Faculty/Staff Sandra Crouse Quinn, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Education
Graduate School of Public Health
230 Parran Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Phone: 412-624-3124
Fax: 412-624-5510
E-mail: SQuinn@pitt.edu
RESEARCH
I seek to integrate research, teaching, and public health practice. My research interests include HIV policy issues, public health interventions in the African American community, public health history, and health and risk communication, particularly with regard to bioterrorism and other forms of terrorist activity. I have a longtime interest in the impact of the Tuskegee syphilis study on African American participation in research. I am the co-principal investigator on a Center for Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training (Project EXPORT), a five-year, $5.9 million grant to the Center for Minority Health from the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, in the National Institutes of Health. I am also the principal investigator on a Centers for Disease Control-funded study of the reactions of African American postal workers to the anthrax attack in 2001.
TEACHING
I am teaching BCHS 2572 Risk Communication. This is a required course for the Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) graduate Certificate in Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response.
SERVICE
I chair our GSPH core curriculum revision committee and the Introduction to Public Health course development committee. I serve on the educational policies and curriculum committee in GSPH. My outside service included serving on the editorial board of Health Education and Behavior and the editorial advisory boards for Health Promotion Practice and the Journal of Community Practice. I am the recent past vice president and trustee-at-large for the Society for Public Health Education, where I serve on the research agenda committee. I am a member of Delta Omega, the public health honorary society. Additionally, I serve as GSPH’s representative on the Association of Schools of Public Health undergraduate task force. In the community, I serve on the Needle Exchange Advisory Board to the Allegheny County Board of Health and on the board of directors of Prevention Point Pittsburgh.