Boston University School of Public Health
Harold D. Cox, MSSW
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, Associate Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences

Harold Cox holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Texas and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Associate Dean for Public Health Practice. Dean Cox joined BUSPH in 2006 after acting as Chief Public Health Officer for the City of Cambridge, MA for ten years. He has more than 25 years of professional experience in direct services, administration and advocacy in a variety of health settings. He is well known as a tireless advocate for the rights of vulnerable populations and for his work to regionalize the delivery of public health services for the state's 351 cities and towns. His leadership in public health efforts have been impressive and he is the current president of the Massachusetts Public Health Association, an active member of the Massachusetts Public Health Council, National Association of City and County Health Officials and the Statewide Commission on Health Disparities and past-president of the Multicultural AIDS Coalition.

Daniel Merrigan, EdD, MPH
Associate Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Daniel Merrigan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He currently serves as co-Principal Investigator for both the HRSA-funded New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development and the CDC-funded Massachusetts Regional Public Health Leadership Forum. In addition, he was the Director of the HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Certificate Education Program. All of these projects provide innovative education and training that improves local public health infrastructure by increasing the skills and competencies of the currently employed public health workforce.

Wayne Lamorte, MD, PhD, MPH
 Professor of Epidemiology, Assistant Dean for Education

Dr. LaMorte is a graduate of Rutgers University (BA) and the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (MD). He received a PhD in biochemistry and an MPH at Boston University. His early career focused on biomedical research, but for the past 15 years his primary interest has been public health, particularly in graduate and undergraduate education. He is active in the MPH program at Boston University School of Public Health, where he teaches “Introduction to Epidemiology” and “The Biology of Public Health.” Dr. LaMorte also teaches evidence-based medicine in the Boston University School of Medicine, and he has been an active contributor to the Integrated Problems course in the school of medicine. In his role as Assistant Dean for Education, Dr. LaMorte is exploring opportunities to integrate the MPH curriculum and the application of technology to improve teaching. He serves as the director of the MD-MPH dual degree program, the BS-MPH dual degree program, and he is the advisor for the Public Health Minor programs at the College of Arts and Sciences and at Boston University’s Sargent College. Dr. LaMorte also works actively on community-based public health projects, particularly with local public schools.

Kathleen MacVarish, MS, RS/REHS
 Clincial Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Director of Practice Programs                      Kathleen MacVarish directs the external Public Health Practice Office projects which include the New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development, the Partnership for Effective Emergency Response, the MA Public Health Regionalization Project and the Academic Health Department with MDPH Emergency Preparedness Region 4b.  Ms. MacVarish was a local Board of Health Agent in Massachusetts for 15 years and also worked as a Sanitarian/Inspector in California and New York. She has been a Registered Sanitarian/Registered Environmental Health Specialist (RS/REHS) since 1986.  She received a B.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and an M.S. in Environmental Studies from UMass Lowell.

Harvard School of Public Health
Paul H. Campbell, MPA, ScD
Lecturer on Management, Co-Investigator and Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness           Paul Campbell has faculty appointments in the Departments of Health Policy and Management and Population/International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Responsibilities have included teaching a core course in the Masters Degree Program in Public Health (MPH), advising graduate students and leading executive courses on health policy and management issues for health leaders across the U.S. and abroad. He is a Co-Investigator in the Harvard SPH Center for Public Health Preparedness and Deputy Director of the International Health Systems Program. Mr. Campbell received his ScD from Harvard University School of Public Health, MPA from Portland State University and a BA from Bowdoin College.

Tufts University School of Medicine
Susan Gallagher, MPH
Assistant Professor and MPH Director, Department of Public Health and Family                                   Susan Gallagher holds a master's degree in public health from the Boston University School of Public Health and is the Director of the masters degree program in Health Communication at Tufts School of Medicine.  Sue joined Tufts in 2007 after working as a Senior Scientist at Education Development Center in Newton, MA for 17 years, where she was the founding director of the Children’s Safety Network National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center. She has more than 30 years of professional experience in research, training, practice and policy in a variety of settings including state health agencies, non profit organizations, teaching hospitals and the U.S. Congress.

Yale University School of Public Health
Linda DeGutis, DrPH, MSN
Associate Professor of Surgery & Public Health, Research Director, Emergency Medicine Director
Linda DeGutis' research and practice interests center on issues related to alcohol and injury and public health preparedness with a focus on interventions and policy.  She is President-elect for the American Public Health Association, a former chair of the Executive Board of APHA and an active member of the Inury Control and Emergency Health Services Section.

Elaine O'Keefe
Executive Director, Yale School of Public Health Office of Community Health
Elaine O’Keefe is the Executive Director, Yale School of Public Health Office of Community Health and Executive Director of the Center for interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT. She received her MS in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a Public Health Leadership Scholar from the UCLA Public Health Leadership Institute.