Health Management and Policy Faculty
Cynthia Mildred Duncan
Mil.Duncan@unh.edu
Education — University of Kentucky , Ph.D., Sociology; University of Kentucky, MA , Sociology; Stanford University, BA, English
Research Interests — Mil Duncan is the director of The Carsey Institute for Families and Communities at the University of New Hampshire and is the former director of Community and Resource Development at the Ford Foundation. Duncan is the author of "Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America," published by Yale University Press, and her research interests include poverty and inequality in rural America and sustainable development in resource dependent communities.
Current Projects — As director of the Carsey Institute, Duncan is developing interdisciplinary research programs in Community, Environment and Development, especially in small cities and rural communities, and in the area of Women and Work.
Awards — Most recently, Duncan was awarded the University of Kentucky Sociology Department Thomas R. Ford Distinguished Alumni Award. Her book, "Worlds Apart," received the 2001 American Sociological Association's Robert E. Park Award for the best book in Community and Urban Sociology. Other awards include the 1996 University of New Hampshire Award for Excellence in Public Service and the 1991 Earl D. Wallace Award for Contribution to Education Reform in Kentucky.
Professional Organizations — Duncan is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Rural Sociological Society, and the Association for Public Policy and Management. She serves on the board of the Rural Policy Research Institute and Rural Poverty Center, as well as the paraprofessional Health Institute and other community development organizations. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology.
Rosemary M. Caron, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program
Rosemary.Caron@unh.edu
Education — Regis College, BA
Dartmouth Medical School, PhD
Boston University School of Public Health, MPH
Harvard School of Public Health, Post-doctoral Fellow
Courses Taught — Caron joined the Health Management and Policy Department at UNH in 2006 and teaches public health courses in the undergraduate and Master of Public Health curriculum. Specifically, Caron teaches courses in epidemiology, disease ecology, and toxicology.
Research Interests — Prior to joining UNH, Caron obtained practical public health experience by working as an Assistant State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Bureau of Health Statistics and Data Management at the New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services (DPHS). The Manchester Health Department created a position for her where she worked as the Environmental Toxicologist and Chronic Disease Epidemiologist at the local public health level. Caron also has experience working with the federal government as a Senior Toxicologist for a private consulting firm.
Caron's research interests reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of public health, as well as her own comprehensive professional experiences. Currently, Caron is working on projects aimed at undergraduate and graduate public health education; chronic disease prevention; childhood lead poisoning; academic-community partnerships; risk communication; disease ecology; environmental health; college student health; and emerging infectious disease preparedness and policy; and public health workforce competencies.
Caron enjoys collaborating on public health projects with faculty and students.
Professional Organizations — Caron has served on the Board of Directors for the New Hampshire Public Health Association and The Jordan Institute since 2006. She is also a member of the American Public Health Association and serves as a reviewer for the American Journal of Public Health. Caron is an Associate Editor of the Prevention Education Research Council, a web-based repository of educational materials related to prevention and population health. She is also the Chair of the Public Health Workforce Development Committee for the New Hampshire Public Health Improvement Action Plan at DPHS. Caron is also a member of the Institutional Review Board for Health-Related Research at DPHS.
Caron represents the UNH MPH Program on the Council of Graduate Programs in Public Health and the New England Alliance for Public Health Workforce Development. Caron is also an Advisory Council Member to the Center for Graduate and Professional Studies at UNH and the NH Center for a Food Secure Future. She also serves on the Summer Teaching Assistant Fellowship Committee at UNH and represents academia on the NH Council on the Relationship between the Environment and Public Health.
Hobbies – Caron resides in Manchester, NH with her husband and three children. She is actively involved in her children's school activities and her various alumni organizations.
Marc D. Hiller, Dr. P.H., Associate Professor,
Faculty Fellow, Office of the Vice President of Research and Public
Service
Education — University of Pittsburgh, B.S., 1972;
University of Pittsburgh, M.P.H., 1974;
University of Pittsburgh, Dr.P.H., 1978.
Courses Taught — His primary areas of teaching,
public service, and research are in public health (policy and practice;
tobacco prevention/control) and ethical issues in health care. Currently
he teaches courses in public health, ethics, and health care delivery
systems.
Research Interests — Hiller is an associate
professor of health management and policy, having come to UNH from
the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. From
1999 to 2001, he was a Faculty Fellow in UNH's office of the Vice
President for Research and Public Service while continuing to teach
in both the department's undergraduate and graduate programs. Since
2001, he continues to serve as a visiting scholar in the Office
on Smoking and Health and the Division of Adolescent and School
Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society (Atlanta,
GA).
Professional Organizations — Hiller is
the recipient of the Alumni Association Award for Excellence in
Public Service in 1999, and the New Hampshire Public Health Association's
(NHPHA) Presidential Citation in 1998. He has been a National Endowment
for Humanities (NEH) Fellow in medical ethics at the University
of Virginia, a fellow at the Hastings Center, and a visiting faculty
member in the Ethics Program of the University of Wisconsin School
of Medicine and at the Muskie Institute of the University of Southern
Maine. Hiller was the project director of the New Hampshire Turning
Point Initiative, a statewide strategic planning effort to strengthen
the State's public health system in the 21st century, funded by
the Robert Wood Johnson and W.K. Kellogg foundations. He remains
active in the American Public Health Association (APHA), National
Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH), and the NHPHA, among
many other professional and civic organizations. He is the author/editor
of two books, Medical Ethics and the Law Implications for Public
Policy (1981) and Ethics and Health Administration Ethical
Decision Making in Health Management (1986) and, has authored
journal articles on a variety of public health and ethical issues
and policies.
Hobbies — He resides in Dover N.H. with
his wife (Karen) and their identical twin sons, Ari and Sage.
David LaFlamme, Assistant Professor
david.laflamme@unh.edu
Education — B.S., Health Education, Plymouth State College, 1989; M.P.H., International Health, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, 1997; Ph.D., Health Policy and Management, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2003. Professor Laflamme joined UNH in 2003 as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy. He also serves as an Epidemiologist with the NH DHHS Bureau of Maternal and Child Health (BMCH) and conducts research with the New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice. As the BMCH Epidemiologist, he supports the use of data to inform the bureau's multiple programs focused on improving the health of mothers and children throughout NH. He teaches a course in health program evaluation in the Master of Public Health program. His research interests include online health information seeking (particularly among low-income Internet users), health literacy, health locus of control, psychosocial factors related to indoor air quality, the effects of employee monitoring on workplace climate, the use of handheld computers (e.g. Palm ) to conduct surveys, community-based participatory research methods and maternal and child health issues. His curriculum vitae is available online.
James B. Lewis, Sc.D., Associate Professor and Chair
james.lewis@unh.edu
Education — University of Pittsburgh, B.A., 1972;
Northwestern University, M.M., 1974;
Johns Hopkins University, Sc.D., 1985
Courses Taught — Health Planning, Strategic Management, Social Marketing, Public Health Finance and Budgeting
Research Interests — His major area of research is childhood obesity, and the relationship among body composition, level of fitness and ability of kids to perform fundamental skills. He has been involved in research projects related to these topics in both the U.S. and New Zealand. Along with two HMP colleagues, Lewis is also working on a book on health care quantitative methods. He also has research interests in cost effectiveness analysis and the financial analysis of health care organizations.
Professional Organizations — He serves as a member of the New Hampshire Board of Licensure for Nursing Home Administrators and is a Board member of Amare Cantare, a chamber chorus on the Seacoast. Lewis came to UNH after fifteen years as a health care management consultant, based in Chicago.
Les MacLeod, Professor
macleod@unh.edu
Education — Boston College, B.S.;
Yale School of Medicine, M.P.H.;
Harvard School of Public Health, M.Sc.;
University of South Carolina, M.Sc.;
University of New Hampshire, M.A.;
Dartmouth Medical School, M.Sc.;
University of Massachusetts, M.Ed., Ed.D.;
Courses Taught — Les teaches Healthcare Management, Critical Issues in Healthcare, the health management and policy Pre and Post Practicum, and is faculty supervisor of the Summer Practicum. He also teaches periodically in the M.P.H. and M.B.A. programs.
Research Interests — MacLeod's interests include rural health, healthcare finance, governance, and hospital operations.
Awards — Roger A. Vitro Award, ACHE Life Fellow, NHHA Trustee Emeritus, Pi Gamma Mu, Paul Harris Fellow, various local, state, and national professional awards.
Professional Organizations — He has served as chairman of the New Hampshire Hospital Association, the New Hampshire Rural Health Association, the American Hospital Association's Governing Council for Rural Hospitals; AHA House of Delegates, the International Hospital Federation, the New Hampshire JUA. MacLeod is Vice-President of the Brewster Academy board of trustees and is a certified Master Level Coach with USA Hockey. Before joining the UNH faculty, Les served as CEO of the Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was CEO of Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Robert J. McGrath, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Robert.McGrath@unh.edu
Education — University of New Hampshire, B.S., 1996
Harvard University School of Public Health, MS, 1998
Brandeis University, MA, 2000
Brandeis University, Ph.D. 2006
Research Interests — Dr. McGraths research focuses on health care disparities in vulnerable populations. Specifically, he examines how measurement and data quality affect information used for policies affecting vulnerable populations.
Courses Taught — U.S Health Care Systems, Health Care Research I&II, Health Policy, Health Policy Analysis, Biostatistics, Survey Research Methods.
Awards — Roger A. Ritvo Award, Brandeis Dissertation award. Multiple grants and contracts.
Professional Organizations —Dr. McGrath currently serves as the director for the New Hamsphire Health Information Center which oversees the New Hamsphire Connects for Health Project with the New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice and in conjunction with the New Hampshire Citizen's Health Initiative. The goal of the project is to encourage the electronic exchange of clinical information between all health providers in the state to reduce medical error, increase patient quality, and enhance the efficiency of the health system. He also serves as a policy analyst for the New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice and remains engaged with work on state based health data and health data systems. Additional professional organizations include APHA, NHPA, and Academy Health.
John W. Seavey, M.P.H., Ph.D., Professor and Department
Chair Sackett Professor
John.seavey@unh.edu
Education — Bates College, A.B.,
1966
University of Arizona, M.A., 1968
University of Arizona, Ph.D., 1973
Harvard University, M.P.H., 1979
Courses Taught — Seavey came
to University of New Hampshire as an assistant professor in 1980
from the Arizona Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona.
Research Interests — His major
area of research is rural health care delivery with a focus on hospitals
and the development of integrated service delivery systems. His
publications include two books and numerous articles in scholarly
journals. During 1995–96 he was a research fellow at the Maine
Rural Health Research Center at the Muskie Institute, one of four
nationally funded rural research centers. His major areas for teaching
are strategic planning, health policy and health policy analysis.
Awards — He received the CHHS Teacher of the Year Award in 1986, was named Outstanding Associate
Professor at UNH in 1991, and was promoted to the rank of professor
in 1992. In 1996 he was named the Everett Sackett Professor in the
College of Health and Human Services (1996-1999).
Professional Organizations —
Seavey was chair of the department (1985–88) and interim associate
dean of the Graduate School (1988–89). He was chair of the
UNH Faculty Senate for 1998–99. He is the founding director
of the UNH MPH Program and is currently chair of the department.
He served on the board of directors of the Association of University
Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA), the international consortium
of university programs in health administration from 1989 to 1995,
serving as chair of the board 1993–94. He reviews health management
programs for AUPHA. He serves on many university, local, and state
health association boards and committees. From 2000–2002 he
was chair of the UNH General Education Study Committee which made
recommendations for changing the General Education program at UNH.
Current community service involvement includes, N.H. Turning Point
Project, N.H. Public Health Association, N.H. Intersections Collaborative,
Empowering Communities with Data Project, NH Public Health Workforce
Development, and Families First of Portsmouth.
Lee F. Seidel, Ph.D., Professor
Education — Hobart College, B.A.,
1967;
Pennsylvania State University, M.P.A., 1972;
Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., 1976.
Courses Taught — He typically
teaches the junior-level course, Managing Health Care Organizations,
and the senior level management capstone course, Strategic Management
for Health Care Organizations.
Research Interests — Seidel's
interests involve the operation and strategic management of hospitals
and other types of health care organizations. He is specifically
interested in management strategies and systems to assist private
health care organizations fulfill their mission in competitive markets.
Awards — Since 1992, Seidel has
also served as director of the University of New Hampshire's Teaching
Excellence program. In 1991, he received the University Faculty
Award for Excellence in Public Service.
Professional Organizations —
In the academic field of health administration, Seidel served five
years on the board of directors of the Association of University
Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and as its chair in 1984–1985
. He has also served on boards and committees of national professional
societies and local voluntary health care organizations. He is the
senior author of management texts, served as chair of his academic
department at the University of New Hampshire (1979–1985),
and directed demonstration grants funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation,
state agencies, and non-profit organizations. Since 1994, he is
also visiting professor in the Executive M.B.A. Programming Health
Services Management at the School of Business of the University
of Colorado where he teaches the graduate capstone course. Recent
consulting clients include the Kaiser Permanente Health System of
Denver. Professionally, Seidel has served on the senior management
team of Frisbie Memorial Hospital (N.H.) and joined the UNH faculty
from the New York office of Arthur Andersen & Co. where he provided
consulting services to medical centers. He also served on the Mayor
of The City of New York's Task force on Medicaid. From 1967–1971
he was an officer in the United States Air Force.
Hobbies — Seidel resides in Durham,
NH with his wife Alice and son Eric. He served two elected terms
on the Oyster River School Board and currently is active with the
high school athletic boosters club.
Jeffrey Colman Salloway, Ph.D., Professor and Director
of Undergraduate Studies
Jc.salloway@unh.edu
Education — Tufts University,
B.A., 1963
Boston University, A.M., 1965
Boston University, Ph.D., 1969
Courses Taught — Salloway came
to UNH from Rush Medical School in Chicago in 1988 to direct the
Center for Health Promotion and Research and to teach in health
management.
Research Interests — He received
his Ph.D. in medical sociology from Boston University and did postdoctoral
research in Community Health at Tufts Medical School. His writing
and research has been largely in the areas of health care delivery
systems and epidemiology. He teaches US Health Care Systems and
Epidemiology.
Awards — He is well-published,
an award-winning teacher, and a funded researcher. However, his
greatest satisfaction comes from seeing students grow in their careers.
Robert S. Woodward, Forrest D. McKerley Professor
of Health Economics
Education — Haverford, B.A. in Economics, 1965;
Washington University, Ph.D. in Economics, 1972
Research Interests — Woodward actively seeks to involve bright and motivated students in a variety of his research endeavors. These include (but are not limited to) studies of 1) the socio-economic factors (race, education, income, insurance, etc.) determining the medical outcomes of kidney transplants; 2) the value of diagnostic information and the value of air quality forecast information to patients and health care providers; 3) the role of consumption amenities, risk aversion, and hope as drivers of rising health care expenditures. His research activities at WU included manipulations of large databases to determine the cost of disease and the cost saving potential of new pharmaceuticals and treatments.
Background — Woodward has over 70 publications in refereed journals, some of which reflect his experiences in Puerto Rico, Canada, Brazil, and Russia. Here at UNH, he is particularly enthusiastic about showing students how exciting research on the frontier of science can be. Woodward came to UNH from the Graduate Health Administration Program in Washington University's Medical School where he taught health care finance and economics for 23 years and was the founding Executive Director of the Pharmaco-Economic Transplant Research Group.
Awards — During his tenure at WU, he received two Teacher of the Year awards. Woodward was the recipient of a Brookings Economic Policy Fellowship (1975-76) during which time he served with Stuart Altman who was then the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in what was then the Department of Health Education and Welfare. Woodward was a W. K. Kellogg Foundation National Policy Fellow between 1981 and 1984. In 1992-93, he served with Gail Wilensky in what was then the Office of Legislation and Policy of the Health Care Financing Administration.
Professional Organizations —
Woodward is a member of the American Economics Association, the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, the International Health Economics Association, the American Society of Health Economists, the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, AcademyHealth, the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Hospital Financial Management Association, and the American Society of Transplantation.
Ned Helms, Director
ehelms@cisunix.unh.edu
Education — University of New
Hampshire, M.S., American Government.
Research Interests — Ned Helms,
M.S. serves as Director of the New Hampshire Institute for Health
Policy and Practice. Helms provides intellectual and administrative
leadership for the Institute by overseeing the continued growth
and direction of the Institute, investigating and pursuing the development
of research and demonstration projects, and facilitating collaborative
linkages with health and health policy organizations throughout
New Hampshire.
Professional Organizations — Helms has over 30 years of experience in New Hampshire health policy
and politics. His experience spans the health policy continuum and
includes, but is not limited to serving as a legislative and administrative
assistant for health policy within the U. S. Senate, Commissioner
of Health for New Hampshire, founder and president of a health policy
consulting firm (Helms and Company), and chief administrative officer
of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Hampshire. Helms is co-principal
investigator for the Empowering Communities through Access to Information
and Training Project.
Holly Tutko, Research Associate
Holly.Tutko@unh.edu
Education — Dartmouth College,
M.S., Evaluative Clinical Sciences
Research Interests — Tutko,
M.S. serves as a research associate at the New Hampshire Institute
for Health Policy and Practice. Tutko has seven years work experience
in community health assessment and improvement. Her experience varies
from participating in the development of a community health assessment
survey to conducting comprehensive health assessments of over 150
indicators for several metropolitan areas to providing technical
assistance to communities and states implementing community-based
child injury prevention interventions.
Current Projects — Tutko serves
as the training coordinator for the Empowering Communities Through
Access to Information and Training Project. Tutko also serves
as the project manager for another institute project to develop
a continuing education curriculum for postgraduate social workers
on suicide and suicide intervention.
Amy Philbrick-Schwartz, Senior Policy Analyst
Amy.philbrick@unh.edu
Research Interests — Amy Philbrick-Schwartz
completed her graduate degree in public health at the University
of Hawaii at Manoa, with a concentration in maternal and child health
and a minor in disability studies. Amy Philbrick-Schwartz has also completed
a 40-hour course in mediation for health care executives. Her specific
expertise and experience is in health insurance, health care finance,
contract negotiation and government programs.
Professional Organizations — Previously, she was the vice president of Provider Network Management
for the Neighborhood Health Plan, a Medicaid HMO headquartered in
Boston, Massachusetts. She has held several management positions
for health insurance companies in provider relations, contract negotiation
and cost containment.
Amy Costello, Community Data Analyst
Research Interests — After completing
her Masters of Public Health degree in 1999, she co-authored a compendium
of data on women's reproductive health in developing countries.
Current Projects — Willard is
working closely with the institute and the New Hampshire Department
of Health and Human Services on a grant from the Endowment for Health
Empowering Communities through Access to Information and Training.
As part of her responsibilities on the grant, she manages the content
of the Health Data Inventory Web site, a single web-based community
resource for health information and reports. In addition, she will
coordinate the development and instruction of a Data 101 course
for community network leaders. Because of her work on the Health
Data Inventory, she will also be participating in the development
of the Granite State Data Archive project at UNH.
Professional Organizations — Amy Costello is a community data analyst at the New Hampshire Institute
for Health Policy and Practice. She came to UNH from Brigham and
Women's Hospital in Boston, where she was data manager and analyst
for the REACH 2010 Breast and Cervical Cancer Project, a project
aimed at investigating and eliminating racial disparities in health.