resources adequate to fulfill its stated mission and goals, and its instructional, research and service objectives.
Primary Faculty Members for the MPH Program for the AY 2013-2014 are:
Thomas R. Oliver, PhD, MHA – Dr. Oliver serves as the Faculty Director for the MPH program. As the Director, he serves as the ex officio Chair of the MPH Steering Committee and participates on the MPH Curriculum Committee. He participates in both the Admissions Committee and Community Advisory Committee meetings to provide information and advice and to monitor the processes. He seeks programmatic feedback from the Community Advisory Committee. He teaches the Health Systems, Management and Policy course, which is a requirement of the MPH program. He also advises and mentors many MPH and Population Health Sciences students. Patrick L. Remington, MD, MPH – Dr. Remington was the founding director of the MPH program. He is currently the Associate Dean for Public Health in the School of Medicine and Public Health, and as such, is one of the two Deans within the SMPH who oversee the MPH program. He serves on the MPH Steering Committee and participates in the Community Advisory Committee. He developed the Public Health Principles and Practice course, which is required of all MPH students, and introduces many of the cross-cutting competencies of the curriculum. He co- instructs this course with Dr. Mark Edgar. He also serves as a leader for the MD-MPH dual degree and mentors and advises many MPH and Population Health Sciences students. Kristen Malecki, PhD, MPH – Dr. Malecki is a relatively new tenure track faculty member who serves on the MPH program’s Curriculum Committee. She has taught in various iterations of the program’s environmental health courses. She is in the process of developing an on-line version of the Principles of Environmental Health Practice course and will teach the course in a face-to- face format beginning in the spring of 2015. She provides many guest lectures and often serves as discussion leader in several core courses. Dr. Malecki advises and mentors students and serves on many capstone committees.
Ana Martinez-Donate, PhD, MPH – Dr. Martinez-Donate chairs the MPH program’s Curriculum Committee and teaches the required Social and Behavioral Health Sciences course. She engages many MPH students in her education and research projects. She has advised and mentored many students and serves on many capstone committees.
Ajay Sethi, PhD, MS – Dr. Sethi will begin teaching the required Introduction to Epidemiology course in Fall 2014. Currently he teaches an elective, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, that is popular with the students. He has served on the MPH program’s Admissions Committee in the past and currently serves on the program’s Promotions Committee. He advises and mentors many students and serves on many capstone committees.
Susan Zahner RN, DrPH – Dr. Zahner has chaired and currently serves as a member of the MPH program’s Curriculum Committee. She has also served on the Admissions Committee and the Steering Committee in past years. She teaches one of the MPH Program’s methods courses,
1.7.a. A concise statement or chart defining the number (headcount) of primary faculty employed by the program for each of the last three years, organized by concentration.See CEPH Data Template 1.7.1.
Health Program Planning, Evaluation, and Quality Improvement. She has been instrumental in the creation, implementation and evaluation of the newly created BS Nursing to MPH Advanced Degree Option and advises and mentors many students in the program.
Table 11. Headcount of Primary Faculty for MPH Program Core Areas
2011 2012 2013 2014
Generalist MPH Degree 5 5 5 6
Table 12. Faculty, Students, and Student/Faculty Ratios by Department of Specialty Area
HC Primary Faculty FTE Primary HC Other Faculty FTE Other HC Total Faculty FTE Total HC Students FTE Students SFR by Primary SFR by Total
Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty
FTE Faculty FTE MPH Generalist 6 6 64 16 69 21 91 83.5 91/5 91/65
Notes: One student FTE equals 1 student taking ≥ 9 semester credit hours. HC = Head Count; FTE = Full-time equivalent; Other = Adjunct, part-time, and secondary faculty; Total = Primary + other; SFR = Student/Faculty Ratio; Primary faculty are ones who support the teaching program and meet the CEPH definition.
1.7.b. A table delineating the number of faculty, students and SFRs, organized by concentration, for each of the last three years (calendar years or academic years) prior to the site visit. Data must be presented in a table format (see CEPH Data Template 1.7.2) and include at least the following information: a) headcount of primary faculty, b) FTE conversion of faculty based on % time devoted to public health instruction, research and service, c) headcount of other faculty involved in the program (adjunct, part-time, secondary appointments, etc.), d) FTE conversion of other faculty based on estimate of % time commitment, e) total headcount of primary faculty plus other (non- primary) faculty, f) total FTE of primary and other (non- primary) faculty, g) headcount of students by department or program area, h) FTE conversion of students, based on definition of full-time as nine or more credits per semester, i) student FTE divided by primary faculty FTE and j) student FTE divided by total faculty FTE, including other faculty. All programs must provide data for a), b) and i) and may provide data for c), d) and j) depending on whether the program intends to include the contributions of other faculty in its FTE calculations. Note: CEPH does not specify the manner in which FTE faculty must be calculated, so the program should explain its method in a footnote to this table. In addition, FTE data in this table must match FTE data presented in Criteria 4.1.a. (Template 4.1.1) and 4.1.b (Template 4.2.2).
Table 13. Headcount and FTE of Administrative Personnel and Staff Supporting MPH Program 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 Headcount of Non- Faculty, Non- Student Personnel 8 8 8 8 9 FTE Equivalent of Non-Faculty, Non- Student Personnel 3.6 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.9
The MPH Program staff consists of the MPH program Faculty Director, Deputy Director, Community Engagement Coordinator, MPH Student Services Coordinator, administrative
assistant, and student hourly help. Thomas Oliver, PhD, MHA, serves as the Faculty Director for the MPH program. He is a Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences; 30% of his salary is supported by the MPH program’s budget. He ensures that quality processes and
procedures relating to admissions, instructional quality, faculty recruitment and collaboration, and student affairs and services.
Barbara Duerst, RN, MS, is the Director of Public Health Education and Training, Department of
Population Health Sciences and serves as the Deputy Director for the MPH program. She is a Faculty Associate and serves as a Public Health Program Faculty for the MPH program. She provides general oversight to the MPH program, much like the role of a chief operating officer in a hospital or large corporation. She provides teaching and curriculum development and monitoring, manages the MPH staff, and provides professional and community service. She oversees the curriculum, programmatic evaluation, monitors the governance structure and accreditation status for the program and generally ensures that the program is running smoothly. Currently
approximately 60% of her position is funded through the MPH program.
Lisa Allman, BA, serves as the MPH Student Services Coordinator. She advises students on
academics, handles programmatic issues related to the MPH, and manages the outreach and recruitment of students. She assists students with course selection, transfers and waivers and monitors academic progress and degree completion. In addition, the Student Services
Coordinator oversees the recruitment and admissions efforts of the MPH program. She creates and publishes information for students related to the program’s policies, procedures and Student Handbook. Ms. Allman is supported 100% on MPH program funding.
Debbie Siegenthaler, RN, MS serves as the MPH Community Engagement Coordinator. The
MPH Community Engagement Coordinator, a new position beginning AY 2013-14, assists students facilitate their field experience projects and provides guidance to students on their field work and Capstone Projects. A full 50% of this position is supported through MPH program funding.
1.7.c. A concise statement or chart concerning the headcount and FTE of non-faculty, non-student personnel (administration and staff) who support the program.
Terrie Howe, BS, is the Administrative Assistant for the MPH Program. She is responsible for
maintaining student records, grading status, and the MPH program’s listservs. She is responsible for disseminating the Weekly Update. She plans and implements the program’s special events such as symposia, graduation reception, and Welcome Day. She is typically the first point of contact when students express interest in the MPH program at UW-Madison. Eighty percent of her position is funded through the MPH program. The MPH program also employs a student hourly to assist with clerical functions. The student works approximately 15-20 hours per week during the academic year and is funded solely through the MPH program funding sources.
Mindy Schreiner, MS, is the PRIME Student Services Coordinator. She is not supported directly
by the MPH program budget, but she plays a key role for those students enrolled in the MD-MPH dual degree or the MD Path of Distinction (PoD). She works collaboratively with the MPH Student Services Coordinator to provide advising and guidance to the MD students while in the MPH program.
In addition to the core MPH program staff, the MPH program funding supports two other administrative personnel. These individuals, their FTE related to the MPH program, and their duties are outlined in the table below.
Table 14. Other Administrative Personnel of the MPH Program
Position/Individual % FTE working on MPH Program Duties
Kara Melka/Financial Specialist, Department of Population Health Sciences
10% Fiscal reporting and grants
management
Tina Petrick/Payroll, Department of Population Health Sciences
10% Payroll
The MPH program is primarily housed within the administrative offices of the Department of Population Health Sciences in the School of Medicine and Public Health. The MPH program occupies four offices on the 7th floor of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) building. These offices provide workspace for the MPH Faculty Director, Deputy Director, the Student Services Coordinator, and the Administrative Assistant, and student hourly support personnel. The office in which the Administrative Assistant and student hourly are located is also used by the MPH students and teaching assistants for some of the core courses if they need the use of a computer, printer, or telephone during regular business hours.
In the past year, the MPH program has obtained office space in the HSLC for staff members to be able to be more accessible to students. The Community Engagement Coordinator is located in a cubicle within the second floor of the Ebling Library. In addition, the MPH program shares an office on the second floor of the Ebling Library. The Community Engagement Coordinator and the Student Services Coordinator hold regular office hours in the shared office.
The SMPH has plans to expand office capacity in the HSLC and at that time, the MPH program hopes to move its entire staff there to be in better proximity to meet the needs of the students and
1.7.d. Description of the space available to the program for various purposes (offices, classrooms, common space for student use, etc.), by location.
to collaborate with other health professions programs .
The MPH Faculty Director’s Office is located on the 7th Floor of the WARF building, within a suite of offices that house the Health Policy faculty that are a part of the Population Health Institute, the Institute that leads many of the service-related teaching and research in the MPH program. Within the suite of offices, there is a conference room, which is frequently used for MPH program staff meetings and other small meetings.
The 7th Floor of the WARF building also has a classroom with the capacity for 25 students and a student commons area where students may study or complete small group work. There is an additional class room/conference room that has a capacity for 20 students on the 5th floor. Both classrooms are equipped with built-in projection capabilities and projection screens.
There are numerous small and large conference rooms available to MPH program staff and students in the WARF building. The Department of Population Health Sciences hosts a calendaring system wherein conference rooms can be reserved.
The majority of the instructional space for the MPH program is located in the UW-Madison’s Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC). The HSLC opened in June 2004 and is one of the nation's premier facilities of its type. It is the site of classroom instruction and clinical skills training for the SMPH and UW School of Nursing. It also houses the Ebling Library as well as academic and administrative offices.
MPH students may use al student lounge, located in 2261 HSLC. It is designed primarily as a kitchen and has a microwave, refrigerator, table and limited seating. Students are able to use it for lunches and small group meetings. The room is available to other health sciences students as well. For larger meetings, students are able to reserve conference rooms in HSLC or the Ebling Library. MPH students can obtain lockers in the School of Pharmacy by completing a request form. The School of Pharmacy is located adjacent to the WARF building and is connected by walkway to the HSLC.
Student mailboxes are available by request in Room 707 WARF near the MPH and Department of Population Health Sciences administrative offices. Because most communication within the program occurs electronically, few students request mailboxes.
Additional information about the HSLC, its hours of operation, classroom sizes, and room availability is found at http://www.hslc.wisc.edu/.
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The InfoCommons, located on the second floor of the HSLC is open to the entire UW-Madison community (currently enrolled students, faculty and staff of all schools). Access to the
1.7.e. A concise description of the laboratory space and description of the kind, quantity and special features or special equipment.
1.7.f. A concise statement concerning the amount, location and types of computer facilities and resources for students, faculty, administration and staff.
InfoCommons workstations requires logging in with a UW ID number.
For limited computer and printer access, students may use a computer in the MPH program office located on the 7th floor WARF.
The Division of Information Technology or DoIT, is the campus-wide resource which provides technological assistance to students, administrators, faculty, and staff. DoIT provides technical assistance 24 hours/day via its Help Desk. The Help Desk plays a key role in DoIT fulfilling its strategic direction "Provide Outstanding Delivery of Technology Services." DoIT provides an excellent online knowledgebase and well-trained professional staff to answer questions, and continuously seeks for ways to improve and expand services.
MPH students enjoy a wide range of electronic and print resources as well as an extensive suite of services provided by the Ebling Library (http://ebling.library.wisc.edu). A wealth of electronic information is available on any computer desktop throughout campus or remotely with a valid UW- Madison ID or NetID. Electronic resources include over 4,300 journals, 500 books and 70
databases in the health sciences, including more than 150 journals specific to Public Health and its disciplines (epidemiology, health systems research, global health, etc). MPH students also have access to the strong interdisciplinary resources of UW–Madison’s General Library System, the 11th largest library system in the US, including >20,000 electronic journals, 650 databases, and 7 million print books. Library Express is the UW’s document delivery service, and allows for free electronic delivery of UW’s print-only holdings as well as delivery of journal articles or books not on the UW-Madison campus.
Ebling Library is located within the Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC), and houses the HSLC’s InfoCommons. The InfoCommons comprises 115 desktop workstations, spread
throughout the library, including 12 collaborative workstations (both Mac and PC) where students may work on group projects, plus laser printers (b&w and color), scanners, and a slide scanner. InfoCommons workstations carry a full suite of productivity software as well as desktop publishing and multimedia applications. About 40 laptop computers are available for checkout, along with other electronic equipment such as headphones, a digital camera and camcorder, and more. More information on the InfoCommons is available at http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/infocommons/. A dedicated library liaison to the MPH program (Rhonda Sager) performs free literature searches of databases including PubMed, the Cochrane Library, etc. The liaison also provides orientations and course-related instruction in such topics as effective PubMed searching, topic-specific
resources such as EBPH or Global Health, and citation management, and is available for individual tutorials and hands-on demonstrations to suit the needs of the audience.
Chief resources have been described above.
1.7.g. A concise description of library/information resources available for program use, including a description of library capacity to provide digital (electronic) content, access mechanisms, training opportunities and document-delivery services.
Two target objectives comprise measures for assessing the adequacy of faculty and related resources for the MPH program: (1) The average research dollar contribution of each MPH program affiliated faculty member is at least $400,000 per annum; and (2) The assignment of MPH program primary (core) faculty members does not exceed a faculty-to-student ratio of 10:1. An interpretation of the data suggests that whereas the faculty and related resources are
adequate, meeting the target figures would advance the program from the status of being "very good" to "excellent"; whereas the targets have not yet been met, the UW-Madison MPH program has approached its research dollar per faculty member target and is moving incrementally toward accomplishing its stated student-to-faculty target.
Table 15. Assessment of Faculty and Other Resources Allocated for the MPH Program
Outcome Measure Target 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014
Research dollars per primary faculty member ≥ $400,000 $379,545 $324,690 $154890 Primary faculty to student ratio ≤ 10:1 17:1 16:1 15:1
The criterion is met.
Strengths: The library holdings comprise one of the largest in the United States. The program is supported by the leadership at the University, School, and Department levels. Students have near state-of-the-art classroom space with vast audiovisual capability. The MPH program has
demonstrated sufficient resources in order to fulfill the mission of the program and to meet the needs of the students and faculty. Extensive and robust research and training activities have brought additional resources to the program.
Weaknesses: None noted.
Plans: Initiatives to reach targeted outcome objectives will be undertaken by the MPH Steering Committee.
1.7.i. Identification of measurable objectives through which the program assesses the adequacy of its resources, along with data regarding the program’s performance against those measures for each of the last three years. See CEPH Outcome
Measures Template.
1.7.j. Assessment of the extent to which this criterion is met and an analysis of the program’s strengths, weaknesses and plans relating to this criterion.
1.8 Diversity. The program shall demonstrate a commitment to diversity and shall