Scholarship and Biography
Dr. Madison combines civic engagement with history and her career in public health. She received her ScD in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her dissertation presents an analysis of the morbidity and mortality of HIV/AIDS in Ouagadougou, Dakar and Abidjan. Part of that dissertation is a monograph, "Consequences Demographique du SIDA en Abidjan 1986-1992, Centres Francais sur la Population et le Developpment, CEPED. Dr. Madison spent 17 years managing clinical research studies in the private and public sectors where she received the Recognizing Excellence Award for Making a Difference: Signal Detection Process Development, Recognizing Excellence Award for Making an Impact: EU PV Legislation, and Excellence in Pharmacovigilance: Clinical Trials and Post Marketing, in addition to winning the inaugural Robert Gross Award for History [2019], Dr. Madison and her board won The Climate for Freedom Award [2020].
Dr. Madison is profiled in the book "Breaking Out, How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas," by John Butman. She is also a Trustee of Tufts University and serves on additional boards.
Dr. Madison is currently working with various local organizations to promote civic engagement and meaningful change in a time of growing and severe inequity. She will begin teaching a course focusing on health inequity in the fall of 2020, particularly highlighting the political, social and ecological determinants of health.
Her work includes grants to address Mental Health and Race Equity in the Waltham community, nested cortisol study assessing demographic differences in educational settings, and the Hope Institute for criminal justice involved high school students through partnership with the Boston Mayor’s Office for Strategic Initiatives, Janelle Ridley.