PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Introduction
Program Audience
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Program Faculty
The ultimate goal of primary health care is better health for all.
World Health Organization (2008) identified five key elements to achieving that goal:
Universal coverage reforms - reducing exclusion and social disparities in health
Service delivery reforms - organizing health services around people's needs
Public policy reforms - integrating health into all sectors
Leadership reforms - pursuing collaborative models of policy dialogue
Stakeholder reforms - Increasing stakeholder participation
In past decades, the world has made great progress toward global health. Life expectancy hasincreased in certain parts of the world by 30-40 years in the 20th Century with deadly diseases like smallpox being totally eradicated. Nevertheless, certain diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS,
tobacco addiction, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and malnutrition are still grave challenges facing health professionals in the 21st century.
 On a global scale, nearly half the world population (2.8 billion people)live on less than $2 a day and over a billion have entered this century without having benefited from health revolution of 20th century. There is clearly a growing need to reduce the burden of disease and the mortality and morbidity suffered by the poor. There is a need to counter threats resulting from economic crises, an unhealthy environment and risky behavior. There is a need to develop more effective health care systems and to invest in the expanding knowledge base that made possible the health revolution of the 20th century.
To contribute toward overcoming these challenges, Akamai University has established the Center for Global Health and Wellness, which is committed to the development of professionals who can address the health challenges of 21st century and play leadership roles in improving the
human condition throughout the world. We have a commitment to the furtherance of public health and alternative health care with a global perspective. I encourage you to join us in achieving this worthy mission.
James Wear, Ph.D.
Program Director
Program Audience
The study of human health has been one of the principal endeavors of higher education since it's inception. Today, the practical study of the healing arts involves a wide range of disciplines, experiences, and theoretical frameworks. The studies offered through the Akamai University Public Health Program can help students prepare for numerous career fields including health research, public health administration, health safety management, occupational and industrial hygiene, environmental health, hospital administration, disease prevention and
control, international health, public health policy, community health education, and life sciences.
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Program Faculty
James O. Wear, Ph.D., CCE, CHSP, FASHE
Program Director
Deryl Gulliford, Ph.D.
Hospital Administration
Mary Jo Bulbrook, Ed.D.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Christopher Johannes, Ph.D.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
and Integral Health Studies
Rosemary Cook, Ph.D.
Complementary Medicine, Chinese
Medicine, Ayurveda
Michael J. Cohen, Ed.D.
Ecotherapy
Daniel Eckstein, Ph.D.
Behavioral Medicine, Health Education and
Promotion
Vijay P Gupta, Ph.D., DFM, MBBS
Applied Health Science and Toxicology
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
Energy Medicine
Stephen Lentz, Ph.D.
Environmental Health
Anthony R. Maranto, Ph.D.
Environmental Health
Lisa Mertz, Ph.D.
Energy Medicine
Anthony Payne, N.M.D., Ph.D., MD(HC)
Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Herbal
Medicine
Seamus Phan, Ph.D.
Complementary Healthcare
Arif Hussain Shah, Ph.D.
Applied Health Science, Toxicology,
Disease Prevention and Control
Henry Zeidan, Ph.D.
Applied Health Science
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