Linda Marc

Dr. Linda Marc is the Associate Dean of Public Health Practice & Continuing Education at Walden University, College of Health Sciences, and was a Contributing Faculty (Adjunct) at Walden from 2014-2024. Immediately prior to onboarding full-time, she was the Associate Vice Chair of Research within the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical Center.

Dr. Marc's experience in public health practice spans almost 20 years. From 2006-2017, Dr. Marc held an appointment as a Lecturer in Public Health Practice at the Yale School of Public Health, and concurrently served as the Principal Investigator of a DEI initiative implemented with the Dean's Office, Board of Directors and the Yale Emerging Majority Affairs Committe (https://ysph.yale.edu/alumni/association-yale-alumni-in-public-health/emerging-majority-affairs-committee/).

At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, from 2017-2024, she served as an Instructor of Applied Practice and Integrative Learning in the Quantitative Methods Program, and was appointed in 2024 as a Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Policy, Translation and Leadership Development.

As a public health practitioner, Dr. Marc has held various roles, including CEO and Chief Science Officer of Behavioral Science International, LLC, a public health consulting firm (https://behavioralscienceintl.com/). Her research interests include diversity in clinical trials and measurement of patient reported outcomes (i.e., quality of life). Her doctoral dissertation is entitled, "Social Determinants of Therapeutic Effectiveness During Initial Therapy of HIV-1 Infection, funded by GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Novartis.

Also as a practitioner in the field, from 2017-2021, Dr. Marc was the National Implementation Director of a $21 million ($5.325 million/year) HRSA-funded HIV initiative. She was responsible for the design and delivery of technical assistance to adapt and implement 11 HIV behavioral interventions across 26 Ryan White HIV program-funded sites in the U.S. (including Alaska and Puerto Rico).

From 2011-2017, Dr. Marc was the Education and Curriculum Development Director within the Harvard Center for Public Health, and ensured that topics on social determinants were included in online instructional modules. Through the Harvard Center for Public Health, she served as an Advisor to the Haitian Ministry of Public Health on HIV and social determinants. Haiti projects focused on: (1) the utilization of mental health services for female victims of sexual violence; (2) uptake to post-exposure antiretroviral prophylaxis for victims of sexual violence; (3) measurement of sexual violence amongst internally displaced women living in post-earthquake camps; and (4) measurement of depression in the Haitian LGBT communities in collaboration with the Haiti PEPFAR Team on the first Bio-Behavioral Surveillance Study of MSM.

Due to her knowledge and research on the Haitian population, in 2006, Dr. Marc was appointed by the US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Guitierrez, to serve as an Advisor to the US Census Bureau, Race & Ethnicity Advisory Committee (REAC) through 2011.
(https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/miscellaneous/cb12-r42.html)

In 2012, the Census Bureau re-appointed Dr. Marc to serve as the Convenor of the Race & Hispanic Origin Research Working Group, for the newly formed National Advisory Committee on Race, Ethnicity and Other Populations (NAC). Throughout her 10 year appointment, both the REAC and NAC Committees were charged to explore alternative approaches for collecting race and ethnicity data from hard-to-reach and hard-to-count populations, for the 2010 and 2020 decennial census.

Linda Marc holds a Doctorate of Science (ScD) in Social Determinants of Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, a Master’s of Public Health (MPH) in Psychosocial Epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from St. John’s University in New York. She completed post-doctoral training in the Mood Disorders Program and HIV Clinical Trials Unit at the Weill Medical College of Cornell; completed a fellowship at Brown University through the Initiative on HIV/AIDS in Disadvantage Communities; and was a Fellow in the Program on Ethnic Group Differences in Mental Health at Cambridge Health Alliance & Harvard Medical School.

Courses Taught

PUBH 6245 - Applied Research Methods in Public Health

Education

Doctor of Science, Harvard School of Public Health

MPH, Yale School of Public Health

BA, St. John's University