Executive Board
President
Stephanie Miles-Richardson, DVM, PhD
Assistant Dean
Graduate Education in Public Health
Director, Master of Public Health Program
Morehouse School Of Medicine
Phone: 404-752-1905
Email: smiles-richardson@msm.edu
Stephanie Miles-Richardson, DVM, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). She received a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology from Grambling State University, a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree from Tuskegee School of Veterinary Medicine, and a dual PhD in Pathology and Environmental Toxicology from Michigan State University. At MSM, she serves as Assistant Dean of Graduate Education in Public Health and Director of the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program. She joined MSM after over a decade of federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) where she held several positions including Toxicologist, Scientific Technical Advisor and Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Disparities Policy in the CDC’s Office of the Director.
Stephanie Miles-Richardson, DVM, PhD
Assistant Dean
Graduate Education in Public Health
Director, Master of Public Health Program
Morehouse School Of Medicine
Phone: 404-752-1905
Email: smiles-richardson@msm.edu
Stephanie Miles-Richardson, DVM, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). She received a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology from Grambling State University, a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree from Tuskegee School of Veterinary Medicine, and a dual PhD in Pathology and Environmental Toxicology from Michigan State University. At MSM, she serves as Assistant Dean of Graduate Education in Public Health and Director of the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program. She joined MSM after over a decade of federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) where she held several positions including Toxicologist, Scientific Technical Advisor and Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Disparities Policy in the CDC’s Office of the Director.
President-Elect
Tony Sinay, Ph.D.
Department Chair
Health Care Administration
California State University, Long Beach
Email: tony.sinay@csulb.edu
Tony Sinay is a faculty member in the Health Care Administration (HCA) Department at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) since 2003. He served as a program director in 2003-2009, and has been a chair since 2009. Previously Dr. Sinay worked at Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center as an Associate Professor, and at University of Scranton as an Assistant Professor. He taught various health care courses including health care economics and finance, and his publications appeared in high impact journals including the Social Science & Medicine, Health Care Management Review, Journal of Health Care Finance, Journal of Rural Health and Journal of Public Health and Health Management. Dr. Sinay received his PhD and MS degrees from St. Louis University in economics and finance, respectively. Dr. Sinay has been very successful building up a HCA Department at CSULB with substantial new funds, and he would like to help AAPHP to do the same.
Tony Sinay, Ph.D.
Department Chair
Health Care Administration
California State University, Long Beach
Email: tony.sinay@csulb.edu
Tony Sinay is a faculty member in the Health Care Administration (HCA) Department at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) since 2003. He served as a program director in 2003-2009, and has been a chair since 2009. Previously Dr. Sinay worked at Des Moines University - Osteopathic Medical Center as an Associate Professor, and at University of Scranton as an Assistant Professor. He taught various health care courses including health care economics and finance, and his publications appeared in high impact journals including the Social Science & Medicine, Health Care Management Review, Journal of Health Care Finance, Journal of Rural Health and Journal of Public Health and Health Management. Dr. Sinay received his PhD and MS degrees from St. Louis University in economics and finance, respectively. Dr. Sinay has been very successful building up a HCA Department at CSULB with substantial new funds, and he would like to help AAPHP to do the same.
Past-President
Jim VanDerslice
Associate Chief
Division of Public Health
University of Utah
Email: jim.vanderslice@utah.edu
Jim VanDerslice is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Associate Chief of Research in the Division of Public Health at the University of Utah. He was the Program Director of the MPH Program at the University of Texas-Houston, School of Public Health, El Paso, Texas where he participated in their CEPH accreditation. Has been active in the Division of Public Health policies, mission, vision, goals and objectives, program competencies, and preparation for their seven year reaccreditation.
Jim VanDerslice
Associate Chief
Division of Public Health
University of Utah
Email: jim.vanderslice@utah.edu
Jim VanDerslice is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Associate Chief of Research in the Division of Public Health at the University of Utah. He was the Program Director of the MPH Program at the University of Texas-Houston, School of Public Health, El Paso, Texas where he participated in their CEPH accreditation. Has been active in the Division of Public Health policies, mission, vision, goals and objectives, program competencies, and preparation for their seven year reaccreditation.
Secretary
Victoria Rivkina Program Manager Master of Public Health DePaul University Email: vrivkina@depaul.edu Victoria Rivkina is the Program Manager of DePaul University’s Master of Public Health program. In her current role, Victoria is responsible for program accreditation, admissions, student advising, and general program operations. Victoria earned her MPH from DePaul in 2013 and became a Certified Health Education Specialist in 2014. Prior to returning to DePaul in her current capacity, Victoria oversaw chronic condition policy compliance for Chicago Public Schools. Additional public health experience includes pediatric asthma and food allergy research at Northwestern University and program evaluation at the Chicago Department of Public Health. Victoria's public health interests include school health, program evaluation, and access to care. |
Treasurer
Steven Godin, PhD, MPH, PHI Certificate Visiting Professor; Division of Public Health Department of Family and Preventive Medicine University of Utah Phone: 801-585-9365 Email: steven.godin@utah.edu After 25 years of having coordinated the BSPH and MPH at East Stroudsburg University (ESU), I retired in August, 2016. Shortly thereafter I was awarded Professor Emeritus at ESU. Looking for a career capstone experience, I accepted an offer to be a Visiting Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine teaching in the graduate public health programs and continuing with my funded research programs I brought with me from ESU. My future role will be to help bring the undergraduate public health programs under the unit of CEPH accreditation at the school. With regard to my research, I am interested in evaluating the efficacy of chronic disease prevention efforts. I am particularly interested in community-systems level primary and secondary prevention. I also have interests in public health informatics, and the use of patient portals within electronic health records to improve health literacy and self-efficacy in disease and health condition management. In my 25+ years in public health, I have received over $5 million in grant funding while authoring over 70 professional publications and technical reports, and over 160 conference presentations. I received my BA Degree in Social-Personality Psychology from the California State University, Fullerton, CA in 1980. I continued my education at the Illinois Institute of Technology where I received my MS Degree in Community Psychology (a cousin to public health) in 1983 and my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1989. Like so many people interested in community-based prevention, I had not heard about the field of public health while going to school. My professional interests in population-based approaches brought me into contact with the public health workforce in the late 80’s, and I enrolled in the Health Education/Behavioral Science track at Rutgers University School of Public Health in 1990 and received my MPH in 1994. Years later while on sabbatical from ESU in 2006-2007, I enrolled at the School of Public Health at University of Illinois, Chicago Circle and completed my Post-Graduate Certificate in Public Health Informatics. |
Member-at-Large
Amanda S. Birnbaum, PhD, MPH Professor and Chair Department of Public Health Email: Birnbauma@montclair.edu Dr. Amanda Birnbaum, Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health, Montclair State University, received her PhD from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. With a social ecological perspective, Dr. Birnbaum combines quantitative and qualitative methods to understand and improve social environmental factors, such as neighborhood and school environments; and has collaborated on development and evaluation of local and national initiatives to promote healthier eating and physical activity among families and communities, working with partners such as Healthy Children Healthy Futures initiative, Partners for Health Foundation, and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation. More recently, Dr. Birnbaum has begun research collaborations focused on sexual violence on college campuses and in communities. She serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Health Behavior, Health Behavior and Policy Review, and International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. An active mentor of public health professionals across the career span, she received the 2015 National Academic Advising Association’s Outstanding Faculty Advising Award. |
Member-at-Large
Andrea Crivelli-Kovach, Ph.D., MCHES. Professor, Department of Public Health, Director of the MPH Program, College of Health Sciences Email: crivella@arcadia.edu Andrea Crivelli-Kovach, Professor, MPH Program Director & Founding Chair, Department of Public Health, Arcadia University, earned degrees in Biology/Biochemistry, Nutrition, and Community Public Health (specialty in maternal & child health). Dr. Crivelli-Kovach was a visiting professor at EWHA University in Seoul, South Korea and served on a task force with the CDC to develop a national instrument to measure Maternity Care Practices in US hospitals based on the Global Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. Her areas of research include: (a) Global hospital breastfeeding policies and practices; (b) impact of implementing the Ten Steps on nurse practice outcomes, (c) mothers’ experiences with breastfeeding in the hospital setting and (d) the effect of community health workers on empowerment in low-income women. In 1994, she developed an instrument to evaluate implementation of the BFHI’s Ten Steps in the hospital setting, which was used throughout the U.S. and internationally and became the framework for the Maternity Care Practices Instrument developed by the CDC and currently used to evaluate US hospitals. |
Member-at-Large
Marshare Penny, DrPH Director, Master of Public Health Associate Professor of Public Health Department of Public Health Sciences Email: mpenny@calbaptist.edu Marshare Penny is the Director of the Master of Public Health Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at California Baptist University. She has more than 15 years of experience in community and public health, with 10 years serving as a local epidemiologist in the Inland Empire region of California. Her research interests include the areas of health equity, social determinants of health, epidemiology, disaster preparedness, mental health, and injury and violence prevention. She earned her DrPH in Health Promotion from Loma Linda University and her MPH in epidemiology from San Diego State University. |
President Emeritus
Stephen Alder
University of Utah |
Gary Gilmore
University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse |
Daniel Bibeau
University of North Carolina, Greensboro |
