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Neil Maniar, PhD, MPH, last month joined the BWH Center for Community Health and Health Equity as the director of Health Equity Programs.
In this new position, Maniar collaborates with clinical and community partners to develop and implement innovative programs to reduce health disparities, in particular those associated with infant mortality, cardiovascular disease, cancer, violence, asthma and other chronic diseases.
“We will be addressing a wide range of critical public health problems by focusing on the root causes of disparities associated with these outcomes,” said Maniar, who sees this role as a natural extension of his previous work in addressing youth violence. “Our goal is to improve the lives of Boston’s residents by creating healthier and safer communities.”
Before joining BWH, Maniar developed and directed the Youth Violence Prevention Program in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and co-chaired the Massachusetts Coalition for Youth Violence Prevention. Prior to that, he served as an injury prevention analyst for the Department of Public Health, a strategic planning and evaluation consultant at the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and in several research positions at Yale University.
Maniar earned his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and his MPH from Yale University.