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Dr. Lutterloh attended Indiana University School of Medicine.  She completed a combined internal medicine-pediatrics residency in Phoenix, AZ, an infectious disease fellowship at Brown University, and an MPH at Johns Hopkins.  She is Board certified in infectious disease and pediatric infectious disease.  She was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before joining the New York State Department of Health in 2010, where she currently works as the Director of the Division of Epidemiology.

Dr. Heidi Torres received her undergraduate degree in Biology and her medical degree from University of Puerto Rico, where she is originally from. After graduating with honors, she completed a residency in Internal Medicine at UT Health in San Antonio, Texas before moving to New York to pursue a fellowship in Infectious Diseases with the Weill Cornell Medicine program. During fellowship Dr. Torres became interested in infection control and epidemiology. She currently serves as an attending physician of Infectious Diseases and assistant hospital epidemiologist for the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Campus. She is dual board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Her research interests include infection prevention, epidemiology, emerging diseases, and prevention of communicable diseases after disaster.  

Jay K. Varma, MD is a Professor of Population Health Sciences and Director of the Cornell Center for Pandemic Prevention and Response at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Varma is an expert on the prevention and control of diseases, having led epidemic responses and led large-scale programs globally. After graduating from Harvard, Dr. Varma completed medical school, internal medicine residency, and chief residency at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. From 2001-2021, he worked for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with postings in Atlanta, Thailand, China, Ethiopia, and New York City. From April 2020 – May 2021, he served as the principal scientific spokesperson and lead for New York City’s COVID-19 response.

Dr. Gen Meredith, a graduate of McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine (Occupational Therapy) and the University of Massachusetts’ School of Public Health (Master of Public Health), has come to Cornell to help design and lead the Master of Public Health program. Prior to this, Dr. Meredith spent eight years leading large international development projects with a focus on national public health systems development in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, and four years doing the same in the United States. Dr. Meredith’s work has centered primarily on institutional capacity development and growth specifically related to integrated disease surveillance and response systems, the routine collection and use of data, and effective public health leadership and management infrastructure to support population health access and accountability.

Keletso Makofane, PhD is an FXB Health & Human Rights Fellow. He is a public health researcher and activist who works in the global HIV response with a focus on sexual minority men in east and southern Africa. He is a member of the governing council for the International Aids Society, and sits on the board of LVCT Health, a leading HIV service organization in Kenya. He also sits on the founding board of Global Black Gay Men Connect, an activist collective that aims to build power to stop discrimination and violence inflicted on Black, gay men around the world. Makofane has served on various working groups and committees that shape the global response to HIV. These include the Guidelines Development Group for the first comprehensive World Health Organization guidelines for HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations, and the IAS-Lancet Commission on the Future of Global Health and the HIV Response.