Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities

Anna B. Schachter, MPH

Deputy Director, Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities

Ms. Schachter is Deputy Director of the Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities. She holds an MPH (Health Behavior and Health Education) and a BS with honors (Biopsychology and Cognitive Science) from the University of Michigan. Ms. Schachter has over 15 years of experience managing complex multiyear, multimillion-dollar, multi-institutional research initiatives, with research experience in the areas of health equity, epigenomics, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular disease, cancer, nicotine addiction, smoking cessation, religiosity/spirituality, psychosocial stress, traffic safety, survey design, health education program development, and asthma management. Before joining the Center in 2008, she served as Research Coordinator and Smoking Cessation Counselor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction (formerly the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center).

Contact Information: 

Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities
Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital
50 Staniford Street, Suite 802, Boston, MA 02114

abschachter@mgh.harvard.edu

p: 617-724-9915