Joseph Flannery, MHA, MS
Interim Director, Graduate Program in Public Health
Track Director (Health Management)

• Services: Practicum Advisor
• Teaching: Financing Health Care, Health Care Management and Administration
• Education:
  • MHA, Health Care Administration, Old Dominion University, 1983
  • MS, Physical Education, Eastern Michigan University, 1972
  • BS, Physical Education, Eastern Michigan University, 1971
• Research Interests: Corporate Compliance and Ethics, Accreditation

A. James English, MSc
Associate Director, Track Director (Environmental Health)

• Teaching: Principles of Environmental Health Sciences
• Education:
  • MSc, Biostatistics, Old Dominion University, 1988
  • BSc, Biological Sciences, Lebanon Valley College, 1969
• Research Interests: Food Safety Education for Food Service Managers, Biological Environmental Stressors of Communicable Diseases, Interactions of Environmental Stressors on Underserved Community Neighborhoods, Solid Waste Characterizations of Urban Communities.

David O. Matson, MD, PhD
Professor

• Services: Hypothesis Creation, Study Design, Clinical Trials, Protocol Development
• Teaching: Current Issues in Epidemiology, Capstone Seminar
• Education:
  • MD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1983
  • PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1981
  • BS, Wheaton College, Illinois, 1976
• Research Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology, viral gastroenteritis.

C. Donald Combs, PhD
Vice President and Dean of the School of Health Professions
Professor of Health Professions and Family and Community Medicine
Instructor (Health Management)

• Services: Study design, data analysis and interpretation, protocol development
• Teaching: Health Care Strategy
• Education:
  • PhD, Political Science, University of North Carolina, 1980
  • MA, Political Science, Texas Technological, 1974
  • BA, Political Science, Texas Technological, 1972
• Research Interests: Modeling and Simulation, Strategic Planning, Health Policy, Interdisciplinary Education

Hind Baydoun, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor (Epidemiology)

• Services: Assistance with grant writing and study design, data management and statistical analysis using SAS
• Teaching: Principles of Epidemiology, Epidemiologic Methods I, Public Health Biology
• Education:
  • PhD, Epidemiology, University of Iowa, 2009
  • MPH, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, American University of Beirut, 1998
  • BS, Nutrition & Dietetics, American University of Beirut, 1995
  • BS, Biology, American University of Beirut, 1993
• Research Interests: reproductive, chronic disease and social epidemiology

Richard Vroman, MS
Assistant Professor

• Services: Admissions Advising, Practicum Advising
• Teaching: Introduction to Public Health Practice, Introduction to Public Health Project Methods, Community Pracitcum
• Education:
  • MS, Computer Systems Management, Naval Postgraduate School, 1973
  • BA, Natural Science, East Stroudsburg University, 1967
• Research Interests: Ethics in Public Health, Electronic Health Records

Kay L. Cherry, MS
Assistant Professor (Health Management)

• Services: Recruitment, Marketing, Community Garden Service Project Director
• Teaching: Practicum Advisor
• Education:
  • MS, Community Health Science, Old Dominion University, 2003
  • BS, Health Sciences, Old Dominion University, 2001
• Research Interests: Academic and Community Collaborations, Public Health Promotion Through Community Gardens, Experiential Learning in Public Health Education, Management in the Healthcare Setting.

Tina Cunningham, PhD
Assistant Professor (Biostatistics)

• Services: Study Design, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Protocol Development
• Teaching: Data Management with SAS, Statistacl Reasoning in Public Health
• Education:
  • PhD, Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010
  • BS, Neuroscience, College of William & Mary, 2006
  • AS, Science, Richard Bland College, 2004
  • BS, Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1989
• Research Interests: Survey sampling methods, cluster randomized trials, sample sizes calculation, multilevel modeling, multivariate analysis

Robert Bradshaw, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Track Director (Epidemiology)
Graduate Program in Public Health, Department of Family and Community Medicine

• Services: Public Health Training Center (PHTC) Research
• Teaching: Principles of Epidemiology, Practicum Advisor
• Education:
  • BA, Chemistry, Abilene Christian University, 1976
  • MD, University of Texas, 1980
  • MPH, Uniformed Services University, 1997
• Research Interests: Preventive Medicine

Donald Buckley, MHA, PhD, LFACHE
Assistant Professor (Health Management)

• Services: Practicum Advisor
• Teaching: Introduction to Public Health Practice
• Education:
  • PhD, Health Administration, Kennedy-Western University, 2001
  • MHA, Health Administration, University of Minnesota, 1961
  • BS, University of North Carolina, 1959
• Research Interests: Leadership skills in healthcare . Healthcare administration, governance, hospital/physician relations, community wellness.