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.

Laura A. Geer, PhD, MHS
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Keydron K. Guinn, Ph.D., MA, MBA
Executive Vice President
Office of the President
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Megan N. Hall, ScD, MS
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Elizabeth P. Helzner, PhD, MS, DipACLM
Interim Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Lori Hoepner, DrPH, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Pascal James Imperato, MD, MPH&TM, MACP
Founding Dean, Dean Emeritus, and Distinguished Service Professor
School of Public Health

Michael A. Joseph, PhD, MPH
Adjunct Associate Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Filippa Juul, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management

Senait Kebede, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences

Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Cell Biology

W. Marcus Lambert, PhD
Associate Vice President for Research Strategy and Operations, Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Paul A. Landsbergis, PhD, EdD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Jessica Liu, BS
Grants Manager
School of Public Health

Thomas Mackie, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management

Macceau Medozile, MPA, DrPH
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Health Policy & Management

Jacquelyn L. Meyers, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Brain Sciences Lead, Institute of Genomic Health
Co-Director, Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab

Howard L. Minkoff, MD, FACOG
Distinguished Service Professor
Chair Emeritus of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health

Mohamed (Rami) Nakeshbandi, M.D.
Chief Quality Officer
University Hospital at Downstate