HBS Summer Institute Faculty

Lee Bone, MPH, Associate Professor.  Ms. Bone’s research focuses on health promotion in underserved urban African American populations and incorporates multidisciplinary and community-based participatory approaches.  Her studies include cardiovascular disease, and CVD risk factors, diabetes, and cancer detection and control.

Dina L.G. Borzekowski, EdD, Assistant Professor.  Dr. Borzekowski’s area of expertise is children, media, and health. She investigates how a child or adolescent’s demographics, background, and issue involvement (e.g., alcohol use, smoking, violence, nutrition, and eating disorders) influence perceptions of positive and negative health messages.

Janice V. Bowie, PhD. Associate Professor.  Dr. Bowie’s research includes minority and women’s health, community-based participatory research, cancer control, and spirituality.  She is currently conducting a community-based participatory research study on breast health practices with African-American faith-based institutions. 

VINCENT DEMARCO, JD, MA, ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR.  Mr. DeMarco is state and national public health advocacy leader on issues including reducing gun violence and teen smoking and expanding health care access.  He is President of the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative and the National Coordinator of Faith United Against Tobacco.

Fannie Fonseca-Becker, DrPH. Associate Scientist.  Dr. Fonseca-Becker is the Director of the J&J Community Health Care Scholars Program.  Her research interests are on the effects of capacity building in evaluation and monitoring on community health care program sustainability and reduction of health disparities.  She also works in identifying the predictors of health competence for Latinos in the US.

PAUL GAIST, pHd, mph. aDJUNCT ASSOCIATE pROFESSOR. Dr. Gaist is a behavioral scientist and a public health administrator who emphasizes real world integrative thinking and solutions in his courses.  His work includes/has included research, program and planning at the National Institutes of Health, the White House National AIDS Policy Office, and elsewhere.  Areas of interest (U.S. and internationally) include biopsychosocial analysis and health promotion/disease prevention across the lifespan and life contexts.

M. Christopher Gibbons, MD, MPH. Assistant Professor. Dr. Gibbons is Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Director of Urban Health Institute’s Center for Community Health. His research focuses on integrating evidence-based behavioral interventions into the US medical care system, eHealth applications to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, and elucidating the biomolecular mechanisms which undergird socio-culturally determined health outcomes.

MICHAEL PERTSCHUK, LLD, JD, ASSOCIATE. Mr. Pertschuk was the strategist in the US Senate behind much of the major consumer protection and health promotion legislation of this half century; he was the most aggressive Federal Trade Commission Chair in history in pursuing health-jeopardizing marketing and promotion; and he has been a leading strategist and advocate for tobacco control for more than 40 years.

Rajiv N. Rimal, PhD, Associate Professor.  Dr. Rimal’s research in health communication and health promotion focuses on the influence of social norms and risk perception on behavior change. Through the Center for Communication Programs, he is currently working on two HIV prevention projects in sub-Saharan Africa, one in Namibia and the other in Malawi.