


About Company
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The COVID-19 crisis has hit our most vulnerable communities the hardest and left many families, neighborhoods, and nations reeling. It has also driven home the fact that to make the real and lasting changes the world needs, the public health community must embrace a new development model that marries the rigor and discipline of the scientific process with the principles of innovation and entrepreneurship.

We launched Firefly Innovations to help changemakers--from the community and the classroom--harness the tools they need to create and implement more robust, scalable, socially equitable public health solutions. Because when it comes to helping people, good ideas alone are not enough.
Bringing ideas together
Meet our team

Terry Huang, PHP, MPH, MBA
Founder
Dr. Terry Huang is professor and chair of CUNY’s Department of Health Policy and Managing Director of the Center for Systems and Community Design. He is also co-director of the NYU CUNY Prevention Research Center at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Previously, Terry played a leading role at the NIH, where he focused on the integration of system science and public health. Terry has had a long history of research and policy leadership in obesity and chronic disease prevention. His current work, at Firefly and elsewhere, focuses on fostering innovations at the intersection of business design and public health.
- Phone:+1 (646) 364.0247
- Email:terry.huang@sph.cuny.edu

Alessandro Ciari, MPH
Head of Growth & Partnerships
Alessandro Ciari is Assistant Director of the CUNY Center for Systems & Community Design. Previously, Alessandro has led a university based program called Take Back the Tap to increase access to fresh water,
- Phone:+1 (646)-364-0263
- Email:alessandro.ciari@sph.cuny.edu