Nathan Morrow, PhD. is an Associate Professor in IHSD and has taught a summer institute on Food Security and Resilience in Italy for 15-years. His research leverages geospatial tools for open and citizen science to investigate policy relevant action for environmental justice, human and planetary wellbeing, and food system resilience. He is currently leading NASA-funded open science capacity development to advance environmental justice in the Gulf South.

Andrew Andrada is a seasoned and driven doctoral student in the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development and works at the Center for Applied Malaria Research and Evaluation (CAMRE). His research interests focus on the implementation of malaria programs and the use of routine health information system data to improve malaria outcomes in endemic settings.

Steven Dominguez Jr. (he/him) is a dedicated global health professional pursuing his PhD in International Health and Sustainable Development. Mr Dominguez is primarily interested in health systems and health workforce development, specifically in understanding factors that influence health workers preferences and choices, with an area focus on Southeastern Europe. At Tulane, he has assisted teaching Design Strategies for Public Health Programs and Health & Human Rights in Latin America.

Tonya R. Thurman,'s MPH, PhD, research focuses on establishing an evidence-base for programs serving highly vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa. She resides in South Africa as Country Director for the Tulane International office while directing evaluation and intervention development initiatives to guide USAID Southern Africa’s investment in programs for orphans and other vulnerable children and youth. Her projects entail rigorous evaluations, monitoring activities, capacity building, and diverse dissemination strategies to ensure that learning improves service delivery.

Martha Silva has over 20 years of experience in international public health in the non-profit sector, academic institutions, and independently as a research and evaluation consultant. Her research focus includes health services research and social and behavior change evidence generation for program and policy improvement.

Arachu Castro, Ph.D., M.P.H., is Samuel Z. Stone Endowed Chair of Public Health in Latin America and Director of the Collaborative Group for Health Equity in Latin America at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her major interests are how social inequalities are embodied as differential risk for pathologies common among the poor and how health policies may alter the course of epidemic disease and other pathologies afflicting populations living in poverty. Dr. Castro works at the intersection of medical anthropology and epidemiology.

Trained as a sociologist and demographer, Dr. Meekers has conducted extensive research on sexual risk behavior and reproductive health. He has been involved in several studies aimed at improving the design of social marketing and behavior change communication programs in developing countries, and at assessing the impact of behavior change programs.