Dr. Ladin joined Tufts CTSI in Summer 2025 as Director of Community and Stakeholder Engagement. Dr. Ladin is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Community Health at Tufts University, Director of Research on Aging, Ethics, and Community Health (REACH Lab) at Tufts University, and Concentration Lead for Practice to Policy Translational Research in the Clinical and Translational Sciences Masters and PhD program at Tufts.

Dr. Ladin’s scholarly work examines questions of equitable allocation of health resources, shared decision-making, and disparities, especially for older adults and for people facing surgical decisions. She has published extensively on topics related to transplantation, aging, kidney disease, and health disparities, and is an expert in mixed-methods, medical ethics, and health policy. She has served as Chair of United Network on Organ Sharing (UNOS) Ethics Committee and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Ethics Committee.

Dr. Ladin’s research has been funded by the Greenwall Foundation, the Patient Centered Research Outcomes Institute (PCORI), the National Institutes of Health, and private foundations. At Tufts, she teaches courses in health policy, research methods, public health ethics, and health disparities. She studied History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. She received her Master’s in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and her PhD in Health Policy, with a concentration in ethics, from Harvard University.