Executive Master of Public Health
Faculty

Zekarias Berhane, PhD
Program: Master of Public Health

Zekarias Berhane received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Addis Ababa University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. He worked as a Post Doctoral Associate on the development of a Generalized Model for Post Transplant Survival and collaborative work on analyzing Medicare Database focusing on ICU deaths in the Medicare population at the University of Pittsburgh.

Darryl R. Brown, PhD
Program: Master of Public Health

Dr. Darryl Brown received his PhD in Health Services and Outcomes Research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an MPA degree in Health Services Management from the Wagner School at New York University.

Daryn Eikner, MS
Program: Master of Public Health

Professor Eikner has an accomplished career in public health programs, training and performance at the federal and local levels. She has served as a faculty member at the Drexel University School of Public Health since 2006 facilitating classes that address behavioral assessment, community assessment, and program planning and evaluation.

Arthur L. Frank, MD, PhD
Program: Master of Public Health

Arthur L. Frank received his M.D. degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the City University of New York. He was trained in both internal medicine and occupational medicine and holds board certification in both fields.

Dennis Gallagher, MA, MPA
Program: Master of Public Health

Dennis Gallagher is an Associate Professor, and Director of Health Policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health. Prior to coming to Drexel, Professor Gallagher had a 27-year career with the federal government, working with four agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in management and public health policy positions.

Mary E. Hovinga, PhD, MPH
Program: Master of Public Health

Mary Hovinga received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Michigan. Her main areas of research interest include the surveillance and etiology of mental retardation, environmental epidemiology, and the human health effects of heavy metals, PCBs and DDT.

Ray Lum, MS
Program: Master of Public Health

Ray Lum is an Associate Teaching Professor with eighteen years of academic experience in the Department of Health Management and Policy within the School of Public Health at Drexel University where he teaches courses in health management and policy. He has been affiliated with projects in the areas of reducing health disparities in the Asian population as well as management issues related to continuous quality improvement, strategic planning and strategic alliances.

Hernando Perez, PhD, MPH
Program: Master of Public Health

Dr. Hernando Perez is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and serves as director of the Drexel School of Public Health's industrial hygiene consulting service. He is also board certified in safety by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.

Seth Welles, PhD, ScD
Program: Master of Public Health

Dr. Seth Welles has worked for more than 14 years to understand the impact of HIV phenotypic and genotypic antiretroviral drug resistance on HIV disease progression and transmission. Dr. Welles also studies psychosocial risk for HIV infection and STDs among sexual minority adults and adolescents. He has conducted random surveys of sexual minority adults at community festivals and at health-clinics to assess demographic and psychosocial determinants of sexual risk-taking and HIV/STD infections and has recently developed Internet-based and audio-Computer-Assisted Interviewing (A-CASI) technologies for recruitment and data collection in sexual minority populations. He is committed to community-based participatory research and has a demonstrated interest in working with marginalized populations. Dr. Welles' research has been funded by both NIH and the CDC.