This was the sixth installment of our Teaching Public Health series, which began in 2018. This year’s discussion reflected on how academic public health can act on the Framing the Future 2030 recommendations to better prepare the next generation of public health professionals.

This event was cohosted with the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH).

A full recording of the event will be posted to this page as soon as it becomes available.

Agenda

9:00 – 9:10 am ET
Welcome
9:10 – 10:15 am ET
Panel 1
10:15 – 10:30 am ET
Break
10:30 – 11:55 am ET
Panel 2
10:55 am – 12:00 pm ET
Closing Remarks

Resources

Event Transcript: Teaching Public Health Transforming Education for Public Health

Speakers

Tariem A. Burroughs

Director of Career Services and Experiential Learning, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health

Tariem A. Burroughs

Director of Career Services and Experiential Learning, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health

Tariem Burroughs is the Director of Career Services and Experiential Learning. He has worked at the intersection of health, education, and community for much of his career. He has always had the drive to make programs sustainable yet innovative and fresh to provide communities with the resources that they need to thrive.

He brings this same drive to this role and aims to empower and aid students who are pursuing careers in public health.

Tariem received his MS in Organizational Development and Leadership from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Master of Education Entrepreneurship from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Education from the University of Scranton. Most recently he completed his MA in Sociology en route to a PhD in Sociology at Temple University. He holds certifications in Geographic Information Systems and Teaching in Higher Education from Temple University.
Deirdre Calvert

Director, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Deirdre Calvert

Director, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Deirdre Calvert has been the Director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Addiction Services since April 2019. Previous to that, Director Calvert worked for more than 25 years as a clinical director and social worker in the Massachusetts substance use disorder system, including Opiate Treatment Programs, Residential Treatment Programs, and OBOTs. Director Calvert is also a Teaching Associate at Boston University School of Social Work and School of Public Health. Director Calvert holds a Masters in Social Work from Boston University, and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW).
Kristle Hodges Johnson

Executive Director, University High School, The University of Memphis

Kristle Hodges Johnson

Executive Director, University High School, The University of Memphis

Kristle Hodges Johnson leads University High School as its founding executive director. She joined the University of Memphis in 2022 to open the dual enrollment lab school on the college campus, with students having access to 30+ free college credits at an R1 institution, which values inclusivity, entrepreneurial mindsets, and other 21st century competencies embedded in this program. In their second year, Kristle and her team have already earned the highest grade for a Tennessee school, an A, which reflects high academic achievement and growth. To build on this success, students will choose dual enrollment pathways and experience a cluster of college level courses in the discipline area of their choice.

Before opening her current school, Kristle, taught and led in a traditional public school setting, served in a charter school network as a founding English teacher and literacy coach, and led students to achieve success on their state assessments by landing in the top 20% in the state of Tennessee, while also supporting other teachers to infuse literacy strategies, tiered vocabulary, and independent reading into all subject areas. In 2014, Kristle transitioned into a principal role of a founding school in its second year. She led a high school team which outperformed the state results and was named a Reward School in Tennessee as well as being recognized as one of the “Best High Schools” by U.S. News and World Reports, 2 consecutive years. She graduated the first 3 classes of students, all of which had 100% acceptances into 4-year colleges and universities.

After her first principalship, she became the founding Managing Director of Academics for Freedom Preparatory Academy Charter Schools where she managed the network academic team to develop K-12 curriculum and assessments, and train teachers and leaders on best instructional strategies.

In all of her roles she sets a high bar for herself and those around her, she forges strong relationships with team members, and always puts student success at the front of her decision making. Kristle completed her BA in English from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN, herMasters of Education from Christian Brothers University, and her Educational Doctorate degree from Vanderbilt University. Beyond education, she enjoys writing poetry, traveling, and laughing with her husband and two daughters.
Viviana Horigian

Professor, Educator Track; Director of Public Health Education, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Viviana Horigian

Professor, Educator Track; Director of Public Health Education, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Viviana E. Horigian, MD, MHA, is a Professor, Educator, in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is currently serving as the Director of Public Health Education, director of the Americas Initiative for Public Health Innovation, and directs the Masters in Public Health and Masters in Science in Public Health.

Dr. Horigian is also the Executive Director of the Florida Node Alliance of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) housed at the University of Miami. The Florida Node Alliance is a partnership between scientists and program leaders at the University of Miami with scientists and practice leaders from community treatment agencies located in Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico. As partners, scientists and practitioners design, implement, and train in interventions for alcohol and drug abuse treatment.

Dr. Horigian’s career has been committed to improving practice through the implementation of clinical trials in real-world settings, and in creating the local capacities that would allow the implementation of such trials. She was the Principal Investigator of a technology transfer project that aimed to develop the research infrastructure for the implementation of rigorous randomized clinical trials in Mexico. In this role, she mentored investigators from the National Institute of Psychiatry in Mexico on the design, implementation, safety, and interpretation of the results of RCTs in real-world treatment settings. She has used the same methodology for technology transfer to develop research capacity in Ecuador and Chile. Due to her international leadership, she was honored with the 2015 National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Program Award of Excellence.
Together with Drs Daniel Feaster and Sannisha Dale, she directs the CHANGE training program, an interdisciplinary, innovative, and timely approach to train the next generation of HIV behavioral scientists with skills to address persistent health disparities in HIV treatment and prevention in Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ communities.

She currently serves in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and represents the MSOM in its Academic Affairs Section. She is an advisory council member of the Hispanic and Latino Addiction Technology Transfer Center & of the National Latino Behavioral Association since 2019.
Marc T. Kiviniemi

Development Dimensions International Endowed Professor of Health, Behavior and Society, University of Kentucky College of Public Health

Marc T. Kiviniemi

Development Dimensions International Endowed Professor of Health, Behavior and Society, University of Kentucky College of Public Health

Marc Kiviniemi is Development Dimensions International Endowed Professor of Health, Behavior and Society in the College of Public Health at the University of Kentucky, a position he has held since 2018. In addition to his appointment in Health, Behavior and Society, Dr. Kiviniemi is a member of the Cancer Prevention program at the Markey Cancer Center and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Health Equity Transformation. He is national board certified in Public Health (CPH) by the National Board of Public Health Examiners.

Dr. Kiviniemi’s research focuses on understanding how people make decisions about engaging in health-related behaviors, how individuals process and respond to health risk communications and other information about their health, and how to communicate that information most effectively. He currently leads a transdisciplinary, community-engaged, NIH-funded project focusing on understanding COVID-19 vaccine behaviors in rural populations, with a specific focus on Appalachian Kentucky, and on developing effective strategies to address structural, social, and individual barriers to increase vaccination uptake in those areas. He is the author of more than 100 articles and book chapters and his work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health for nearly 20 years. Dr. Kiviniemi is a Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, past chair of the Society’s Health Decision Making Special Interest Group, and currently serves as Senior Co-Chair of the Society’s Theories and Techniques of Health Behavior Change Special Interest Group.

Dr. Kiviniemi has extensive experience in public health and social/behavioral sciences teaching and curriculum development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has contributed to the scholarship of teaching literature on innovative curriculum design for public health baccalaureate programs and evidence-based teaching techniques for high quality, learner centered public health education. From 2018-2020 he served as Chair of the Teaching Subgroup and as member of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Working Group of the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health and from 2020-2024 he served as a member of the steering committee and as Co-Chair of the Fostering Community Partnerships for a Healthier World Expert Panel for ASPPH’s Framing the Future: Education for Public Health 2030 initiative.

Dr. Kiviniemi received his BA in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Asheville in 1991, his PhD in Social Psychology from the University at Minnesota in 2001, and his MBA from the University of Kentucky in 2024. He served as Chair of the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at Kentucky from 2018-2022. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky, Dr. Kiviniemi was Director of Undergraduate Public Health Programs and Associate Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior in the School of Public Health and Health Professions at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, where he was a member of the faculty from 2007-2018, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2002-2007.
Howard K. Koh

Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Howard K. Koh

Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Howard K. Koh is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan) as well as Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. At Harvard Chan, he is also the inaugural Chair of the Initiative on Health and Homelessness and formerly headed the Center for Public Health Preparedness. He served as the 14^th Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (2009-2014) after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the US Senate, and as Commissioner of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1997-2003) after being appointed by Governor William Weld. He was also appointed by President Bill Clinton to the National Cancer Advisory Board (2000-2002). A graduate of Yale College (where he was President of the Yale Glee Club) and the Yale University School of Medicine, he trained at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, earned board certifications in four medical fields, served as Principal Investigator of research grants totaling $27M and published more than 300 articles in the medical and public health literature. He has received over 70 awards and honors for interdisciplinary accomplishments in medicine and public health including six honorary doctorate degrees, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award for National Service, the Sedgwick Memorial Medal from the American Public Health Association (its highest honor), the Champion Award from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and the Distinguished Service Award from the American Cancer Society. As part of recognition as a “Medical All Star” by the Boston Red Sox for promoting the early detection and prevention of melanoma, he delivered the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park (2003). In 2019, HHS established the annual Dr. Howard K. Koh Award for Excellence in Leadership sponsored by the Federal Asian Pacific American Council. He and his wife Dr Claudia Arrigg are the proud parents of three adult children and the proud grandparents of five grandchildren.
Kimberly Krytus

Assistant Dean and Director, Graduate Public Health Programs; University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions

Kimberly Krytus

Assistant Dean and Director, Graduate Public Health Programs; University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions

Kimberly Krytus is the Assistant Dean and Director of Graduate Public Health Programs at the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions, and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior. Dr. Krytus oversees graduate public health curricular design, competency and assessment development and evaluation, applied practice experiences, program and student outcomes, and accreditation. Her research focuses on public health education access and workforce development. She served as co-investigator and project director for two public health training programs funded by the Health Resources and Services Agency, an item writer for the Certified in Public Health exam since 2019, and ASPPH Framing the Future 2030 panel member. Dr. Krytus teaches public health courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, prioritizing community-engaged practice. She is a board member and communication lead for the Western New York Public Health Alliance, an alliance of health directors in the eight counties of Western New York, and a board member of the New York State Public Health Association. She also serves as a committee member with the Refugee Partnership of Western New York, and mass care supervisor and leadership team member for American Red Cross Disaster Services deploying to disasters across the U.S. since 2020.
Thomas A. LaVeist

Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Thomas A. LaVeist

Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Dr. LaVeist’s research and writing has focused on three broad thematic research questions: 1) What are the social and behavioral factors that predict the timing of various related health outcomes (e.g. access and utilization of health services, mortality, entrance into nursing home?); 2) What are the social and behavioral factors that explain race differences in health outcomes?; and 3) What has been the impact of social policy on the health and quality of life of African Americans? His work includes both qualitative and quantitative analysis. LaVeist seeks to develop an orienting framework in the development of policy and interventions to address race disparities in health-related outcomes. Specific areas of expertise include: U.S. health and social policy, the role of race in health research, social factors contributing to mortality, longevity and life expectancy, quantitative and demographic analysis and access, and utilization of health services.
Antoniah Lewis-Reese

Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives Office of the Dean, University of Illinois Chicago

Antoniah Lewis-Reese

Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives Office of the Dean, University of Illinois Chicago

Antoniah works across internal and external stakeholder groups to advance the priorities of the School by providing leadership and expertise on projects and programs focused on improving quality, culture, and effectiveness. Specifically, she is responsible for ensuring progress of strategic and compliance efforts (including those related to accreditation), identifying opportunities for strategic growth, leading institutional research and change initiatives, and providing vision for SPH brand development and communication efforts in collaboration with our Director of Marketing and Communications.
Laura Magaña

President & CEO, ASPPH

Laura Magaña

President & CEO, ASPPH

Dr. Laura Magaña is President and CEO of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). She is also the founding President of the Global Network for Academic Public Health (GNAPH), an alliance of seven regional associations representing schools and programs of public health worldwide. Under her leadership, ASPPH has continued to advance academic public health by mobilizing the collective power of its members to drive excellence and innovation in education, research, and practice.

During her tenure, ASPPH has strengthened academic public health research through the Data Center, launched the academic public health leadership institute, and enhanced the voice of academic public health through advocacy. Dr. Magaña expanded the association’s global reach and is leading five strategic initiatives to address critical issues in public health as part of ASPPH’s Vision 2030: Dismantling Racism in Academic Public Health, Climate Change and Health, Framing the Future 2030, Gun Violence Prevention and the ASPPH Workforce Development Center.

Prior to joining ASPPH,Dr. Magaña dedicated more than 35 years to successfully leading the transformation and advancements of public and private universities in Mexico, educational organizations in the United States, United Nations programs, and nongovernmental organizations in Central America and Europe. She was most recently the dean of the School of Public Health at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. Dr. Magaña’s diverse portfolio features 90 academic publications —many of which relate to learning environments, the use of technology in education, and public health education.
Shan Mohammed

Clinical Professor; Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Educational and Student Initiatives, Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Shan Mohammed

Clinical Professor; Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Educational and Student Initiatives, Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Dr. Shan Mohammed is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Health Sciences and is the Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Educational and Student Initiatives at Bouvé College of Health Sciences. In this role he is responsible for providing leadership and oversight of education and student engagement initiatives related to the Bouvé DEI Action Plan. He leads DEI related curricular efforts and facilitates mentorship of faculty and staff in relation to DEI teaching and learning; supports activities which enhance the enrollment and success of underrepresented students; and promotes the preparation of all learners to contribute to achieving health equity. As a member of the Dean’s senior leadership team, Dr. Mohammed assists with strategic planning and operations for the College and provides vision, leadership and management of DEI education and student initiatives across the College.

Dr. Mohammed is the founding director of the Master of Public Health Program in Urban Health and from 2007-2017 oversaw the program in areas of educational policy development, curricular design, public health workforce development and recruitment/outreach to public health professionals. From 2017-2018 he served as Interim Chair of the Department of Health Sciences. In the past he has served as Director of Interprofessional Research, Education and Practice Initiatives in the College of Health Sciences and as a Lead Scholar with the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning Through Research (CATLR). Dr. Mohammed served as Faculty-in-Residence from 2015-2022 living on campus in a residence hall with 1,100 undergraduate students where he designed and implemented programming to assist students achieve academic success and cultivate their personal and professional development. He is currently co-chair of the Center for Education, Teaching and Research (CETR) Advisory Board and a Faculty Scholar with the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research.

He currently serves as the chair of the Education Advisory Committee with the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health (ASPPH) which represents over 140 programs and schools of public health. Dr. Mohammed oversaw 4 national working groups on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and was a member of the taskforce creating the ASPPH report Dismantling Racism and Structural Racism in Academic Public Health. Currently he is the national co-chair of the Expert Panel on Transformative Education Models and Pedagogy with the ASPPH Framing the Future: Education of Public Health 2030 initiative. In addition, he is a lead accreditation site-visitor with the Council on Education for Public Health and consults with public health programs seeking accreditation and re-accreditation.

Dr. Mohammed is a board-certified family medicine physician and a fellow of the American Association of Family Physicians. Dr. Mohammed completed a three-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation “Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse.” Before joining Northeastern in 2007, he held appointments in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
James Stark

Global Medical Development and Scientific Affairs – Vaccines, Pfizer

James Stark

Global Medical Development and Scientific Affairs – Vaccines, Pfizer

In his tenth year at Pfizer, James, employs his creative mindset, industry experience, and epidemiology expertise to drive the medical and scientific affairs strategy for vaccine assets. Through his leadership, the medical and scientific affairs asset team applies disease knowledge and evidence generation strategies to drive regulatory, clinical development and commercial business decisions. In addition, James has led efforts at Pfizer to devise novel digital tools to change behaviors in how asset teams’ access and internalize epidemiology data and medical information to the betterment of knowledge acquisition and decision making.

James has also brought his energy to Putnam Associates, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and as an adjunct faculty member at NYU College of Global Public Health.

Throughout his career, James has contributed to the scientific discourse by publishing numerous articles in the peer-reviewed literature across a range of content areas including infectious diseases, physical activity, built environment, epi methods, and teaching epidemiology.

James is also a board member with VIDA, a non-profit organization in Guatemala improving the lives of children with disabilities.

He earned his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and holds an Sc.M. in Epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Sc.M in Molecular Microbiology and immunology from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

James resides in Brookline, MA with his wife Sunday, a BU SPH alum, and amazing daughter Bennett.
Lisa Sullivan

Associate Dean for Education, Boston University School of Public Health

Lisa Sullivan

Associate Dean for Education, Boston University School of Public Health

Lisa Sullivan is the Associate Dean for Education at the School of Public Health. She has a PhD in Statistics and is Professor of Biostatistics and former Chair of the Department of Biostatistics. She teaches Biostatistics and Quantitative Methods for Public Health and was instrumental in developing a minor program in public health which is open to undergraduate students at Boston University. She served as Principal Investigator of the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics from 2003-2015, which was designed to promote interest in the field of biostatistics and its many exciting career opportunities. Lisa is co-author of a textbook entitled Introductory Applied Biostatistics, author of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health (currently in its third edition) and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards for excellence in teaching, including the Association for Schools of Public Health/Pfizer Award for Teaching Excellence. Lisa is a senior statistician on the Framingham Heart Study working primarily in developing and disseminating cardiovascular risk functions. She has expertise in multidisciplinary research projects including a variety of projects in cardiovascular disease, a large epidemiological study to assess the association between alcohol exposure in pregnancy and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), studies to improve methods for prenatal diagnosis and a clinical trial to improve repetitive behaviors in children affected with autism.

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