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 Faculty
(graduate and undergraduate)
At Hunter College,
teaching comes first so all faculty regularly teach and advise students.
Urban public health faculty are also involved in research and demonstration
projects on the most challenging health issues facing urban populations
such as asthma control in low income communities; exposures hazard
reduction in the construction industry; nutritional status improvement
of ethnic and minority populations; drug use and HIV risk behavior
reduction in recently incarcerated women and adolescents; youth violence
prevention; urban waterways quality improvement; needle stick injuries
prevention among hospital workers; nutrition and cardiovascular risk
reduction of young children; and understanding the reproductive health
behaviors and attitudes of urban and suburban young women. Faculty
are actively involved in professional organizations and have published
books and articles, and chapters in scientific and professional journals
and books.
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Lynn
Roberts, PhD
Assistant Professor;
Track Coordinator, COMHE
Email
lroberts@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-5110, Professional
Bio |
Professional Interests:
Adolescent
and women's health; violence prevention; community organizing
& development; health disparities. Served as the Director
of Community Projects & Training with the Hunter College
Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health and founding
Director of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York's First
Steps Program, a comprehensive intervention program for
substance using mothers and their families in Harlem.
Also a member of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive
Health Collective. Current research interests include
an examination of the intersection of race, class and
gender and the resulting impact of multiple oppressions
on the dating relationships and sexual risk taking behaviors
of young women and men of color.
Primary
Teaching Areas:
Community health education, community organizing, qualitative
research methods, service learning, women and adolescent
health
Selected
Publications:
Roberts, L., Ross, L. Kuumba, M.B. (2005). The reproductive
health and sexual rights of women of color: still building
a movement. NWSA Journal, 17;1: 93-98.
Roberts, L. (1999). Creating a new framework for promoting
the health of African American female
Education:
BS, Howard University, 1984
PhD, Cornell University, 1990
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Philip
Alcabes, PhD
Associate Professor
Email palcabes@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-4362, Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
An infectious-disease epidemiologist with over 20 years'
experience researching social aspects of AIDS as well as
TB, and other communicable epidemic diseases. Recent research
has turned to the history of contagion control and the social
construction of epidemics.
Holds a Visiting Associate Clinical Professor appointment
at the Yale University School of Nursing. A member of the
College's Human Subjects Research Committee and the Council
on Honors, the Internal Advisory Board of the Hunter Center
on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health, as well as the Scientific
Advisory Committee to the World Trade Center Health Registry
Project of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Primary
Teaching Areas:
Epidemiology, infectious disease and communicable-disease-control
courses, ethics in public health, research evaluation, HIV/AIDS
Selected
Publications:
Authored or co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed research
articles in the American Journal of Epidemiology, New England
Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, and other journals. Critic
of standard dogma on public-health issues, writing essays
and op-ed pieces that have been published in the American
Scholar, in the Washington Post, Newsday, and the Chronicle
of Higher Education.
Education:
Columbia University
Johns Hopkins
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Marilyn
Auerbach, DrPH
Director, School of Health Sciences
Associate Professor
Email mauerbac@hunter.cuny.edu,Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
Families and chronic disease, woman's health, reproductive
health, program planning, health policy
Primary
Teaching Areas:
Community Organizing for Health, Theory & Practice of
Comm. Health, Field Placements
Education:
BA, Emerson College
AMLS, University of Michigan
MPH, Columbia University
DrPH, Columbia University
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Barbara
Berney, PhD
Assistant Professor & Graduate Fieldwork Coordinator
Community Health Education
Email bberney@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-5165, Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
Health advocacy; working conditions of health services workers
and other workers; impact of work on worker and family health;
environmental justice; health care quality
Primary
Teaching Areas:
Principles of Health Education & Administration. Controversial
Issues in Health, Environmental Justice and in Workplace
Health Education, Fieldwork
Selected
Publications:
Berney B. The Uranium Miners and The Marshallese in
Observational Studies in Advisory Committee on Human Radiation
Experiments--Final Report. USGPO, 1996.
Berney B, Needleman J, Kovner C. Factors Influencing the
Use of Registered Nurse Overtime in Hospitals, 1995-2000.
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, in press.
Berney B. Technical Assistance: Providing Grassroots Groups
Access to Scientific and Technical Information. New Solutions,
in press.
Education:
BA, Reed College
MPH, UCLA
PhD, Boston University
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Marianne
Fahs , PhD, MPH
Professor, Urban Public Health
Co-Director, Brookdale Center on Aging
Email mfahs@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-5420, Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
Cost effectiveness of prevention, health policy analysis,
economics of illness, urban aging, health disparities, public
health economics, health care access, immigrant health,
health outcomes. A health economist whose work focuses on
vulnerable urban populations, particularly immigrants and
the elderly, and on programs and policies impacting public
health in their neighborhood physical and social environments.
Joined Hunter faculty 2004. Founding Director of the Health
Policy Research Center at New School University. Formerly
with the Division of Health Economics, Mount Sinai School
of Medicine, where she held joint appointments in the Departments
of Community Medicine and Geriatrics. Pioneered the first
cost-effectiveness analysis of a preventive screening program
among low income older women, resulting in Congressional
passage of the inaugural Medicare preventive benefit, cervical
cancer screening. Currently heads up a grant from the National
Cancer Institute, and in collaboration with the NYC Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene, is evaluating culturally-sensitive
tobacco control interventions among Chinese Americans in
two NYC communities. Also collaborating with the NYC Department
for the Aging to design and conduct the first formal health
status survey in NYC of seniors attending senior centers.
Primary
Teaching Areas:
Public
Health Economics, Health Policy Analysis, Public Health
Management
Selected Publications:
Freudenberg N, Fahs MC, Galea S, Greenberg A. Public Health
Then and Now: The Impact of New York City's 1975 Fiscal
Crisis on the Tuberculosis, HIV, and Homicide Syndemic.
American J of Public Health. 96: 424-434. 2006.
Shelley D, Fahs MC, Swain S, Qu J, Burton D: Acculturation
and Tobacco Use Among Chinese Americans. American J of Public
Health 94:300-307, 2004.
Muennig P, Fahs MC, Davis S. Health Status and Hospital
Utilization of Recent Immigrants to New York City. Preventive
Medicine 35, 225-231, 2002.
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Nicholas
Freudenberg, DrPH
Distinguished Professor; Urban Public Health
Email nfreuden@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel
212-481-4363,
Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
Public health policy, urban health, interdisciplinary
urban health research
For more than 25 years, have developed implemented and
evaluated interventions to promote health and prevent
disease in low income communities in New York City. Since
1988 has conducted research in New York City jails to
assist people returning from jail to reduce their risk
from HIV and substance use and to reenter their communities
successfully. Has also worked with advocacy groups and
city agencies to develop jail reentry policies that improve
public safety and community health. Widely published on
public health policy, AIDS prevention, violence and community
health interventions. Has studied the impact of city living
on population health and with David Vlahov ad Sandro Galea
was editor of Cities and Population Health. Currently
looking at how corporate practices in the alcohol, automobile,
food, firearm, pharmaceutical and tobacco industries affect
morbidity and mortality and how public health advocacy
campaigns have altered health damaging corporate practices.
Work has been supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
the Open Society Institute and the National Institute
for Drug Abuse, the National Institute of General medical
Sciences and the American Legacy Foundation.
President
of the Public Health Association of New York City (2006-2008)
and helped to develop its Agenda for a Healthy New York
project. Member of the Advisory Committee of the New York
City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and co-chair
of the City University of New York Urban Health Initiative,
a faculty-led effort to bring together faculty, staff
and students within CUNY who have an interest in urban
health research, teaching or practice
Primary
Teaching Areas:
Urban Health Promotions, Public Health Policy, Topics
in Urban Health
Selected
Publications:
Freudenberg N, Fahs M, Galea S, Greenberg A. The Impact
of New York City's 1975 Fiscal Crisis on the Tuberculosis,
HIV, and Homicide Syndemic. Am J Public Health. 2006 Jan
31.
Freudenberg N, Daniels J, Crum M, Perkins T, Richie
BE. Coming home from jail: the social and health consequences
of community reentry for women, male adolescents, and
their families and communities. Am J Public Health. 2005;95(10):1725-36. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/full/95/10/1725
Freudenberg N. Public health advocacy to change corporate
practices: implications for health education practice
and research. Health Educ Behav. 2005;32(3):298-319. http://heb.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/32/3/298
Education:
Bachelor of Science, Hunter College, 1975
MPH, Columbia University, 1977
PhD, Columbia University, 1979
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Shiro
Horiuchi, PhD
Professor,
Urban Public Health
Email
shoriuch@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-8896,
Professional Bio |
Professional interests:
Health demography (with focus on longevity and aging);
quantitative methods and mathematical models in health
sciences and social sciences. Previous scientific
accomplishments (in collaboration with several other
researchers) include: development of the life table
aging rate analysis and the log-convexity hypothesis
about the age pattern of human mortality risk on the
individual level; discovery of the general equation of
population age structure and development of demographic
methods based on the equation; development of the
line-integral model of decomposition analysis. Currently
conducting research on: changes in the age pattern of
mortality decline; decomposition of dispersion measures;
methodology for analyzing patterns and trends in the
modal age of adult deaths. Member of the Human Mortality
Database (www.mortality.org) Project
Primary Teaching Areas:
Biostatistics and
quantitative methods (at introductory, intermediate, and
advanced levels); longevity and aging; mortality and
morbidity.
Selected Publications:
1. Glei D, Horiuchi S. The narrowing sex gap in life
expectancy: Effects of sex differences in the age
pattern of mortality. Population Studies, 2007;
61(2):141-159.
2. Horiuchi S. Causes of death among the oldest-old:
Distributions and age variations. In: Robine JM,
Crimmins E, Horiuchi S, Zeng Y, eds., Human
Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of
the Oldest-Old Population. Springer, pp.215-235,
2006.
3. Horiuchi S. Tempo effect on age-specific death
rates. Demographic Research, 2005; 13(8):189-200.
4. Horiuchi S, Finch C, Meslé F, and Vallin J.
Differential patterns of age-related mortality increase
in middle age and old age. Journal of Gerontology:
Biological Sciences, 2003; 58A(6):495-507.
5. Horiuchi S. Interspecies comparison of life span
distribution: Humans versus invertebrates. In: Carey J,
Tuljapurkar S, eds., Life Span: Evolutionary,
Ecological and Demographic Perspectives, (Population
and Development Review, Special Supplement to Volume
29), pp. 127-151, 2003.
Education:
BA, Keio University, 1970
MA, Keio University, 1972
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1981 |
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Bea
Krauss , PhD
Professor; Director, Center for
Community
and Urban Health
and Executive Director of the Schools of the Health
Professions Office of Research and Grant Support
Email bkrauss@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-4283, Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
Community, family and individual adjustment to health
threats; HIV/AIDS; intervention design; research methods;
community-practice-research partnerships; social settings
and adolescent risk/resilience; stress and coping
Primary
Teaching Areas:
Program Planning and Funding, Group Processes, Research
and Evaluation in Community Health Education.
Selected Publications:
Krauss, B., O'Day, J., Godfrey, C., Rente,
K., Freidin, L., Bratt, E., Minian, N., Knibb, K.,
Welch, C., Kaplan, R., Saxena, G., McGinniss, S.,
Gilroy, J., Nwakeze, P., & Curtain, S. (2006). Who
wins in the status games? Violence, sexual violence
and an emerging single standard among adolescent
women. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,
1087 (November), 56-73.
Krauss, B., Godfrey, C., O'Day, J., & Freidin, E.
(2006). Hugging my uncle: The impact of a parent
training on children's comfort interacting with
persons with HIV. Journal of Pediatric Psychology,
31(9), 891-904.
Krauss, B.J., Franchi, D., O'Day, J., Pride, J.,
Lozada, L., Aledort, N., & Bates, D. (2003). Two
shadows of the Twin Towers: Missing safe spaces and
foreclosed opportunities. Families in Society, 84,
523-529.
The CDC AIDS Community Demonstration Projects
Research Group [Krauss, B.J.]. (1999).
Community-level HIV intervention in five cities:
Final outcome data from the CDC AIDS Community
Demonstration Projects. American Journal of Public
Health, 89(3), 336-345.
Education:
MB.Mus, Northwestern University
MA, University of Kansas
M.Ph, City University of New York
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Megha
Ramaswamy, MPH, PhD Candidate (Sociology)
Instructor, Undergraduate Student Advisor & Fieldwork Coordinator
Community Health Education
Email
mramaswa@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-4433,
Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
Incarceration and health, youth marginalization, medical sociology, adolescent sex behavior
Primary
Teaching Areas:
Introduction to Health Care, AIDS & Society, Controversial
Issues in Health, Women, Health and Society, Field Placement Courses
Education:
BA,
New York University
MPH, University of Kansas
PhD Candidate, City University of New
York, Graduate Center
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Kathryn
Rolland, PhD
Associate Professor, Community Health Education
On
leave 2008
Email
krolland@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-7674,
Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
Women and Abortion; children's health; community Interventions;
school and child health; human sexuality
Primary
Teaching Areas:
AIDS & Society, Issues in Health Care, Principles
of Health Ed Practices, Group Processes, Theory &
Practice in Health Communication
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Diana
Romero,
PhD, MA
Associate Professor,
Urban Public Health
Email
diana.romero@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-5073,
Professional Bio
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Professional interests:
Domestic reproductive-health and poverty policy; factors influencing contraceptive decision-making; and, Latino health issues. As Project Director for the Finding Common Ground project directed a project investigating the potential impact of welfare reform policies on the health of poor women and children, involving quantitative and qualitative research methods at the national, state, community, and clinical levels. This was followed by a project focusing on the impact of these policies on native and immigrant Hispanic women. Recently, studied the welfare “family cap” policy among women in NJ, and is currently conducting larger-scale analyses of the policy and its relation to reproductive behaviors utilizing the NSFG dataset, as well as state key-informant interviews and data collection. Serve as an investigator on a project focusing on the health of urban minority communities supported by NCMHD. Actively involved with the following organizations: Reproductive Health Technologies Project; NYC PRAMS; Center for Health and Gender Equity; American Public Health Association, its NY affiliate, the Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health section, and the Latino Caucus.
Primary Teaching Areas:
Urban Health Promotion; Doctoral Research Seminar
Selected Publications:
Romero D, Fortune-Greeley H, Verea JL, Salas-Lopez D. Meaning of the Family-Cap Policy for Poor Women: Contraceptive and Fertility Decision-Making. Journal of Health and Social Policy. 2007;23(1). In press.
Romero D. Penalizing Poor Women: Welfare Policies in the United States Penalize Larger Families While Denying the Means to Plan for Smaller Ones. Conscience. Winter 2005- 2006;26(4):28-30.
Romero D. Welfare Reform and Its Impact on the Health of Latino Families. In Aguirre-Molina M, Molina C, eds. Latina Health in the United States. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 2003. (591-612)
Romero D, Chavkin W, Wise P, Smith L. Low-Income Mothers’ Experience with Poor Health, Hardship, Work, and Violence: Implications for Policy. Violence Against Women. 2003;9(10):1231-1244.
Romero D, Chavkin W, Wise PH, Smith L, Wood P. Welfare to Work? Impact on Maternal Health on Employment. American Journal of Public Health. 2002;92(3):1462-1468.
Education:
BA,
Biology, New York University
MA, Scientific and Environmental Reporting, New York
University
MA, Sociomedical Science, Columbia University
MPhil, Sociomedical Science, Columbia University
PhD, Sociomedical Science, Columbia University |
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Carol
Roye, EdD
Associate Professor
Email croye@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-4332, Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
Pediatric nurse practitioner with a clinical practice
in adolescent reproductive health. Research focus is
adolescent reproductive health and sexuality, dual use
of contraceptive, family planning. Principal Investigator
on an NIH-funded randomized clinical trial of interventions
to promote condom use by sexually active teenage girls
who use hormonal contraception. Also studied other aspects
of reproductive health, including programming to prevent
repeat teenage pregnancies.
Primary
Teaching Areas:
HIV/AIDS, Women's Health, Maternal and Child Health, Principles
of Community Health
Selected
Publications:
Roye, C., & Hudson, M. (2003). Development of
a culturally appropriate video to promote dual method
use by urban teens: Rationale and methodology. AIDS Education
and Prevention, 15, 148-158.
Roye, C., Nelson, J.,& Stanis, P. (2003). Evidence
of the need for cervical cancer screening in adolescents.
Journal of Pediatric Nursing,29, 224-225, 232.
Roye, C. (2003). Adolescent sexuality: Task force summary
and recommendations. Journal of Pediatric Health Care,
17(Supp), S17-S18.
Gaffney, D. & Roye, C. (2003). Adolescent Sexual Development
and Sexuality Assessment and Interventions. Kingston,
NJ: Civic Research Institute Publishers.
Education:
BA, New York University
M.ED, University of Oklahoma
MS, Pace University
MS, Columbia University
Ed.D, Columbia University
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Anahi
Viladrich, PhD
Associate Professor, Community Health Education & Director: Immigration and Health Initiative
Email aviladri@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel
212-481-5154, Professional
Bio
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Professional Interests:
Immigration and health, Alternative Health and Mental
Health, Latinos in the US, Argentine Immigrants in NYC,
Ethnographic Methods,
A medical anthropologist and sociologist of Argentine
origin. UPH faculty member and Director of the Immigration
and Health Initiative
(IAHI) at Hunter College aimed at developing expertise,
research, and teaching in the field of immigrant health.
One of the IAHI's more significant accomplishments has
been the Latino Healers Project, an ongoing ethnographic
study on the healing beliefs and practices of Latino folk
healers in New York City. Published extensively on gender,
health, and immigration Received numerous awards, including
the Marisa de Castro Benton Prize and Distinction for
PhD thesis on the role of social networks in assisting
Argentine immigrants to overcome access barriers to health
care in the US. More recently, interest in immigrant's
global networks and importance of ethnic enclaves and
artistic diasporas (e.g, the tango world) in the resolution
of immigrant's needs.
Primary
Teaching Areas:
Urban Health Promotions, Public Health Policy, Topics
in Urban Health, Immigrant Health
Education:
MA, New School of Social Research
MA, Columbia University
PhD, Sociomedical Science, Columbia University
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