Schneider's Introduction to Public Health

Jessica S. Kruger, PhD, MCHES, is a health educator whose research focuses on consumption and addictive behaviors, health behavior decision-making and pedagogy in public health. She collaborates with a wide variety of community-based organizations and advises students at the Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic and the Seneca-Babcock Community Center, both in the Western New York area. Kruger is the vice-chair of the board of directors for the Society of Student-Run Clinics and focuses on increasing the interprofessional collaboration in free clinics around the U.S. She also serves as a member of the leadership team of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice at UB. Most recently, Kruger has been named a 2021 SUNY Online Ambassador for her enthusiastic, effective virtual teaching and advocacy of online education in the SUNY community. She recently joined the editorial board for the journal Pedagogy and Health Promotion. E. Andy Moralez, Ph.D., MPH, CHES, earned his doctorate from the University of Colorado Denver in Health and Behavioral Science and his MPH from New Mexico State University specializing in community health education. He also served as a faculty member at the Southern New Mexico Family Residency Program in New Mexico, and as a Research Project Lead with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Dr. Moralez’s research collaborations focus on the intersection of public health and clinical medicine, working in interprofessional groups (e.g., medical anthropologists, social workers, and clinical psychologists) to improve patient care and community health. This included his doctoral research, which examined the impact of chronic illness severity on depression outcomes in primary care settings among low-income, complex patients. His most recent clinical-based research focused on training family medicine residents in communication strategies to discuss chronic pain and treatment management and integrate social determinants of health into the residency curriculum. He has also served as a program evaluator for various public health and clinical interventions.His recent work has focused on developing and implementing supplemental public health education outside the classroom to promote students’ collaboration with community partners. Dr. Moralez has published in public health and medical education journals, including Frontiers in Public Health, the Journal of Cancer Prevention, the Journal of Education and Health Promotion, and the American Board of Family Medicine Journal. Dr. Carlos Eduardo Siqueira is a Professor of Environment and Public Health at the School for the Environment and Coordinator of the Transnational Brazilian Project at the Mauricio Gastón Institute of Latino Community Development and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Over his career he has researched the political economy of the migration of hazards between developed and developing countries, Brazilian immigrant health, health policy, and health and safety inequities at work.