Faculty and Staff
Program Director
Martine Hackett, PhD, MPH, CHES
Program Director, Department Chair, and Associate Professor
Areas of expertise: maternal and child health, infant mortality, health equity, suburban health, community-based participatory research methods
Assistant Program Director
Aditya Bissoonauth, MPH, MBA, MCHES, PMP
Assistant Program Director, Adjunct Assistant Professor
Areas of expertise: healthcare administration, leadership, global health, workforce development
Full-Time Faculty
Meshack Achore, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, Hofstra University
Areas of expertise: water and food (in)security, maternal and child health, health behavior research, communicable and non-communicable disease prevention and management, and community-based participatory research
Corinne Kyriacou, PhD, MPH
Vice Dean, School of Health Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, Hofstra University
Areas of expertise: health policy, integrated care, aging, chronic illness, time banking/service exchange
Chanapong Rojanaworarit, DDS, MS, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, Hofstra University
Areas of expertise: epidemiology, dental public health, statistical methods in epidemiology
Executive-In-Residence
Isma Chaudhry, MD, MPH
Executive in Residence and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, Hofstra University
Adjunct Faculty and Program Advisors
Ronald Burakoff, DMD, MPH
Founding Chair and Professor, Department of Dental Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; Chairman, Department of Dental Medicine, Northwell Health
Spring C. Cooper, PhD
Associate Professor, Community Health and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Janet Dolgin, JD, PhD
Professor of Law and Director, Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy, Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University; Professor, Science Education, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Lawrence Eisenstein, MD, FACP
Commissioner of Health, Nassau County Department of Health
Martin Lesser, PhD, EMT-CC
Assistant Vice President, Director and Investigator, Biostatistics Unit, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research; Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine and Department of Population Health, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Jacqueline M. Moline, MD, MS, FACP, FACOEM
Chair, Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, and Prevention, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; Vice President, Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, and Prevention, Northwell Health
Christine L. Sardo Molmenti, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor and Epidemiology Researcher, Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, and Prevention, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Joshua Moskovitz, MD, MPH, MBA, FACEP
Associate Director of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine, NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
Sarah Novak, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology, Hofstra University
Renee Pekmezaris, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine and Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; Vice President, Community Health and Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, Northwell Health
Rehana Rasul, MA
Biostatistician, Northwell Health
Kenneth Spaeth, MD, MPH
Division Chief, Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Northwell Health; Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Omolara Uwemedimo, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell; Director, Global Health Training Program at Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York, Division of Pediatrics, Northwell Health
Meng Zhang, PhD, MS, MA
Associate Research Statistician, Northwell Health
MPH Community Advisory Board
- Vanessa Baird-Streeter: President and CEO, Health & Welfare Council of Long Island
- Georgette Beal: Senior Vice President, United Way of Long Island
- Claudia Boyle: CEO, Hispanic Counseling Center
- Tavora Buchman: Director, Epidemiology and Planning/Analytics, TB, STD/HIV Control, Nassau County Department of Health
- Mitchell Cornett: Vice President of Public Health, Community Vaccines, and Strategic Partnerships, Northwell Health
- Kemp Hannon: Former NYS Senator/Health Law Consultant
- Jean Kelly: CEO, The INN (Interfaith Nutrition Network)
- David Nemiroff: President and CEO, Harmony Healthcare Long Island
- Rosemary Olsen: Executive Director, Town of North Hempstead Community Development Agency
- Gregson Pigott: Commissioner of Health Services, Suffolk County Department of Health
- Irwin Redlener: Founder and President, Children’s Health Fund
- Kathy Rosenthal: Senior Vice President of Programs, Family Service League