Rennie Negron, MPH

Associate Director for Research

Rennie received her Master’s in Public Health with a Global Health emphasis from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she then worked as program manager in the Department for Population Health Science and Policy in research aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing health disparities in underserved New York City communities. She joined YINS in December 2014 and oversees the implementation of several research projects for the Human Nature Lab, including the Honduras Social Networks Randomized Trial and the Microbiome and Social Networks study taking place in Copan, Honduras. Her expertise focuses on design and implementation of large-scale research operations strategies, health survey development, and community-engaged research. A native of Honduras, Rennie enjoys living on the shoreline with her husband and two daughters, Cristina and Chloe.

Selected Publications

• “Exploiting Social Influence to Magnify Population-Level Behavior Change in Maternal and Child Health: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Network Targeting Algorithms in Rural Honduras,” BMJ Open, Dec 2016