Members of the Health x Housing Lab team at NYU Langone focus on building and strengthening health equity and housing justice.

Core Faculty and Staff

Kelly M. Doran, MD, MHS
Co-Director, Health x Housing Lab
Associate Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Population Health

Giselle Routhier, PhD, MSW
Co-Director, Health x Housing Lab
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Amy Freeman, PhD, MPH
Senior Advisor, Health x Housing Lab
Research Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

Sue A. Kaplan, JD
Senior Advisor, Health x Housing Lab
Director, Community Service Plan
Research Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine

Ingrid Berthomieux, MPH
Senior Project Coordinator, Health x Housing Lab
Department of Population Health

Maria Javier
Research Coordinator, Health x Housing Lab
Department of Population Health

Ashley Truong, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Health x Housing Lab
Department of Population Health

Faculty Affiliates

Bennett Allen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Population Health

Alex S. Bennett, PhD
Research Associate Professor Director, Opioid Overdose Prevention Program, NYU School of Global Public Health

Carolyn Berry, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health

Charles Cleland, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

Renata Howland, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Charles J. Neighbors, MBA, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health

Daniel B. Neill, PhD, MPhil
Professor of Computer Science, Public Service, and Urban Analytics, NYU Courant Institute, Department of Computer Science, NYU Wagner School of Public Service, and Center for Urban Science and Progress

Megan O'Grady, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Audrey Renson, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Advisory Committee

At the heart of our lab is our advisory committee, which guides our scope and priorities. The advisory committee includes people with lived experience of homelessness and housing instability and representatives from organizations across sectors relevant to health and housing. Current members of the advisory committee are listed below.

Ajamu Brown
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Alissa Tyghter-Gerald
Breaking Ground

André P

Catherine Trapani
Volunteers of America

Frank Toro

Juan Diaz
Children’s Defense Fund NY

Kadisha Davis

Katie League
National Health Care for the Homeless

Lee Isaacsohn
NYC Health + Hospitals, Woodhull Primary Care Safety Net Clinic

Marjorie Maati Momplaisir-Ellis
NYC Health + Hospitals, Housing for Health Initiative

Michael Shen
NYC Health + Hospitals, Woodhull Primary Care Safety Net Clinic

Oluwakemi Adebisi-Oke
NYC Youth Action Board

Patricia Hernandez
NYC Health + Hospitals, Office of Behavioral Health

Tracy Nuzzo

Speakers Bureau and Peer Network

The Health x Housing Lab launched a Speakers Bureau and Peer Network in 2023 to shed light on the experiences of individuals who have faced homelessness or housing insecurity and the importance of housing for health. The group, comprising 10 members, provides opportunities for people with lived experience of homelessness to share their expertise through speaking and writing engagements and serves as a resource for people in academia, healthcare, journalism, and policy to engage speakers with lived experience of homelessness in presentations, panels, and other events. Learn more about the Speakers Bureau and Peer Network, as well as about the members and their areas of expertise.