Linda Marc
Linda Marc, ScD, MPH, MS, is a public health practitioner who is currently the Associate Dean of Public Health Practice & Continuing Education at Walden University, College of Health Sciences. Since 2014 Dr. Marc has been a Contributing Faculty teaching several courses, including Applied Research in Public Health.
Dr. Marc has held various academic appointments most recently serving as the Associate Vice Chair of Research, Department of Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center; as Lecturer in Public Health Practice, Yale School of Public Health; and as an Instructor in the Practicum courses at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, specifically Practice and Culminating Experience, and Applied Practice and Integrative Learning Experience.
As a public health practitioner, Dr. Marc has worked in non-profit, pharmaceutical, and global health settings, and is the founding CEO & Chief Science Officer at Behavioral Science International, LLC, a public health consulting firm.
As a practitioner in a non-profit sector, 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 14 states (including Alaska and Puerto Rico).
Within higher education, from 2011-2017, Dr. Marc oversaw a continuing education portfolio as the Education and Curriculum Development Director at the Harvard Center for Public Health. She was the lead faculty ensuring that topics on social determinants were included in online instructional modules.
As a practitioner in a global-health setting, from 2007-2013, Dr. Marc concurrently served as an Advisor on HIV and social determinants of health to the Haitian Ministry of Population and Public Health, the National AIDS Program, and the Haiti PEPFAR Team. Projects focused on female victims of sexual violence and the LGBT communities: (1) the utilization of mental health services; (2) uptake to post-exposure antiretroviral prophylaxis; (3) measurement of sexual violence and HIV prevalence in post-earthquake camps; and (4) measurement of depression in the Haitian LGBT communities, the first Integrated Bio-Behavioral Surveillance Study (IBBS-2011) in Haiti.
In 2007, Dr. Marc was appointed by the Secretary of Commerce Carlos Guitierrez to serve as an Advisor to the US Census Bureau. During her initial two consecutive terms (2007-2012), she served as Vice-Chair of the Committee for the African-American Population. In her third term (2012-2015), she was appointed the Convenor of the Race & Hispanic Origin Research Working Group for the National Advisory Committee on Race, Ethnicity and Other Populations. The WG's charter was to explore alternative approaches for collecting data on race and ethnicity from hard-to-reach and hard-to-count populations, for the 2010 and 2020 decennial census.
Educationally, 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