Public Health Policy & Practice Faculty & Staff

The division of Public Health Policy & Practice is comprised both of faculty members with primary appointments in the division and of other with secondary appointments who are based in departments and schools across the University and in public health agencies in the community. Wide-ranging faculty interests include U.S. and international health policy; public health ethics and law; health disparities and vulnerable populations; community obesity interventions; and youth smoking cessation.

Ruth Gaare Bernheim, J.D., M.P.H. Telephone: 434-924-3487 : Email

  • Associate Professor; Director, Division of Public Health Policy & Practice
  • Expertise: Public Health Policy, Law, and Ethics
  • Projects:
Ralph O. Allen, Ph.D. Telephone: 434-924-3577 : Email
  • Professor
  • Expertise: Environmental Health and Safety
Jennifer Bauerle, Ph.D. Telephone: 434-924-1512 : Email
  • Other
Denise E. Bonds, M.D., M.P.H. Telephone: 434-924-8650 : Email

  • Associate Professor
  • Expertise: Clinical trial conduct especially the ascertainment and adjudication of clinical outcomes. Conduct of ambulatory care practice-based interventions
  • Research Interests: Dr. Bonds' research interests include the prevention of heart disease, association and prevention of other co-morbidities in patients with diabetes, women's health, and the improvement of medical care in the outpatient setting.
Nisha A. Botchwey, M.C.P., Ph.D. Telephone: 434-924-6444 : Email
  • Assistant Professor
Tracey L. Brookman, B.S. Telephone: 434-924-8646 : Email

John Bryant, MD Telephone: : Email
Ian Bushell, M.D. Telephone: : Email
Donna T. Chen, M.D., M.P.H. Telephone: 434-243-5804 : Email
  • Assistant Professor
  • Research Interests: systems-informed professionalism, bioethics, research ethics, general psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry/psychosomatic medicine
James F. Childress, Ph.D. Telephone: 434-924-6724 : Email
  • Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics
Rebecca Dillingham, MD Telephone: 434-982-0103 : Email
  • Assistant Professor
John J. Dreyzehner, MD, MPH Telephone: 276-889-7621 : Email
Wendi El-Amin, MD Telephone: 434 924-5348 : Email
  • Assistant Professor
Carolyn L. Engelhard, M.P.A. Telephone: 434-982-6744 : Email

  • Assistant Professor
  • Expertise: Health policy analysis including: private and public health coverage; expenditures in the organization and financing of medical services; quality issues in health care; patient safety and medical errors; and changes in health workforce.
  • Research Interests:

    Ms. Engelhard has recently (April 2007) co-authored (with Dean Garson)a book on the U.S. Health Care System, entitled, "Health Care Half-Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality." Ms. Engelhard's academic activities include studying and monitoring changes in health policy at the federal and state governmental levels, providing technical and academic services to agencies within the Commonwealth of Virginia, and teaching in both the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine.

    Ms. Engelhard has presented extensively and written about the Clinton Administration health care effort and its demise, the social policy implications of the expansion of corporate managed health care delivery systems, and current issues in governmentally financed health programs.

    Over the last few years, Ms. Engelhard has coordinated two studies that were the result of state legislative mandates: one on long-term care quality concerns in nursing homes, and one on the inclusion of pain management curricula in the Commonwealth's medical schools. In addition, she provided technical support on projects examining coordination of health care services for the poor elderly and assisted in the annual evaluations of the state's federally sponsored health insurance program for children.

Jonathan Evans, MD Telephone: (434) 243-4849 : Email
  • Associate Professor
Arthur T. Garson, Jr., M.D., M.P.H. Telephone: 434-924-5118 : Email
  • Robert C. Taylor Professor of Health Science and Public Policy; Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Virginia
Doris F. Glick, Ph.D., R.N. Telephone: 434-924-0105 : Email
  • Associate Professor
Thomas M. Guterbock, M.A., Ph.D. Telephone: 434-243-5223 : Email
  • Professor
Fern Hauck, MD Telephone: 434-924-5451 : Email
  • Associate Professor
Steven Heim, MD Telephone: 434-243-4809 : Email
  • Associate Professor
Lisa Kaplowitz, M.D., M.S.H.A. Telephone: : Email
Pamela A. Kulbok, D.N.Sc., M.S., R.N. Telephone: 434-924-0128 : Email
  • Associate Professor
R. Thomas Leonard, Ph.D. Telephone: 434-924-3606 : Email
John Marr, MD, PhD Telephone: : Email
Wende Marshall, PhD, MA Telephone: 434-924-4095 : Email
  • Assistant Professor
Thomas Massaro Telephone: 434-924-2047 : Email
  • Professor
Elizabeth L. McGarvey, Ed.D. Telephone: 434-924-5522 : Email

Richard A. Merrill, LL.B., M.A. Telephone: 434-982-2083 : Email
  • Professor
Elizabeth Merwin, PhD, RN, FAAN Telephone: 434-982-3286 : Email
  • Professor
Kelly Near, R.N.C., M.L.S. Telephone: 434-924-1607 : Email
Wendy M. Novicoff, Ph.D. Telephone: 434-243-0296 : Email
  • Assistant Professor
  • Expertise: Six Sigma and Lean methodologies, benchmarking, quality improvement methods
  • Research Interests: Outcomes research, quality and performance improvement, quality management theory and techniques, report cards and pay for performance programs.
M. Norman Oliver, M.D. Telephone: 434-982-1754 : Email
  • Associate Professor
Larry Palmer Telephone: : Email
Aaron F. Pannone, M.S. Telephone: 434-924-9032 : Email

  • Research Assistant
Lilian Peake, M.D. Telephone: : Email
Jeanita W. Richardson, Ph.D., M.Ed. Telephone: 434-924-8784 : Email
  • Associate Professor
  • Expertise: Comprehensive health and educational policy analyses. Qualitative and mixed-method approaches to community-based issues.
  • Research Interests: Health and educational policies that support the long-term health and learning readiness of children.
Margaret (Mimi) Foster Riley, J.D. Telephone: 434-924-4671 : Email
  • Professor
John Schorling, MD Telephone: (434) 982-3458 : Email
  • Professor
Lois Sheperd, J.D. Telephone: 982-3970 : Email
  • Associate Professor
Scott Strayer, MD, MPH Telephone: (434) 924-5348 : Email
  • Associate Professor
John Voss, MD Telephone: 434-924-5608 : Email
  • Associate Professor; None
Tanya Wanchek, J.D., Ph.D. Telephone: : Email
  • Instructor
Rebecca West, J.D. Telephone: 434-296-2100 : Email