Alice Tang, PhD, MSc
Director
Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
Email: alice.tang@tufts.edu
Dr. Tang’s research focuses on studying the causes and consequences of nutrition and metabolic abnormalities (poor dietary quality, food insecurity, vitamin deficiencies, wasting, obesity, and dyslipidemia) in people living with HIV (PLHIV). She has initiated or collaborated on research programs in several international settings, including Buenos Aires, Argentina; Hanoi, Vietnam; Windhoek, Namibia; and Chennai, India. Dr. Tang was a faculty mentor for the Fogarty-funded Tufts-Namibia Training Program in Nutrition and Metabolism in HIV, the goals of which were to build research capacity to advance knowledge in the causes and consequences of nutrition and metabolic abnormalities in people living with HIV in Namibia and the sub-region. In addition, Dr. Tang has collaborated with USAID/PEPFAR and FHI360’s FANTA project on the development of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) cutoffs for assessing undernutrition in adults worldwide. Currently, Dr. Tang’s research is focused on mitigating health disparities in Asian immigrant populations in the U.S.
Ramnath Subbaraman, MD, MSc
Associate Director
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
Attending Physician, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center
Email: ramnath.subbaraman@tufts.edu
Dr. Subbaraman is an internal medicine physician and infectious diseases specialist whose research focuses on strategies to improve the delivery of tuberculosis (TB) care in India, which has the world’s largest TB epidemic. His field research in India focuses on identifying deficiencies across multiple points in the TB cascade of care to facilitate the development of patient-centered interventions. He is currently contributing to an evaluation of novel digital adherence technologies that have the potential to improve medication adherence in TB patients; this work is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also investigating approaches for improving the outcomes and yield of active case-finding strategies for early detection of individuals with TB, with the support of a Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award. Since 2012, Dr. Subbaraman has also contributed to research on social and environmental determinants of health in urban slums in India, in collaboration with colleagues at PUKAR, an innovative research collective based in Mumbai. PUKAR’s health-related field research has illuminated the adverse impacts of legal exclusion on health outcomes in non-notified slums in India through studies of nutrition, child immunization, mental health, and water access, among other issues.
Dan Nguyen
CGPH Fellow
MD Candidate, Tufts University School of Medicine
Email: nguyen.dan@tufts.edu
Dan Nguyen is a first-year medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine. He seeks to pursue a career as a physician-researcher with interests in internal medicine, infectious disease, and global health equity, with hopes of earning his MPH after medical school. A double Jumbo, Dan has been heavily involved in global health research with a focus on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in humanitarian emergencies with the Lantagne Group and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with Move Up Global, a Boston-based non-profit that supports health and education in rural Rwanda. He has formerly interned with Partners In Health as a clinical quality and health systems strengthening intern, and currently works as a research assistant in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Former Team Members
Christine Wanke, MD
Former Director, CGPH
Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
Maggie Town, MSc
CGPH Administrator
Kelly Fowler
CGPH Fellow
