Hunter College

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Title: Secretary to the Dean

Areas of Interest: Families and chronic disease, women’s health, reproductive health, program planning, health policy

Degrees: BA, Emerson College; AMLS, University of Michigan; MPH, Columbia University; DrPH, Columbia University

Title: Associate Professor and Senior Associate Dean

Areas of Interest: Health advocacy; working conditions of health-services workers and other workers; impact of work on worker and family health; environmental justice; health- care quality

Degrees: Ph.D., Boston University; MPH, UCLA; BA, Reed College

Title: Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Food Science and Technology, Applied and Industrial Microbiology, Molecular Biology.

Degrees: Ph.D., M.Tech and B.Tech in Food Technology and Biochemical Engineer, Jadavpur University. India, BS, Chemistry, Calcutta University, India

Title: College Laboratory Tech

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Title: Program Secretary, S.P.H. -Office of Academic Affairs and Student Services

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Title: Academic and Student Services Administrator

Areas of Interest: Urban lead contamination (sources and dispersion of lead- contaminated dust), International environmental site assessments, environmental exposure and risk assessment

Degrees: DrPH, 1984, Columbia University; M.S., 1979, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn; B.S., 1977, Hunter College CUNY, NYC

Title: Associate Professor and Program Director, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS)

Areas of Interest: Public health prevention programs; Mental health in urban populations

Degrees: M.D., New York University School of Medicine

Title: Acting Associate Provost for Health and Social Welfare at Hunter College and Interim Dean, CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College

Areas of Interest: Health disparities, evaluation, methods, public discourse

Degrees: PhD in Sociology

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Racism, new media and health, incarceration and health

Degrees: PhD, University of Texas (Sociology)

Title: Associate Professor and COMHE Undergraduate Advisor

Areas of Interest: Relationships among education, income and antibody response to latent infection as a marker of stress and immune function; immunity as mediator between socioeconomic status and chronic disease outcomes

Degrees: Ph.D., Princeton University (Demography and Economics); University of Michigan , Postdoctoral fellowship, Epidemiology, B.A. Washington and Lee University

Title: Assistant Professor

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Title: Coordinator of Alumni Relations and Facilities

Areas of Interest: Cost effectiveness of prevention, health policy analysis, economics of illness, urban aging, health disparities, public health economics, health-care access, immigrant health, health outcomes

Degrees: Ph.D., University of Michigan, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Health Management and Policy (Economics) 1985, University of Michigan, School of Public Health Community Health M.P.H. 1973; Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia

Title: Professor and Interim Director of Research

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Title: Executive Assistant to the Dean

Areas of Interest: Public health policy, urban health, incarceration and health, health impact of corporate practices

Degrees: DrPH, Columbia University, 1979; MPH, Columbia University, 1977; Bachelor of Science, Hunter College, 1975

Title: Distinguished Professor & DPH Executive Officer; Campus Director, Graduate Center

Areas of Interest: Nutrition education, experiential teaching and learning, and nutritional factors in the prevention and care of movement disorders

Degrees: Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University; MS Health Education from Russell Sage College; BS Community Nutrition, Cornell University

Title: Assistant Professor and Dietetic Internship Director

Areas of Interest: Health consequences of job loss, health economics, research design

Degrees: BS University of Hartford, 1987; MBA American Graduate School of International management, 1990; MA, University of Ct., Storrs; PhD, University of Ct, Storrs, 1999

Title: Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: shale gas extraction, environmental audits, environmental management systems, brownfields redevelopment

Degrees: Ll.M., Georgetown University School of Law; J.D., University of Baltimore School of Law; A.B., Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences

Title: Visiting Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Health policy, financing and organization of national health systems

Degrees: B.A. Bennington College, M.D. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Title: Professor

Areas of Interest: Health demography with focus on longevity and aging; quantitative methods and mathematical models in health sciences and social sciences

Degrees: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1981; M.A., Keio University, 1972; B.A., Keio University, 1970

Title: Professor

Areas of Interest: Community influences on health, health disparities

Degrees: PhD, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Title: Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Improving prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, including HPV, and prevention of cervical cancer; clinical trials for candidate vaginal microbicides to prevent heterosexual transmission of HIV, as well as interventions aimed at improving contraceptive services and management of sexually transmitted infections in resource poor settings

Degrees: PhD, 2010, Columbia University; MPH, 1990, Hunter College, CUNY, NYC

Title: Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health

Degrees: Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007 Epdemiology; Tulane University, New Orleans M.A. 1995 Latin American Studies; Columbia University, New York, M.P.H. 2001 Epidemiology; University of Chicago, Chicago, B.A. 1989 Psychology (biopsychology)

Title: Professor

Areas of Interest: Evaluation and control of urban environmental hazards, childhood lead poisoning control, urban environmental epidemiology

Degrees: DrPH, 1985, Columbia University; MPH, 1982, Columbia University; BA, 1978, SUNY Binghamton

Title: Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Areas of Interest: Community, family and individual adjustment to health threats; HIV/AIDS; stress and coping; intervention design; research methods; community-practice-research partnerships; social settings and adolescent risk/ resilience

Degrees: Degrees: Ph.D., M.Ph., Social-Personality Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York; MA, Clinical Psychology, University

Title: Professor and Director, Center of Community & Urban Health

Areas of Interest: Development and evaluation of school and community-based interventions to prevent childhood obesity; Research translation and dissemination of evidence-based obesity prevention interventions and policies; Engaging and empowering youth to promote health promotion changes

Degrees: PhD in Public Health Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MS in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Title: Assistant Professor

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Title: College Assistant

Areas of Interest: History and Ethics of Public Health, Program planning, assessment and curriculum development

Degrees: MPH, Columbia University (Sociomedical Sciences); BA, Columbia University, School of General Studies

Title: Curriculum and Assessment Coordinator

Areas of Interest: Prospective student recruitment. Responding to prospective student inquiries regarding admission to the BS,MPH, MS and DPH programs in public health for the Hunter Campus, Brooklyn Campus, Lehman Campus and the Graduate Center.

Title: Recruitment and Admissions Coordinator

Areas of Interest: Urban ethnography, HIV/HCV prevention, Epidemiology of injection drug use.

Degrees: PhD in Sociology

Title: Visiting Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Occupational health, toxicology

Degrees: Ph.D., 1972, Harvard University; AM, 1967, Harvard University; AB, 1966, Columbia University

Title: Professor

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Title: Student and Alumni Coordinator

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Degrees: B.S. in Physics and Mathematics with focus on Computer Science

Title: IT Specialist/Database Manager

Areas of Interest: Domestic and international HIV/AIDS epidemiology and surveillance, including monitoring and evaluation of antiretroviral therapy programs internationally; cancer epidemiology, and health disparities in urban populations

Degrees: Ph.D. 1999, University of Maryland

Title: Professor

Areas of Interest: Research in biochemical and metabolic regulations of lipid and alcohol metabolism

Degrees: Ph.D., Kansas State University; MS and BS from India

Title: Professor and Program Director,Nutrition (BS,MPH, MS-DPD)

Areas of Interest: Translation of fundamental discoveries into public health practice and policy, gene/environment interactions and cancer

Degrees: Ph.D., Cell Biology/Biochemistry, Temple University. HONORARY DEGREES 2007 Sc.D., NC State University, Raleigh, NC; 2006 Sc.D., Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; 2005 Sc.D., Metropolitan University, San Juan, Puerto Rico; 2004 Sc.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; 2003 L.H.D., College of Charleston; 2003 Sc.D., University of Rochester

Title: Professor and former Dean CUNY School of Public Health

Areas of Interest: HIV/AIDS, LGBT issues, substance use/ abuse, sexuality

Degrees: Ph.D., University of Houston, Psychology

Title: Professor

Areas of Interest: Nutrition and physical activity communications and education, adult and childhood obesity, weight management, food and fitness policy, menu labeling

Degrees: PhD, Florida International University; JD, Fordham University; MPH, Florida International University; BS, Cornell University

Title: Distinguished Lecturer

Areas of Interest: Health services research; health care policy, hospital practice and health issues associated with intimate partner violence and rape; adolescent contraceptive use and pregnancy

Degrees: Doctor of Science Health Services Research - Johns Hopkins University; Post-Doctoral Fellow Children's Mental Health & Domestic Violence, Yale University, Institute for Social and Policy Studies; BS Psychology & Environmental Design - SUNY Buffalo

Title: Professor, Program Director and DPH Track Coordinator, Health Policy and Management (HPM)

Areas of Interest: Ms. Polanco is the Health Professions and CUNY School of Public Health liaison for Human Resources. She reviews and submits employment packets to HR and process full-time faculty, adjunct and college assistant contracts and/or PAFs and facilitate the Business Office functions (process invoices, reimbursements and purchase order requests) in conjunction with the Purchasing Department and Accounts Payable.

Title: Business Office Coordinator

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Title: Director of Business

Areas of Interest: Adolescent and women’s health; violence prevention; community organizing & development; health disparities

Degrees: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990; B.S., Howard University, 1984

Title: Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest: Poverty policy, maternal and child health, reproductive health, racial/ethnic health disparities, Latino health

Degrees: Ph.D., Sociomedical Science, Columbia University; M.A., Scientific and Environmental Reporting, New York University; M.A., M Phil Sociomedical Science, Columbia University; B.A., Biology, New York University

Title: Associate Professor and Community, Society and Health, DPH Track Coordinator

Areas of Interest: Effects of social and historical forces over the life course on disease risk

Degrees: PhD 2000, University College of London

Title: Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Exposure Assessment, Work Environment, Epidemiology (environmental/occupational), Biomarkers, Psychosocial stress

Degrees: Sc.D. in Epidemiology, M.S. in Industrial Hygiene

Title: Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Pre- and post-award grants management; prospect research

Degrees: MA, Near Eastern Studies, NYU; BA, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Title: Grants Coordinator

Areas of Interest: Nutrition policy, pediatric nutrition, nutrition education, and eating disorders

Degrees: Ed.D., M.S., Ed.M., Columbia University Teachers College.

Title: Professor

Areas of Interest: Gender, reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS, U.S., Southern Africa, international health issues, health and social justice, social movements around health

Degrees: PhD, Columbia

Title: Professor

Areas of Interest: Chronic disease epidemiology; public health surveillance

Degrees: Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago (Epidemiology); MPH, University of Michigan; BA, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Professor and Program Director,Epidemiology and Biostatistics (EPI)

Areas of Interest: Individual and communal resiliency in HIV prevention and intervention

Degrees: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (Social welfare); MSW - Howard University Washington, DC; M.P.H. - University of Pittsburgh; B.A.-Sociology – Cornell(Iowa)

Title: Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Social Work

Areas of Interest: Health policy; financing and organization of national health systems

Degrees: B.A. Stanford University, M.D. Louisiana State University, M.P.H.University of California, Berkeley

Title: Professor

Areas of Interest: Biostatistics; developing Bayesian variable selection strategies for biomarker identification in high-throughput genomics data

Degrees: Ph.D. Biostatistics, UCLA; MS Biomedical Engineering, Peking Union Medical College

Title: Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Intervention strategies to promote fruit and vegetable consumption in multi-ethnic populations, weight management for those who are overweight or obese

Degrees: PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MEd, Columbia University; MS, New York University; BS, Taipei Medical College, Taiwan

Title: Associate Professor

Areas of Interest: Health Literacy and Public Understanding of Science

Degrees: PhD Brown University, Sociolinguistics; M.A. SUNY Stony Brook, English; B.A., Barrington College, English

Title: Professor