Office: MH 410 Phone: 408-924-2976
Kathleen Roe earned all three of her degrees from the University of California at Berkeley : a BS in sociology with a minor in Afro American Studies (1975), an MPH in community health education (1980), and a doctorate in public health (1985). She joined the Health Science Department in 1988 and was awarded tenure and promotion to full professor 5 years later. In 2002, she was named the Outstanding Professor of San Jose State University. Prior to becoming department chair in 2001, she was the MPH Director (1989 – 2001). Although she will be on sabbatical for fall 2011, Dr. Roe will teach one MPH course: HS 277 Multicultural Communication for Health Professionals, for both campus and distance students when she returns in spring 2012. Over her career, Dr. Roe has been involved in many community-based education and research projects. Her current focus is Salud Familiar en McKinley - an integrated set of community-based, participatory activities involving her large undergraduate course (HS 104 Community Health Promotion) and the students, staff, and families of McKinley Elementary School, just two miles from campus. Her other priority for the past several years has been the Intercambio of the Health Science Department, the McKinley community, and a pueblo of artisans in Arrazola, Oaxaca, Mexico. For over 12 years she was the process evaluator for the San Francisco HIV Prevention Planning Council, many of those years with her brother and partner, Kevin Roe. Since 2007, Dr. Roe has been a frequent Visiting Professor at the University of Reyjkavik in Iceland. Dr. Roe is a frequent speaker at conferences and trainings, including most recently a plenary speaker at the CDC’s annual Communications Conference in Atlanta (September 2010), the North Carolina Public Health Assocation/NC SOPHE Annual Meeting (October 2010), and Robert Wood Johnson’s New Connections conference in Princeton, New Jersey (June 2011). In the past 18 months, she has presented twice at both the International Union of Health Promotion and Education World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland and the Community University International Expo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (both trips with students). She was also selected for the the university’s delegation to the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria during Summer 2011 and the SJSU delegations to two conferences of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in AY 2010-11. Dr. Roe is widely published, most recently in the areas of health disparities, community-based evaluation, and quality assurance in professional preparation. She is a founding Associate Editor of the Circle of Research and Practice department (with Brick Lancaster of CDC) of Health Promotion Practice and a founding member of the Academy for Health Equity. Dr. Roe is active in national and regional public health organizations. She served as Co-Chair of the National Task Force on Accreditation in Health Education for several years and as a member of The Health Trust's Grants Committee. She is a Past- President of the Society for Public Health Education (1999-2000) and has held numerous elected offices in the Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section (PHEHP) of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Roe is the recipient of the APHA PHEHP Section's Early Career Award (1995), the SOPHE Mentor of the Year Award (2001), and the Northern California SOPHE Dorothy Nyswander Leadership Award (2001), the SOPHE Distinguished Career Award (2006), and the Distinguished Career Award of APHA’s Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section (2008). Under her leadership, the Health Science Department was the recipient of the 2004 SJSU Provost's Award for Student Team Service Learning, the 2005 Open Society Award of the National Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), the 2007 CASA Assessment Award, the 2008 Provost's Award for Community Collaboration, and the 2009 Provost’s Award for Team Project (the latter two for her projects at McKinley School). Dr. Roe was honored to be selected by Provost Carmen Sigler to be the Coordinator and Lead Writer of the university's recent accreditation report on Educational Effectiveness and was the recipient of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts’ Faculty Award for Commitment to Equity and Diversity. In May, Dr. Roe was thrilled when Dean Charles Bullock selected Salud Familiar as the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Dean’s Award, the highest recognition of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts. Dr. Roe was unanimously elected to a third 4-year term as Department Chair in May 2009.
Interests: Her family and friends, traveling (Tempe, Paris, Oaxaca, Reykjavik are favorites!), running, reading, cooking, Pilates, her yard, and Irish fiddle music.
Dr. Bud GerstmanOffice: MH 514 Phone: 408-924-2978
b.b.gerstman@sjsu.edu
Bud Gerstman earned his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of California at Davis, and his M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley. He also has a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Cornell University and Bachelors degree in biology from Harpur College (State University of New York Binghamton). Dr. Gerstman teaches Principles of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Computational Public Health Statistics, and a variety of upper division and lower division undergraduate classes. He has been at SJSU since 1990. Before that, he was an epidemiologist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a Fellow at the US Public Health Service Epidemiology Training Program. He has taught at the NIH Graduate School Foundation for the Advancement of Science, has won numerous awards, and is widely published. He is author of two best-selling textbooks and numerous peer-reviewed articles which have been published in top-level public health and biomedical journals. The third edition of his epidemiology text (Epidemiology Kept Simple, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford) will be released in 2012; the first edition of his biostatistics text (Basic Biostatistics: Statistics for Public Health Practice, Jones and Bartlett, Sudbury, MA) has been an international success. Dr. Gerstman’s is currently conducting research in hormonal contraceptive safety and, separately, in diagnostic procedure reliability. He continues to be active in several other research areas, including drug safety, the history of public health, public health surveillance, and complementary and alternative care. He serves on several data and safety monitoring boards. The URL for Dr. Gerstman’s web site is www.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman.
Office: MH 410 Phone: 408-924-2986
edward.mamary@sjsu.edu
Edward Mamary earned his DrPH degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his MS degree from Hunter College, CUNY. He joined the Health Science Department in 1998 and was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor in 2004 and promoted to full professor in 2008. Dr. Mamary teaches Environmental Health, Groups and Training, Applied Data Analysis and a new undergraduate Environmental Health class. He also is one of the Department’s MPH Thesis and Graduate Project advisors. In 2009, Dr. Mamary was a visiting professor at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Prior to coming to SJSU, he worked for many years as an evaluation specialist for the San Francisco STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, one of four national centers funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Mamary has consulted on a number of projects, including – a local evaluation for The Partnership for Public Health (PPH) - a five-year initiative funded by the California Endowment to foster ties between California communities and public health departments; HIV needs assessments for the Mountain Counties AIDS Consortium, Contra Costa County, San Mateo County, and Kern County; an assessment of smoking among people living with HIV for San Francisco General Hospital; building evaluation capacity for community-based HIV prevention programs in the City and County of San Francisco; and an impact evaluation for the California State Occupational Lead Safety Program. He also served as co-principal investigator, along with Dr. Anne Demers, for a CSU collaborative grant, Assessing Priorities and Creating Opportunities for Training California’s Public Health Workforce. Dr. Mamary, along with alum Jacqueline McCright Taylor, were co-principal investigators on a research project funded by the Universitywide AIDS Research Program, University of California. The main goal of the research was to conduct in-depth interviews regarding HIV risk with African American men who have sex with men and who do not identify as being gay. The second year of the project engaged a sub-set of participants in a Photovoice Project. You can view the Ourlives Photovoice Project at www.ourlivesphotos.com. Dr. Mamary also conducts primary care effectiveness reviews for the Ryan White CARE Act Grant Program. He was past co-vice president of national SOPHE and co-chair of SOPHE’s faculty caucus and is currently the treasurer for the Council of Accredited MPH Programs in Community Health Education (CAMP). Dr. Mamary was also a past Co-president of NC-SOPHE. He is also currently serving on the National Board of Public Health Examiners.
Interests: He enjoys running, hiking, travel, and classical music.
Dr. Daniel PeralesOffice: MH 409 Phone 408-924-4695 daniel.perales@sjsu.edu
Daniel Perales was born in Brownsville, Texas. He received his BA degree from the University of California at Berkeley and his MPH and DrPH degrees from the University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. His professional and research interests include injury control and program evaluation. Dr. Perales teaches Health Promotion Planning and Evaluation in the MPH program and has taught several courses in the undergraduate program including Social Marketing, and Epidemiology. He is also Director of the SJSU MPH Distance Education Program. Over the last 25 years, he has conducted research that includes observational studies of bicycle safety helmet use in two California counties and needle exchange HIV/AIDS harm reduction programs. He has also conducted evaluation of programs related to tobacco control, prenatal care outreach, nutrition education and food security, child immunization, and coalition development and maintenance. He has provided strategic planning consultations to the Santa Clara County Senior Care Commission, the Gold Country Tobacco Control Coalition, and the California Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. He also served on the American Public Health Association's Strategic Planning Committee. Dr. Perales is former treasurer and former Co-Vice President of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and is a past member of the Editorial Board of Health Education and Behavior. He presently serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Health Promotion Practice, the Californian Journal of Health Promotion, and on the Prevention Institute’s Board of Directors. He was elected SOPHE President- elect in 2009 and will serve as SOPHE President in 2010-2011. In 2007, Dr. Perales authored a chapter titled “Primary prevention and program evaluation”, in the highly successful book, Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well-Being, edited by Larry Cohen, Vivian Chavez, and Sana Chehimi and published by Jossey-Bass. The Prevention is Primary publication is used as a textbook in the MPH Program. He also co-authored with fellow SJSU faculty member Ed Mamary, and California Nutrition Network Evaluation Unit staff Dr. Andy Fourney and Barbara MkNelly another book chapter on evaluation titled “Evaluating and improving health promotion programs” in Health Promotion Programs: From Theory to Practice, an edited textbook sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education and published by Jossey-Bass in 2009.
Dr. Van Ta is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Health Science at San José State University. She teaches HS 135 Health Issues in a Multicultural Society, HS 162 Health Care Organization, and HS 295D Research Design and Methodology. Her primary research interest are to address issues related to racial and ethnic minority health and healthcare disparities, especially among at-risk Asian American women including those who suffer from mental/substance use disorders and/or are victims of intimate partner violence. Specifically, she is interested in examining the barriers and facilitators to accessing mental health/substance abuse treatment, and the effectiveness of innovative and culturally appropriate treatment approaches in health care settings. Her current studies include a mixed-methods study on the barriers and facilitators to use of mental health services among Native Hawaiian women, and investigations of the roles of race/ethnicity, generational status and family cohesion on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ health care experiences. She is a recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program, Health Disparities award. Dr. Ta was a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) postdoctoral fellow in Substance Abuse Treatment and Services Research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Psychiatry. At UCSF, she worked on various projects such as an intervention study on HIV prevention for mentally ill substance users. She has an on-going research study at UCSF that examines racial and gender differences in health services use among methamphetamine users. She completed her doctoral studies in Health Policy and Management with a concentration in social and behavioral sciences at The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, where she was a recipient of the Sir Arthur Newsholme Scholarship. Her dissertation research focused on the prevalence of and factors related to depression and the utilization of mental health/substance use services among Asian and Pacific Islander mothers in Hawai’i. She also has a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) with a concentration in Health Promotion, a B.S. in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to pursuing her doctoral degree, she worked for three different non-profit organizations in Los Angeles County primarily addressing health care access and health equity issues affecting Asian and Latino Americans as well as the uninsured and underinsured. Dr. Ta is a refugee from Vietnam, a 1.5 generation Chinese American, and is the oldest of four. She was raised in Santa Ana, California. She enjoys cooking and attending cultural events.
Other Interests: Dr. Perales enjoys cooking, birdwatching, and enology.
Dr. Anne L. DemersOffice: MH 410 Phone: 408-924-2980
anne.demers@sjsu.edu
Anne Demers earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz; an MPH from San Jose State University; and an Ed.D. with an emphasis in Organizations and Leadership from the University of San Francisco. She is a member of San Jose State University’s Veteran Students Committee. She has many years experience in the study of organizations, social systems, education, and community change. Her research interests are in the related areas of disenfranchisement from community, actions that compromise mental health, and evaluation of the policy and service interventions designed to help people re-integrate into mainstream society and community. Her particular focus population is military service members, veterans, and their loved ones. Dr. Demers is a content area expert in the mental health issues of veterans’, and their loved ones and recently concluded two research projects. The first was an ethnographic study documenting the experiences of veterans and their loved ones in San Francisco Bay Area and the San Diego area. This was a collaborative project with a San Francisco based non-profit organization, funded by California Endowment and the Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund. The second project was Connecting Veterans to the Learning Experience at SJSU, supported by a San Jose State University Planning Council grant. She is currently a Co-Principal Investigator on the second phase of a project, Exploring Intimate Partner Relationship Issues among Veterans and Their Partners on College Campuses in California, funded by Blue Shield of California Foundation. Dr. Demers coordinates the MPHFieldwork Program, and teaches HS100 Writing Workshop, HS145 Community Mental Health, HS291A, B, & C Fieldwork Seminar, Practicum, and Synthesis, HS271 Theoretical Foundations in Public Health Education, HS276 Community Organization, HS293 Public Health Leadership and is one of the faculty advisors for graduate projects and theses. Most recently, Dr. Demers co-designed US95V Warriors at Home: Succeeding in College, Life and Relationships, a course to assist student veterans with transition and integration into civilian life and college. Dr. Demers has been an invited keynote speaker and presented her work at numerous professional conferences, including the American Public Health Association, the Society for Public Health Education, and the International Union for Health Promotion and Education; she has been an invited speaker at various local and state summits, including the Department Of Defense Task Force on Veterans’ Mental Health; the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing on veterans’ issues, and Combat to Community: A Community Summit on the Mental Health and Wellness of Veterans and Their Families.
Other Interests: Dr. Demers enjoys spending time with her grandson, running, reading, traveling, and dancing.
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Dr. Brian R. GrossmanAssistant Professor and Undergradute Program DirectorOffice: MH 409 Phone: 408-924-2984 |
Brian R. Grossman joined the Department of Health Science as an Assistant Professor in the spring of 2010. He currently serves as the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Health Science and the Concentration Coordinator for Option 3 (B.S. in Health Science with a Concentration in Gerontology). He teaches HS 15 – Human Lifespan, GERO/HS 117 – Social Policies and Services in Aging, HS 140 – Human Sexuality, and HS 295 – Research Design and Methodology, and coordinates the fieldwork projects for the Gerontology Program. Dr. Grossman received his undergraduate training in Psychology and Communication from Rutgers University; an M.S.P.H. in Health and Social Behavior from the Harvard School of Public Health; and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. Before arriving at San Jose State University, he taught for both the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Program in Gerontology at San Francisco State University. Dr. Grossman’s research is focused on disability and old age as categories of social, political, and economic exclusion, with a particular emphasis on both the construction of social identity and patterned experiences within social policies including Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Through his work with the Center for Personal Assistance Services at the University of California, San Francisco he conducted research on the limited and disparate state coverage of services and supports that allow people with disabilities and older people to remain living at home and in their communities. Dr. Grossman’s research has been published in Aging and Social Policy, Health and Social Policy, Home Health Care Services Quarterly, and Sexuality Research and Social Policy. He is a co-editor of the volume, Social Insurance and Social Justice: Medicare, Social Security, and the Campaign Against Entitlements (Springer, 2009). His most recent article, an analysis of the concept of “community” across federal bills proposed to change Medicaid funding policy, will be published in Research in Social Science and Disability in September, 2011. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Grossman will continue his research on changes to Medicaid policy related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 as part of an early career development award. Dr. Grossman is a Fellow for Life with the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship and is a founding Board Member of the Bay Area Schweitzer Fellowship (BASF). Additionally, he is co-chair of the Rainbow Scholars special interest group of the Gerontological Society of America and Program Chair of the Disability in Society section-in-formation for the American Sociological Association. Dr. Grossman lives in the Sunset district of San Francisco with his partner, Malcolm, many potted plants, and two freshwater fishtanks.
Office: MH 514 Phone: 408-924-2988
Van.Ta@sjsu.edu
Dr. Van Ta is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Health Science at San José State University. She teaches HS 135 Health Issues in a Multicultural Society, HS 162 Health Care Organization, HS 262 & HS 262D Health Services Organization, and HS 295D Research Design and Methodology. Her primary research interest is to address issues related to racial and ethnic minority health and healthcare disparities, especially among at-risk Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander women. Her research areas include mental health, substance use, and intimate partner violence. She investigates the barriers and facilitators to accessing mental health and related treatment, and the effectiveness of innovative and culturally appropriate treatment approaches in health care settings. Her current studies include investigations: (1) on the barriers and facilitators to use of mental health services among Native Hawaiian women; (2) of the roles of race/ethnicity and socio-cultural aspects on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ mental and substance use health services and experiences; and, (3) on perspectives of postpartum depression among Asian Indian women. She has been a recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program, Health Disparities award since 2008. Dr. Ta was a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) postdoctoral fellow in Substance Abuse Treatment and Services Research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Psychiatry from 2006-07. She completed her doctoral studies in Health Policy and Management with a concentration in social and behavioral sciences at The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, where she was a recipient of the Sir Arthur Newsholme Scholarship. Her dissertation research focused on the prevalence of and factors related to depression and the utilization of mental health/substance use services among Asian and Pacific Islander mothers in Hawaii. She also has a Master of Public Health (MPH) with a concentration in Health Promotion, a B.S. in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to pursuing her doctoral degree, she worked for three different non-profit organizations in Los Angeles County primarily addressing health care access and health equity issues affecting Asian and Latino Americans as well as the uninsured and underinsured. Dr. Ta is a refugee from Vietnam, a 1.5 generation Chinese American, and is the oldest of four.
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