RGS Director

Pam Berenbaum is director of the Rohatyn Global Scholars program and serves as associate director of program engagement for the Global Health Program.  She recently retired from her role as a Professor of the Practice and taught courses on global health, public health policy, social change, and disaster public health.  Pam holds a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she engaged in research on risk assessment and economic evaluation.  She has worked in many sectors, including government, corporate, academic, consulting, and non-profit.   For ten years, she was an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Vermont Department of Health, where she specialized in syndromic surveillance, bioterrorism, and all-hazards emergency preparedness.  She co-led trainings in biological, chemical, and radiological preparedness with emergency responders, hospital personnel, and medical examiners.  She was intimately involved in the state’s response to the 9/11 and anthrax terror attacks of 2001, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and other public health emergencies.  She is passionate about social justice and community service and has years of volunteer experience with local nonprofit organizations. She has two black belts in a martial art and has hiked or backpacked in over 30 national parks. Email: pberenbaum@middlebury.edu

Nadia Rabesahala Horning teaches courses that span various disciplines at Middlebury College. As a trained political scientist, she studies resource governance in Sub-Saharan Africa (The Politics of Deforestation in Africa, 2018), although she has also been investigating why some highly-skilled African professionals who trained abroad return to Africa, while others do not. From 2013 to 2019, Professor Horning directed Middlebury College’s African Studies Program and from 2016 to 2019 she was the faculty director for Middlebury’s Social Entrepreneurship Programs. She also advised UMOJA, Middlebury’s African students’ organization, for over ten years. A recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Fulbright-Hayes, and the World Wildlife Fund, she holds a BA and MA from George Mason University (International Studies and International Transactions, respectively), and an MA and PhD from Cornell University (Comparative Politics). Educated on three continents, Professor Horning has taught at Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po Bordeaux—Les Afriques dans le Monde center) and the African Leadership University (Mauritius and Rwanda). A native of Madagascar, she is committed to training learners across geographic, cultural, disciplinary, and institutional borders.