Bruce Schackman, PhD, MBA
Program Co-Chair
Dr. Bruce Schackman is the executive vice chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences, the Saul P. Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences, and the director of the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder (CHERISH) at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Schackman conducts research relating to economic evaluations of the comparative effectiveness of health interventions alongside clinical trials and cohort studies, cost-effectiveness and comparative effectiveness simulation modeling, and implementation science studies—particularly relating to treatment of infectious diseases and substance use disorders.

Jonine Bernstein, PhD, MS
Program Co-Chair
Dr. Jonine Lisa Bernstein is the co-leader of the Population Sciences Research Program and an attending epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The focus of Dr. Bernstein’s research is in the area of genetic and molecular epidemiology, particularly in the etiology of breast cancer and gliomas. She is also working on projects developing and validating biomarkers of breast cancer. The overarching theme is to understand cancer risk and progression in order to identify those at highest risk because of gene carrier status, environmental exposures, or a combination of both.
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Samprit Banerjee, PhD, MS
Faculty Director
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Elisabeth Brodbeck, MPH, MA
Executive Director