Excellence in Teaching

Students Recognize Outstanding Faculty 2018-2019

The Bloomberg School of Public Health has a long tradition and a firm commitment to providing its students with instruction of the highest quality. Excellence in teaching stimulates intellectual curiosity in students and prepares them to address the most challenging public health problems facing the world today. Each term, the School recognizes faculty who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the School through their excellence in teaching.

Honorees are those instructors who received an average score of 3.6 or above (on a scale from a low of 1 to a high of 4) in both the Overall Course and Overall Instructor categories of their student course evaluations, with a response rate of 70% or higher. The School would like to express our deep appreciation and congratulations to the following faculty members who have achieved teaching excellence so far in Academic Year 2018-2019.

Summer Institute, Summer Term, Term 1, Term 2, Winter Intersession, Term 3, Term 4

Summer Institute

Caleb Alexander
Associate Professor, Epidemiology / School of Medicine (Joint)
Course: Pharmacoepidemiology

Olakunle Alonge
Assistant Professor, International Health
Course: Conceptual and Evidential Foundations of Health Equity and Social Justice

Abdulgafoor Bachani
Assistant Professor, International Health
Course: Hospital-Based Injury/Trauma Surveillance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Piers Bocock
Associate, Health Behavior and Society
Course: Improving Global Public Health Through Knowledge Application, Continuous Learning, and Adaptation

Gilbert Burnham
Professor, International Health / School of Nursing (Joint)
Course: Health Emergencies in Large Populations (H.E.L.P.)

Michelle Carlson
Professor, Mental Health/ Epidemiology (Joint)
Course: Mental Health and the Gut

Carlos Castillo-Salgado
Professor, Epidemiology/ Population, Family and Reproductive Health (Joint) / Health Policy and Management (Joint)
Course: Professional Epidemiologic Methods: Decision Making in Health Situation Analysis

Avonne Connor
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology/ School of Medicine (Joint)
Course: Cancer Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control

Jason Connor
President & Lead Statistical Scientist, Epidemiology
Course: Bayesian Adaptive Trials

Michael Crupain
Associate, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Problem Solving in Public Health

Manual Franco
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Course: Social Epidemiology

Eliseo Guallar
Professor, Epidemiology
Course:  Principles of Epidemiology

Adnan Hyder
Professor, International Health
Course: Applying Summary Measures of Population Health to Improve Health Systems

Michelle Kaufman
Assistant Professor, Health, Behavior and Society
Course: Social and Behavioral Aspects of Public Health

K.H. Ken Lee
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
Course: Quantitative Tools for Managers

Peter Lees
Professor, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Occupational Health

Elizabeth Letourneau
Professor, Mental Health
Course: Childhood Victimization: An Overview of Public Health Efforts

David Love
Associate Scientist, Environmental Health and Engineering
Course: Urban Agriculture and Public Health

Kunihiro Matsushita
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Course: Methods and Applications of Cohort Studies

John McGready
Associate Scientist, Biostatistics
Course: Data Analysis Workshop II

Daniel Obeng
Associate, Biostatistics
Course: Statistical Reasoning in Public Health II

George Pariyo
Senior Scientist, International Health
Course: Managing District Health Systems in Low and Middle Income Countries

Elise Pas
Associate Scientist, Mental Health
Course: School-Based Preventive Interventions and Research

Henry Perry
Senior Scientist, International Health
Course: Introduction to Household Surveys for Evaluation of Primary Health Care Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries

Lois Privoir-Dumm
Senior Research Associate, International Health
Course: Policy Advocacy in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Application for Real World Challenges

Dorry Segev
Professor, School of Medicine/ Epidemiology (Joint)
Course: Stata Programming

Anthony So
Professor of the Practice, International Health
Course: Designing Transformative Innovation for Global Health

Moyeses Szklo
Professor, Epidemiology
Course: Intermediate Epidemiology

Antonino Trujillo
Associate Professor, International Health
Course: Behavioral Economics in Health Decisions

Summer Term

Yubo Chen
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Course: Marketing in Health Care Organizations

Herng-Chia Chiu
Adjunct Professor, Health Policy and Management
Course: Introduction to Economic Evaluation

Rosa Crum
Professor, Epidemiology/ Mental Health/ School of Medicine (Joint)
Course: Principles of Epidemiology

Leiyu Shi
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Course: Tsinghua Graduate Seminar