Evaluative Sciences: Faculty and Staff

Faculty

The faculty of the Division of Evaluative Sciences will play a critical role in meeting these challenges by providing the analytical and statistical skills necessary to benchmark and evaluate health improvement initiatives in communities and health care settings.

Faculty Members of the Division of Evaluative Sciences include:

	Norman Edelman, M.D. Professor Academic Interests: Health care policy, with an emphasis on workforce issues
	Raymond Goldsteen  Dr.PH., Professor, Director Graduate Program in Public Health Academic Interests: Health policy, particularly fairness and effectiveness of health care resource allocation and public support for fair and effective allocation of health resources.
	Melody Goodman Ph.D., Assistant Professor   Academic Interests: Statistical methods for community based interventions and health disparities research; Community based participatory research; Social determinants of health; Racial/ethnic health disparities
	Lauren Hale, Ph.D. Assistant Professor   Academic Interests: Demography; Epidemiology of Sleep; Birth spacing patterns; International health; Social determinants of health
	Amy Hammock, Ph.D. Assistant Professor   Academic Interests: Community-based participatory research; qualitative research methods; family violence.
	Steven Jonas, M.D. Professor   Academic Interests: Health policy, preventive medicine and public health, drug abuse policy, exercise and sports, fitness, and wellness.  (Website)
	Evonne Kaplan-Liss, M.D., M.P.H. Clinical Assistant Professor   Academic Interests: Pediatrics, preventive medicine/public health, pediatric environmental exposures, and journalism.
	Jaymie Meliker, Ph.D. Assistant Professor   Academic Interests: Exposure science, GIScience, health geography, and environmental epidemiology by developing methodologies for integrating sources of spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal variability in environmental health applications.
	John Rizzo, Ph.D. Professor Academic Interests: Health economics, clinical outcomes research, health services research, risk assessment

	Jonathan Ragone MPH Academic Coordinator
	Jewel Stafford, MSW Research Coordinator, Center for Public Health and Health Policy Research
	Mary Vogelle-Buscemi Office Administrator, Graduate Program in Public Health
	Eileen Zappia Program Secretary, Graduate Program in Public Health