Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston	DrPH	5/2020	Immigrant Health
University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA	MS	6/2004	Family Practice Nursing
Barnard College, New York, NY	BA	6/1996	Comparative Religion; Art History

Margaret (Maggie) Sullivan is an Instructor and Health and Human Rights Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in Nursing, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). She is a nationally board-certified family nurse practitioner dedicated to serving immigrant communities, especially those with precarious documentation status or at risk of homelessness. Maggie co-leads the Partnership for Community Mental Health and Immigrant Well-being with her colleague, Jocelyn Chu, a project which aims to examine the mental healthcare landscape in Massachusetts and learn from immigrant-led, culturally rooted, community-based approaches to mental health. She co-advises the Harvard Students Human Rights Collaborative (HSHRC) and conducts forensic medical evaluations for asylum with Harvard Medical School’s Asylum Clinic. In collaboration with the Initiative on Health & Homelessness, Maggie co-developed and co-teaches HPM 523: Homelessness and Health: Lessons from Health Care, Public Health, and Research.

Since 2009, Maggie has practiced at Boston Health Care for the Homeless (BHCHP), providing primary care to immigrant and limited English proficient (LEP) patients in shelter-based clinics. In March of 2019 she launched Oasis, an immigrant health clinic at BHCHP where immigrants experiencing homelessness are connected with interdisciplinary and multilingual health services. Maggie also works as a clinical consultant with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Center’s farmworker health program. Between 2010-2017, she collaborated with Partners In Health in Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala.

Maggie graduated with a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she received the Albert Schweitzer Award for public service in 2020. Her dissertation research focused on improvement of healthcare delivery to immigrants at community health centers in Massachusetts. She completed her master’s in nursing science at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) with a sub-specialty in women’s health followed by a fellowship in farmworker health in the Salinas Valley of California. Maggie received her B.A. from Barnard College in comparative religion and art history.