SPOTLIGHT’s large and diverse network of affiliates enhances the reach, rigor, and relevance of our research. Our affiliates bring vital subject matter expertise, community insight, and applied systems knowledge to our work. Through co-designed and co-led studies, shared data infrastructure, and sustained research and practice partnerships, our affiliates ensure that our projects are at once analytically rich and responsive to the operational realities of public systems. Their involvement enables SPOTLIGHT to take on ambitious, multidisciplinary projects that produce actionable evidence for and with decision makers across public health and public safety.

NYU Grossman School of Medicine Affiliates

R. Scott Braithwaite, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Comparative Effectiveness and Decision Sciences
Professor, Department of Population Health
Professor, Department of Medicine

Amanda Bunting, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH, MPH
Director, Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy
Director, Division of Epidemiology
Professor, Department of Population Health

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

Larissa Laskowski, DO
Director, Prevention Education Partnership
Assistant Professor, Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine

Ellicott Matthay, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Jennifer McNeely, MD
Co-Director, Section on Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Use
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Kellie Owens, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Affiliated External Collaborators

Jennifer Ahern, PhD, MPH
Executive Associate Dean
King Sweesy and Robert Womack Endowed Chair, Medical Research and Public Health
Professor of Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health

Corey Davis, JD, MSPH
Director, Harm Reduction Legal Project
Network for Public Health Law

Celia B. Fisher, PhD
Director, Center for Ethics Education
Marie Ward Doty University Chair in Ethics
Professor of Psychology
Fordham University

Barry Friedman, JD
Director, Policing Project
Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law
NYU School of Law

Jacquelyn Jacobs, MPH
Director of Evaluation, Sinai Urban Health Institute
Sinai Chicago

Spruha Joshi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
University of Michigan School of Public Health

Daniel B. Neill, PhD
Director, Machine Learning for Good Lab
Professor of Computer Science, Public Service, and Urban Analytics
NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service
NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress

Therese Todd, PhD
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Policing Project
NYU School of Law

Adelya Urmanche, PhD
Clinical Director
Silver Hill New York