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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.

JACQUELYN L. MEYERS, PHD

Jacquelyn L. Meyers, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Brain Sciences Lead, Institute of Genomic Health
Co-Director, Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab

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Howard L. Minkoff, MD, FACOG

Distinguished Service Professor
Health Policy & Management

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Mohamed Nakeshbandi, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor / Hospitalist
Department of Medicine

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Sharifa Nasreen, MD, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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Victor Puac-Polanco, MD, DrPH, MSCE

Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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Simone A. Reynolds, PhD, MPH

Director of Online Learning and Instructional Innovation, Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Wayne J. Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, MACP

Wayne J. Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, MACP

President
Office of the President
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

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Raeann Rolston, MA

Student Recruitment Specialist
School of Public Health

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Janet Rosenbaum, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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Carl Rosenberg, PhD, MS

Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Moro O. Salifu, MD, MBA, MPH, MACP

Moro Salifu, MD, MBA, MPH, MACP

Professor and Chair
Department of Medicine Chief, Division of Nephrology Director, Transplant Program

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Sherene Sharath, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics