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.

Camille Clare, MD, MPH, CPE, FACOG
Chair
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Tenured Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine

Francisco Colon, MSW
Assistant Director of Enrollment and Onboarding Management
School of Public Health

Dorine P. Cooper, MA
Executive Assistant to the Dean

Jenny Crouch, Ed.D., MS, MA
Senior Executive Director for Administration & Finance
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

Jack DeHovitz, MD
Distinguished Service Professor

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

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