Teaching Public Health (Part 2): Building Community

Craig Andrade is Associate Dean of Practice and Director of the Activist Lab at Boston University’s School of Public Health (SPH) where he is serves to catalyze and encourage SPH’s public health practice portfolio locally and globally among all members of the school community, including faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community partners. He is also a member of the Dean’s Cabinet and the Governing Council and chairs the school’s permanent practice committee.

Previously Dr. Andrade was the Director of the Bureau of Family Health & Nutrition (BFHN) at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH). BFHN’s programs include Early Intervention (EI), Pregnancy, Infancy and Early Childhood, Children and Youth with Special Health Needs, Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, Home Visiting, Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant, Breastfeeding Initiative, Birth Defects Surveillance, Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program, the Office of Data Translation and Birth Defects Research and Prevention. He also served as Director of the Division of Health Access at DPH, helped found the Racial Equity Leadership Team and Cross-Department Racial Equity Collaborative at DPH and was Associate Dean of Health and Wellness and Director of Student Health Services at Wheaton College in Norton, MA.

He served as critical care, public health and ward nurse at Boston Medical Center; nurse manager and head athletic trainer at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, MA; and was owner/operator of Active Health, a private health and fitness company. Craig is a registered nurse, athletic trainer, licensed massage therapist and strength and condition specialist with masters and doctoral degrees’ in public health from Boston University. His research interests include behavioral risk management and resilience-building among children, adolescents and young adults.

Dane Emmerling is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health focused on teaching. Dane’s pedagogy is centered on the process of sociopolitical development through which individuals increase their analytic skills and capacity to build a healthier and more just world. He researches and evaluates critical consciousness raising interventions, or experiences and programs that shift individuals’ and institutions’ attitudes and behaviors about their participation in systems. Before starting the PhD, Dane worked in global health evaluation and in service-learning offices supporting universities linkages with community organizations.

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 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  and Theories and Techniques of Health Behavior Change Special Interest Groups.

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.

Meg Landfried, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior Practicum Director for the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (Gillings). In these roles, she designs, implements, evaluates, and iterates experiential education components of the Gillings MPH program. Meg directs the school-level practicum program and teaches the courses (SPHG 703, SPHG 706, SPHG 707) that help students prepare for and reflect on their practicum experiences. Additionally, she oversees Capstone (HBEH 746/992), a community-led culminating experience for Health Behavior as well as Health Equity and Social Justice MPH students. In partnership with over 350 governmental, non-governmental, non-profit, industrial, for-profit, and university-affiliated organizations, she engages students in applied practice and focused reflection to increase their knowledge, enhance their skills, help clarify their values, and augment their capacity to contribute to the collective good of society. Meg’s goal is to train the next generation of public health leaders to ethically and effectively collaborate with communities to promote health equity.

Dr. Neubauer is a Clinical Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. She serves as inaugural Senior Director of Integrated Education & Accreditation. She is a proud alum of federal TRiO programming, including the Ronald E. McNair Scholars program. Her work honors the living legacies of her first teachers, her mother and grandmother.

Dr. Scammell is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health and a JPB Environmental Health Fellow at Harvard School of Public Health. Her expertise is in the area of community-driven and community-based participatory research and includes the use of qualitative methods in the area of environmental health and epidemiologic studies. In 2017 Dr. Scammell was awarded an NIEHS/NIH Outstanding New Environmental Scientist award, establishing the Mesoamerican Nephropathy Occupational Study (MANOS), longitudinal study of agricultural workers in El Salvador and Nicaragua. These efforts are focused on identifying and preventing exposures that may contribute to the epidemic of chronic kidney disease in Central America known as Mesoamerican Nephropathy (MeN), specifically extreme heat and physical exertion, exposure to the herbicide glyphosate, and heavy metals. In 2021 Dr. Scammell was awarded a U01 to establish a Field Epidemiology Site as part of the NIDDK/NIEHS/Fogarty Institute CURE Consortium studying chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology in agricultural communities. Both studies are part of the Boston University Research Group for the study of Chronic Kidney Disease in Central America and include long term research relationships with investigators in both El Salvador and Nicaragua.

In Massachusetts, Dr. Scammell leads the Local Public Health Institute out of BUSPH, with funding from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In her own neighborhoods, Dr. Scammell co-leads the Chelsea & East Boston Heat Study, C-HEAT, examining exposure to heat and poor air quality, where we live, work and play. This is in partnership with GreenRoots, Chelsea, a grassroots environmental justice organization. Dr. Scammell led the Community Engagement Cores of two research centers: The Boston University Superfund Research Center (funded by NIEHS/NIH), and the Center for Research on Social and Environmental Stressors in Housing across the Lifecourse (joint center between Boston University and Harvard-Chan School of Public Health funded by NIMHD/NIH and EPA). She continues to develop and support mechanisms to initiate and sustain long-and short-term research relationships between community groups and scientists, and respond to community requests for scientific assistance. Dr. Scammell partners with Alternatives for Community & Environment, Boston Housing Authority, the Boston Public Health Commission. Dr. Scammell served of the Board of Health in the City of Chelsea for 10 years, and currently serves as Chair of the board of directors of the Science & Environmental Health Network. She teaches an upper level course, PH 801, Community-Engaged Research: Theory, application and methods, and previously taught Environmental Health Science, Law and Policy (EH 805) and Foundations of Environmental Health (EH 717). In 2014 Dr. Scammell co-edited with Charles Levenstein, The Toxic Schoolhouse, published by Baywood Press (now Routledge).