Editorial Board and Staff

Dr. Kaveh Khoshnood is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) at the Yale School of Public Health and Program Co-Director of the Global Health Ethics Program at the Yale Institute for Global Health. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies. Dr. Khoshnood leads the PEACE Lab — Public Health, Evidence, Action, Crisis Epidemiology, and Environment — which advances research, education, and collaboration at the intersection of public health, humanitarian crises, conflict, and environmental threats. He founded the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab in 2021 and served as its Faculty Director through December 2025. Trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr. Khoshnood has more than three decades of domestic and international experience in public health research, education, and practice. His work focuses on humanitarian health and crisis epidemiology; research and public health ethics; and the epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS and substance use, particularly among marginalized and vulnerable populations. His current interests include the health consequences of armed conflict and displacement, protection of civilian health, and strengthening public health research and education in humanitarian and resource-constrained settings.

Nathaniel A. Raymond is Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and a Lecturer in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases (EMD) at YSPH. He was formerly a Lecturer of Global Affairs at the Jackson School for Global Affairs from 2018 - 2022. His research interests focus on the health implications of forced displacement; methodologies for the assessment of large-scale disasters, including pandemics; and the human rights and human security implications of information communication technologies (ICTs) for vulnerable populations, particularly in the context of armed conflict. Previously, he was the founding Director of the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 2012 – 2018. From 2010 to 2012, he was Director of Operations for the George Clooney-founded Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI, which utilized high resolution satellite imagery to detect and document attacks on civilians in Sudan and South Sudan. Raymond was Director of the Campaign Against Torture at Physicians for Human Rights from 2008 – 2010, leading investigations into the role of US health professionals in the Bush Administration’s “enhanced” interrogation program. Raymond served as a humanitarian aid worker with Oxfam America and was deployed to Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, and the US Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Raymond has formally advised multiple UN, governmental, and non-governmental agencies, including the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in South Sudan, the UN High Commission for Refugees, Save the Children, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Association of South East Asian Nations, the US Naval War College's Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response program, and others. His work has appeared in Nature, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of General Psychiatry, Disasters, and other peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Brandt completed a general Preventive Medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in 1989 and a post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the National Library of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in 1997. She is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on issues related to the design, development and use of informatics tools in the domain of clinical research, as well as health services research.

Dr. Wang is an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine, Internal Medicine, core faculty at the Equity Research and Innovation Center and SEICHE Center for Health and Justice. She is secondary faculty in YSM Biomedical Informatics & Data Science and Yale School of Public Health, Health Informatics. Her work is at the intersection of health equity, informatics, and data justice with a focus in optimizing health and health-related information, data, and technology for communities that have been marginalized. Her research goal is to improve the health of communities that have been marginalized by engaging them in the collection and use of health data and improving the quality of social and structural determinants of health data, such as race, ethnicity, and residential address. She leverages a participatory approach to center communities in the design, collection, (re-) use of their health data; understand communities' information and technology needs, improve information resources, and accelerate the dissemination of useful data back to communities, from electronic health record data to research study data.

Kate Nyhan is a research and education librarian for public health at Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and a lecturer in environmental health sciences at Yale School of Public Health. She earned a post-master's certificate as an interprofessional informationist at Simmons University School of Library and Information Sciences. As an information expert, she contributes to evidence synthesis and metaresearch projects. Her research interests include research waste, reproducibility, reporting, and the information behavior of the public health workforce.