Academic Staff

Megan Brown, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Meg Brown, PhD is a postdoctoral scholar through a joint partnership between Bixby Center and Pathfinder International. In this role, her applied research with Pathfinder’s Women-Led Climate Resilience team examines connections between reproductive health, gender equity, and climate resilience with the goal of generating pathways to more effective programming and policies. She has her PhD in medical/environmental anthropology from Southern Methodist University, where her Fulbright-funded dissertation research examined connections between reforestation strategies, health, and resilience in...

Alisha Graves MPH

Specialist
SPH

Alisha Graves is Co-Founder of the OASIS Initiative. Alisha completed her MPH in International Maternal and Child Health at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2006. She worked for six years as Senior Program Manager for Venture Strategies Innovations to improve access to misoprostol – a generic, essential medicine. In this role, she worked on policy initiatives, drug registration, and operations research in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

Paige Passano, MPH

Specialist
SPH

Paige Passano is a specialist with the Bixby Center and Senior Program Officer with the OASIS Initiative, with a special interest in the prevention of adverse health outcomes through high impact, multigenerational solutions such as girls’ education/empowerment and family planning. She joined the Bixby Center in the fall of 2007, after spending four years in Mumbai where she conceived of and managed a street-based HIV prevention project for Population Services International (PSI). In...