Matt is an Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and Co-CEO and Co-Founder of PIVOT. He is currently at Stanford University as the Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health, and Visiting Scholar of the Woods Institute for the Environment. He has a PhD in Economics and PhD in Ecology from the University of Georgia.
Our team is interdisciplinary and awesome.
Co-Executive Director of Partners In Health, Haiti
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Friends School of Baltimore
Assistant Professor, U. of Florida
In this venture, a team of natural and social scientists will bring together GIS data on land-use change with data on disease and vector distributions and host abundance in order to develop mathematical and heuristic models. The team’s goal is to understand the impact of land use change on disease ecology to minimize disease risk and maximize direct and indirect economic benefits. The framework developed in this effort will ultimately be adaptable to examine the interactions between land use change and a broad variety of pathogens.
This brings together an international group of natural and social scientists to develop new research avenues on coupled bioeconomic and biophysical processes related to poverty, and the effects of potential interventions. This group aims to further define the field, identify key themes and pioneer important research questions to guide a broader community of natural and social scientists, as well as policy-makers.
Matt’s mentors have left a strong imprint on the work and culture of this lab.
Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
Earth Institute at Columbia University
Physician Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Economist, Cambridge University
Physician, Minister of Health, Rwanda
