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Three universities participate in the OMPH Program: Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Oregon State University (OSU), and Portland State University (PSU).

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Donald Austin, MD, MPH

Professor Emeritus
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Introduction to Research Design, Surveillance
Research Interests: Cancer epidemiology, Evaluation of health care quality
Email: austind@ohsu.edu

Thomas Becker, MD, PhD

Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Introduction to Research Design, Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Control, American Indian & Alaskan Native Health Epidemiology
Research Interests: Cancer epidemiology, Native American health issues
Email: beckert@ohsu.edu

Stephanie Bernell, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Health Policy Analysis
Research Interests: General health economics, the labor market effects of disease, the causes and implications of hunger, health policy, and the relationships between public health programs
Email: Stephanie.Bernell@oregonstate.edu

Gary Brodowicz, PhD

Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health
Responsibilities: Exercise Physiology; Exercise Testing Techniques; Exercise and Nutrition; Physical Activity, Health, and Disease; Quantitative Research Design and Analysis; Quantitative Methods in Health Studies
Research Interests: Physical activity; exercise; measurement
Email: brodowiczg@pdx.edu

Courtney Campbell, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Philosophy
Responsibilities: Bioethics, Meaning of Aging, Death and Dying
Research Interests: Medical ethics, philosophical and religious ethics
Email: ccampbell@oregonstate.edu

Joseph A Catania

Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities:
Research Interests:Social and behavioral antecedents and prevention of infectious diseases with work in HIV, HSV-2, HPV, KS; pandemic influenza prevention and planning; Social and behavioral factors in sexual health; health survey methodology and measurement development; bioethics and the quality of science
Email: joseph.catania@oregonstate.edu

Donna Champeau, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Research and Advising
Research Interests: Women and gender equity issues, Global HIV prevention
Email: Donna.Champeau@oregonstate.edu

Chunhuei Chi, ScD, MPH

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: International Health, Global Health Issues, Health Care Systems, Public and Private Health Insurance, Health Care Marketing
Research Interests: Health programs development and policy evaluation in low-income nations, equity and efficiency in health care finance and utilization, globalization and health development, economic evaluation of health programs, integration of traditional and modern medical systems
Email: Chunhuei.Chi@oregonstate.edu

Dongseok Choi, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Spatial Data Analysis with GIS, Computer Applications in Biostatistics
Research Interests: Biometry
Email: choid@ohsu.edu

Paul Cieslak, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Surveillance
Email: paul.r.cieslak@state.or.us

Carlos J. Crespo, DrPH, MS

Professor and Director
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health
Responsibilities: Director of the School of Community Health, Director of the Center for Public Health Studies, participation in local, national and international scientific advisory boards.
Research Interests: Minority Health, Physical Activity, Epidemiology, Aging, Public Health Surveillance and Health Disparities.
Email: ccrespo@pdx.edu

Marie Dahlstrom, MA

Assistant Professor, Associate Director, OHSU Cancer Center Office of Multicultural Affairs
Campus: OHSU
Unit: School of Nursing
Responsibilities: Primary Health Care and International Health Disparities; Ecuador field site development
Research Interests: Community based participatory research, disease prevention, health literacy in Latino populations, role of community health workers/ promotores de salud
Email: dahlstro@ohsu.edu

Margaret M Dolcini

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities:
Research Interests:
Email: peggy.dolcini@oregonstate.edu

Rebecca Donatelle, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Control of Chronic Disease, Health Behaviors, Stress and Health, Health Aspects of Aging, Public Health and Violence, Program Planning and Proposal Writing, Graduate Advisor
Research Interests: Health behaviors of special populations, evaluation of smoking cessation programs, illness/sick role behaviors, outcomes research
Email: Becky.Donatelle@oregonstate.edu

Charles Drum, JD, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Disability and Public Health
Research Interests: Disabilities
Email: drumc@ohsu.edu

Terry E. Duncan, PhD

Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Biostatistics and Methodology, Health Promotion and Health Behaviors, Graduate Advisor
Research Interests: Hierarchical social-contextual nature of substance use and other problem behaviors in youth, physical activity and other related health promoting behaviors across the lifespan.
Email: terry.duncan@oregonstate.edu

Stephanie Farquhar, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health
Responsibilities: Community Organizing, Foundations of Public Health, Program Planning and Evaluation
Research Interests: Community-Based participatory methods, social justice, environmental health, and advocacy
Email: farquhar@pdx.edu

Brian R. Flay, D.Phil.

Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Advanced theories of health behavior
Research Interests: Health Behavior; Advanced Research Methods; Health promotion and disease prevention research; mass media for health promotion and prevention; smoking and drug abuse prevention; violence prevention; youth HIV/AIDS prevention; positive youth development; comprehensive school reform; prevention research methods and theory; prevention research training.
Email: Brian.Flay@oregonstate.edu

Anna Louise Foucek

Adjunct Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Public Administration
Responsibilities:Program Evaluation, Health Systems Organization
Research Interests:
Email: foucek@pdx.edu

Michael Freeman, PhD, DC, MPH

Clinical Associate Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Forensic & Trauma Epidemiology
Research Interests:
Email: drmfreeman@earthlink.net

Rochelle Fu, PhD

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Biostatistics 3
Research Interests: Biostatistics
Email: fur@ohsu.edu

Sherril Gelmon, DrPH, MHSc

Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Public Administration
Responsibilities: Health Administration, Health Policy, Program Evaluation in Health, Values and Ethics in Health, Continual Improvement in Health, Organizational Behavior in Health, Health Systems Organization, Leadership and Governance in Health Care, and Organizational Experience
Research Interests: Health services management, Impact of community-based learning, Continual improvement and health professions education, Educational assessment and accreditation, health workforce policy
Email: gelmons@pdx.edu

Merwyn Greenlick, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Advising
Research Interests: Health services, cardiovascular epidemiology
Email: mitchg@ohsu.edu

Anna Harding, PhD

Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Environmental Health courses
Research Interests: Environmental Health including water quality/drinking water issues, environmental contamination and publich health interventions, and tribal envrinmental health
Email: Anna.Harding@oregonstate.edu

S. Marie Harvey, DrPH, MPH

Professor and Chair
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities:
Research Interests: The reproductive health of women in the United States including the acceptability of new and extant reproductive technologies, the prevention of unintended pregnancies and HIV/STIs among high-risk women, men and couples, the influence of relationship factors on sexual risk-taking
Email: marie.harvey@oregonstate.edu

John Hogan, MS

Adjunct Faculty
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Health Care Administration, Long Term Care Alternatives, Financing and Administration of Long Term Care
Research Interests: Long term care alternatives, financing & administration of long term care
Email: jhogan@holgatecenter.org

Kenneth James, PhD

Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Advising
Research Interests: Biomed and health service clinical trials
Email: jamesk@ohsu.edu

James Jessup, MPH, RN


Campus: OHSU
Unit: School of Nursing
Responsibilities: Primary Health Care and Health Disparities
Research Interests:
Email: jessupj@ohsu.edu

Shelley Jones, MS, RN

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: School of Nursing
Responsibilities: Concepts of Environmental & Occupational Health
Research Interests: Environmental and Occupational Health
Email: jonessh@ohsu.edu

Theresa Julnes Keleka Kaimanu, PhD, MPA

Associate Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Public Administration
Responsibilities: Health Administration, Health Policy, Health Politics, Administrative Theory and Behavior, Public Administration
Research Interests: Health policies & administration: improving health for Native people, the poor, and the disabled; Native self-governance
Email: theresak@pdx.edu

Mark Kaplan, DrPH, MPH, MSW

Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health
Responsibilities: Health Behavior, Urban and Community Health, Drug Education, Men's Health
Research Interests: Mental health, health behavior, suicide in late life, population health
Email: kaplanm@pdx.edu

Dale Kraemer, PhD

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Pharmacy
Responsibilities: Pharmacopepidemiology, Biostatistics Consulting
Research Interests: Statistical analyses of economic evaluations, pharmacoeconomics, and prediction of risk of high resource utilization in managed care populations
Email: kraemerd@ohsu.edu

Jay Kravitz, MD, MPH

Clinical Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: International/Global Health Epidemiology
Research Interests: Emergency medicine, international medicine
Email: kravitzj@ohsu.edu

Peter A. Lachenbruch, PhD

Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities:
Research Interests: Discriminant analysis, robustness of procedures, rheumatology, statistical epidemiology
Email: Peter.Lachenbruch@oregonstate.edu

Lori Lambert, M.S.

Instructor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Introduction to Biostatistics
Research Interests: Biostatistics
Email: lambertl@ohsu.edu

William Lambert, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Introduction to Research Design, Epidemiology 3, American Indian & Alaskan Native Health, Epidemiology
Research Interests: environmental epidemiology, worksite health promotion, Native American health issues
Email: lambertw@ohsu.edu

Jodi Lapidus, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities:Computer Applications in Biostatistics (SAS), Biometry Consulting
Research Interests: Biometry
Email: lapidusj@ohsu.edu

Gregory Lee, PhD

OMPH Director
Campus: PSU
Unit: Public Administration
Responsibilities: Strategic Planning in Health, Health Systems Organization, Health Administration
Email: leeportland@comcast.net

Mark Loveless, MD

Clinical Associate Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: HIV/AIDS Epidemiology
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS
Email: Mark.Loveless@roche.com

Siobhan C. Maty, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health
Responsibilities: Gender, Race, Social Class and Health; Epidemiology; Women's Health; Social Inequalities in Health
Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, Epidemiology of Diabetes and Obesity, Community-Based Participatory Research
Email: maty@pdx.edu

Shannon McWeeney, PhD

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities:Advising
Research Interests: Biostatistics, gene microarrays
Email: mcweeney@ohsu.edu

Deborah Messecar, PhD, MPH, RN

Associate Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: School of Nursing
Responsibilities: Conceptualization, Design and Measurement; Biometry Survey
Research Interests: Family Caregiving, Technology & Aging
Email: messecar@ohsu.edu

Yvonne Michael, ScD

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Epidemiology II
Research Interests: Women's health, social networks, breast cancer, impact of living arrangements and neighborhood environment on health, images and perceptions of aging
Email: michaely@ohsu.edu

Motomi Mori, PhD

Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Biometry Consulting
Research Interests: Biometry and Cancer, gene microarrays
Email: morim@ohsu.edu

Cynthia Morris, PhD, MPH

Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities:Advising
Research Interests: Clinical nutrition, cardiology
Email: morrisc@ohsu.edu

William Morton, MD, DrPH

Professor Emeritus
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Environmental Health, Environmental & Occupational Health, Ethics & Epidemiology Research, Epidemiology of Addictions
Research Interests: Cancer Epidemiology, Porphyria epidemiology

Margaret B. Neal, PhD

Director and Professor, Institute on Aging
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health, Institute on Aging
Responsibilities: Gerontology; Survey Research Methods
Research Interests: Work-Family Integration; Family Care giving; Older Workers; Health Promotion
Email: nealm@pdx.edu

Jason T. Newsom, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health, Institute on Aging
Responsibilities: Applied statistics and quantitative methods
Research Interests: Social Psychology and Aging; Caregiving and Social Support; Physical Functioning and Health Behaviors; Applied Statistics and Research Methodology
Email: newsomj@pdx.edu

Peter O'Hanley, PhD, MD, MPH

Clinical Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Interventional Infectious Disease Clinical Trials
Research Interests: Biometry
Email: pohanley@preventisinc.com

Dawn Peters, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Biostatistics Consulting
Research Interests: Biometry
Email: petersd@ohsu.edu

Nancy Press, PhD

Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine, SON
Responsibilities:Ethics and Epidemiology
Research Interests:Ethics
Email: pressn@ohsu.edu

Katherine Riley, EdD

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Women's Health Epidemiology, Adolescent Risky Behavior Epidemiology
Research Interests: Adolescent risky behavior, women's health, substance abuse
Email: rileyk@ohsu.edu

Gary Rischitelli, MD, MPH, JD

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Environmental & Occupational Health
Research Interests: Environmental and occupational health
Email: rischite@ohsu.edu

Maria Elena Ruiz, PhD (c), MS, CFNP

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: School of Nursing
Responsibilities: Primary Health Care and U.S. Health Disparities
Research Interests: Latinos, cross cultural health issues, health disparities, aging
Email: ruizma@ohsu.edu

Karen Seccombe, PhD

Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health
Responsibilities: Health and the Health Care System, Family Relationships and Health, Human Sexuality
Research Interests: Poverty, Social Inequality and Health; Welfare Reform and Access to Health Care
Email: seccombek@pdx.edu

Jackilen Shannon, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Nutrition Epidemiology
Research Interests: Nutrition
Email: shannoja@ohsu.edu

Maria Gilson Sistrom, RN, MSN

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: School of Nursing
Responsibilities: Health Systems Organization, Principles and Practices of Public Health, Current Issues in Public Health, Epidemiology Research
Research Interests: ethics in public health practice, communicable disease epidemiology, HIV/AIDS and STD, infection control, international health
Email: sistromm@ohsu.edu

Ellen Smit ,

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Epidemiological Methods, Dietary Interventions for Public Health
Research Interests: nutritional epidemiology, chronic disease, HIV/AIDS
Email: ellen.smit@oregonstate.edu

Judith Sobel, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health
Responsibilities: Grant Writing, Mass Communication and Health
Research Interests: Health and Media, Hearing Loss Prevention
Email: sobelj@pdx.edu

John Stull, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Epidemiology I, Ethics and Epidemiology, Current Issues, Maternal & Child Health Seminar, MD/MPH Seminar
Research Interests: Maternal & child health
Email: stullj@ohsu.edu

Carol Parker Walsh, JD, PhD, MA

Interim OMPH Program Director
Assistant Professor

Campus: OHSU
Unit: School of Nursing
Responsibilities:Social inequality & the Ethical Practice of Public Health
Research Interests: Applied leadership skills in health care settings
Email: parkerwa@ohsu.edu

Sheryl Thorburn, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Research Methods, Program Evaluation, Health Disparities, Maternal and Child Health
Research Interests: Social and cultural influences on sexual and reproductive health, including HIV prevention behavior, in the U.S.; acceptability of reproductive technologies and HIV prevention methods; discrimination in health care, related attitudes and beliefs, and their effects on the health-related behaviors and outcomes of disadvantaged groups.
Email: Sheryl.Thorburn@oregonstate.edu

Raymond Tricker, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Mental Health, Planning in Health Promotion and Education, Drugs, Society and Behavior, Risk Factors and the Lifespan, Health Policy Formation
Research Interests: Drug education & mental health, policy & implementation, drugs in sport & health behavior
Email: Ray.Tricker@oregonstate.edu

Anthony Veltri, EdD, MS

Associate Professor
Campus: OSU
Unit: Public Health
Responsibilities: Safety Principles and Foundations, Survey of the Safety Function
Research Interests: Financial and economic justification, safety & environment management function
Email: Anthony.Veltri@oregonstate.edu

Neal Wallace, PhD

Associate Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Public Administration
Responsibilities: Health Economics, Health Policy, Research Methods in Health, Health Systems Organization, Financial Management in Health, Advanced Health Politics
Research Interests: Health care financing, mental health policy, health insurance policy
Email: nwallace@pdx.edu

Claire Wheeler, MD, PhD

Instructor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health
Responsibilities: Principles of Health Behavior, Stress, Food & Health, Mind/ Body Approaches to Disease Prevention, Holistic Health for Women
Research Interests: Psychological and emotional outcomes of severe injury, stress and eating behavior
Email: cewheeler@mac.com

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Liana Winett, DrPH, CHES

Research Assistant Professor
Campus: PSU
Unit: Community Health
Responsibilities: Mass Communication, Health Behavior Theory
Research Interests: The framing of public health and health policy in popular discourse, issue advocacy and organizing using the mass media
Email: lwinett@pdx.edu

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Kevin Winthrop, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Campus: OHSU
Unit: Public Health & Preventive Medicine
Responsibilities: Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, Outbreak Invesitgations
Research Interests: Infectious disease, opthamology
Email: Winthrop@ohsu.edu

 


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