Ann Goldman-Hawes (MPH, 1996, George Washington University; PhD, 2018, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands), on staff at the George Washington Milken Institute of Public Health Department of Epidemiology for over two decades, is involved with the Department of Epidemiology’s practice and PhD in Epidemiology programs, as well as the team science module of the Children’s National – GW Clinical and Translational Science Institute. She coordinated the Project for Ascertainment of the Estimated Excess Mortality from Hurricane Maria and led the study’s assessment of death certification and registration processes in Puerto Rico. Currently, she is co-investigator and coordinator of the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) Hurricane Maria Investigation’s Deaths and Injuries Project to better understand how damaged buildings and supporting infrastructure played a role in the injuries and deaths associated with Hurricane Maria.
Ms. Goldman-Hawes has over 15 years of public health field experience in economic evaluations of primary health care intervention strategies, specifically, national neglected tropical disease elimination programs and community oral health promotion trials in vulnerable communities in low income countries. This includes her PhD research on the cost-effectiveness of prevention programs for better oral health outcomes for children in the poor underserved rural communities in Brazil and in China.