Department of Public Health Preventive Medicine Christopher P

Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine Christopher P. Morley, Ph. D Chair

Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine Education MPH & Certificate Program -Data & Analytics - Population Health for Clinicians Preventive Medicine (4 year thread in MD program) Other Instruction - Biostatistics for Life Science Ph. D & MS students - Resident & Student research experiences Faculty Research & Scholarship Center for Research & Evaluation (CRE) - Cancer - Healthy Start evaluation - Environmental Health - Global Health Disparities Biostatistical & Methods Core - Maternal & Child Health - Social Determinants of Health - Health Workforce - Primary Care research - Immigrants & Refugees - Ethics & Policy Hourly Consultation Grant Participation

Department Management • • Faculty & Staff Chair Department Administrator/Special Projects Coordinator (nearing completion of MPH) Financial Coordinator Administrative Support Center for Research & Evaluation • • • 1 Ph. D Biostatistician & 2 MS statisticians 1 Dr. PH Epidemiologist (20%) 1 Post-Doc (assists teaching Biostats) Central New York MPH Program • 5 Ph. D & 2 Dr. PH (Epidemiology, Ecology, Public Health Ethics/Policy, Social Science, Economics/HSR, Community Health, Epidemiology/PT) • • 1 Ph. D Epidemiologist (Emeritus status) 1 MPH (Teaches Environmental Health, coordinates global health initiatives) Program Coordinator, MPH program (under recruitment) Accreditation/Eval specialist (MSW, Ph. D ABD); Preventive Medicine • • 1 MD/MPH Peds/Prev Med (runs our MD Preventive Medicine Thread) Large Cadre of volunteer & joint appointments Notable Collaborations • Translational Science Institute • Center for Global Health & Translational Science (CGHATS) • Center for Environmental Health & Medicine • Inter-departmental center providing global health opportunities (research and education) • Joint appointed faculty • Upstate Family Medicine Residency

Faculty: Areas of Interest • Mental & Behavioral Health • Maternal and Child Health • Cancer • Population Health • • • Screening Prevention Survivorship Epidemiology Tobacco Control • Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders • Environmental Exposures • Genetics • Health Disparities • Community Violence / Firearms • “Redlining” and health effects*** • Public Health Policy • Immunologic & Rheumatic Diseases • Social Determinants of Health • Vaccines • Ethics • Immigrants & refugees • Global Health • Health Workforce & Education • Primary Care Practice Improvement

Upstate Public Health, in a Word (cloud)

Research Skill Sets Population Research Qualitative Research Ethics & Policy Research Mixed Methods Translational Research Clinical Research Quantitative Research

CNYMPH Central NY Master of Public Health Program • Historical • Formed as a joint program w/ Syracuse University, first students in 2009 • One Concentration – Policy & Administration • Available: Certificate of Advanced Study in PH (15 credits); MD/MPH program • Present • In transition to single institution program • Two new tracks • Data & Analytics • Public Health for Clinicians (MD/MPH & others) • Phasing out existing track • Program Goals • EDUCATION: To educate a diverse group of professionals with the values, commitment, knowledge, and technical skills necessary to improve population health. • RESEARCH: To advance public health knowledge by developing an active program of population-based health research and program evaluation. • SERVICE AND OUTREACH: To develop active community partnerships and collaborative endeavors that contribute to sound public health policies and practices at the local, state, and global levels.

CRE – Skills & Software • • • Study Design Analytic Plan Development Survey Development Sampling Methodology Sample Size and Power Calculations Data Collection Data Management and Cleaning Data Analysis Data Interpretation • Data Management Software • REDCAP • Excel • Access • Statistical & Analytic Software • • SPSS SAS Nvivo R • Geospatial Mapping Software • GIS • SAS

Notable Projects • Health Disparities Surveillance System (HDSS) – Kenyan data set, have access to a comprehensive birth and death registry of nearly 160 k inhabitants from 35, 000 households in the HDSS catchment area. These households have been surveyed biannually for the past ~7 years. Ongoing collaboration. Telisa Stewart Dr. PH & other PHPM & global health faculty are involved. • Syracuse Healthy Start Evaluation – Martha Wojtowycz Ph. D, Lead Evaluator • Gun Violence in Syracuse – a series of analyses; Margaret Formica Ph. D, protocol PI • Refugee Health & Access to Care – Ethics & Policy oriented qualitative work, led by Rachel Fabi Ph. D • Cancer Screening in Safety Net Primary Care – Practice Facilitation in primary care practices from Syracuse, Buffalo & Rochester to improve breast, cervical & colorectal cancer screening rates in poor patients. Christopher Morley Ph. D, PI • Health Workforce - improving entrance of medical graduates into primary care & underserved careers. Christopher Morley, Ph. D

The Impact of 1937 Red Line Segregation in Syracuse Upon 21 st Century Health Outcomes: History Begets Health Laura Schad; Donald Cibula, Ph. D; Margaret Formica, Ph. D; Christopher Morley, Ph. D • In the U. S. in the late 1930’s, the Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC) was created through New Deal legislation to refinance home mortgages in the face of the Great Depression. • neighborhood rating system that graded the financial system on an A—D scale • created “red line” districts in many cities (African-Americans unable to obtain credit) • We used historical HOLC grades in Syracuse, NY as predictors of • Neighborhood Firearm Violence (NFV 2010 -2016) • Elevated Blood Lead (EBL 2000 -2003) • Low Birth Weight (LBW 2004 -2007) • Results: Areas historically rated as high risk (C or D, n=17 zones) had

Contact Information • Christopher P. Morley, Ph. D. Chair, Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine Vice Chair for Research, Department of Family Medicine Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Public Health & Psychiatry S. U. N. Y. Upstate Medical University • morleycp@upstate. edu • http: //www. upstate. edu/publichealth/ • Public Health and Preventive Medicine Weiskotten Hall Rm. 2262, 766 Irving Ave. Syracuse, NY 13210 Phone: 315 464 -1520 Fax: 315 464 -1701