College for Public Health and Social Justice Faculty and Staff

Office of the Dean

Leslie McClure, Ph.D.
Dean
Kelly Lane-deGraaf, Ph.D.
Associate dean of academic affairs
Enbal Shacham, Ph.D.
Associate dean of research

Department of Behavioral Science and Health Equity

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Department of Health Management and Policy

Michael Rozier, S.J., Ph.D.
Chair
SangNam Ahn, Ph.D.
Thomas E. Burroughs, Ph.D.
Michael A. Counte, Ph.D.
Emeritus
Kimberly R. Enard, Ph.D.
Mark Gaynor, Ph.D.
Kathleen N. Gillespie, Ph.D.
Echu Liu, Ph.D.
Xiaoyu Liu, Ph.D.
Cheryl Rathert, Ph.D.
Jake T. Redden, DHSc
Kevin M. Syberg, Dr.PH.
Part-time faculty
Marcea Walter, M.S.H.A.

College Staff

Bernie Backer
Director of graduate recruitment and admissions
Maria Borrego
Administrative assistant - H.M.P.
Maggie Callon
Program manager - undergraduate programs
Caroline Cartledge
Administrative assistant - public health
Mary Dant
CPHSJ assistant dean - finance and administration
Karen Effinger
CPHSJ business manager I
Kimberly Elliott
Program manager - public health
Kevin Gates
Director of professional development and alumni engagement - M.H.A./H.M.P.
Mary-Lynn Glenn
Public health internship coordinator
Kathleen (Katie) Linnenbrink
Administrative assistant - undergraduate programs
Ben Loewnau
Marketing and communications manager
Nicole Lyon
CPHSJ executive assistant to dean
Spring Schmidt
Director - Office of Public Health Practice
Nathan Sharp
CPHSJ analyst - enrollment and admissions
Maggie Snodgrass
Program coordinator - M.H.A./H.M.P.

Grant Staff

Alina Ainyette
Research coordinator
Sabel Bass
Program manager, Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence
James Burns
Program manager, Ryan White Planning Council
Rene Dulle
Program director, Center for Environmental Education and Training
Ashley Estwin
Program coordinator, Ryan White Planning Council
Dephanie McGill-Brandon
Program coordinator, Center for Environmental Education and Training
Ally Terhaar
Research manager

Ricardo J. Wray, Ph.D., (Behavioral Science and Health Equity) contributed to the research article "An exploration of factors leading to readiness for organizational health literacy change in community-based health organizations" in the 'Health Services Management Research' journal.
Anne K. Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Department of Behavioral Science and Health Equity) was a featured guest on the podcast for the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Dr. Kuhlmann discusses her research on the impacts of menstrual poverty, and what practice and policy options are available to alleviate the burden on menstruating people.
Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH (Department of Behavioral Science and Health Equity) co-authored an article post for the Brookings Institution about menstrual health, safety and access titled "Toxic tampons and gender bias in health research."
Behavioral Science and Health Equity Professor Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH helped co-author the commentary from the Brookings Institute titled "Banning critical race theory could hinder the pursuit of environmental justice" published in Policy Commons.
Behavioral Science and Health Equity Professor Ricardo J. Wray, Ph.D. helped author the research article titled 'Exploring the Role of Communication Asset Mapping (CAM) as a Strategy to Promote Hereditary Cancer Risk Assessment Information within African American Communities.'
Behavioral Science and Health Equity Professor Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH helped co-author the commentary from the Brookings Institute titled "Olympic transformation of metropolitan cities--for better or for worse" published in Policy Commons.
Cheryl Rathert, Ph.D. (Department of Health Management and Policy; Co-Editor-in-Chief of the peer reviewed journal, Health Care Management Review), Ph.D. student Derick Simmons, and HMP associate professor Kimberly Enard, Ph.D. published the research article "Good therapeutic connections and patient psychological safety: A qualitative survey study" in the Health Care Management Review.
Katherine Stamatakis, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Ashish Shrestha and Elizabeth Baker from the SLU College for Public Health and Social Justice helped author the study "Identifying and Prioritizing Factors to Improve Implementation of an Evidence-Based Program for Child Maltreatment Prevention in Rural Missouri Communities" in the publication Global Implementation Research and Applications.
Interim Vice President for Research Ellen Barnidge, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Ph.D. student Ally Terhaar and other colleagues from SSM Health and Saint Louis University published the research 'Experiential Learning as a Path to Critical Consciousness
in the Medical Curriculum: A Qualitative Study' in the Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development.
Kimberly Enard, Ph.D. (Public Health and Social Justice), Jeffrey Scherrer, Ph.D. (Family and Community Medicine) and Rich Grucza, Ph.D. (Family and Community Medicine) were quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the All of Us research initiative which aims to create a robust database of human health information in the U.S.
Cheryl Rathert, Ph.D. (Department of Health Management and Policy) and colleagues published the research article "What matters to you? An observational field study of patient and care provider expectations for health care relationships."
Cheryl Rathert, Ph.D. (Department of Health Management and Policy) and colleagues published the report "System-failing creativity in health care" in the 'Learning Health Systems; journal.
Zhengmin Qian, Ph.D., M.D. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) helped co-author research in the 'Environmental International' titled "Exposures to particulate matters and childhood sleep disorders—A large study in three provinces in China"
Kimberly Enard, Ph.D., (Public Health and Social Justice), Rick Grucza, Ph.D., (Family and Community Medicine) and Jeffrey Scherrer, Ph.D., (Family and Community Medicine) were featured in a St. Louis Public Radio story about the All of Us research study, a first-of-its-kind, national effort to advance medical research and assess how biology, lifestyle, and environment impact health.
Saint Louis University was mentioned in Nutrition Insight for a study it conducted that showed omega-3 fish oil supplements can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease but also slow the disease if already present.
Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH (Behavioral Science and Health Equity), was quoted in the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation about advancing access and affordability for healthcare within the Black community.
Saint Louis University was mentioned in Becker’s Hospital Review about a study that links fish oil supplements to an increased risk of stroke and heart attacks.
Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Equity) was featured on St. Louis Public Radio about period poverty awareness and activism in a story that also highlighted her research.
Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH, MA, MPA (Behavioral Science and Health Equity) contributed to the research article 'Racial and Ethnic Composition of Departments of Health Policy, Management, Education, and Behavioral Sciences' in the Sage Journals.
Cheryl Rathert, Ph.D. from the SLU Department of Health Management and Policy and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Health Care Management Review co-published the editorial 'The crisis of primary care and the case for more primary care management research' in the Health Care Management Review.
Zhengmin Qian, Ph.D., M.D. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and colleagues from other universities contributed to and published the research 'Building Alternative Payment Models in Health Care' in the Frontiers in Health Services journal.
Zhengmin Qian, Ph.D., M.D. (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) and colleagues from other universities contributed to and published the research study 'Regular use of fish oil supplements and course of cardiovascular diseases: prospective cohort study' in the BMJ Journals.
SangNam Ahn, Ph.D., M.P.S.A. (Department of Health Management and Policy) contributed to the study 'Examining Health Inequities in A1C Control over Time across Individual, Geospatial, and Geopolitical Factors among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: Analyses of a Sample from One Commercial Insurer in a Southern State' in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health.
Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D. (Behavioral Science and Health Equity) and CPHSJ students published the research article 'Period Product Resources and Needs in Missouri Schools: Focus Group Discussions with School Nurses' in the Journal of School Nursing.