Our Team | USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

Meet our faculty and staff!

IIGH Directors

Sofia Gruskin - Institute Director

Jonathan Cohen - Director of Policy Engagement

Laura Ferguson - Research Director

Taylor Burkholder - Director of Academic Programs

Megan Goulding - Director of Strategic Operations

Summer Peet - Senior Program Officer

Linda Rivera - Public Communications Coordinator

Kaitlin Cheng - Administrative Project Specialist

Eira Nylander Torallas - Project Specialist

Michelle Anderson - Research Program Specialist

Caroline Diamond - Project Specialist

Sarah Emoto - Research Program Specialist

Daniel Tarantola - Adjunct Professor of Research, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Kavita Munjal - Associate Vice President & Senior Advisor, Global Philanthropy and Partnerships, University of Southern California

Mellissa Withers - Director, APRU Global Health Program

Jeffrey O’Malley - Senior Advisor, UNDP Hub on LGBTI+ and Key Populations, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Eszter Kismödi - Chief Executive, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

Rajat Khosla - Executive Director, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health

Alice Lakati - Senior Lecturer, Director, Research, Innovation and Community Extension, Amref International University