
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
Full-Time Faculty

Trishnee Bhurosy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, Hofstra University
Areas of expertise: nutrition, health behavior research, health equity, chronic disease prevention, community-engaged research
Corinne Kyriacou, PhD, MPH
Interim Vice Dean, School of Health Professions and Human Services
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, PhD, MPH
Assistant 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
Tavora Buchman, Nassau County Department of Health
V. Elaine Gross, ERASE Racism
Hon. Kemp Hannon, Former NYS Senator; Health Policy Fellow, School of Health Professions and Human Services, Hofstra University
Jean Kelly, The INN – Interfaith Nutrition Network
David Nemiroff, Long Island Federally Qualified Health Centers
Rosemary A. Olsen, Town of North Hempstead, Community Development Agency
Irwin Redlener, Children’s Health Fund
Georgette Beal, United Way of Long Island
Kathy Rosenthal, Family Service League
Rebecca Sanin, Health and Welfare Council of Long Island
Claudia Boyle, Long Island Hispanic Counseling Center