Graduate Faculty

Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson, Chair of Health Promotion & Policy, Professor of Epidemology, A.B., Harvard, 1994; S.M., 1996; Sc.D., 1999.

Andrea S. Ayvazian, Lecturer of Community Health Education, B.Sc., Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil; M.Ed., Massachusetts Amherst; Ed.D., Massachusetts Amherst.

Laura B. Attanasio, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management, B.A., Vassar, 2005; M.S., Minnesota, 2014; Ph.D., 2016.

Michael E. Begay, Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management, B.A., California State Polytechnic, 1981, 1982; M.A., California at Santa Barbara, 1984; Ph.D., 1990.

David L. Chin, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management, B.S., California at Santa Cruz, 2000; Ph.D., California at Davis, 2013.

Kathryn P. Derose, Professor of Community Health Education, B.A., Duke University,Durham, NC, M.P.D, California at Los Angeles, Ph.D.

Gloria DiFulvio, Senior Lecturer of Community Health Education, B.S., New York at Binghamton, 1988; M.Ed. and M.P.H., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993; Ph.D., 2004.

Elizabeth Evans, Assistant Professor of Community Health Education, B.S., California at San Diego, 1993; M.A., Indiana University, 1995; Ph.D., California at Los Angeles, 2016.

Kimberley Heard Geissler, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management, B.A., Williams, 2006;  Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013.

Daniel Gerber, Senior Lecturer of Community Health Education, B.S., New York at Buffalo, 1976; M.P.H., Hunter College, 1982; Ed.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1996.

Sarah Goff, Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management, B.S., Yale, 1991; MD, Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, 1996; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 2018.

Daniel Goldstein, Senior Lecturer & Practicum Coordinator of the Online M.P.H. in Public Health Practice program, Community Health Education, B.A., University of Victoria, M.A. McGill, Ph.D., Universite de Montreal.

Aline Gubrium, Associate Professor of Community Health Education, B.A., Indiana, 1995; M.A., Florida, 2000; Ph.D., 2005.

Airin Denise Martinez, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, B.S., Barry; Ph.D., California at San Francisco.

Lawrence C. Pellegrini, Lecturer of Health Policy and Management, B.A., Boston College; M.S.W. and M.P.A., Connecticut; Ph.D.,  Massachusetts at Amherst.

Krishna C. Poudel, Associate Professor of Community Health Education, Program Head, Community Health Education, Co-Director, Institute for Global Health,  B.M., Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 1996; M.P.A., 1997; M.A., 1999; M.H.Sc., University of Tokyo, Japan, 2003; Ph.D., 2006.

Susan J. Shaw, Associate Professor of Community Health Education, B.A., Hampshire College; M.A., North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ph.D., North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Luis Arturo Valdez, Assistant Professor of Community Health Education, B.A., Arizona; M.P.H., Arizona; Ph.D., Arizona.

Elizabeth Salerno-Valdez, Postdoctoral Pathways Fellow & Lecturer, B.A., Arizona at Tucson; M.P.H., Arizona at Tucson; Ph.D, Arizona at Tucson.

Jennifer Medel Whitehill, Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management, B.S., Tufts, 2004; Ph.D., John Hopkins, 2011.

John E. Zeber, Associate Professor and Program Head, Health Policy and Management, B.S., Occidental; M.H.A., University of Washington; Ph.D., Michigan.

Ning Zhang, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management, B.S., Nanjing University, China, 1997; M.S., Cornell, 2008; Ph.D, 2009.

Adjunct/Associate Faculty

Evan M. Benjamin, Associate Professor,  B.A. Williams College, Williamstown, MA, M.D. Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, M.S., Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

Sally Linowski, Lecturer, Assistant Dean of Students, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Craig N. Melin, Lecturer, retired CEO, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, Massachusetts.

John Rapoport, Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.

S. Prisscilla Reddy, Deputy Executive Director, Population Health, Health Systems and Innovation, Human Science Research Council, South Africa.

Frank Robinson, Assistant Professor and Director of Community Programs, BayState Health Systems, Springfield, Massachusetts.

J. Martin Shanahan, Senior Federal Investigator, U.S. Department of Labor, Boston, Massachusetts.

Maria Idalí Torres, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston.

Thomas Wolff, Assistant Professor, Tom Wolff Associates.

Jane Zapka, Professor (ret.), University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.

Faculty Emeriti

David Ross Buchanan, Professor of Community Health Education, B.A., California at Berkeley, 1974; M.P.H., 1979; Dr.P.H., 1989.

Paula L. Stamps, Lecturer of Health Policy & Management, B.S., Missouri, 1968; M.S., Oklahoma, 1970; Ph.D., 1972.