James Ebert, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., F.A.A.P., Oscar Boonshoft Chair and Director
About Us
Our Mission
"Study and advance best practices in global health care delivery, facilitate dialogue in health public policy, and promote prevention, population-based skills, health care management, health economics, and leadership among health professionals and organizations."
Our Vision
"Play a leadership role in transforming the United States health system to the best in the world by advancing prevention at all levels, assuring universal access, applying human and physical capital efficiently, recognizing resource constraints, focusing on evidence-based technology and practices, and obtaining optimal individual and population outcomes."
Center Team
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James R. Ebert, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., F.A.A.P. |
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John McAlearney, Ph.D. |
Faculty: |
Michele Battle-Fisher, M.P.H., M.A. |
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John D. Bullock, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., F.I.D.S.A., F.A.C.E., F.R.S.M. |
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Kenneth C. Dahms, J.D., M.A. |
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Christopher Eddy, M.P.H., REHS, RS |
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Sylvia Ann Ellison, M.A. |
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Mark Gebhart, M.D., EMT-P, F.A.A.E.M. |
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James Gross, M.P.H. |
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Naila Khalil, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D. |
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Sabrina Neeley, Ph.D., M.P.H. |
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Marietta Orlowski, Ph.D. |
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Sara J. Paton, Ph.D. |
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Cristina Redko, Ph.D. |
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Ruvie Rogel, Ph.D., M.Sc. |
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Bill Spears, Ph.D. |
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Staff: |
Lori Metivier |
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Pam Mondini |
James R. Ebert, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.
Oscar Boonshoft Chair and Director, Center for Global Health
Program Director, Master of Public Health Program
James R. Ebert, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., F.A.A.P., is an associate professor of community health and pediatrics in the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University and the lipid clinic lead physician at Children’s Medical Center of Dayton. Dr. Ebert was named as the Oscar Boonshoft Chair and Director of the Center for Global Health and the program director for the Master of Public Health Program in January 2009.
Dr. Ebert was an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and served on the clinical faculty of Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine for 16 years before joining the fully affiliated faculty. He holds the Graduate Certificate in Health Care Management, has done advanced course work in operations research and biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University, and has completed the Carnegie Mellon University program in executive leadership. He was enrolled in one of the final W. Edwards Deming seminars in 1992, and taught Deming management and quality improvement for several years.
Dr. Ebert is a retired colonel in the United States Air Force. While in the Air Force, Dr. Ebert served as chief of medical staff and commander of medical operations at Wright-Patterson Medical Center. He played a leading role at Wright-Patterson in the rollout of the federal military managed care transition known as TRICARE, participated in the implementation of three different electronic medical information systems, and traveled as a surveyor with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. He also served as director of medical education for seven years, and participated by invitation in the Department of Defense’s Healthcare 2020 strategic planning group in 1995-1996.
Dr. Ebert is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (A.A.P.) and a past president of the Uniformed Services Chapter of the A.A.P. He is a member of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and the American College of Physician Executives. His clinical credentials include board certification in pediatrics and adolescent medicine. His interests include performance improvement, leadership development, medical education and childhood and adolescent health promotion.
John McAlearney, Ph.D.
Health Economist, Center for Global Health
Program Director, Health Care Management Certificate Program
Public Health Management Director, Master of Public Health Program
John McAlearney, Ph.D., is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Boonshoft School of Medicine and the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University. Dr. McAlearney serves as the program director for the Health Care Management Certificate Program and is a health economist in the Center for Global Health. Dr. McAlearney is the director of the public health management concentration for the Master of Public Health Program and teaches economics of health and health policy. He holds a Ph.D. in health policy with a concentration in health economics from Harvard University. He has more than 18 years experience in the health care and health insurance sectors and has worked for the Ohio Department of Health, the RAND Corporation, the Health Care Financing Administration (now Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), and the Travelers Insurance Company (now United HealthCare).
Dr. McAlearney’s professional background and formal training have emphasized a multi-disciplinary approach to health services research supplemented by a broad exposure to many specific areas of health care and policy research. Dr. McAlearney’s experience and training qualify him to undertake research or provide assistance in case studies and other qualitative research, program design and evaluation, cost analyses, decision analyses, cost-effectiveness studies, survey design and analyses, economic estimation and modeling, outcomes and quality research and general data analyses. His research focus includes the study of technology adoption, health care applications for geographic information system (GIS), health care costs and global health care system comparisons.
Michele Battle-Fisher, M.P.H., M.A.
Assistant Program Director, Master of Public Health Program
Michele Battle-Fisher, M.P.H., M.A. is the assistant program director of the Master of Public Health program within the Center for Global Health. She is responsible for daily administrative oversight of the program including recruitment, admissions and ongoing advising of current students. Ms. Battle-Fisher is also an instructor for the Master of Public Health Program. Her research addresses aspects of health disparities among underserved populations across the life course. She utilizes mixed methods in her research, particularly social network analysis, ethnography and narrative analysis. Ms. Battle-Fisher is interested in the life course of chronic kidney disease and its public health implications. As of late, she focuses much of her work toward her completion of her dissertation while on faculty at WSU, which will explore the nature of the social networks among African Americans living with Chronic Kidney Disease. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Ethical Solutions, a medical ethics thinktank. In addition, she is working collaboratively in exploring issues of cervical cancer literacy among at-risk women and daughters in South Africa. In the upcoming years, she intends to expand work in exploring the impact of social networks on patients in all phases of Chronic Kidney Disease and continue work in quality of life research. She was selected as a Visiting Scholar at the Hastings Center (bioethics) in August 2010. She was the recipient of a FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) graduate fellowship in Somali language.
Before joining Wright State, she served on faculties at Capital University (OH) and Davenport University (MI). Ms. Battle-Fisher is completing her Ph.D. (ABD) in Public Health in Health Behavior and Health Promotion from The Ohio State University. She holds an MPH and a MA in African American and African Studies from Ohio State.
John D. Bullock, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc., F.I.D.S.A., F.A.C.E., F.R.S.M.
Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, Center for Global Health
John D. Bullock is a clinical professor of community health, professor of mathematics and statistics, and an instructor for the Master of Public Health Program at Wright State University, where he teaches infectious disease epidemiology. He held a clinical faculty position at Stanford University before coming to Wright State, where he served as professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, professor of physiology and biophysics and associate professor of microbiology and immunology, and was named the Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research. He also served as a lecturer in law and medicine at the University of Dayton School of Law. As a clinician, Dr. Bullock’s patients included numerous physicians (including other ophthalmologists) and their families, Fortune 500 CEOs, and a head of state. In his role as a teacher, his past fellows have attained prominent positions at the Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, Penn State University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins. Two former fellows became department chairs of ophthalmology and one served as the CEO of a world renowned medical center.
Dr. Bullock, a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School, completed an internship in internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis before serving in the U.S. Navy, where he was trained in the signs and symptoms of biowarfare and chemical warfare agents. After residency training in ophthalmology at Yale University, he completed fellowships at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Mayo Clinic. He practiced ophthalmology in the Dayton area for over 25 years, seeing more than 50,000 individual patients and performing more than 10,000 eye operations. He received a Master of Science in Microbiology and Immunology from Wright State University and a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he studied epidemiology and bioterrorism. He also completed additional course work from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Dr. Bullock is the author or coauthor of more than 235 scientific publications, predominantly related to infectious diseases, toxicology and trauma. He discovered three new causes of blindness and elucidated the etiology and/or description of six different retinopathies. His research influenced the market withdrawal of two general anesthetics, a warning label for a pharmaceutical agent whose inappropriate use resulted in blindness, and a Consumer Products Safety Commission-mandated warning label. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Epidemiology and the Royal Society of Medicine. For 13 years he served as an associate board examiner for the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, the American Ophthalmological Society, the American Osler Society, the John Snow Society, the Cogan Ophthalmic History Society, the Doctors Mayo Society, the American Public Health Association, the Cornea Society (Member with Thesis) and the American Society for Microbiology, among others.
Dr. Bullock received a Heed Fellowship from the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation; the Wendell Hughes, Merrill J. Reeh, and the Marvin H. Quickert Awards from the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; and the Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has been recognized as “One of Ohio’s Finest Citizens” by the Ohio House of Representatives and was listed in a “Best Doctors in America” publication. In 2011 he received the Outstanding Scientific Project Award from the Vision Care Section of the American Public Health Association. He has numerous other awards (including teaching awards), copyrights, trademarks and inventions.
Dr. Bullock has given more than 500 lectures throughout the world (including to the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School, the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, the King Khaled Eye Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the Fyodorov Eye Institute in Moscow, Russia), a number of which were distinguished, named lectureships. He has served on the editorial boards of 11 medical journals, was a manuscript reviewer for 24 journals, and served as president and secretary/treasurer of two international medical societies. His research interests include ocular infectious disease epidemiology, ophthalmic and medical history, the history of the germ theory of disease, mathematical modeling of HIV/AIDS transmission and bioterrorism. His historical publications have included investigations of the blindness of Louis Braille, Dom Perignon and the Biblical St. Paul, among others.
He has been asked to consult as an expert in over 500 medical-legal cases. He has also served as a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, the Veteran’s Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the American Medical Association, the Harvard-Hsiao Resource-Based Relative Value Study and the novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, who also characterized him in one of his novels, The Master Sniper. He has been quoted in The New York Times and was characterized in, and appeared in another, nationally televised program.
Dr. Bullock (along with B.L. Elder, Ph.D., R.E. Warwar, M.D. and H.J. Khamis, Ph.D.) recently completed a more than six-year-long investigation of a worldwide epidemic of infectious blindness which they traced to an improperly stored and bottled contact lens solution.
Dr. Bullock was Wright State’s inaugural Public Health Grand Rounds speaker and is the author of the Introduction to the Delta Omega Classics article, The Mosquito Hypothetically Considered as an Agent in the Transmission of Yellow Fever Poison, by the Cuban ophthalmologist and infectious disease epidemiologist, Carlos Juan Finlay.
Kenneth C. Dahms, J.D., M.A.
Voluntary Faculty, Master of Public Health Program
Kenneth C. Dahms, J.D., M.A., serves on the voluntary faculty in the Master of Public Health Program. In 2010, Mr. Dahms retired from Wright State, where his responsibilities included the coordination of the M.P.H. student practice placements. He was the director of administration for the Montgomery County Combined Health District from 1999 until his retirement in 2004. Prior to that time, Mr. Dahms was the health district’s in-house legal counsel. In his capacity as the director of administration for the Montgomery County Health District, he managed a department of 40 employees and was responsible for an agency budget of $32 million.
Throughout his 28-year career in public health, Mr. Dahms was a frequent lecturer and panel participant on a broad variety of public health topics. Mr. Dahms received his B.A. in political science from Oklahoma State University in 1968, and his M.A. in government from American University in 1971. He also received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1973.
Christopher Eddy, M.P.H., REHS, RS
Placements and Workforce Development Director, Master of Public Health Program
Christopher Eddy, M.P.H., REHS, RS, serves on the faculty of the Boonshoft School of Medicine, Department of Community Health. He serves as the placements and workforce development director in the Master of Public Health program, where he teaches introduction to public health, is a guest lecturer in a variety of subjects, and participates in ongoing research. He accepted his appointment with Wright State in August 2008 after serving the public for 14 years as the director of environmental health with Hamilton County Public Health in southwestern Ohio.
He obtained a B.S. degree from Ball State University, Registered Sanitarian status in Ohio and Indiana, Registered Environmental Health Specialist status from the National Environmental Health Association, and an M.P.H. degree from Wright State. He is trained extensively in "all-hazards" disaster preparedness and emergency response. He has organized several regional task forces dedicated to the preservation of public health infrastructure and early detection of disease.
Mr. Eddy is recognized throughout Ohio public health circles as an expert in public health information systems, zoonotic disease and food safety. He has lectured on a regular basis to his peers in the Ohio Environmental Health Association and other organizations. He has comprehensive knowledge of hazardous substance and waste characterization, management and risk communication concerns gained during his employment with the Department of Energy and through private sector consulting. Mr. Eddy brings 22 years of experience in public health and environmental health science practice to his position at Wright State.
Sylvia Ann Ellison, M.A.
Research Instructor, Master of Public Health Program
Sylvia Ann Ellison, M.A., is experienced in survey research, statistical data analysis and research grants. She is originally from Washington, D.C., and holds an M.A. with concentrations in demography and gender, work and family from the University of Maryland. Before joining the Center, Ms. Ellison was a research analyst for Westat, Inc., a social science analyst for the National Institutes of Health and a health statistician for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Maryland. She is involved in statistical analyses and advising, and grant and research paper writing. Her research interests include the cultural determinants of infant feeding practices, and how those practices affect maternal and child health and well being.
Mark Gebhart, M.D., EMT-P, F.A.A.E.M.
Emergency Preparedness Director, Master of Public Health Program
Dr. Gebhart completed his undergraduate studies at Wright State, earning a B.A. in biological sciences. He earned his M.D. degree at Wright State in 1997. He also completed his residency and served as chief resident in Wright State’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Gebhart is a diplomat of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, and disaster preparedness is a specific interest and strength of his. Dr. Gebhart has responded to numerous national level emergencies, including the most recent hurricanes affecting the Gulf Coast states.
James W. Gross, M.P.H.
Voluntary Faculty, Master of Public Health Program
James Gross, M.P.H., serves on the voluntary faculty in the Master of Public Health program. As the current health commissioner of Montgomery County with a total of 30 years of local public health experience, Mr. Gross provides practical insights to the M.P.H. program and is a primary communication link between the Center for Global Health and the Miami Valley community. As the chief executive officer of Public Health-Dayton & Montgomery County, he oversees approximately 75 public health programs, 400 employees and an annual budget of almost $40 million. He also holds executive level positions in numerous local organizations, including the Human Services Levy Council, the Family and Children First Council and the Community Health Centers of Greater Dayton. Mr. Gross has also served as assistant health commissioner and held management positions with the Regional Air Pollution Control Agency. He received his B.S. degree in earth science education from Wright State University in 1977 and was one of the first graduates of WSU’s Master of Public Health program in 2005.
Naila Khalil, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Community Health
Naila Khalil, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D., is an assistant professor of community health within the Center for Global Health. Dr. Khalil is an instructor for the Master of Public Health Program, where she teaches environmental health.
Dr. Khalil graduated with a Ph.D. in environmental epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. She is a physician and also holds a M.P.H. degree from Pakistan. Dr. Khalil worked for 12 years in the Ministry of Health, Pakistan, as a public health practitioner. Besides teaching environmental health (EH) in the M.P.H. program, Quaide Azam University, Islamabad, she was the national program manager for EH, a collaborative effort with World Health Organization. Dr. Khalil was involved in interdisciplinary curriculum development of the M.P.H. program, health care waste project, environmental health impact assessment and water safety. Her interests also included supervising M.P.H. dissertations.
Before joining the center as assistant professor, Dr. Khalil was a post doctoral researcher at the Lifespan Health Research Center at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Her research involved human growth and body composition. Her previous research focused on longitudinal analysis of skeletal and metabolic changes during menopause in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The abstract from this research was selected for a Young Investigators Award by the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research in 2009. Dr. Khalil’s doctoral dissertation focused on multiple health outcomes associated with environmental lead exposures in older people in the United States. She was awarded a pilot grant to study the association of lead exposure and risk of fractures in men. Her M.P.H. research related to food and water safety, where she modeled a proactive strategy for preventing food borne illness in airlines (hazard analysis and critical control points).
Sabrina Neeley, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Community Health
Director, Physician Leadership Development Program
Sabrina Neeley, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health at Boonshoft School of Medicine, with an appointment in the Center for Global Health. She is the course director for the population medicine competencies and co-course director for Human Development in the medical school and serves as director of the Physician Leadership Development Program at Wright State. She also participates in ongoing collaborative research and teaching at the center.
Dr. Neeley joined the faculty at Wright State in 2009, following previous faculty appointments at Miami University and Texas Tech University. Trained as a social psychologist, her research is focused on understanding the socio-cultural, environmental and individual factors that influence people’s health decision-making and behaviors, particularly those of children. She brings extensive experience working on a variety of health-focused survey research projects, including studies of environmental risk perception, health insurance coverage, college students’ tobacco use, health information gathering, health literacy and satisfaction with health services.
Dr. Neeley earned her M.P.H. in health promotion and education from Wright State in 2010 and her Ph.D. in marketing at the University of Tennessee in 1999, specializing in consumer behavior. She received an M.A. in sociology from the University of Tennessee, with concentrations in social psychology and research methods, and a B.B.A. in marketing from Texas A&M University.
Marietta Orlowski, Ph.D., MCHES
Associate Professor of Community Health
Health Promotion and Education Director, Master of Public Health Program
Marietta Orlowski, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health and serves as the director of the heath promotion and education concentration in the Master of Public Health program. She was a 2005 recipient of the Wright State University Presidential Award for Excellence in Early Career Achievement and a 2010 recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Member in the MPH program. Dr. Orlowski’s research involves health behavior measurement and risk reduction in children and adolescents. She collaborated with a local school district in a federally funded project to increase the activity level of children, and has been invited to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to present her research in tobacco prevention. She enjoys working with graduate students on community-based public health projects and many of these students have presented their work at national and state conferences.
Dr. Orlowski completed her doctorate in health promotion and education, with a cognate in health care administration, at The Ohio State University. She has an M.A. from Morehead State University and a B.S. from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to coming to Wright State, Dr. Orlowski was the Director of Health Education for Middletown Regional Health System and implemented community-based risk reduction programs throughout southwest Ohio. She also practiced as a health educator in eastern Kentucky. Dr. Orlowski is a member of the American School Health Association, the American Public Health Association and the Society for Public Health Education.
Sara J. Paton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Community Health
Epidemiologist, Center for Global Health
Sara Paton, Ph.D., is an associate professor of epidemiology in the Center for Global Health and has a joint appointment with the WSU Department of Community Health and Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County. Within the Center for Global Health, Dr. Paton is an instructor for the Master of Public Health Program, where she teaches epidemiology, is a guest lecturer in a variety of subjects, and participates in ongoing research. Her recent research at Wright State includes an epidemiological breast cancer study of Madison County, Ohio. At Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County, she serves as an epidemiologist and works on special projects. Her projects there include topics in Low Birth Weight, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Health Disparities, and Community Assessment, within both Montgomery County and the 17 surrounding counties for Perinatal Region II of Ohio. She also has a contract with the National Center for Medical Readiness to assist with their work.
Dr. Paton has been at Wright State since 2001, initially in a post-doc appointment in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, before becoming an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health. Her research in pharmacology and toxicology was funded by a Department of Defense grant; it investigated the effect of sarin nerve gas, pyridostigmine bromide and stress on biochemical disorders believed to exist in the veterans of the Gulf War. Dr. Paton completed her Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky in 2001 specializing in nutrition. She received a M.S. in animal science at Angelo State University, and a B.S. in biomedical science and animal science at Texas A&M University.
Cristina Redko, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Community Health
Global Health Director and Culminating Experience Course Director, Master of Public Health Program
Cristina Redko, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of community health at Boonshoft School of Medicine. Dr. Redko serves as the director for the global health concentration in the Master of Public Health Program where she teaches global health and global health systems. She also serves as the culminating experience course director in the MPH program where she enjoys orienting students through their applied research projects and teaching a variety of research methods.
Dr. Redko has been working at Wright State University since 2003. Initially, she collaborated with Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research faculty conducting epidemiologic and ethnographic investigations of people with substance abuse problems. This experience solidified her conviction of the potential and significance of doing interdisciplinary and mixed methods research in public health.
Dr. Redko has developed a vast research experience, including investigating the lived experience of people suffering from mental illnesses, people with substance abuse problems, people with cancer and those who have suffered from injuries in the workplace. She has conducted research in United States, Brazil and Canada. Dr. Redko collaborates with the ongoing research initiatives of the Center for Global Health. Her current research interests intersect the areas of global health, global mental health (giving special attention to resilience factors) and refugee research.
Dr. Redko holds a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from McGill University and a M.Sc. in clinical epidemiology from McMaster University, both in Canada. During her post-doctoral work in health services research at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, she also completed clinical training in brief therapy at the Hincks-Dellcrest Institute. She earned an M.A. and a B.A. from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
Ruvie Rogel, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Instructor, Master of Public Health Program
Ruvie Rogel, a resident of northern Israel, is an expert on emergency management, populations under stress and community-based approaches that can be used to reduce those stresses in a community. During the Lebanese War rocket attacks in the summer of 2006, he lived and worked in a bomb shelter. As deputy CEO of the Community Stress Prevention Center, Mr. Rogel is tasked with dealing with the psycho-social impacts of mass traumatic events on the population. He previously served as the director of the International School for Community Emergency Management at Tel Hai College in Israel.
Mr. Rogel came to Dayton in 2007 to present a series of workshops designed to guide participants through various psycho-social issues surrounding risk communication and traumatic media announcements. In Ohio in 2008, he presented a series of workshops for first responders designed to enhance understanding of the psychological issues faced by those experiencing the emergency and their own psychological issues as they provide care and assistance to those in need. When in Dayton, he also lectures on terrorism to students in the emergency preparedness concentration of the M.P.H. program. Mr. Rogel received his B.A. in psychology from the Tel Aviv University, Israel in 1983, studied at the Communication Institute of Jerusalem Hebrew University in 1984, and earned his M.Sc. in human resources management and training from the University of Leicester, UK, in 1999. He earned his Ph.D. in educational management and leadership from the University of Leicester, UK.
Bill Spears, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Community Health and Pediatrics
Master of Public Health Program
Bill Spears, Ph.D., is an associate professor of community health and pediatrics in the Boonshoft School of Medicine and a team member at the Center for Healthy Communities. Dr. Spears teaches in the Master of Public Health program. He is engaged in community health research and works with a number of community groups in the Dayton area. He has been involved with Wellness Matters, a coalition building a healthy Dayton, since its start in 2007. He also serves on the leadership team of the Southwest Ohio Ambulatory Research Practice Based Research Network (SOAR-Net) and is a member of the Interdisciplinary Gerontology Team.
Dr. Spears came to Dayton from the University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio Regional Campus, where he served on the faculty and was active in community-based research.
He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston in 1991. He also obtained a master’s and a bachelor’s in sociology from Texas Tech University in Lubbock in 1974 and 1977.
Lori Metivier
Program Coordinator
Center for Global Health
Lori Metivier serves as full-time administrative support for the Center for Global Health and is the program coordinator for the Master of Public Health and the Graduate Certificate in Health Care Management programs. She has been with Wright State University since 1998, previously supporting the Center of Community Programs within the Dean’s Office of the Raj Soin College of Business as a senior secretary.
Pam Mondini
Office Assistant II, Center for Global Health
Pam Mondini has worked for Wright State University in the School of Medicine and in the College of Liberal Arts. She worked full time in the School of Medicine’s Word Processing Center from 1980 to 1988 and she continued to work there on a part-time, on-call basis until 1990. She returned to WSU on a part-time basis from 1997 to 1999 as the secretary for the newly created Women’s Studies Program. Before and after her WSU positions, Ms. Mondini has volunteered and worked part-time in the public school system and her church, filling in for both school librarians and secretaries. In 2000, she accepted a part-time position with the Greene County ABLE Program, serving as secretary/teacher’s aide for a grant-funded GED and ESOL program. She has been with the Center since July 2005.
