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.
Howard L. Minkoff, MD, FACOG
Distinguished Service Professor
Health Policy & Management
Mohamed Nakeshbandi, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor / Hospitalist
Department of Medicine
Sharifa Nasreen, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Victor Puac-Polanco, MD, DrPH, MSCE
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy and Management
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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
President
Office of the President
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Raeann Rolston, MA
Director of Admissions & Recruitment
School of Public Health
Janet Rosenbaum, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Carl Rosenberg, PhD, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Moro Salifu, MD, MBA, MPH, MACP
Chair of Medicine, Chief of Nephrology Division, Director of Interventional Nephrology
Department of Medicine
Sherene Sharath, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Paula Spann, BA
Student Affairs Program Manager
School of Public Health
Jia Sun, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Michael Szarek, PhD, MS
Executive Director of the Center for Clinical and Outcomes Research, Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Azure Thompson, DrPH, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences
Jennifer Thompson
Department Coordinator
School of Public Health
Wendy Williams, PhD
Director of Pedagogical Advancement and Evaluation, Clinical Assistant Professor
Community Health Sciences
Tracey E. Wilson, PhD
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research, Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences