Lab Members

Meet Our Team

Ana M. Palacio

Professor of Clinical

(305) 243-9754
Dr. Ana M. Palacio is a clinician researcher and epidemiologist who completed the Internal Medicine residency at the University of Miami and a General Medicine Fellowship and Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She joined the University of Miami as faculty in 2004. Since then her work has focused on the improvement of clinical...

Anicca Liu

Sr. Research Associate 3, SOM

Anicca Liu, MPH, MA is Assistant Director of the University of Miami Public Health Policy Lab, where she oversees operations and strategic development of the lab’s global and domestic policy research and advocacy priorities. She is dedicated to advancing systems, policies and norms that work to harmonize individual...

Jacob Nicholas Batycki

Sr. Manager, Research Support (A)

Jacob N. Batycki, MPH is Director of Education and Advocacy in the University of Miami Public Health Policy Lab of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Jacob leads the lab’s U.S. partnerships and collaborations and directs...

Rachel Nicole Waldman

Sr. Research Associate 1, SOM

Rachel Waldman serves as the Senior Research Associate for the University of Miami Public Health Policy Lab. She holds a Master of Arts in Medical Anthropology from the University of Miami, where she graduated summa cum laude. Her research interests include trust in public...

Jose Szapocznik, Ph.D.

Professor

(305) 610-5723
José Szapocznik, Ph.D., has received over $120 million in NIH funding.  With over 270 scholarly publications, he is Chair Emeritus of the Department of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Center for Family Studies, and Honorary Founding Director of the University of Miami-based Miami Clinical Translational Science...

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