The mission of the Department of Health Management and Policy (HMP) is to develop and support highly qualified and appropriately trained public health leaders to assume management and policy roles to support population and community health improvement. The focus of the Department is on leadership for the planning, implementation and operation of systemic, effective and community responsive programs and organizations, as well as organizational and policy interventions requiring some combination of management, organization, finance, advocacy and political action, and public policy analysis skills.
Department Faculty
John A. Rich, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Chair
Dennis P. Andrulis, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assoc. Dean for Research, Director of the Center for Health Equality
Dennis Gallagher, M.A., M.P.A.
Associate Professor
Marla J. Gold, M.D.
Dean, Professor
William J. Hickey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Jennifer Kolker, M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Raymond K. Lum, M.Phil., M.S.
Assistant Professor
David Barton Smith, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Nicole A. Vaughn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Secondary Appointments
Kerry Anne McGeary, Ph.D., M.A.
Assistant Professor
Adjunct Faculty
Linda Cutler, M.S.W., F.A.C.M.P.E.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Janet Davidson, M.B.A., M.Ed.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Mary Duden, M.B.A.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Michael Halter, M.P.H.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Susan W. Robbins, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Michelle Sahl, M.B.A., M.Ed.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Janet L. Stevenson, M.B.A.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Robert Tremain, M.P.H.
Adjunct Associate Professor