Richard Riegelman MD, MPH, PhD
Public Health 101
Richard K. Riegelman is Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Health Policy, and Founding Dean of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health in Washington, DC. His education includes an M.D. from the University of Wisconsin plus a M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Riegelman practiced primary care internal medicine for over 20 years.
Lisa Sullivan, PhD
Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health
Lisa Sullivan, PhD, is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the Boston University School of Public Health. She is also the Associate Dean for Education. Lisa is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Norman A. Scotch Award, the prestigious Metcalf Award, and the ASPPH/Pfizer Excellence in Teaching Award.
James A. Johnson, PhD, MPA, MSc
Essentials of Managing Public Health Organizations
James A. Johnson, PhD, MPA, MSc is a full professor in the School of Health Sciences at Central Michigan University where he teaches courses in comparative health systems, organizational behavior, and health systems thinking, as well as a course in international health systems and policy. Dr. Johnson is the former Chairman of the Department of Health Administration and Policy at the Medical University of South Carolina and former associate professor of family medicine. He is a very active researcher and health science writer with over 100 journal articles and 19 books published.
Sylvia Pirani, MS, MPH
Essentials of Public Health
Sylvia Pirani is a public health practice consultant. She is providing public health practice support to the Region 2 Public Health Training Center hosted by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and serves as a site visitor for the national Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). For 25 years, she worked at the New York State Department of Health where she directed the Office of Public Health Practice.
Jean A. Balgrosky, PhD, MPH, RHIA
Essentials of Health Information Systems and Technology
Jean A. Balgrosky teaches Health Information Systems and Technology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, where she also received her PhD in Health Services, MPH in Health Information Management and BS in Health Services with a specialization in Medical Record Science. Dr. Balgrosky’s long career in heath information systems and technology has included role of chief information officer (CIO) in large, complex health care organizations for over twenty years, consulting, and teaching at the graduate level.
Robert A. Canales, PhD
Friis’ Essentials of Environmental Health, Third Edition
Robert A. Canales is Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University. Prior to GW, Dr. Canales was a team scientist at the University of Arizona working across programs in environmental health, one health, applied mathematics, and statistics. He was also an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the New School, jointly with the Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College.
Richard Skolnik, MPA
Global Health 101
Richard Skolnik has spent more than 40 years working on international development and global health and was formerly a lecturer in the Yale School of Public Health, the Yale School of Management, and the George Washington University School of Public Health.
Joel Teitelbaum, JD, LLM
Essentials of Health Policy and Law
Joel Teitelbaum is Professor and Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, and the co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is the first member of the School of Public Health faculty to win the University-wide Bender Teaching Award, he has received the School’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and he is a member of the University’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers and the School’s Academy of Master Teachers.
Kimberly S. Davey, PhD, MBA, MA
Essentials of Managing Public Health Organizations
Kimberly S. Davey, PhD, MBA, MA is Associate Professor of Public Health and Director of the Undergraduate Public Health Program in the School of Public Health at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. She was previously an instructor in the Department of Family, Community, and Health Systems at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing. Dr. Davey teaches courses in leadership, management, strategy, health systems, health policy, and comparative health systems.
Cynthia Morrow, MD, MPH
Essentials of Public Health
Dr. Morrow currently teaches at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. Previously, she was the Lerner Chair for Health Promotion at Syracuse University (2014-2017), and the Commissioner of Health for Onondaga County (2005-2014). She is a co-editor of four public health textbooks and is a consulting editor for the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice as well as the series editor for “Boots on the Ground: Narratives from Today’s Local Public Health Workforce” for JPHMP Direct, the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice’s companion website.
John S. Neuberger, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Friis’ Essentials of Environmental Health, Third Edition
John S. Neuberger is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Population Health at the University of Kansas School of Medicine (KUMC). He retired from teaching in 2022. He received his MPH and DrPH degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and has been teaching Environmental Health at the Graduate level at KUMC for over 40 years. He taught the first ever Environmental Health class at KUMC, as well as classes in Cancer Epidemiology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology, in the Department’s accredited MPH degree program.
Diane M. Dewar, PhD
Essentials of Health Economics, Third Edition
Diane M. Dewar is an Associate Professor of health economics in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, School of Public Health, and the Department of Economics at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She has over 25 years of teaching experience that includes graduate courses in health economics, health policy and economic evaluation methods; as well as undergraduate courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, health economics, comparative health policy, introductory sociology and introductory psychology.
Scott C. Quinlan, PhD, MS
Epidemiology 101
Scott C. Quinlan is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at The George Washington University. He has many years of experience teaching a range of graduate and undergraduate courses in epidemiology and biostatistics, both in the on-campus and online environment. He has enjoyed a varied career in epidemiology, with experience serving as an epidemiologist in industry, academic, and government settings.
Sara Wilensky, JD, PhD
Essentials of Health Policy and Law
Sara Wilensky is Special Services Faculty for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University. As the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Public Health, she oversees three undergraduate programs.
Guthrie S. Birkhead, MD, MPH
Essentials of Public Health
Dr. Birkhead is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Public Health, University at Albany. Until September 2015, he worked at the New York State Department of Health for 27 years in positions of increasing responsibility, including serving as Deputy Commissioner for Public Health from 2007 to 2015. In that position, he provided direction and oversight to all public health programs in the department including infectious disease, chronic disease, environmental health, nutrition, the public health laboratory, public health practice, and public health preparedness.
Mark Edberg, PhD, MA
Essentials of Health Behavior
Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity
Dr. Edberg, a cultural anthropologist, holds a professorship in the Department of Prevention and Community Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health. With secondary appointments in the Department of Anthropology and Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, his expertise lies in the intersection of poverty, marginalization, and other social determinants with crucial health concerns. His extensive knowledge spans topics like HIV/AIDS, substance use, youth violence, and health disparities, both domestically and globally.
Joseph Anthony Pacheco PhD, MPH, MBA
Friis’ Essentials of Environmental Health, Third Edition
Joseph Anthony Pacheco is an Assistant Professor with an Indigenous population focus on the College of Health at Lehigh University. He is a community-based participatory researcher with extensive experience working in the field of public health and has conducted prevention and implementation research for over ten years in both reservation and urban Indigenous communities. He comes to Lehigh from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, where he obtained his PhD in Health Policy and Management in the Department of Population Health.
