Our Team
Clarisa Bencomo
Associate Director
Clarisa Bencomo is an expert on human rights, governance, and philanthropy, with an interest in how global, national, and hyper local systems and practices can be reimagined to promote greater equity. Before joining the School of Public Health in 2021 she was an advisor to GHJG and taught International Development in the University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. From 2010 through 2018 she developed and led governance programming for the Ford Foundation’s MENA Regional Office in Cairo. Her programming at Ford included support for participatory planning and budgeting to address spatial inequality; research and capacity-building to advance accountability for service provision; documentation and advocacy for policies that are inclusive of migrants and refugees; and regional learning networks and platforms around law and society, post-conflict recovery, and equitable urbanism. In addition to her work in philanthropy, she had a long career as a researcher and advocate on human rights and aid effectiveness, including more than a decade as a researcher at Human Rights Watch based in Cairo and New York.
Core GHJG Faculty
Stephanie Grilo, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Stephanie Grilo, PhD, whose pronouns are she/her/hers, is an Assistant Professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Grilo is a social scientist and public health researcher whose research area of interest focuses on adolescent health, globally and domestically, and emphasizes the need for taking a resiliency approach to improving health outcomes for vulnerable populations. This includes work on understanding multiracial identify formation and the influence on health outcomes, adolescent preventive services, comprehensive sexual health education and its role in preventing sexual assault, pregnancy outcomes for young women of color, as well as global research on fertility decision making in areas of high HIV prevalence. Dr. Grilo co-teaches Qualitative Methods in the Core Curriculum as well as in Population and Family Health. Dr. Grilo is also the co-founder of MOSAIC (Mentoring of Students and Igniting Community) a faculty and student mentorship community for first generation and students of color in the Department.
Affiliate Faculty
Sara Casey, DrPH
Assistant Professor, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Marina Catallozzi, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Director, General Public Health Program
Chelsea Clinton, DPhil, MPH
Vice Chair, The Clinton Foundation
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Kelli Stidham Hall, PhD, MS
Associate Professor, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Micaela Martinez, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Emory University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health
Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health
Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health
Other Affiliates
Emily Battistini, MD, MPH, MA