Cherie Lynn Ramirez, PhD

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Simmons University

Cherie Lynn Ramirez is a faculty member in the Chemistry and Physics Department at Simmons University, where she teaches courses in biochemistry and public health. She earned her PhD in genetics at Harvard studying site-specific nucleases and their applications in genome engineering. She completed her post-doctoral training at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and has held appointments at the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University, where she led faculty, graduate, and post-doctoral professional development activities related to global health teaching across Harvard University. Among her current research projects are studying institutional mechanisms that promote healthy workplaces and improving access to medicines as a Collaborator of Global Access in Action (GAiA), a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.