The Drexel University School of Public Health recently hired Carol Ann Gross-Davis, MS, and Jennifer A. Taylor, PhD, MPH as assistant professors at the school's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. The two new faculty members bring more than 30 years of combined experience in environmental assessment, patient safety and healthcare quality to the school.
Gross-Davis and Dr. Taylor join an already accomplished department of public health experts, and will teach courses and serve as faculty advisors for student practicum programs. They will also continue to conduct leading research in environmental and occupational health.
Dr. Taylor's research expertise includes occupational safety, patient quality improvement, healthcare workforce culture and injury epidemiology. She has acquired more than 15 years of experience in state government, hospital management and basic sciences. Her research extends to healthcare systems, public policy and enhancing occupational safety through workplace solutions. This includes promoting hospital safety through such policies as pay-for-performance and other non-punitive improvement incentives. Her research also addresses the association between workplace culture and injuries to patients and nurses.
Prior to joining the Drexel University School of Public Health, Dr. Taylor served as the Chief of Health Statistics and Data Management for the State of New Hampshire. She also served as the director of a CDC-funded program to establish emergency department data systems for injury surveillance at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and other related positions. She received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and her MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health.
Gross-Davis, joins the School of Public Health through an Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Region III office. She also served as an adjunct professor of biology at Drexel University.
Gross-Davis has been trained in the field of environmental science and engineering and uses these principles to execute environmental policy and regulations to address environmental quality and its connection to quality of life. She has 16 years of experience as an environmental scientist for the EPA, where she focused on implementing and developing regulations/policies for a broad range of environmental programs at the federal, state and local levels. The initiatives included the Brownfields and Hazardous Waste programs, Water Management Program and the Partnerships and Innovation with Stakeholders division.
Gross-Davis received her Master of Science in Engineering from Drexel University, and Bachelor of Science from Cabrini College.