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Dr. R. Scott Braithwaite, MD, MSc - TORCH Director
As Director of TORCH, Dr. Braithwaite oversees the planning, implementation and evaluation of the TORCH project and models featured on the TORCH website.
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Dr. Jason Kessler, MD, MPH
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Jason Kessler’s role is that of a principal investigator, overseeing the formative and summative research concerning TORCH’s featured mathematical model. Dr. Kessler also supervises the overall project and TORCH team.
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Dr. Jenny Uyei, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Uyei aids in the development and use of TORCH as a member of the TORCH research team. Dr. Uyei provides key insights on the usability of the website from the perspectives of Operations Research and Public Health.

Kim Nucifora, MS
Director of Modeling
Kim Nucifora directs the mathematical modeling implementation for the models featured on TORCH’s website. She oversees all modeling processes, including the maintenance of the models’ web functionality.
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Sherry Mentor, MPH
Project Manager
Sherry Mentor is SOLVE’s Project Manager. She oversees the progression of TORCH as one of SOLVE’s key HIV modeling projects.
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TORCH was created by a team of researchers, physicians and mathematical modelers at the New York University School of Medicine.
TORCH is funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) R01A1099970, U24AA022007