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.
Elizabeth P. Helzner, PhD, MS, DipACLM
Interim Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Rick Henson, MPA
Senior Executive Director for Recruitment, Enrollment, and Student Experience
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
Robert Karpman, MD, MBA
Clinical Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
MHA Program Director
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
Chair and Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management