Our Team.
Keletso Makofane, MPH, PhD
Co-Founder, Ctrl+F
keletso@controlf.info
Keletso Makofane, MPH, PhD, is a social network epidemiologist, activist, and public health practitioner who 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.
Keletso is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Causal Inference and Principal Investigator of RESPND-MI, an anonymous, online survey on mpox that collects information of the social and spatial networks connecting queer and trans people in New York City. He is Co-Founder of Ctrl+F, LLC, a consulting group that combines creativity with rigor to address the public health challenges of our time. Keletso serves on the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV and Viral Hepatitis.
Previously, he 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 was a 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 at Georgetown University; 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, MIT Technology Review, National Public Radio, 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.
Keletso holds a PhD in social network epidemiology from Harvard University, a Master of Public Health in biostatistics from Columbia University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and a Bachelor of Business Science in actuarial science from University of Cape Town.
He lives and works in Harlem.
Nicholas Diamond, MPH
Co-Founder, Ctrl+F
nick@controlf.info
Nicholas Diamond, MPH, specializes in law, policy, public health, and strategic marketing and communications, bringing a decade of international experience at academic medical centers and nonprofits. He is a student in the Pipeline to Justice Program at The City University of New York School of Law, and he serves as a Judicial Intern with the Honorable W. Franc Perry in the New York County Supreme Court, Mental Hygiene Part. Nick co-founded Ctrl+F, LLC, a consulting group that combines creativity with rigor to address the public health challenges of our time. As Co-Investigator of RESPND-MI, he partnered with an agency on a multilingual health education and communications campaign that won a national award for responding to an mpox outbreak in New York City’s queer and trans communities.
Nick co-developed policy briefs advising 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. As Managing Editor of Public Health Post, he expanded readership, earning a reference from Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign. Nick lectured as a guest speaker and taught as an adjunct instructor of public health at colleges and universities across the country.
His work appears in The New York Times, The Associated Press, New York Magazine, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, 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 published in Harvard Public Health Magazine, Harvard Medicine News, POZ, The Body, PLOS Global Public Health, Governing Magazine, and Innovators Magazine. He interviewed the public health influencers of our time, including Anthony Fauci and Ibram X. Kendi.
Nick sparked his public health career in Dakar, Senegal, where he conducted interviews as a graduate student for a series of articles on LGBTQ health. He sparked his legal career after years of community organizing, building a tenant association and filing pro se in New York City Housing Court against their landlord as an action for required repairs. Nick 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.
Nick lives in Harlem with his husband, Keletso Makofane, and their dog, Brooklyn.