Community Health Sciences

Mary Jane England
Chair ad interim and Clinical Professor.
MD, Boston University School of Medicine.
Areas of interest: systems of care for the whole person, integrating mental health and substance use into primary care, child and adolescent mental health, well-being.

Full Time

Alison B. Albers
Assistant Professor.
PhD, MA, University of Virginia.
Areas of interest: brand-specific research in alcohol epidemiology and prevention; the relation between psychosocial risk factors and adolescent smoking behavior; the impact of tobacco advertising on young adults; and adolescent and young adult involvement in tobacco advertising promotions.

Candice Belanoff
Research Assistant Professor.
ScD, Harvard University; MPH, Hunter College.
Areas of interest: social disparities in maternal and child health; vulnerable families and children; childbirth and maternity care; breastfeeding; and adolescent and young adult pregnancy/parenting.

Judith Bernstein
Professor. Also, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
PhD, Heller School, Brandeis University; RNC, MSN, University of New Mexico.
Areas of interest: access to preventive services, substance abuse issues for women and adolescents, and reproductive ethics.

Ulrike Boehmer
Associate Professor. Researcher, CHQOER, Veterans Health Administration.
PhD, MA, Boston College.
Areas of interest: access, diversity, health outcomes, women’s health, HIV, cancer, and consumer activism.

Deborah J. Bowen
Professor and Assistant Dean for Research.
PhD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Areas of interest: cancer education and prevention, smoking cessation, exercise intervention, and post-menopausal women.

Harold Cox
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Public Health Practice.
MSSW, University of Texas.
Areas of interest: state and local public health, mental retardation, HIV and AIDS, racial and ethnic health disparities.

Eugene Declercq
Professor and Assistant Dean for Doctoral Education.
PhD, MS, Florida State University; MBA, University of Massachusetts.
Areas of interest: comparative and U.S. maternal and child health policy, maternal morbidity, national natality data analysis, and community needs assessment.

William DeJong
Professor.
PhD, MA, Stanford University.
Areas of interest: mass communication, health education, college student health, and alcohol control.

Emily Feinberg
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
ScD, CPNP, Harvard University; MSN, Simmons College.
Areas of interest: maternal depression, community-based mental health interventions, child and adolescent preventative services, and immigrant health.

Patricia Elliott
Lecturer.
MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: adolescent access to sexual health services, program management, health behavior, community and school partnerships, sexual health policies at the local, state and federal level.

Deborah Fournier
Clinical Associate Professor.
PhD, MS, Syracuse University.
Areas of interest: evaluation of teaching, faculty and systems; competency-based education and evaluation.

Sophie Godley
Clinical Assistant Professor.
MPH, University of Washington-Seattle.
Areas of interest: teaching public health, undergraduate education in public health, sexual health, adolescents, and unintended pregnancy.

Jacey Greece
Clinical Assistant Professor.
DSc, MPH, Boston University.
Areas of interest: childhood obesity; behavioral epidemiology; school- and community-based health promotion and prevention; program evaluation; chronic disease prevention; behavioral- and environmental-level interventions; food access and availability; social and emotional wellness of children.

Lois McCloskey
Associate Professor. Director of Maternal and Child Health. Also, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
DrPH, MPH, University of California, Los Angeles.
Areas of interest: access to and quality of health care services for urban women; intersection of MCH and chronic illness prevention; reproductive health policy; community-based program evaluation; and the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods.

Daniel M. Merrigan
Associate Professor.
EdD, MPH, Boston University; MDiv, ThM, Weston School of Theology.
Areas of interest: health promotion and disease prevention, health education, health behavior, HIV and AIDS, substance use and abuse, leadership development, local public health practice, spirituality and well-being, emergency preparedness, and work-force development.

Emily Rothman
Associate Professor, Also Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
ScD, Harvard School of Public Health.
Areas of interest: dating violence, partner violence, sexual violence, and youth alcohol use.

Michael Siegel
Professor.
MD, Yale University; MPH, University of California, Berkeley.
Areas of interest: strategies to reduce tobacco use, evaluation of tobacco control interventions, effects of cigarette advertising and promotion on smoking among youth, health effects of environmental tobacco smoke, use of mass media in health promotion, and homelessness as a public health problem.

Lee Strunin
Professor.
PhD, Brandeis University.
Areas of interest: youth alcohol and drug use; culture, ethnicity, and health beliefs and  behaviors; health disparities.

Catharine Wang
Associate Professor.
PhD, University of Michigan; MSc, University of Waterloo.
Areas of interest: public health genomics, risk communication, informed decision-making, tailored interactive multimedia, health literacy, health disparities, and cancer prevention and control.

Ziming Xuan
Research Assistant Professor.
ScD, SM, Harvard University.
Areas of interest: social-contextual determinants, substance use, mental health and health policy.

Part Time

Deborah Allen
Adjunct Associate Professor.
MS, ScD, Harvard University.

Marlene Anderka
Lecturer. Principal Investigator, Center for Birth Defects, Bureau of Family and Community Health, Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
MPH, ScD, Boston University.

Marilyn Arnold
Lecturer.
DSc, Harvard School of Public Health; MPH, Boston University.

Mary Aruda
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Nurse Practitioner, adolescent/young adult clinic, Boston College School of Nursing.
ScD, PhD, University of Massachusetts; MSN, Boston University; BSN, Cornell University.

Alan L. Balsam
Adjunct Associate Professor. Also, Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Health. Director, Public Health and Human Services, Town of Brookline (Mass.).
PhD, Tufts University; MPH, Boston University; MS, Framingham State College.

Diane D. Barry
Adjunct Assistant Professor.
MS, Boston University.

Nicole S. Bell
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Vice President, Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc.
ScD, Harvard University; MPH, University of Oklahoma.

Edward Bernstein
Professor. Also, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Boston Medical Center.
MD, Stanford University.

Lynn Borgatta
Clinical Associate Professor. Also, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Boston University School of Medicine. Director, Fertility Control Center, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Boston Medical Center.
MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; MPH, Columbia University.

Judith Bradford
Adjunct Associate Professor.
PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University; MA, James Madison University.

Nicolas P. Carballeira
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Director of Health Policy, Latin American Health Institute. Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University.
MPH, Boston University; ND, Santa Fe College of Natural Medicine.

Patricia Case
Adjunct Assistant Professor.
ScD, Harvard University; MPH, University of California-Berkeley.

Elizabeth M. Cohen
Lecturer.
MPH, Boston University.

Stephen C. Crane
Assistant Professor.
PhD, MPH, University of Michigan.

Carol A. Dolan
Adjunct Instructor. Lecturer in Psychology, University of Maryland European Division. Senior Research Scientist, U.S. Army Medical Research, Europe.
PhD, MA, University of North Carolina.

David Dorfman
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, New York University.

William Fernandez
Lecturer, Assistant Professor.  Also, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine.
MD, University of California, Davis; MPH, Columbia University.

Barbara Ferrer
Adjunct Assistant Professor.
PhD, Brandeis University; MPH, Boston University.

Deborah A. Frank
Assistant Professor. Also, Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. Director, Grow Clinic, Boston Medical Center.
MD, Harvard University.

Laurie Ann Friedman
Lecturer. Midwife, The Cambridge Midwives.
MSN, CNM, Yale University School of Nursing.

Susan S. Gallagher
Adjunct Associate Professor. Senior Scientist, Education Development Center, Inc.
MPH, Boston University.

Donald D. Halstead
Lecturer. Instructor, Harvard School of Public Health.
BA, Franconia College.

Mark Hansen
Lecturer.
MPH, Boston University.

John A. Hermos
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Investigator, MAVERIC Research Service, VA Boston Healthcare System. Physician in General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center.
MD, Boston University.

Ellen Hutchins
Adjunct Associate Professor.
ScD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University.

Deborah F. Issokson
Adjunct Assistant Professor.
PsyD, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology; MA, Lesley College.

Ruth Keen
Adjunct Clinical Instructor. Director and Certified Nurse-Midwife, Midwives of the Merrimack Valley.
MPH, CNM, Boston University.

Kim Kronenberg
Lecturer.
MPH, Boston University.

Karen Kuhlthau
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Associate Director, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children. Associate Sociologist, Massachusetts General Hospital. Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
PhD, MA, University of Michigan.

Andreas Laddis
Instructor.
MD, University of Salonica Medical School, Greece.

Karen Lasser
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Cornell University; MPH, Harvard University.

Jane Liebschutz
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, Harvard University.

Alisa K. Lincoln
Adjunct Associate Professor. Also, Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine and
and Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Sociology, Northeastern University.
PhD, Columbia University; MPH, Boston University.

Joseph S. Locastro
Assistant Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Associate Professor of Psychology, Boston University. Associate Chief, Psychology Service, VA Boston Healthcare System.
PhD, University of Maryland.

Anne Merewood
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of Pediatrics.
PhD, Cambridge University; MPH, Boston University.

Margo Michaels
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Bobby Milstein
Adjunct Associate Professor.
PhD, Union Institute & University; MPH, Emory University.

Vivien Morris
Clinical Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. Administrative Director, Nutrition & Fitness for Life Program, Boston Medical Center.
MPH, Boston University; MS, Framingham State College.

Timothy S. Naimi
Associate Professor. Also, Associate Professor of General Medicine and Pediatrics.
MD, University of Massachusetts; MPH, Harvard University.

John (Sean) G. Palfrey
Clinical Professor. Also, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, MPhil, Columbia University.

Nicole Prudent
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. Pediatrician, Primary Care, Boston Medical Center. Co-Director, Haitian Health Institute.
MD, University of Guadalajara; MPH, Harvard University.

Lisa Quintiliani
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Medicine.
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MS, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Carol Sakala
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Director of Programs, Maternity Center Association.
PhD, Boston University; MSPH, University of Utah; MA, University of Chicago.

Jeffrey H. Samet
Professor. Also, Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Chief, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center. Medical Director of Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Services, Boston Public Health Commission.
MD, Baylor College of Medicine; MPH, Boston University; MA, Brandeis University.

Norman A. Scotch
Professor and Dean Emeritus. Also, Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences, Boston University School of Medicine.
PhD, Northwestern University; SMHyg, Harvard University.

Scout
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor.
PhD, Columbia University; MA, George Mason University.

David Shannon
Instructor.
LICSW, Boston University.

Jan Snoberg
Lecturer. Senior Lecturer, University of Kalmar, Sweden.
Master Mariner, BSc, Kalmar Maritime Academy.

Bonitta Steuer
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor.
MSN, CNM, University of Pennsylvania; BSN, State University of New York at Plattsburgh.

Judith P. Swazey
Adjunct Professor. Also, Adjunct Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Boston University School of Medicine. Founding President and Senior Scholar, The Acadia Institute, Bar Harbor, Maine.
PhD, Harvard University.

Sharon L. Tennstedt
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Also, Research Associate Professor, Boston University School of Social Work. Vice President and Director, Institute for Studies on Aging, New England Research Institutes.
PhD, Boston University; MSN, Case Western Reserve University.

Barbara H. Vinick
Assistant Professor.
PhD, Boston University.

Deborah Klein Walker
Adjunct Professor. Principal Associate/Scientist, Abt Associates.
EdD, MEd, Harvard University.

Diana Chapman Walsh
Adjunct Professor. Former President, Wellesley College. Adjunct Professor, Harvard School of Public Health.
PhD, MS, Boston University.

Joanne Wilkinson
Assistant Professor. Also, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.
MD, MSc, Brown University.

Alvin E. Winder
Adjunct Professor. Professor Emeritus of Public Health, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
PhD, University of Chicago; MPH, University of California, Berkeley.

Ronda C. Zakocs
Adjunct Associate Professor.
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MPH, Boston University.

Barry S. Zuckerman
Professor. Also, Professor and Chair of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center.
MD, Georgetown University.