Staff
Carmen Rita Nevarez, MD, MPH, Vice President of External Relations and Preventive Medicine Advisor, Director of the Center for Innovation and Technology in Public Health
Dr Nevarez currently serves as the Vice President of External Relations and Preventive Medicine Advisor at the Public Health Institute (PHI), one of the largest and most comprehensive non-profit public health organizations in the nation.
Dr Nevarez has over 30 years of experience as a physician and 27 years as a public health practitioner, having served as the Director of Department of Health and Human Services and Health Officer, City of Berkeley, California, as well as in various clinical settings including serving as Medical Director at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. She is currently President of the American Public Health Association (APHA). She is past Board Chair of Latino Coalition for a Healthy California and a member of the Partnership for Prevention Advisory Board. In addition, she has served state government as a member of advisory committees on Primary Care Clinics, Binational and Border Health and Multicultural Health. Her areas of expertise include Women’s reproductive health, community based strategies for chronic disease prevention, and social media for public health.
David Lindeman, PhD, Director, Co-Director of the Center for Innovation and Technology in Public Health
Dr. Lindeman has worked in the field of aging and long-term care for 30 years as a health services researcher and administrator. Prior to joining the SCAN-HealthTech Center for Technology and Aging, he was the founder and director of the Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging in Evanston, IL, where he was responsible for developing and implementing evidence-based applied research programs, demonstration projects, education programs and dissemination initiatives. Previously, he held positions as Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and Co-Director of the UC, Davis Northern California Alzheimer’s Disease Center.
Dr. Lindeman has been a principal or co-principal investigator on numerous studies, among these the Virtual Integrated Practice Program (John Hartford Foundation); Online Caregiving Programs (American Business Collaboration); and PREPARE and LEAP programs (Health Resources Service Administration, US DHHS). He also has been director or co-director of numerous foundation coordinating offices, including those for the National Institute on Aging, California Department of Health Services and the Brookdale Foundation.
Dr. Lindeman received his PhD and MSW from UC Berkeley and his BA from SUNY Binghamton.
Andrew Broderick, MBA, Research Program Director
Andrew Broderick served as HealthTech’s Director of Research and Forecasting prior to joining the Public Health Institute. Andrew has more than ten years market research, project management, and strategic planning experience at SRI International. During this time he led the research, analysis, and writing of reports on a broad range of health-care technology and market issues, developed and authored technology roadmaps offering commercial assessments on emerging science and technology areas in the life sciences, as well as supported individual clients with business-opportunity searches, technology and market assessments, and new-strategy development on projects relating to health care. Before joining SRI, Andrew spent several years with a non-government organization focusing on international health and development issues around HIV/AIDS and TB in West and Central Africa. Andrew has also spent several years in Asia, with assignments in the People’s Republic of China, Japan, and Hong Kong in financial services and education.
Andrew holds a M.A. in economics and geography from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and a master’s degree in business administration from San Francisco State University.
Ange Wang, Senior Research Associate
Ange joins the Public Health Institute from the Health Technology Center where she was a Senior Researcher. Prior to HealthTech, Ange management consulting firm Bain & Company, where she worked in the financial services, media, and private equity industries. At Bain, she performed numerous analyses, conducted due diligence and customer interviews, and worked with clients on high-level strategy cases.
Ange graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BSE in Bioengineering and minors in math and psychology. While at UPenn, Ange conducted social science research on mental illness, as well as lab research on cancer DNA. She also studied marine biology as a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) fellow at the University of Southern California.
