Division of Public Health Program Office
Yvonne Johnston, DrPH, MS, FNP
Associate Professor/Founding Director, MPH Program
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Mitchell Brooks
Field Placement Coordinator
Public Health
Maegan Berliner
Senior Staff Assistant, Public Health
Public Health
Faculty
Yvonne Johnston, DrPH, MS, FNP
Associate Professor/Founding Director, MPH Program
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Research Interests
- Public health
- Epidemiology
- Nursing
- Population health
- Program evaluation
- Chronic disease risk reduction
- Health promotion
- Fall prevention among older adults
- Evidence-based practice
- Data analytics
- Social determinants of health
- Translational research
Sharon A. Bryant, PhD
Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Decker College
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Research Interests
- Health promotion and disease prevention behaviors of underrepresented populations
- Intimate partner violence among college students
Alex Chase-Levenson
Associate Professor
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Research Interests
- Modern Britain and its empire
- Europe in the long 19th century
- History of the modern Mediterranean
- History of medicine and public health
- History of epidemic disease
Thomas Foley, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Public Health Division
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Research Interests
- The prevention and treatment of chronic diseases via health behaviors
- Sarcopenia and the benefits of progressive resistance training as sarcopenia prevention and treatment of sarcopenia among community-dwelling older adults
Miesha Marzell, PhD
Associate Professor, Public Health Division
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Research Interests
- Substance abuse prevention among racial/ethnic minorities
- Athlete substance use
- mental health and wellness
- Marijuana policy reform
- Community-based interventions
- Interdisciplinary approaches to social and behavioral health science research
Deena B. Thomas, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Public Health
Research Interests
- Environmental health
- Health equity
- Nutrition
- Global health
- Chronic diseases
- Maternal and child health
- Indigenous peoples
- Mixed methods
Adjunct Faculty
Tamara Alibrahim, PhD, MPH, BHSA
Public Health Clinical Assistant Professor, Adjunct
Public Health; Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Laura Terriquez-Kasey, DNP
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor
Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences
