Councils & Committees

Charged with reviewing and recommending to the faculty all matters involving the undergraduate and graduate curricula; functions to review and oversee curricular issues and to make recommendations to the faculty where faculty endorsement by vote is required prior to sending proposals to the Divisional Academic Senate’s Council on Educational Policy or Graduate Council; reviews requests for new courses or modifications in existing courses and course evaluations; and reviews substantial modifications to class sizes, course scheduling, learning objectives, emphasis areas, and guidelines for TAs.

Suellen Hopfer, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

shopfer@hs.uci.edu

Ulrike Luderer, MD, PhD, MPH

Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health

uluderer@uci.edu

Daniel Parker, PhD

Assistant Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention

dparker1@hs.uci.edu

Baolin Wu, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

baolin.wu@uci.edu

The faculty council provides a primary means of communication to and with the administration for matters of general concern to the faculty and acts for the faculty on matters delegated by the faculty, including allocation of educational and budgetary resources, academic priorities, and the planning and budgetary process.

Michael Hoyt, PhD

Chair of Committee Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention

mahoyt@uci.edu

Masashi Kitazawa, PhD

Vice Chair of Committee Associate Professor of Environmental & Occupational Heatlh

kitazawa@uci.edu

Saurabh Chatterjee, Msc, PhD

Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health & Medicine

saurabhc@hs.uci.edu

Joel Milam, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

milamj@hs.uci.edu

Annie Ro, PhD

Associate Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

annie.ro@uci.edu

Guiyun Yan, PhD

Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention

guiyuny@uci.edu

Charged with reviewing and recommending to the faculty on all matters relating to the criteria for admission of graduate students, freshmen, and transfer students into the public health degrees; reviews and makes recommendations on minimum standards for students to remain in good standing in the program, as well as on issues related to probation, students on contracts, dismissals, and student appeals; and serves as a portal for requests and recommendations for improving student welfare and morale.

Zuzanna Bic, PhD, MD

Professor of Teaching of Population Health & Disease Prevention

zbic@uci.edu

Brandy Lipton, PhD

Associate Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

blipton@hs.uci.edu

Andrew Odegaard, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

aodegaar@uci.edu

Jun Wu, PhD

Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health

junwu@hs.uci.edu

Assists in developing and reviewing policies and procedures related to faculty and student research; charged with providing advisement and support to the establishment and implementation of research goals; fostering opportunities for interdisciplinary and interprogrammatic research, coordinating the distribution of faculty research resources, and promoting opportunities for success in research productivity, publishing, and funding acquisition; and advise on research space and facilities.

Masashi Kitazawa, PhD

Chair of Committee Associate Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health

kitazawa@uci.edu

Tim Bruckner, MPH, PhD

Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior and Population Health & Disease Prevention

tim.bruckner@uci.edu

Michael Kleinman, MS, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health

mtkleinm@uci.edu

Min Zhang, MD, MS, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

tnordenk@hs.uci.edu

Margaret Lynn Schneider, PhD

Researcher

margaret.schneider@uci.edu

Tetyana Vasylyeva, MSc, MPH, DPhil

Assistant Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention

tvasylye@hs.uci.edu