Morgan State University
School of Community Health and Policy
1700 E. Cold Spring Lane
Portage Avenue Campus
Baltimore
MDUSA
21251
Biographical Sketch: DR. ALLAN NOONAN IS THE DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY HEALTH AND POLICY AT MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY. THIS SCHOOL INCLUDES A PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM, AN UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOL OF NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; AND A NURSING PROGRAM. IN THIS ROLE HE IS LEADING THE EFFORT TO BUILD THE FIRST ACCREDITED SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY.
PRIOR TO COMING TO MORGAN, DR. NOONAN WAS AN ASSISTANT SURGEON GENERAL IN THE USPHS AND HE HAS BEEN A PROACTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONAL FOR MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS, WORKING AS A DEVELOPER AND IMPLEMENTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS AT THE LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL.
HE HAS WORKED IN EPIDEMIOLOGY, MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, AND THE TRAINING OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS - ALWAYS MINDFUL OF STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH STATUS OF THE UNDERSERVED. HE HAS BEEN THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH FOR THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA; THE REGIONAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR FOR SIX MIDWESTERN STATES; AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER, DR. NOONAN HAS PLAYED KEY ROLES IN EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HEALTH OUTCOMES.
Dr. H. Eduardo Velasco has been a public health scholar and practitioner for the past 16 years. At his former job with Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health/School of Public Health of Mexico, where he held positions as Chair of Department (Health Policy Analyses and International Health; and Public Health Genomics) as well as Deputy Director for Academic Development. He is a currently a tenured Professor and the Assistant Dean of Morgan State University School of Community Health and Policy. His areas of interest are screening programs (HPV and cervical cancer) and genetic epidemiology (candidate genes for type 2 diabetes mellitus). He teaches research methods, survey methods and epidemiology courses.