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Principal support for the Public Health Training Center (PHTC) is provided through a grant from the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

 

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Academic Partners

Boston University School of Public Health

Anne T. Fidler, Sc.D
Principal Investigator, HRSA PHTC Grant, Assistant Dean, Public Health Practice, Associate Professor, Environmental Health
Since arriving at BUSPH, Dr. Fidler has engaged in many activities with students and faculty to bridge the worlds of academic research and the practice of public health at the local, state, and federal levels. After receiving her Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) in Environmental Health and Physiology (Occupational Health) from the Harvard School of Public Health, she became an officer in CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service. For many years she was an epidemiologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), where she worked as an epidemiologist, conducting numerous investigations of health hazards in a wide variety of occupations. Over the past several years, the majority of her efforts have involved the assessment of preparedness for public health emergencies. She has led CDC's efforts in the conduct of two national assessments of state and local emergency preparedness conducted with the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Fidler serves on a number of local, state, and national advisory boards related to occupational health and public health practice.

Daniel Merrigan, EdD, MPH
Associate Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Daniel Merrigan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He currently serves as co-Principal Investigator for both the HRSA-funded New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development and the CDC-funded Massachusetts Regional Public Health Leadership Forum. In addition, he was the Director of the HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Certificate Education Program. All of these projects provide innovative education and training that improves local public health infrastructure by increasing the skills and competencies of the currently employed public health workforce.

Wayne Lamorte, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology, Assistant Dean for Education
Dr. LaMorte is a graduate of Rutgers University (BA) and the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (MD). He received a PhD in biochemistry and an MPH at Boston University. His early career focused on biomedical research, but for the past 15 years his primary interest has been public health, particularly in graduate and undergraduate education. He is active in the MPH program at Boston University School of Public Health, where he teaches "Introduction to Epidemiology" and "The Biology of Public Health." Dr. LaMorte also teaches evidence-based medicine in the Boston University School of Medicine, and he has been an active contributor to the Integrated Problems course in the school of medicine. In his role as Assistant Dean for Education, Dr. LaMorte is exploring opportunities to integrate the MPH curriculum and the application of technology to improve teaching. He serves as the director of the MD-MPH dual degree program, the BS-MPH dual degree program, and he is the advisor for the Public Health Minor programs at the College of Arts and Sciences and at Boston University's Sargent College. Dr. LaMorte also works actively on community-based public health projects, particularly with local public schools.

Kathleen MacVarish, MS, RS/REHS
Clincial Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Director of Practice Programs
Kathleen MacVarish directs the external Public Health Practice Office projects which include the New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development, the Partnership for Effective Emergency Response, the MA Public Health Regionalization Project and the Academic Health Department with MDPH Emergency Preparedness Region 4b. Ms. MacVarish was a local Board of Health Agent in Massachusetts for 15 years and also worked as a Sanitarian/Inspector in California and New York. She has been a Registered Sanitarian/Registered Environmental Health Specialist (RS/REHS) since 1986. She received a B.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and an M.S. in Environmental Studies from UMass Lowell.

Harvard School of Public Health

Paul H. Campbell, MPA, ScD
Lecturer on Management, Co-Investigator and Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness
Paul Campbell has faculty appointments in the Departments of Health Policy and Management and Population/International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Responsibilities have included teaching a core course in the Masters Degree Program in Public Health (MPH), advising graduate students and leading executive courses on health policy and management issues for health leaders across the U.S. and abroad. He is a Co-Investigator in the Harvard SPH Center for Public Health Preparedness and Deputy Director of the International Health Systems Program. Mr. Campbell received his ScD from Harvard University School of Public Health, MPA from Portland State University and a BA from Bowdoin College.

University of New England

Karen O'Rourke, MPH
Deputy Director for Program Development
Karen O’Rourke is currently the Deputy Director for Program Development at the University of New England’s Center for Community and Public Health in Portland Maine -- a position she has held since 2010.  In her role at UNE Karen is involved in a number of statewide initiatives.  She coordinates the Maine Prevention Research Center (MPRC), an obesity-related research and research translation program in partnership with the Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center and the Maine’s state health department.  Karen is the outreach coordinator for the field placement course for the recently accredited Master of Public Health program and uses her 20 years of public health work in Maine to assist students in finding appropriate field placement opportunities throughout Maine and the country.  She is also responsible for a number of workforce development activities, including the New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development.   Prior to coming to UNE, Karen held positions at the Maine Center for Public Health, the City of Portland’s public health department, the state public health department and the American Cancer Society.  Karen received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and her Masters in Public Health from San Jose State University.