School of Public Health Faculty & Staff
The School of Public Health at Downstate is home to talented academic and administrative professionals dedicated to serving students and promoting health equity for all.
Departmental faculty have been extensively involved in a broad range of scholarly and research activities. These include clinical outcomes and health care quality improvement, risk management in health care institutions, home health care, hospice care, cost containment and prospective payment, Medicaid, community mental health, strategic health planning, HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, cancer epidemiology, prostate cancer, and comparative mortalities in surgical procedures. Current plans for future research directions include disparities in health and health care among minority populations, urban health issues, cancer epidemiology, health care evaluation, women's health, prevention issues for urban minority populations, and HIV prevention and treatment.
Kitaw Demissie, MD, PhD
Dean and Professor
School of Public Health
Aimee Afable, PhD, MPH
Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Associate Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
Yaacov Anziska, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
Director, Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinic
Nicole Bagnarol, MPH
Director of Curricular Innovation
School of Public Health
Tenya Blackwell, DrPH
Clinical Assistant Professor
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Carla Boutin-Foster, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean, Office of Diversity Education and Research
Associate Vice President For Institutional Equity
Denise M. Bruno, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Global Engagement and Director of the Center for Global Health, Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Rose Calixte, PhD, PStat®
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Marlene Camacho-Rivera, SC.D, M.S. MPH
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Assistant Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
Francisco Colon, MSW
Assistant Director of Enrollment and Onboarding Management
School of Public Health
Dorine P. Cooper, MA, MS
Associate Administrator
Jenny Crouch, Ed.D., MS, MA
Assistant Dean for Administration & Finance and Clinical Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
Department of Community Health Sciences
Brian Cullen, BS
Budget Director
School of Public Health
Anika Daniels-Osaze, Ed.D., MPH
Associate Dean for Education, School of Public Health
Clinical Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management
Daniel Ehlke, PhD, MA
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Marilyn Fraser, MD
Research Associate Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
Laura A. Geer, PhD, MHS
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Megan N. Hall, ScD, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Lori Hoepner, DrPH, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences