Gato Ian Gourley is a project coordinator with the Center for Vulnerable Populations. He has an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he graduated with honors. His previous work included work with Medeem, a social enterprise, where he managed development and implementaiton of software and process solutions for Medeem US and Medeem Ghana. Prior to this, he worked to develop an information management system with local government to support evidence-based decision making for development planning in northern Ghana as a member of Engineers Without Borders Canada Governance and Rural Infrastructure team. DUring his university and the years following, Mr. Gourley has worked with the University of California Atlas of Global Inequality, an online atlas mapping global indicators of health and wealth disparities.
Sarah Lisker
Research Analyst
Sarah Lisker joined the Center for Vulnerable Populations in 2015 as a Research Analyst. She supports Dr. Urmimala Sarkar's work in health information technology, ambulatory patient safety, and the implementation of evidence-based innovations in the safety-net care setting. Sarah graduated from UCLA in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in Geography and Environmental Studies and a focus in Geographic Information Systems and Technologies. She has since specialized in project management, human-centered process improvement, as well as scaling teams. While pursuing continued coursework in the health sciences, Sarah has engaged with local organizations to promote better community health and nutrition through hands-on education.
Roy Cherian, MHS
Research Analyst
Roy joined the Center for Vulnerable Populations in 2015. He holds a Masters in Health Science at Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Anthropology from New York University. As a graduate student, Roy deployed mixed-methods research strategies to study the intersection of substance abuse, mental illness and interpersonal violence among marginalized urban minorities in Baltimore.By forming a partnership with the Baltimore City Health Department, Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Bloomberg School for public health, his thesis focused on developing a group-based, holistic and modular violence intervention program for patients admitted to the ER/ICU as victims of near-fatal interpersonal violence. Generally, Roy's work focuses on urban health inequities and strives to attenuate poor health outcomes and disparities across gender, age, race/ethnicity, and class through contextualized and community-based research.
Roy Cherian, MHS