
Sasha Albert

Yaminette Diaz-Linhart
Yaminette Díaz-Linhart, MSW, MPH is a doctoral student, an AHRQ Fellow and a Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She received her MSW/MPH from Boston University and her BA from Mount Holyoke College in Anthropology and Psychology. Before coming to Heller, Ms. Díaz-Linhart practiced as a behavioral health clinician, coordinated multiple federally-funded research studies, and directed a legislative commission on postpartum depression for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Most recently, she worked as a Program Director at Boston Medical Center overseeing research and clinical programs that utilize social healthcare staff, like community health workers and patient navigators. Her research interests include studying the impact of social healthcare staff on health outcomes by understanding workforce and economic development issues, innovative financing models for this type of healthcare role, and more broadly, the management of social healthcare staff to promote healthcare systems integration.
Paul Dismukes

Lindsay Garito

Dhwani Hariharan
Jennifer Kales

Christian Lopez
Christian Lopez is a Social Policy PhD student, concentrating in Health, and is an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Pre-Doctoral Trainee. Her research interests are centered on health care utilization among newly insured individuals, the effects of immigration status on household healthcare utilization trends, and organizational factors that promote efficiency at federally qualified health centers. Christian is focused on work related to Latinas/os in the U.S. and on the measurement of racial and ethnic health disparities. Her previous research experience includes the study of social determinants of health, substance use and prevention in the Latina/o community, and community resilience in public health. Christian has published work in the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors Journal, the Journal for Disaster Management and Public Health Preparedness, at the RAND Corporation, and with the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at USC. She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s degree in Latina/o Studies and Political Studies from Pitzer College.

Yiqun Luan

Siyu Ma

Andrea Harris Motenko
Andrea is a PhD candidate and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Fellow interested in healthcare disparities, social determinants of health and comparative systems. After earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, she received her Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She went on to earn professional certification from Stanford University in Advanced Project Management (SCPM). Before coming to Heller, Andrea spent years serving as a management consultant to government and private industry clients within and outside of healthcare. After serving as a healthcare quality advisor to a federal client, she returned to the Boston area to manage utilization and quality for one of the region's largest insurers. In this role, she went on to direct the development and growth of the insurer's business diversity program. Aligning her work and academic interests, Andrea's research is focused on comparative systems approach to health disparities solutions. With particular attention to women and children, she is working to identify best practices across policy environments of varying economic advantage, and the impacts system-level changes have on population health.

Ekwu Ochigbo
H. Awo Osei-Anto

Frannie Shechter Raede
