Cristina Rabadán-Diehl, PhD, MPH
Senior Advisor, Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Rabadan-Diehl’s areas of expertise include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neuroendocrinology, bio-behavioral stress, early origins of adult disease, and implementation science. She served for 21 years at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a researcher and science administrator.
She also was the NIH Scientific Manager for the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) and the the director of the NHLBI Collaborating Centers of Excellence program, a global network of research and training centers to help combat chronic non-communicable diseases in developing countries.
Currently she is the Director of the Office of the Americas in the Office of Global Affairs, Office of the Secretary, at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is involved with coordinating US Government policy and functions related to HHS international activities in the Americas region. She is very interested in health inequities and linking research to policy.
Representative Publications:
- Rabadan-Diehl C and Judge DP. Translating Cardiovascular Knowledge: A Global Health Perspective. J Cardiovasc Transl Res 2015; 8(1) : 1-2
- Checkley W, Ghannem H, Irazola V, Kimaiyo S, Levitt NS, Miranda J, Niessen L, Prabhakaran D, Rabadan-Diehl C, Ramirez-Zea M, Rubinstein A, Sigamani A, Smith R, Tandon N, Wu Y, Xavier D, Yan L. Management of Non-Communicable Diseases in Low and Middle Income Countries. Global Heart 2014; 9(4) :431-443
- Bloomfield GS, Khazanie P, Morris A, Rabadan-Diehl, C, Benjamin LA, Murdoch D, Radcliff VS, Velazquez EJ, Hicks C. HIV and Non-communicable Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in the ART Era: What We Know and Best Directions for Future Research. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2014; 67: S40–S53
- Rabadan-Diehl C, Benett E, Peyra C, Fuster S. One size does not fit all: A New Paradigm for Global Cardiovascular Disease Research. Scientific American 2014. Promoting Cardiovascular Health Worldwide.
- Rabadán-Diehl C, Alam D, Baumgartner J. Household air pollution in the early origins of CVD in developing countries. Global Heart. 2012, 7(3): 235-242.