The MCH Program's interdisciplinary faculty includes experts from a wide array of disciplines including: epidemiology, health policy, environmental health, biostatistics, medicine, psychology, social welfare and international health. For more information about program faculty, please explore the following links:

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1. 1 Core Faculty
   1. 1.1 Sylvia Guendelman, Ph.D., Program Chair
   2. 1.2 Ralph Catalano, Ph.D., M.R.P.
   3. 1.3 Julianna Deardorff, Ph.D.
   4. 1.4 Brenda Eskenazi, Ph.D.
   5. 1.5 Robert (Nap) Hosang, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A
   6. 1.6 Suellen Miller, Ph.D., C.N.M., M.H.A
   7. 1.7 Cheri Pies, Dr.P.H.
   8. 1.8 D. Malcolm Potts, Ph.D., M.B.
   9. 1.9 Ndola Prata, M.D., M.Sc.
   10. 1.10 Julia Walsh, M.D., D.T.P.H.
2. 2 Affiliated Faculty
   1. 2.1 Barbara Abrams, R.D., Dr.P.H.
   2. 2.2 Ernest Hook, M.D.
   3. 2.3 Ira Tager, Ph.D.

Core Faculty

Sylvia Guendelman, Ph.D., Program Chair

Interests: Reproductive health of immigrant women; Women’s health; Access to healthcare for disadvantaged populations, including the working poor; Health along the US-Mexico border

Courses: MCH Needs Assessment, Journal Club, Contemporary Policy Issues in MCH, Program Planning

Ralph Catalano, Ph.D., M.R.P.

Interests: Economic antecedents of specialty mental health services utilization; Economic antecedents of stress related illness

Courses: Place and Health, Theories of Health and Social Behavior
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Julianna Deardorff, Ph.D.

Interests: Pubertal development; Adolescent sexuality and reproductive health; Promotion of positive mental health among children and adolescents; Latina families and health behaviors; Stress and coping

Courses: Adolescent Health

Brenda Eskenazi, Ph.D.

Interests: Reproductive and pediatric epidemiology; Effects of environmental exposures to male and female reproduction and children’s health; Migrant farm worker health

Courses: Practicum in Epidemiological Methods, Research Issues Seminar (Thesis/CBRP Preparation), Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology

Robert (Nap) Hosang, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A

Interests: Maternal and Child Health service delivery in developing countries; Maternal mortality reduction

Courses: Contemporary Policy Issues in MCH, Women’s Health: Issues and Opportunities for Advocacy

Suellen Miller, Ph.D., C.N.M., M.H.A

Interests: International safe motherhood and maternal mortality reduction; Qualitative Research Methodologies; Ethics of informed consent process in developing countries

Courses: International MCH, Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Public Health Research

Cheri Pies, Dr.P.H.

Interests: Reducing and eliminating disparities in birth outcomes through implementation of the Life Course Model; Incentives in delivery of reproductive health services; Use of photovoice in defining community health issues; Lesbian and gay health concerns; Use of focus group research in public health practice

Courses: MCH Core Course

D. Malcolm Potts, Ph.D., M.B.

Interests: Economics and mobilization of resources for international family planning; Biology of human sexual behavior; AIDS prevention strategies and resource needs; Safe motherhood, including safe abortion; Biological origin of human warfare

Courses: Family Planning, Population Change, and Health, An Overview of the AIDS Epidemic, Human Sexuality

Ndola Prata, M.D., M.Sc.

Interests: Family planning; Ability to pay and financing of reproductive health programs; Adolescent sexual behavior in developing countries; Maternal health and the use of misoprostol to manage postpartum bleeding

Courses: Family Planning, Population Change and Health, Women’s Health: Issues and Opportunities for Advocacy

Julia Walsh, M.D., D.T.P.H.

Interests: Financing issues of health systems in poor communities; Financing and access to family planning, reproductive health interventions, and vaccines; Cost-effectiveness analysis for priority setting; Latino/a health and acculturation

Courses: International Health Core Course

Affiliated Faculty

Barbara Abrams, R.D., Dr.P.H.

Interests: Weight and weight gain in women during pregnancy, postpartum and menopause; Maternal weight, nutrition, social factors and perinatal health outcomes; Could expressed and heat-treated breast milk prevent perinatal HIV transmission?

Ernest Hook, M.D.

Interests: Epidemiology of birth defects & chromosome abnormalities; Capture-recapture methods in epidemiology; Human mutation, chromosome abnormalities, prenatal diagnosis; History and philosophy of medicine and science.

Ira Tager, Ph.D.

Interests: Effects of air pollution on human health; Epidemiology of asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease; Physical activity and disability in the elderly; Community-based asthma prevention.