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Teaching Excellence

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Excellence at the Bloomberg School begins with committed, outstanding teachers. In recognition of their success in the classroom, the School would like to thank and honor faculty who have impressive accomplishments in teaching. In the third term of the 2011-12 academic year, based on students’ course evaluations, 48 faculty members were identified as exceptional teachers in 35 courses.

In this third term, 142 courses were evaluated by students.

      —James Yager, senior associate dean for academic affairs and Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor in Preventive Medicine.

Term 3 | 2011-12

Han Liu
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Course: Statistical Machine Learning: Methods, Theory and Applications

Charles Rohde
Professor, Biostatistics
Course: Essentials of Probability and Statistical Inference III: Theory of Modern Statistical Methods

Roger Peng
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Course: Methods in Biostatistics III

Elizabeth Stuart 
Associate Professor, Mental Health

Constantine Frangakis
Professor, Biostatistics
Course: Causal Inference in Medicine and Public Health

Roni Neff 
Assistant Scientist, Environmental Health Sciences

Anne Palmer
Research Associate, Health, Behavior and Society
Course: Baltimore Food Systems: A Case Study of Urban Food Environments

Patrick Breysse 
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Mary Doyle
Research Associate, Environmental Health Sciences
Course: Noise and Other Physical Agents in the Environment

Robert Fitzgerald 
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences 
Course: The Cardiopulmonary System Under Stress

John Groopman 
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences 
Course: Xenobiotic Metabolism and Biomarker Development 

Virginia Weaver 
Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences 
Course: Clinical, Environmental and Occupational Toxicology 

Sachiko Ozawa
Assistant Scientist, International Health 

Krishna Rao
Associate, International Health
Course: Health Financing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Andrew Pekosz
Associate Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology 

Xiao-Fang Yu
Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Course: Pandemics of the Twentieth Century

Ruth Karron
Professor, International Health 

Andrea Ruff
Associate Professor, International Health 
Course: Infectious Diseases and Child Survival

Len Rubenstein
Senior Scientist, Epidemiology  

Lawrence Gostin
Professor, Health Policy and Management  
Course: Human Rights for Public Health Practitioners

Carolyn Fowler
Assistant Professor, Center for Injury Research and Policy  
Course: Design and Evaluation of Community Health and Safety Interventions 

Susan Baker
Professor, Health Policy and Management

Keshia Pollack
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management

Robert Dodd
Associate, Health Policy and Management
Course: Transportation Safety: Policy and Politics

Andrea Gielen
Professor, Health, Behavior and Society   
Course: Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy

Jon Vernick
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management  

Steve Teret
Professor, Health Policy and Management  
Course: Public Health and the Law

Chad Boult
Professor, Health Policy and Management   
Course: New Frontiers in Gerentology

Albert Wu
Professor, Health Policy and Management 

Laura Morlock 
Professor, Health Policy and Management

Peter Pronovost
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Course: Patient Safety and Medical Errors

Thomas Burke
Professor, Health Policy and Management     
Course: Introduction to the Risk Sciences and Public Policy

Mary Fox
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management  

Thomas Burke
Professor, Health Policy and Management   
Course: Risk Policy, Management and Communication

Peter Zandi 
Associate Professor, Mental Health   
Course: Introduction to Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics

Deborah Agus
Assistant Professor, Mental Health   
Course: Principles of Public Mental Health Delivery in the Community Context

George Rebok
Professor, Mental Health

Michelle Carlson
Associate Professor, Mental Health

Peter Zandi
Associate Professor, Mental Health
Course: Seminar on Aging, Cognition and Neurodegenerative Disorders

Elizabeth Stuart
Associate Professor, Mental Health
Course: Seminar on Statistical Methods in Mental Health

Jonathan Golub 
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology  

Richard Chaisson
Professor, Epidemiology   
Course: Epidemiologic Basis for Tuberculosis Control

Homayoon Farzadegan
Professor, Epidemiology
Course: Epidemiology and Natural History of Human Viral Infections

Thomas Glass   
Professor, Epidemiology    
Course: Advanced Seminar in Social Epidemiology

Elizabeth Selvin
Associate Professor, Epidemiology 
Course: Welch Center Research Seminar

Kristin Mmari    
Assistant Professor, Population, Family and Reproductive Health     
Course: Fundamentals of Program Evaluation

Cynthia Minkovitz    
Professor, Population, Family and Reproductive Health     
Course: Attitudes, Programs and Policies for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Courtland Robinson     
Assistant Professor, International Health     
Course: Migration and Health: Concepts, Rates and Relationships

David Holtgrave 
Professor, Health, Behavior and Society   

Andrea Villanti 
Assistant Scientist, Health, Behavior and Society    
Course: Translating Research into Public Health Programs I 

Ann-Michele Gundlach
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
Course: Foundations of Leadership: A Leadership Survey Course