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 community engagement, particularly with 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 the Research Center of Excellence in Minority Health Disparities, a five-year, $4.8 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 a co-PI on a five year grant ($8,456,192; Potter, PI) from CDC for a research center, PHASYS: Public Health Adaptive System Studies. As co-PI, I am part of center administration with a specific responsibility for developing new faculty investigators, administering the pilot studies core, and initiating research opportunities for students. I provide expertise on crisis and emergency risk communication and marginalized populations to the four study arms of the center. In 2006, I completed a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study of risk communication between of postal workers and public health professionals during the anthrax attack in 2001.

TEACHING

I teach 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

My outside service includes serving on the editorial board of Health Education & Behavior and the editorial advisory boards for Health Promotion Practice and Family Community Health . In 2006, I served as Guest Editor for a theme issue on health disparities for Health Education & Behavior, and in 2007-2008, I served as a guest editor on a theme issue on emergency risk communication during an influenza pandemic for Health Promotion Practice.  I am an active member of the Society for Public Health Education, where I have held numerous offices. I am a member of Delta Omega, the public health honorary society. I also serve on advisory boards for several research centers at other universities.  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 board of directors of Prevention Point Pittsburgh. Within GSPH, I chair and serve on a number of committees related to educational initiatives.

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Berget, R., Reynolds, C., Ricci, E., QUINN, S., Mawson, A., Payton, M. & Thomas, S.  A Plan to Facilitate the Early Career Development of Minority Scholars in the Health Sciences.  Journal of Health and Social Policy.  In Press.
  • QUINN, S., Thomas, T. & Kumar, S. The Anthrax Vaccine and Research: Reactions from Postal Workers and Public Health Professionals. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science. 2008. 6(4), 321-333.
  • Thomas, S. & QUINN, S.  Poverty and the Elimination of Urban Health Disparities: Challenge & Opportunity.  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.  2008.  1136, 111-135
  • Thomas, C., Vanderford, M. & QUINN, S. Evaluating Emergency Risk Communications: A Dialogue with the Experts. Health Promotion Practice. 2008. 9 (supplement to 4), 5S-12S.
  • Reynolds, B. & QUINN, S. Effective Communication during an Influenza Pandemic: The Value of Using a Crisis and Emergency Communication Framework. Health Promotion Practice. 2008. 9(supplement to 4), 13S-17S.
  • Ford, A., QUINN, S. , Reddick, K., Browne, M., Robins, A., & Thomas, S.  Beyond the Cathedral:  Building Trust to Engage the African American Community in Health Promotion & Disease Prevention.  Health Promotion Practice.  In Press.
  • QUINN, S. & Green, L.  Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Call for Innovative Research.  Health Education & Behavior. 2006. 33(4), 437-439.
  • Green, L. & QUINN, S.  Addressing the Challenges of Eliminating Health Disparities: The Need for a Transdisciplinary Approach.  Health Promotion Practice. 2006. 7(3), 296-298.
  • Gambescia, S., Woodhouse, L., Auld, E., Green, L., QUINN, S. & Airhihenbuwa, C. Framing a Transdisciplinary Research Agenda in Health Education to Address Health Disparities and Social Inequities: A Roadmap for SOPHE Action.  Health Education & Behavior. 2006. 33(4), 532-537.
  • QUINN, S.  Letter to the Editor: We Must Fight AIDS with Science, not Politics.  American Journal of Public Health.  2006.  96: 1723.
  • QUINN, S.  Letter to the Editor: Katrina-A Social and Public Health Disaster.  American Journal of Public Health.  2006.  96: 204.
  • QUINN, S., Thomas, T. & McAllister, C.  Postal Workers’ Perspectives on Communication during the 2001 Anthrax Attack.  Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science.  2005.  3 (3), 207-215.
  • Freimuth, V. & QUINN, S.  Letter to the Editor:  Freimuth and Quinn Respond.  American Journal of Public Health.  July 2005.  95: 1089.

RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Tomljanovic, C., Volz, C., QUINN, S., Trufanov, A. and Rossodivita, A. "Cooperation between Civilian and Military Organizations during an Emergency: A Case Study Evaluation of the 2008 Reentry of an Uncontrolled U.S. Government Satellite Contaminated with Hydrazine." In Rossodivita, A Trufanov, A. and Guidotti, M. (Eds.). Pandemics and Bioterrorism: a multidisciplinary approach to cope with biological and non-conventional threats. NATO Security Through Science Series, E: Human and Societal Dynamics. Amsterdam: ISO Press. In Press.
  • QUINN, S., Thomas, T., and McAlister, C.  Lessons from the 2001 Anthrax Attack: A Conceptual Model for Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication.  In Seeger, M., Sellnow, T. and Ulmer, R. (Eds).  Crisis Communication and the Public Health.  Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.  2008: 23-42.
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