Brown Scholars pursue public health equity and excellence
Brown Scholars Alumni

Sachini Bandara
- Graduation Year: 2018
- Department: Health Policy and Management
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Desmond Banks (formerly Desmond Flagg)
- Graduation Year: 2015
- Department: Health Policy and Management
- Current Position: Senior Consultant, HMA Medicaid Market Solutions

Karina Christiansen
- Graduation Year: 2016
- Department: Health Policy and Management
- Current Position: Deputy Executive Director of the Mayor's Office to Prevent Gun Violence, Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice in New York City.

Fidel Desir
- Graduation Year: 2014
- Department: Epidemiology
- Current Position: Resident, Mount Carmel Graduate Medical Education

Stephanie Farquhar
- Graduation Year: 2012
- Department: Health, Behavior and Society
- Current Position: Director of Social Research, Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Darriel Harris
- Graduation Year: 2021
- Department: Health, Behavior and Society
- Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future

Chandra L. Jackson
- Graduation Year: 2012
- Department: Epidemiology
- Current Position: Earl Stadtman Investigator, Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Amanda Latimore
- Graduation Year: 2012
- Department: Population, Family and Reproductive Health
- Current Position: Director, Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES), American Institutes for Research

Roxanne Mirabal Beltran
- Graduation Year: 2018
- Department: Population, Family and Reproductive Health
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Professonal Nurse Practice, Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies

Yeeli Mui
- Graduation Year: 2017
- Department: International Health
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Rene Najera
- Graduation Year: 2018
- Department: Epidemiology
- Current Position: Epidemiologist, Fairfax County Health Department

Gia Naranjo-Rivera
- Graduation Year: 2020
- Department: Population, Family and Reproductive Health
- Current Position: Founder & Head of Practice at Constellation Consulting LLC; Transformative Evaluation Consultant, Portland Public Schools

Sally Peprah
- Graduation Year: 2018
- Department: Epidemiology
- Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute

Allysha Maragh-Bass
(formerly Allysha Robinson)
- Graduation Year: 2015
- Department: Health Policy and Management
- Current Position: Scientist I; Founder, Decolonization & Global Health Equity Task Force

Michelle Taylor
- Graduation Year: 2015
- Department: Population, Family and Reproductive Health
- Current Position: Shelby County Health Director

Aracelis Torres
- Graduation Year: 2016
- Department: Epidemiology
- Current Position: Director, Quantitative Sciences Head of Ongoing Research Projects, Flatiron Health

Nomi Weiss-Laxer
- Graduation Year: 2019
- Department: Population, Family and Reproductive Health
- Current Position: NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow & Research Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Stacey Carroll Williams (formerly Stacey Lloyd)
- Graduation Year: 2017
- Department: Mental Health
- Current Position: Director of Evaluation, Forward Cities

Stacy Woods
- Graduation Year: 2016
- Department: Environmental Health Science
- Current Position: Geostatistician, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jessica Owens-Young (formerly Jessica Young)
- Graduation Year: 2014
- Department: Health Policy and Management
- Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Health Studies, American University