School of Public Health and Health Sciences

Health Policy and Management

HPM hires two new faculty members

We are very happy to announce that the health policy and management program have hired two new tenure-track faculty who started this Fall 2007 semester.

• Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio is an Assistant Professor of Public Health. Her previous work experience includes positions as Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health and as Associate Researcher at the Centre for Health Outcomes, Policy, and Evaluation Studies, The Ohio State University (2004-June 2007). She also worked as a health economist for the World Bank and the World Health Organization (2001-2003). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics by the University of Barcelona (2001). Rodriguez-Monguio has served as principal or co-principal investigator on projects for several governments and organizations including the European Commission, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and Ohio Medicaid. She has also conducted research for governments of several countries including Argentina, The Bahamas, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Paraguay, and Spain.
  
  Her research interests focus on the areas of international health care systems, health insurance and access, pharmaceutical economics and policy, Medicaid drug benefits, medical devices, economics of HIV/AIDS, economics of obesity, and economic evaluation of health care services.
  

• Maria Bulzacchelli is an Assistant Professor of Public Health. Her research interests center on the study of primary prevention policies, especially in the area of injury prevention. Her most recent research has focused on the evaluation of the effectiveness of injury prevention policies and programs, specifically pertaining to occupational safety, firearms, and childhood injuries. Dr. Bulzacchelli holds an A.B. from Bowdoin College and a Ph.D. in Health and Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.