Michael A. Joseph, a Guyanese who currently serves as the Vice Dean for Education at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Joseph is very passionate in developing the next generation of diverse public health professionals; he teaches introductory biostatistics in several pipeline programs designed to steer students from disadvantaged backgrounds into health professions such as public health. Internationally, Dr. Joseph has extensive experience in building biostatistics and epidemiology capacity and has conducted training sessions in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Estonia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.