College for Public Health and Social Justice Faculty and Staff

Office of the Dean

Leslie McClure, Ph.D.
Dean
Michael Elliott, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Enbal Shacham, Ph.D., M. Ed.
Associate Dean of Research

Department of Behavioral Science and Health Equity

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Department of Health Management and Policy

College Staff

Bernie Backer
Director-Public Health Graduate Admission and Recruitment
Maria Borrego
HMP Administrative Assistant
Amber Busler
Ph.D. Program Coordinator & Communications Project Manager
Maggie Callon
Program Manager-Undergraduate Programs
Mary Dant
Assistant Dean-Finance and Administration
Karen Effinger
Senior Financial Coordinator
Kevin Gates
Director, Professional Development and Alumni Engagement
Mary-Lynn Glenn
MPH Internship Coordinator
Kathleen (Katie) Linnenbrink
Administrative Secretary-Undergraduate Programs
Ben Loewnau
Marketing and Communications Specialist
Nicole Lyon
Executive Assistant to the Dean
Patti Mazzuca
Data Coordinator and Public Health Admissions
Spring Schmidt
Director - Public Health Practice
Maggie Snodgrass
M.H.A./MP.H._H.M.P. Program Coordinator
Ophelia Velasquez
M.P.H. Program Manager

Grant Staff

Sabel Bass
Program Manager, Center for Excellence for Maternal and Child Health
James Burns
Program Manager, RWPC
Rene Dulle
Director, Center for Environmental Education & Training, CEET
Germysha Little
Program Evaluation Coordinator, RWPC
Dephanie McGill-Brandon
Manger, Center for Environmental Education & Training, CEET
Scott Nyberg
Heartland Center
Ally Terhaar
Research Manager
Spring Schmidt
Director - Public Health Practice

Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH, MA, MPA and colleagues published the research essay 'Achieving the Health Equity Agenda Through Transformative Community-Engaged Strategies' in the CDC's publication titled "Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy."
Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (TGI / Behavioral Science and Health Equity) was interviewed on KMOX-AM 1120 about using geospatial technology in public health.
Enbal Shacham, Ph.D., M. Ed. (Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Behavioral Science and Health Equity) co-authored the research article "The Effect of a Merit Point Incentive System on the Willingness to Donate Organs" in the journal 'Transplantation Proceedings.'
SangNam Ahn contributed to the research study 'Group-based trajectory analysis identifies varying diabetes-related cost trajectories among type 2 diabetes patients in Texas: an empirical study using commercial insurance'
Spring Schmidt, Director of the Office of Public Health Practice at SLU & CPHSJ was named to the St. Louis Magazine list "Women who make St. Louis great."
Michael Rozier, S.J., Ph.D. (Health Management and Policy) was mentioned in Independent Catholic News about the Catholic Church’s role in healthcare.
Travis Loux, Ph.D. and colleagues published the study "A cross-sectional study: Association between tobacco/alcohol usage and mental health with disabilities."
Professor Echu Liu, Ph.D., M.B.A. and colleagues published the research "The impact of healthcare industry convergence on the performance of the public health system: a geospatial modeling study of provincial panel data from China"
Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (Public Health and Social Justice) was quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the difficulty surrounding getting the updated COVID-19 booster.
Steve Rigdon, Ph.D. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) was an author on a study that proposed a framework for developing data-driven prescriptive optimization models with risk criteria for traditional trucking applications. The study 'Shortest Path Problems with a Crash Risk Objective' was just published in the 'Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.'
Keon Gilbert, DrPH (Behavioral Science and Health Education) co-authored the research article "An Invitation to Imagine: Conclusion of the HPP Series “What Is Anti-Racism in Health Promotion Practice?”" in the Health Promotion Practice journal. The article discusses their invitation to scholars and practitioners to review all 17 contributions to the series and to continue to ask – and address – the question ‘What is anti-racism in our practice, scholarship, and lives?”
Professor Katherine A. Stamatakis, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Aly Terhaar from CPHSJ contributed to the published study 'A Communitywide Collaboration to Increase Enrollment, Retention, and Success in Evidence-Based Lifestyle-Change Programs in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations.'
Fr. Michael Rozier and student volunteers published a report in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice titled 'Neither Words nor Images: Health Departments' and Hospitals' Use of Twitter During COVID-19 Had Limited Racial Representation and Content on Disparities Decreased Over Time' that determined the degree to which hospitals and state health departments used written content or visual representation on social media to draw attention to racial disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Saint Louis University was named on the of the 20 best universities for health administration by Becker’s Hospital Review.
Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (TGI) was highlighted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Washington Exec for being named to the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) Board of Directors.
The Mosquito Alert STL project team is promoting use of this smartphone app around our community. MASTL team members Jeanine Arrighi (St. Louis Academic Health), Alexis Bingham (SLU Masters candidate and MASTL student partner), and Dr. Ricardo Wray (Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice) talk with Earthworms podcast host (and fellow MASTL team partner) Jean Ponzi about this exciting, locally evolving work.
Terri Rebmann, Ph.D. was quoted in Healio about a study that showed with universal masking at Saint Louis University there was no increase in COVID-19 after ending distancing rules.
Enbal Shacham, Ph.D. (TGI), Vasit Sagan, Ph.D. (TGI), Justin M. Vilbig (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), and Geoffrey Kangogo (Graduate) were all featured in Eurekalert and Scienmag about TGI-led research that found climate change and population increases in Kenya could threaten the country with famine.
Dr. Anne Sebert Kuhlmann's (Behavioral Science and Health Education) research on period poverty in St. Louis & work with local organization 'Dignity Period' was featured in a recent Ladue News publication regarding Dr. Kuhlmann's work to bring local and global access to sanitary menstrual hygiene products.
Professor Enbal Shacham, and recent doctoral graduates Stephen Scroggins and Matthew Ellis, recently published the research article 'Implementing Geospatial Science and Technology to Get to Zero New HIV Infections' in the journal 'Current HIV/AIDS Reports'.
Ph.D. student Geoffrey Kangogo and colleagues published the paper 'Correlates of prior HIV testing and schistosomiasis treatment: Baseline survey findings from the "creating demand for fishermen's schistosomiasis HIV services" (FISH) cluster-randomized trial in Mangochi, Malawi' in the journal 'PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.'