Michael Iacobelli

As a Senior Research Program Manager, Michael Iacobelli joined CIDI in October 2024 and supports Dr. Gupta across her research portfolio. Mr. Iacobelli is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Public Health, receiving a master’s in public health, focusing on global health in 2011. He has worked in both the private and public sector across multiple domains of health care research. From 2015 to 2022, he led a multi-country tobacco control program, focusing on cigarette packaging and advertising in low- and middle-income countries. Most recently, he worked in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, managing NIH and industry funded clinical trials, with an emphasis on brain injury.