Our Team.
Dr. Keletso Makofane, MPH, PhD
Co-Founder, Ctrl+F
keletso.makofane@gmail.com
Dr. Keletso Makofane, MPH, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Causal Inference and Principal Investigator of RESPND-MI, an anonymous, online survey that collects information of the social and spatial networks connecting queer and trans people in New York City. He previously served on the International AIDS Society-Lancet Commission on the Future of HIV Response and Global Health; the WHO Civil Society Reference Group on HIV; the WHO Consolidated Guidelines on HIV for Key Populations; the UNAIDS Global Platform to Fast-Track HIV Responses among Gay Men, Bisexual Men and Other MSM; the LVCT Health Board of Directors; and the International AIDS Society Governing Council. Keletso serves on the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV and Viral Hepatitis.
As an activist, public health practitioner, and social network epidemiologist, Keletso focuses on developing and adapting methods in biostatistics and causal inference for use in studies of population health. He also conducts community-led research on HIV, mpox, and sexually transmitted infections.
Previously, Keletso was Health and Human Rights Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University; Scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Senior Program Associate and Researcher at MPact Global Action for Gay Men's Health and Rights; MSM Technical Advisor at Anova Health Institute; and Consultant at African Men for Sexual Health and Rights.
His work has appeared in academic journals, such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and The Journal of the International AIDS Society, as well as in mainstream media, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, MSNBC, CBS News, Time Magazine, Teen Vogue, Science, Scientific American, National Public Radio, MIT Technology Review, and STAT. Out Magazine named him in Out100: LGBTQ+ Policy Makers and Advocates Changing the World, and The American Journal of Epidemiology named him Reviewer of the Year.
Nicholas Diamond, MPH
Co-Founder, Ctrl+F
ndiamond93@gmail.com
Nick Diamond has led strategic marketing and communications for a decade internationally at academic medical centers and nonprofits. He is Co-Investigator of RESPND-MI, partnering with an agency on a multilingual health education and communications campaign, which won a national award for its work responding to an outbreak of mpox in New York City’s queer and trans communities.
Nick co-developed briefs to advise the Adams, Hochul, and Biden administrations on health policy and communications, and he testified as an expert witness at the U.S. Department of Justice. Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign referenced Public Health Post while Nick grew readership of the publication as Managing Editor. Leading organizations, such as Harvard Global Health Institute, seek Nick as a consultant, and colleges and universities seek him as a guest lecturer and an adjunct instructor of public health.
His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Associated Press, New York Magazine, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, STAT, WGBH, CBS News, NBC News, and National Public Radio, as well as in three books, Pained: Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health (Oxford University Press, 2020), The Picture of Health (APHA Press, 2022), and The Turning Point: Reflections on a Pandemic (Oxford University Press, 2024). Nick has published in Harvard Public Health Magazine, Harvard Medicine News, POZ, The Body, PLOS Global Public Health, Governing Magazine, and Innovators Magazine. Nick has interviewed the public health influencers of our time, including Anthony Fauci and Ibram X. Kendi.
He sparked his public health career in Dakar, Senegal, where he conducted interviews as a graduate student for a series of articles on LGBTQ health. Nick is a student in the Pipeline to Justice Program at The City University of New York School of Law, and he holds a Master of Public Health and a Graduate Certificate in African Studies from Boston University. He is proficient in French and conversant in Wolof.