for the Ghanaian NGO Friends of Dwenase (FoD) to implement CommCare into their maternal health center. Prior to joining the PIH NCD Synergies team, she participated in several government-based health programs and fellowships such as the VA Pathways Program, where she served as a Health Systems Specialist Trainee and the CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholars (CUPS) Program as a Scholar in the Future Public Health Leaders Program (FPHLP) at the University of Michigan. Lauren comes to the team with a passion to advocate for eliminating barriers and disparities in access to quality healthcare for underserved communities in low- and lower-middle income countries (LLMICs).
Katia Domingues (MPH) is the PEN-Plus Program Manager for the NCDI Poverty Network at the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity. She received her MPH from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health with two certificates in Monitoring & Evaluation of International Programs and Humanitarian Health. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Community Health from Tufts University. In addition to her work with PEN-Plus, Katia is a part-time epidemiologist at a local health department in Massachusetts.
Prior to joining the NCDI Poverty Network, Katia served as a COVID-19 Case Investigator Lead for the Portuguese-speaking division of the Internal Language Line at the CTC, a joint program of PIH and the state of Massachusetts. Simultaneously, she was on the JHU COVID-19 Training Initiative team as a student intern and helped create training modules to be used by local boards of health on pandemic response. She also served in the Peace Corps as a Community Health Services promoter in Chicumbane, Mozambique, and helped train health workers at the district hospital in data collection of infectious diseases. While in Mozambique, she trained Mozambican community-based organizations on grant writing skills and successfully acquired two grants to start a health literacy project and community library initiative in the village she served.
Outside of work, Katia likes to go on walks, travel, drink tea and spend time with her family and friends.
Susan joined the team at Brigham & Women’s Hospital’s Division of Global Health Equity as the Membership and Engagement Project Coordinator for the Center for Integration Science in January 2022.
A trip to Ethiopia to adopt her son and a strong desire to contribute to global human equity brought her to a career change from Early Childhood Education to the nonprofit world focused on human dignity, equity, and sustainable humanitarian aid.
She earned a Graduate Certificate focused on Sustainable Aid Delivery at UMass Boston’s Center For Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disaster (CRSCAD), soon after which, she began working for Wide Horizons For Children – an agency providing humanitarian aid to children and families in 10 countries. Over the course of her six years there, she contributed to aid program administration, fundraising and development, major event planning and marketing and engagement.
Katie manages the Membership & Engagement team for the NCDI Poverty Network and serves as the Senior Program Coordinator for the Program in Global NCDs and Social Change within the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she was involved in U.S. health policy research post-doctoral training as the Deputy Director for the RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research Program based at Boston University. Over her career, she has been involved in managing various academic activities, initiatives, and international education programs from the Big Ten Academic Alliance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to Queen Mary College, University of London. She received her B. in political science from Emmanuel College and her MA in International Relations from Boston University.
Ramon Ruiz is an Instructional Designer in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Center for Integration Science. He collaborates with experts across the Global Health Delivery Partnership to design, develop, and launch courses for clinicians working at NCD clinics in rural health facilities within low- and lower-middle income countries.
Before joining the NCDI Poverty Network team, Ramon worked at Massachusetts Port Authority, State Street Global Advisors, and Natixis Investment Managers in learning and development, learning management system (LMS) administration, and graphic design. He has a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University.
Leslie Wentworth is a Manager for Health Information Systems and Analytics at Partners in Health (PIH). She earned her MS in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition from the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a BA in Spanish and Film Studies from Wesleyan University. Prior to joining PIH, Leslie worked as a monitoring and evaluation manager for child health and cervical cancer programs at the Clinton Health Access Initiative. During this time, she collaborated with leaders at the World Health Organization to model and cost the scale up of national cervical cancer screening and treatment programs in low resource settings. Leslie’s background is in program implementation and management, research design, and evaluation, and has a strong interest in strengthening information systems to improve health.
Arianna Wolgin is the Project Coordinator for the Center for Integration Science. She earned Bachelors of Arts degrees in Public Health Studies, with a sociocultural concentration, and French Studies from Elon University in 2022. She studied abroad in India where she gained knowledge in global health through community-based participatory research. Before joining the team, Arianna learned skills in project management at the First Twenty and at Public Health Management Corporation in Philadelphia, PA.
