Fellows

Aneesh Raghunandan

Megan Ranney

Dr. Megan L. Ranney is an emergency physician, researcher, and national advocate for innovative approaches to public health. She joined Yale in July 2023 as the Dean of the Yale School of Public Health and C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health. Dr. Ranney’s research focuses on developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence and related behavioral health problems, as well as on COVID-related risk reduction.

She has held multiple national leadership roles, including Co-Founder and Senior Strategic Advisor for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM) at the Aspen Institute, a nonprofit committed to ending the gun violence epidemic through a non-partisan public health approach, and Co-Founder of GetUsPPE, a start-up nonprofit that delivered donated personal protective equipment to those who needed it most. She is a Fellow of the fifth class of the Aspen Institute’s Health Innovators Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She also serves on the Board of Trustees for the National Opioid Abatement Trust. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

She has received numerous awards for technology innovation, public health, and research, including Rhode Island “Woman of the Year” and the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Policy Pioneer Award. A leading public voice on urgent topics in health and medicine, she offers expert analysis through testimony to Congress and guidance for non-governmental organizations. She is a frequent media commentator and author of op-eds for outlets that include the BBC, CNN, The Atlantic, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

Prior to arriving at Yale, Dr. Ranney served as Deputy Dean at the Brown University School of Public Health; the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine at Alpert Medical School of Brown University; and the Founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. She remains an adjunct faculty member at Brown University. Dr. Ranney earned her bachelor’s degree in history of science, graduating summa cum laude, from Harvard University; her medical doctorate, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha, from Columbia University; and her master’s degree in public health from Brown University. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research at Brown University. She was previously a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote d’Ivoire.

Hamid Rashid

Dr. Hamid Rashid – Head and Director, GlobalEconomic Monitoring at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDEA) –is the lead author of the UN flagship report, theWorld Economic Situation and Prospects, jointlypublished by UNDESA, UNCTAD, the UN RegionalCommissions and UN-WTO. Previously, he served asthe Senior Adviser for Macroeconomic Policy inUNDESA, advising finance, central banks andplanning authorities in developing countries on fiscaland monetary policy issues. He is in-charge ofmacroeconomic modeling and forecasting work at the UN. Prior to joining UN/DESA in 2010, Dr. Rashidserved as a Senior Adviser in UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy and also as the Director General for Multilateral Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bangladesh.

Dr. Rashid earned his Ph.D. in economics and finance from Columbia University in New York under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Prof. Joseph Stiglitz. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas. Dr. Rashid’s research interest includes macroeconomic policies, mineral and mining economies, renewable energy sources and international finance and debt sustainability, economic growth and sustainable development. In a recent paper, Averting Catastrophic Debt Crises in Developing Countries: Extraordinary Challenges Call for Extraordinary Measures, Dr. Rashid and Prof. Stiglitz warn against the looming risks of a debt crisis in developing countries.

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Franklin Renz

Franklin Renz started and ran several businesses. Owned Block Island Power Company. Developed first wind generation systems with NASA and DOE. Tested and repaired Abrams tank for DOE. Still best tank in the world. Trustee and Director of paper company that supplied paper for Yale for nearly fifty years. Been involved in several litigations that have changed the understanding of trusts in Federal and State courts.

Julieanna Richardson

Julieanna L. Richardson has a diverse background in theatre, television production, and the cable television industry that created a unique path to founding the largest effort to record the African American experience since the WPA Slave Narratives of the 1930s. Founded in 2000, The HistoryMakers is a national, 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution headquartered in Chicago committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized, archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories.

A 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School, Richardson graduated from Brandeis University with a double-major in Theatre Arts and American Studies, where she did extensive oral history interviews on the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes. She worked as a corporate lawyer at the Chicago law firm of Jenner & Block prior to serving in the early 1980s as the Cable Administrator for the City of Chicago Office of Cable Communications.

Richardson currently sits on the Honors Council of Lawyers for the Creative Arts; Simmons University Dean’s Advisory Council of the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities, and James Madison University’s Flowerings Advisory Council. She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Howard University (2012), Dominican University (2014) and Brandeis University (2016). She has also served as the commencement speaker for Dominican University as well as Brandeis University 65th commencement. In 2014, Black Enterprise magazine awarded Richardson its 2014 Legacy Award, its highest recognition of women’s achievement. That same year, Richardson was profiled in American Masters: The Boomer List, a PBS documentary and exhibition at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. She is a 2021 recipient of the Chicago History Museum’s John Hope Franklin Making History Award, which celebrates prominent Chicagoans who have made the city a better place to live. Published in July 2022, her TedTalk “The Mission to Safeguard Black History in the U.S.” is viewable on YouTube.

Ruben Rodriguez

Naomi Rogers

Naomi Rogers is an Associate Professor, History of Medicine and History.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986.  Her fields of interests are History of 20th century medicine & public health in North America including policy, activism, alternative medicine & gender and medicine; Science & feminism; Feminist health movements.

Todd Rothman

Todd Rothman is Director of Pre-Professional Advising at Haverford College and holds an MA in Education from Columbia University. Prior to joining Haverford, Todd served as Director of Admissions at Yale Law School and Assistant Director of Admissions at Columbia Law School, where he reviewed and evaluated applications as part of their respective Admissions Committees. For eleven years, he advised undergraduate students and alumni in the Graduate and Professional School Advising Division of Career Services at the University of Pennsylvania, ultimately overseeing the team of advisors for six years. Todd also served in administrative positions in two Offices of the President – first at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later at Columbia University, Teachers College – and, most recently, he was the Director of Academic & Student Affairs at Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management. Todd is also a Past President of the Northeast Association of Pre-Law Advisors (NAPLA).

Philip Rubin

Philip Rubin is the Chief Executive Officer emeritus and a former Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology, at Yale School of Medicine, Research Affiliate in Psychology at Yale, and Fellow at Yale’s Trumbull College. In Dec. 2017, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appointed Rubin to serve as a member of the UConn Board of Trustees, the governing body for the University of Connecticut. From 2012 -2015, Rubin was Principal Assistant Director for Science at OSTP, led the White House neuroscience initiative, and was co-chair of the NSTC Committee on Science. His research spans a number of disciplines, combining computational, engineering, linguistic, physiological, and psychological approaches to study embodied cognition, most particularly the biological bases of speech and language.