Graduate Faculty Directory
Public Health Faculty
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Kevin Thomas Bain
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
Glenn Beamer
Director of the Master of Public Health Program
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Glenn Beamer's research focuses on community health and development. He is currently working on a worker-based model for community development and retirement security and a comparative evaluation of state-level welfare and health policy reform efforts. Dr. Beamer's teaching focuses on health policy, community health and development, and community-based health research. Dr. Beamer was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at...
Mark Beers
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
Michelle Bragg
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Public Health
Kathleen K. Brogan
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
Abigail Cohen
Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy
Allen Glicksman
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health
Terri Maxwell
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health
Diana Menio
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
Stephen Metraux
Interim Director of Health Policy Program
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Stephen Metraux is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Public Health at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and is also affiliated with Penn’s Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research. His research interests center around urban health, especially in the context of issues such as homelessness and housing, community mental health, and incarceration and prisoner reentry. His...
Vandana Miller
Instructor in Biology
Adjunct Instructor of Public Health
Macrophages are an essential part of the innate immune system. They respond to infections, tissue damage and various other environmental assaults predominantly by: • phagocytosis • producing toxic molecules (e.g. nitric oxide and superoxide radicals) • releasing cytokines • presenting antigens to the cells of the adaptive immune system The collective term for these responses is inflammation. Macrophges and nutritional starvation In collaboration with Dr. S. Murphy and Dr. M. Kasschau, we research the effects...
Claudia F. Parvanta
Chair, Department of Social Sciences
Professor of Anthropology
Laura Pontiggia
Assistant Professor of Statistics
JoAnne Reifsnyder
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health
Ruth Schemm
Director of Service Learning
Professor of Health Policy
Richard Stefanacci
Founding Executive Director, Health Policy Institute
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Vivian Valdmanis
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Theresa Walls
Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy
Douglas Weschules
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
