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Health Management and Policy Faculty and Staff

Connect with faculty and staff in the Health Management and Policy department.

Below you can learn more about faculty research interests and their expert topics. You can also filter all faculty by research interest in the Research section.

Table of Contents:

Department Faculty

  • Adaobi Anakwe headshot

    Adaobi Anakwe, PhD, MPH

    Assistant Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    aga56@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Black Paternal Health
    • Maternal and Child Health
    • Community-Based Participatory Research
    • Health Disparities
    • Racial and Ethnic Health Inequalities
    • Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches

  • Sandra Bloom

    Sandra Bloom, MD

    Associate Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    267.359.6012
    slb79@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Violence and Trauma
    • Public Health Practice
    • Substance Use
    • Mental health and Behavioral health
    • Maternal and Child Health
    • Healthcare Administration and Management
    • Community Engaged Research

  • Darryl Brown

    Darryl Brown, PhD

    Associate Teaching Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    267.359.6023
    drb48@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Health Services Research
    • Healthcare Administration and Management
    • Patient Reported Outcomes
    • Health Disparities
    • Pharmacoeconomics
    • Managed Care
    • Urban Health

  • James W. Buehler

    James Buehler, MD

    Teaching Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    267.359.6019
    james.buehler@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Health Policy
    • Urban Health
    • Public Health Practice
    • Public Health & Health Care Interface

  • Mariana Chilton

    Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH

    Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    mmc33@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Nutrition
    • Community Engaged Research
    • Health Disparities
    • Health Policy
    • Maternal and Child Health
    • Mental health and Behavioral health
    • Urban Health
    • Violence and Trauma
    • Human Rights
    • Food Insecurity

  • Christy Dure headshot

    Christy Dure, MPA, MHA

    Assistant Teaching Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    cdd87@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Health Policy
    • Healthcare Administration
    • Medical Debt
    • Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

  • Dr. Jan Eberth

    Jan M. Eberth, PhD

    Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy
    Health Management and Policy
    267.359.6188
    jme336@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Cancer Prevention
    • Health Equity
    • Health Policy
    • Health Services Research
    • Spatial Analysis and GIS

  • Robert Field

    Robert Field, PhD, MPH, JD

    Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    215.571.4810
    rif24@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Health Policy
    • Public Health Law
    • Health Administration and Management
    • Public Health Ethics

  • Headshot of Jessie Pintor

    Jessie Kemmick Pintor, PhD, MPH

    Assistant Professor
    Health Management and Policy, Center for Population Health and Community Impact
    267.359.6163
    jbp83@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Community Based Participatory Research
    • Immigrant Health
    • Health Disparities
    • Health Services Research
    • Health Policy
    • Maternal & Child Health
    • Mixed Methods
    • Immigration Policy

  • Jennifer Kolker

    Jennifer Kolker, MPH

    Clinical Professor of Health Management and Policy
    Health Management and Policy
    jak682@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Urban Health
    • Public Health Practice
    • Public Health Policy
    • Public Health Workforce Development and Infrastructure

  • Brent Langellier

    Brent A. Langellier, PhD, MA

    Associate Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    267.359.6025
    bal95@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Health disparities
    • Diet disparities
    • Latino health
    • Immigrant health
    • Health policy
    • Complex systems

  • Safiyyah Okoye headshot

    Safiyyah Okoye, PhD, MSN, RN

    Assistant Professor
    Health Management and Policy, Drexel FIRST Program
    smo93@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Aging
    • Accidental Falls
    • Sleep
    • Health Disparities
    • Home Environment
    • Socioeconomic Factors

  • Alina Schnake-Mahl headshot

    Alina Schnake-Mahl, ScD, MPH

    Assistant Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    as5494@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Infectious Disease
    • Health Disparities
    • Health and Place or Built Environment
    • Urban Health
    • Data Analysis Methods
    • Health Services Research
    • Health Policy

  • Gabriel L. Schwartz headshot

    Gabriel L. Schwartz, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Health Management & Policy, Drexel FIRST Program
    gs839@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Social Epidemiology
    • Health Inequities
    • Urban Health
    • Housing
    • Segregation
    • Police Violence
    • Quantitative Methods
    • Social Policy
    • Life Course Epidemiology
    • Structural Racism
    • Social Stratification

  • Lindsay Shea headshot

    Lindsay Shea, DrPH, MS

    Associate Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    215.571.3440
    ljl42@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Neurodevelopment
    • Neurologic disorders
    • Mental health
    • Behavioral health
    • Health policy

  • Mark Stehr

    Mark Stehr, BS, PhD

    Professor
    Health Management and Policy
    215.895.0554
    stehr@drexel.edu

    Research Interests:
    • Health Policy
    • Health Economics
    • Data Analysis Methods

Faculty With Joint Appointments

Robert Field, JD, PhD, MPH, Professor, Kline School of Law

Safiyyah Okoye, PHD, MSN, RN, FNP-C, Assistant Professor, Department of Graduate Nursing at the College of Nursing and Health Professions (joint appointment) and the Drexel FIRST Program 

Mark Stehr, PhD, Professor, School of Economics in the LeBow College of Business

Faculty With Secondary Appointments

Lindsay Shea, DrPH, MS, Director of the Policy and Analytics Center at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute and Associate Professor

Emeritus Faculty

Dennis Gallagher, MA, MPA, Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus

Marla Gold, MD, Professor Emerita

Affiliate Faculty

Mary Grady Duden, MBA '80
Assistant Teaching Professor (retired)
Department of Health Management and Policy, Dornsife School of Public Health

Ryan McKenna, PhD, MA
Sr. Data Scientist
Covera Health

Gerald Miller, MPH
President and CEO (retired)
Crozer-Keystone Health System

Katie Nelson, PhD in Health Services Research and Policy '21, MPH in HMP '17
Director of Global Implementation Research
ViiV Healthcare

Lydia Ogden, PhD, MPP
Global Public Health R&D Policy and External Engagement Leader
Johnson & Johnson

Adjunct Faculty

Melissa Kaufman, EdD
Associate Dean for Education
Dornsife School of Public Health

Greg Langan, DHSc, LSW, MPH
Administrative Director, Addiction Medicine
Cooper University Health Care

Anne Roux, MPH, MA
Director of Research & Policy Impact
A.J. Drexel Autism Institute

Frank Rowe, MBS, MPH
Consulting and Executive Coaching
Cecond Opinion

Y. Brook Tillman, PhD
Clinical Public Health Administration SME

Volunteer Faculty

David Barton Smith, PhD
Author and former adjunct professor at Dornsife

Department Staff

Jennifer Doan - Grants and Business Administrator

Sarah Flynn - Administrative Coordinator

Alex Mesaros - Administrative Coordinator and Assistant to the Chair