Faculty

Alice Fiddian-Green is Assistant Professor of Public Health in the School of Nursing and Health Professions. Dr. Fiddian-Green teaches in both the MPH and BSPH programs and is currently chair of the Health Professions Department. Her current courses include: community-based participatory research and practice, health policy and ethics, leadership and collaboration, and community health practice.

Dr. Fiddian-Green is a community-engaged researcher with over ten years of experience using public...

As a health demographer, Dr. Chyu studies how social factors and chronic stressors are embodied physiologically and shape women’s health over the life course. Her research examines the dynamic interplay of biological and social processes to better understand how chronic stress impacts health and aging trajectories. She is also interested in the effects of positive and adverse childhood experiences on physical and mental health later in life.

Courtney Keeler is a health economist. She has been teaching at USF's Master in Public Health programs since August 2011. Her research surrounds topics related to adolescent health, mental health, and smoking prevention and control. In her teaching, she works to meet students where they are in hope of creating a classroom climate where individuals feel well-equipped to tackle the subject matter covered in the course.

Kelly L. L'Engle, PhD, MPH, is a health behavior and communication scientist with deep experience designing and evaluating public health interventions that expand information access, improve health behaviors, and promote well-being across diverse communities. A professor at the University of San Francisco, she teaches courses on communication strategy, program design, and research methods. She currently leads a digital health and wellness coaching program to support young Latinas, college...

Global health leader and expert in primary health care and health systems strengthening, with a strong record of results in international development, global health, and multisectoral programs. Advocate for children, with expertise in results-based management and human rights-based approaches to program cooperation. Developed transformative products and processes adopted across UNICEF and the wider UN system, including MICS (Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys) in 1993 and user-friendly national...

Kyle worked at Human Rights Watch for 13 years, conducting dozens of field investigations on global health and LGBTQ rights issues. Prior to that, he was a fellow at the Williams Institute of the University of California at Los Angeles, a strategy consultant for UNAIDS, and a Fulbright Scholar in Nepal. As a journalist he worked for Agence France-Presse in Nepal and for IRIN, the UN’s humanitarian news service, reporting from Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and...

Kimberly Tseng is an Instructor in the Health Professions Department at the School of Nursing and Health Professions. Her current courses include epidemiology, health equity and disparities, and public health internship. Her professional and scholarly interests include reproductive health literacy and refugee and immigrant health.