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Ramon Ruiz

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.

Devashri Salvi, MPH

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.

Sanjanaa Seshadri, MPH

Sanjanaa Seshadri earned her master of public health from Johns Hopkins University, specializing in global and humanitarian health, and a bachelor’s in public health from Texas A&M University.

Before graduate school, Seshadri worked in clinical research at Massachusetts General Hospital, managing cardiovascular trials. Her experience also spans health systems analysis, global pediatric research, and community health promotion, including tobacco cessation programs in rural Texas. During her MPH program, she engaged in applied global health research through the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, examining humanitarian response coordination, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health, supporting projects on the humanitarian development in Afghanistan.

Having lived in multiple countries as an Indian immigrant, Seshadri is passionate about advancing equity in health programs, and applying human rights–based approaches to public health.

Shela Sridhar, MD, MPH

Shela Sridhar, MD, MPH, serves as the NCDI Poverty Network South Asia Regional Advisor. She is a dual-trained physician in internal medicine and pediatrics and a global health systems researcher. She completed a Global Health Service Delivery Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, during which time she worked as a Pediatric Clinical Advisor at Partners In Health, Rwanda, focused on quality improvement and health systems strengthening at the hospital level.

Dr. Sridhar has also served as an NIH Fogarty Fellow and spearheaded studies evaluating adolescent malnutrition at a community level and referral systems to tertiary hospitals for children with malnutrition in Zambia. She continues to work closely with colleagues in Zambia to improve community-based nutrition, optimize data systems, and measure clinic outcomes to address gaps in care delivery.

She is committed to improving access to and the quality of healthcare globally with a focus on translating research into actionable, scalable protocols. After completing a residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin, she received a Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a Clinical Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Emily Wroe, MD, MPH

Emily Wroe, MD, MPH, is an internist and expert in global health, serving as the Senior Director of Programs for the NCDI Poverty Network and one of its co-secretariats, the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In this role she supports the implementation and expansion of PEN-Plus programs, including in training, data systems, and clinical quality.

Dr. Wroe’s expertise in health systems for chronic diseases stems from several years working as Partners In Health’s Chief Medical Officer in Malawi, where she worked closely with the Ministry of Health to strengthen health care in the rural district of Neno. In Malawi she led the team to integrate HIV and noncommunicable disease clinics, spearheaded a stepped-wedge study of a community health worker program, and helped launch two clinics for patients with severe noncommunicable diseases, which was the beginning of the PEN-Plus program in Malawi. Her role then expanded to serve as co-chair of the Ministry of Health for Malawi’s National NCDs and Injuries of Poverty Commission and to help launch similar commissions in Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Dr. Wroe is also deeply experienced in public health response. In the past she served as Partners In Health’s Director of Implementation and Design for the statewide contact tracing program for COVID-19. Currently she remains a Senior Health and Policy Advisor for Partners In Health. She is an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Collin Whelley, MA

Collin Whelley, MA, is the Associate Director of Data Systems and Monitoring & Evaluation for the NCDI Poverty Network and the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Whelley has more than 15 years of experience working in the United States and abroad to strengthen health and homeless response systems through research, evaluation, monitoring, and data system development.

Ada Thapa, MPH

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.

Jules Teichert, MPH

Jules Teichert, MPH, is the partnerships manager for the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She holds a master’s in public health from Florida International University and a bachelor’s in allied health–medical sciences from the University of Tampa.

Teichert started her career in patient care, working as a certified nursing assistant in a long-term-care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic. That role fueled her interest in public health as she witnessed severe inequities in health care.

While working on her graduate degree, Teichert transitioned to development work at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine. There she worked to secure support for future physicians during a time of extensive growth at the organization. She also gained a passion for development work and advancing health-oriented organizations through financial means and partnerships.

While completing her MPH, Teichert worked as a graduate research assistant on an initiative to evaluate the impact of transitions in care intervention to reduce health disparities among African American and Latino/Hispanic patients being discharged from the hospital with chronic illness and co-occurring mental illness.