Annekathryn Goodman, MD, MS, MA, MPH
Founding Member, Executive Director
Email: AGoodman@mgh.harvard.edu
Dr. Annekathryn Goodman is a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School and a fellow of both the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Surgeons. She has a fulltime practice in gynecologic oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and is an affiliate of Mass General Global Disaster Response and Humanitarian Action and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate of Mass General’s Center for Global Health. She is the director of the Strength & Serenity Mass General Global Initiative to End Gender-Based Violence and co-director of Mass General Women’s Global Health.
She completed medical school and residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and her fellowship training in gynecologic oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to board certification in gynecologic oncology, she is certified in acupuncture and has completed training in both pastoral and palliative care. She received a certificate in Clinical Ethics and Health Policy from the Center for Practical Bioethics, University of Kansas Medical School. She received a certificate in Global health and MPH in Health Policy and Management from New York Medical College. She has undergone advanced training in humanitarian disaster relief work through the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Missioncraft in disaster relief operations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.
She was the director of the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1998 through 2017. She is the past president of The Obstetrical Society of Boston and of the New England Society of Gynecologic Oncologists. She is also a member of the Ethics Committee at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She is a member of the national Trauma and Critical Care Team, a branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services and has deployed to various international disasters. Since 2008, she has been consulting in Bangladesh on cervical cancer prevention and the development of medical infrastructure to care for women with gynecologic cancers. She has directed a two-month observership in gynecologic oncology at Mass General for physicians from resource-limited countries since 2016.
Mary Greenwald, JD
Editorial and Program Director
Email: MGreenwald@mgh.harvard.edu
Mary Greenwald has a background in clinical ethics, health law, and advocacy for survivors of gender-based violence. Before joining Strength and Serenity, she worked in the Office of Clinical Ethics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, writing the monthly publication BWH Clinical Ethics Case Review and developing ethics educational programs for the hospital community. Earlier in her career, Mary was a staff attorney at Mass General Brigham and a legal advocate at The Second Step, a nonprofit dedicated to ending the cycle of domestic violence. She has served as a director of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts and is a recipient of its Pro Bono Award for her legal work on behalf of incarcerated women.
Ellen M. Robinson, RN, PhD, HEC-C, FAAN
Ethicist
Email: ERobinson1@mgh.harvard.edu
Ellen M. Robinson RN PhD, HEC-C is a graduate of the William F. Connell School of Nursing, Boston College, receiving her Masters in Nursing in 1983, and PhD in nursing ethics in 1997. In 1998, Dr. Robinson completed the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics medical ethics fellowship after which she transitioned into the role of Nurse Ethicist at MGH. Ellen served on the MGH Optimum Care Committee between 1993-2025 and as co-chair of the committee between 2007-2025. Ellen continues to serve on Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics Ethics Leadership Group and holds an affiliate faculty appointment in the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics. In 2010, Ellen received a HRSA Bureau of Nursing grant to develop and implement a Clinical Ethics Residency for Nurses, which educated and mentored clinical nurses and nurse leaders to serve on ethics committees, facilitate ethics discussions and learn the process of ethics consultation. Ellen co-directed an interdisciplinary research program on ethics consultation at MGH (2012-2025) that contributed empirically to life sustaining treatment policy and clinical ethics literature in processes, outcomes and themes of ethics consultations. Dr. Robinson also served as chair of the American Society of Bioethics Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs committee (2019-2020). Dr. Robinson’s long-time interest in human sex trafficking and violence against women and is actualized in the role of ethicist for MGH OB/GYN Strength & Serenity: A Global Initiative to End Gender Based Violence. A highlight of her career has been continued active engagement and mentorship of nurses and health professionals interested in developing and advancing their careers in applied ethics.
Katy Doughty Fachon, MPH
Research Program Manager
Email: Kfachon@mgh.harvard.edu
Katy Doughty Fachon is a researcher whose work spans women’s health, community health, and reducing health inequities among marginalized populations across the globe. She holds a Master of Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Before joining Strength and Serenity, she worked at Boston Medical Center’s Neonatal Quality Improvement Collaborative, Boston Children’s Hospital’s Center for Young Women’s Health, and the Tri-ton Coalition of Burlington, Lexington, and Wilmington.
Sahana Narayan, MS, MSPH
Senior Research Assistant
Email: SNarayan5@mgh.harvard.edu
Sahana Narayan, MS, MSPH, is a maternal and women’s health researcher and PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is fully funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Doctoral Training Program — one of the UK’s most competitive doctoral funding schemes in biomedical research. She was named to the Boston Congress of Public Health’s 40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst Awards (2025). She holds dual master’s degrees from Harvard Medical School and Columbia University in bioethics, public health, and reproductive health policy, and her research has been published in The Lancet, BMC Reproductive Health, and Journal of Reproductive Medicine. At Strength and Serenity, she works on projects focused on respectful maternity care in Boston and Ukraine, menstrual hygiene in Cameroon, and gender-based violence, human trafficking, and cervical cancer screening in Uganda and conflict settings. She is dedicated to forging a career as a physician-scientist at the nexus of women’s health and global public health and strengthening equity across diverse health systems to transform how reproductive care is delivered, experienced, and valued worldwide.
Temitayo Abayomi, PhD, MPH
Research Assistant
Email: TAbayomi@mgh.harvard.edu
Dr. Abayomi is a global health researcher with a background in implementation science, child nutrition, and maternal health. He holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where his research focused on strategies to reduce adverse maternal health outcomes in the United States. Prior to his doctoral studies, Temi gained extensive public health field experience working in resource-constrained communities across Nigeria. He has worked on various maternal and child health, nutrition, and adolescent health programs. In different capacities, Temi has worked with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, and Nestlé, where he spent seven years managing maternal, infant, and child nutrition and advocacy programs.
During his doctoral studies, he completed a research traineeship in the Global Health Research and Training in Non-Communicable Diseases and Perinatal Epidemiology Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. With additional interests in international development and global affairs, he also served as a global health intern in the Division of Medical Services at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. These experiences have shaped his commitment to advancing human capital development in low- and middle-income countries through equitable healthcare delivery.
Temi is currently a Harvard Medical School (HMS) Dean’s Scholar and a candidate in the Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery and Social Medicine program at HMS. He is deeply motivated by the conviction that no woman should die from a preventable maternal cause.
Dawnn Pauline Bituin, MD, MPH, MMSc
Research Assistant
Email: dbituin@mgh.harvard.edu
Dawnn is a global health leader and physician who has served rural communities for years in areas of healthcare delivery, health systems strengthening, education, and research. Deeply collaborative and always striving to improve quality of care, she has provided several trainings on emergency response and referral networks to diverse stakeholders. During her master’s programs in Public Health at the University of the Philippines, Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School (HMS), and the Child Protection Program from Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, she conducted field studies on adolescent reproductive and sexual health, research on intimate partner violence (IPV), and a campaign on stories of immigration. Dawnn also facilitated classes on quantitative research methods and integrating technology in healthcare delivery at HMS.
At S&S, Dawnn co-leads research and training on GBV in refugee settings in Uganda, collaborating with local partners, jointly designing learning modules, and conducting webinars. With a team, her other projects are focused on the nexus of climate change and GBV, involving implementation research in the Philippines, mixed-methods studies in the US, and systematic reviews. Based on her recent research on IPV, she is translating her findings into on-the-ground interventions by conducting training for multidisciplinary responders to IPV and formulating policies in the Philippines.
Outside of work, Dawnn enjoys being a mother always, going on walks frequently, diving leisurely, creating and immersing in art and literature occasionally, and spending time with nature and loved ones as much as she can.
Adeline Boatin, MD, MPH
Obstetrics and Gynecology Partner
Dr. Adeline Boatin is an obstetrician-gynecologist and clinician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School whose work focuses on improving maternal and reproductive health. Her research develops and evaluates innovative approaches, including digital health and data-driven tools, to improve access to and the quality, safety, and delivery of care, particularly in settings with historically limited access.
Thomas C. Randall, MD
Obstetrics and Gynecology Partner
Thomas Randall is a gynecologic oncologist with an academic focus on limiting the burdens of care on women with gynecologic cancers domestically and on combating the overwhelming burdens of death and disability from gynecologic cancers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). He has had extensive experience in the clinical management of gynecologic cancers, gynecologic cancer clinical trials and quality improvement in cancer care and surgery. He has collaborated on multiple outcomes studies in gynecologic cancers including two R01 funded investigations of disparities and quality of care in endometrial cancer and ovarian cancer. From 2013 to 2017 he worked for the NCI Center for Global Health as an expert in cervical cancer, HPV associated disease, and global surgery. This work focused at a policy level on the delivery of cervical cancer care, patterns of surgical care, and novel strategies in screening for HPV related malignancies in resource-limited settings. This included significant in-country consulting time spent in Uganda and Rwanda. Dr. Randall has now returned to active clinical practice as a gynecologic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has ongoing research projects in cervical cancer prevention and treatment in Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa. He is co-Chair of the Global Curriculum Program through which the International Gynecologic Cancer Society is organizing and supporting Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship training in LMICs. As an affiliate faculty for the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, he is an active member of the Program in Global Noncommunicable Disease and Social Change. He also works as an advisor for Partners in Health with a focus on cervical cancer control and building in surgical oncology capacity.
Lynn Black, MD, MPH
Founding Member, Co-Director, GBV Training
Dr. Black’s career has been broadly engaged in global and public health, clinical medicine, disaster and humanitarian assistance, along with hospital administration. While Dr. Black’s clinical experience has been in both Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, her work is highlighted by leadership and clinical roles in clinician and patient resiliency, disaster relief, access to care, maternal-child health, and gender-based violence in regions around the world, including Africa, Haiti, Central America, Micronesia and the United States. Through the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and MISSIONCRAFT in Disaster Relief Organizations, she has participated in advanced training in humanitarian disaster relief work. Dr. Black has served as the Chief Medical Officer for the Trauma and Critical Care Team for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
She is a certified health and wellness coach, working with clinicians to address trauma and resiliency. She has participated in a trauma mitigation master program and Realizing Resilience Coaching Masterclass©.
Dr. Black has been a subject matter expert on emergency medical teams and palliative care in disaster settings for the World Health Organization and as a technical liaison to the Disaster Medical Coordination International Society. She has served on the Massachusetts General Hospital Ethics Committee and as a clinical evaluator for asylum seekers with Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Black has been the Chair of the Public Health Committee for the Massachusetts Medical Society and was award the Henry Ingersoll Bowditch award for her contributions to public health. She received a B.S. in nursing from the University of Vermont and subsequently, completed her master’s degree in Public Health Policy and her medical education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her residency was in Internal Medicine at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
Marcella Regina Cardoso, MSc, PhD
Global Health Scientist – Women’s Health Specialist
Dr. Cardoso is a global health scientist specializing in women’s health. She has completed two postdoctoral trainings with a specific focus on Women’s Health and Infectious Diseases at Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She actively collaborates on initiatives addressing gender equity and health disparities. She conducted research with the Strength and Serenity team, examining the reproductive and oncologic consequences of gender-based violence in the context of humanitarian disasters. Additionally, Dr. Cardoso was a trainee in the Fostering Diversity in HIV Research Program, a collaboration between the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research.
She earned her master’s degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology, specializing in Maternal and Perinatal Health, at the University of Campinas – Unicamp. Subsequently, she began the first phase of her PhD at the same university, specializing in Gynecologic Oncology and Breast Cancer. Dr. Cardoso completed the second phase of her PhD and defended her dissertation at Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts General Hospital. Throughout her career, she has received numerous national and international awards in recognition of the quality and impact of her research.
In addition to her scientific work, Dr. Cardoso leads research initiatives on humanitarian health issues such as gender-based violence, human trafficking and sexual exploitation, sexual harassment in academic settings, and menstrual dignity in low-income countries. She is an advocate for gender equity through the lens of race, ethnicity and social class intersectionality, actively contributing to meaningful social and policy change.
Kristen Giambusso, MPH
Co-Director, GBV Training
Kristen is Deputy Director of Global Disaster Response and Humanitarian Action at MGH Global Health. Kristen began her career at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and went on to obtain her Master of Public Health degree from Boston University School of Public Health focusing on International Health.
Prior to joining MGH Global Health, Kristen worked overseas in Zimbabwe and Peru and spent several years working in research within the University of California system in both Oakland and San Francisco. Kristen received a Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) certificate from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has several years of volunteer experience with International Rescue Committee and the American Red Cross.
Lindsey Ryan Martin, DNP, MSN, RN, AGACNP
Co-Director, GBV Training
Lindsey is Director of Global Disaster Response and Humanitarian Action at Mass General. Lindsey is trained as a critical care Nurse Practitioner with a focus on surgical critical care and trauma. After starting her NP career at University of Maryland Medical Center-Shock Trauma she joined the Blake 12 surgical ICU at Mass General in 2015. Lindsey’s work in disaster response began at the same time as a volunteer on the Global Disaster Response Team. Prior to assuming the director role, she had acted as the team leader on more than 20 humanitarian deployments. In addition, she has participated and led multiple training exercises and disaster simulations with MGH and its partner organizations.
Lindsey has also worked as public health clinical faculty at Northeastern University and has training in wilderness medicine and pre-hospital care as an EMT. Other international work includes volunteering with the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa. She is currently working on her Executive Doctor of Nursing Practice at MGH Institute of Health professions with a concentration in advancing nursing leadership in humanitarian response and coordination.