Roster/Contact Information

The APHA Science Board ensures the Association's professional and public policy programs are evidence-based by reviewing proposed APHA policies for their scientific adequacy, and actively participating in the Association's policy review process.

 

Deborah Prothrow Stith, MD (Science Board Chair)
Associate Dean and Professor
Harvard School of Public Health
841 Parker Street, Ground Floor Office
Roxbury, MA 02120
Phone: (617) 495-7777
Fax: (617) 496-0781
E-mail: dprothro@hsph.harvard.edu
Term Expires: 2009
Section: Food and Nutrition

Elizabeth A. Bancroft MD, SM

Medical Epidemiologist

Acute Communicable Disease Control

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

313 North Figueroa, Room 212

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Daytime Telephone: 213-240-7941

After 5 PM: 213-250-8669

Fax: 213-482-4856

e-mail: ebancroft@ph.lacounty.gov
Term Expires: 2008
Section: Epidemiology

Michele Bloch, MD, PhD

Medical Officer

Tobacco Control Research Branch

National Cancer Institute

Executive Plaza North, room 4036

6130 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7337

Bethesda, MD 20892-7337

Telephone: 301-402-5284

Fax: 301-496-8675

e-mail: blochm@mail.nih.gov
Term Expires: 2010
 
Denise Cora-Bramble, MD, MBA

Executive Director
Children's Hospital
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010
Phone: (202) 884-5857
Fax: (202) 884-3470
E-mail: dcorabra@cnmc.org
Term Expires: 2008
Section: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

José F. Cordero, MD, MPH
Dean
University of Puerto Rico
Graduate School of Public Health
Medical Sciences Campus
PO Box 365067
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-5067
Telephone: 787 764-5975
Fax: 787 759-6719
e-mail: jcordero@rcm.upr.edu

Term Expires: 2008

Robyn C. Gilden, RN, MS
Environment Health RN
UMBSON
4165 Louisville Rd
Finskburg, MD 21048
Telephone: (410) 706-4803
Fax: (410) 706-0295
e-mail: rgilden@son.umaryland.edu
Term Expires: 2008
Section: Environment

Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH

Professor and Chair

Director, Emergency Medicine

Director, Injury Research Center

Firearm Injury Center

Medical College of Wisconsin

9200 W. Wisconsin Ave.

Milwaukee, WI, 53226

Telephone: 414-805-6454

e-mail: hargart@mcw.edu

Term Expires: 2010

Richard Joseph Jackson, MD, MPH 
University of Michigan  
Director, Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute
4503 Dana Building
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1041
Telephone:
734-615-3826  
E-mail: rjrjmd@umich.edu
Term Expires: 2010

Suzanne M. Kupiec, MPH, CSP
Biosafety Officer

UMDNJ - Environmental & Occupational Health & Safety Services
65 Bergen Street - 4th Floor, Room 443
P O Box 1709
Newark, NJ 07101
Phone: (973) 972-3820
Fax: (973) 972-3694
E-mail: suzannekupiec@msn.com
Term Expires: 2009
Section: Occupational Health and Safety


Harry Perlstadt, PhD, MPH
Professor of Sociology
Michigan State University - Sociology Department
316 Berkey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1111
Phone: (517) 353-5089
Fax: (517) 432-2856 Fax
E-mail: perlstad@msu.edu
Term Expires: 2008
Section: Community Health Planning and Policy Development

Geraldine S. Perry-Allen, DrPH, RD
Lead Health Scientist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4770 Buford Highway, NE - Mailstop K-67
Atlanta, GA 30341
Telephone: (770) 488-5174
Fax: (770) 488-5965
e-mail: gperry@cdc.gov
Term Expires: 2009
Section: Food and Nutrition

John Santelli, MD, MPH

Professor & Chair

Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health

Mailman School of Public Health

Columbia University

60 Haven Avenue, B-2

New York, New York 10032

Telephone:  (212) 304-5634

e-mail: js2637@columbia.edu
Term Expires: 2009
Section: Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health

Joan Stelmack, OD, MPH

Chief Optometry

Blind Rehabilitation Service

Edward E. Hines VA Hospital

5000 South 5th Avenue

Hines, IL.60141-3030

Telephone: (708)202-2124

Fax: (708)202-7949

e-mail: Joan.Stelmack@va.gov

Term Expires: 2010

Section: Vision Care

Rosemary K. Sokas, MD, MOH

Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

2121 W. Taylor St.  M/C922

Chicago, IL  60612

Phone:  312-355-4497

Fax:    312-413-9898

E-mail: sokas@uic.edu

Term Expires: 2010
Section: Occupational Health and Safety

 
David H. Wegman, MD, MSC
Dean, School of Health & Environment
University of Massachusetts - Lowell
3 Solomont Way, Suite 1
Lowell, MA 01854-5121
Phone: (978) 934-4460
Fax: (978) 934-3006
E-mail: david_wegman@uml.edu
Term Expires: 2008
Section: Occupational Health and Safety

Stanley H. Weiss, MD, FACP
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health
UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical and NJ School of Public Health
30 Bergen Street
Bldg. ADMC-16- Suite 1614
Newark, NJ 07107-3000
Phone: (973) 972-4623
Fax: (973) 972-6556
E-mail: weiss@umdnj.edu
Term Expires: 2009
Section: Epidemiology

 

Student Member

Kristy A. Siegel, MPH, CHES

PhD student in Environmental Health

University of South Florida, College of Public Health
14220 SW 34th St.

Miami, FL 33175

Phone: (305) 498-1940
E-mail: chair-elect@aphastudents.org
Term Expires: 2009
Section: Environment

 

APHA Staff Liaison

Kristen Suthers, PhD, MPH

Health Policy Analyst

APHA Center for Public Health Policy
Phone: (202) 777-2434
Fax: (202) 777-2532

Kristen.Suthers@apha.org


APHA Headquarters
800 I St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-3710
Fax: (202) 777-2533