Excellence in teaching
Nearly ninety percent of students evaluated their professor as excellent, very good, or good.
Cumulative Student Ratings of Professors
| Excellent | 46% |
| Very Good | 27% |
| Good | 16% |
| Fair | 8% |
| Poor | 3% |
Student-to-Faculty Ratio
10 : 1
Courses Taught by Full Time Faculty
66%
Class Size Distribution by Number of Students
| Fewer than 10 | 14% |
| 10 – 24 | 46% |
| 25 – 40 | 38% |
| Over 40 | 2% |
Welcoming new faculty
We continue to enjoy success in attracting high caliber new faculty, expanding our ability to conduct cutting-edge research and ultimately being able to provide our students with a broader offering of public health coursework. We welcomed three new faculty members in 2022.
Onur Baser
Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management
Dr. Onur Baser joined the CUNY SPH faculty as professor of health economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Previously Dr. Baser was at Columbia University where he was associate professor at the Center for Innovation and Outcomes Research. He also worked as adjunct professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
His work in the field of propensity score matching was one of the first applications of econometric techniques in outcomes research to provide guidelines for choosing among different types of matching techniques. He created several proprietary algorithms for comparative effectiveness studies in health economics and outcomes research. Dr. Baser serves as a litigation expert on statistical issues on health care data analysis. He is currently editor in chief for the Journal of Health Economics and Outcomes Research.
Nasim Sabounchi
Associate Professor of health policy and management in the Department of Health Policy and Management
Dr. Nasim Sabounchi joined the CUNY SPH faculty as associate professor of health policy and management in the Department of Health Policy and Management. As an industrial and systems engineer, she contributes to the advancement of system dynamics modeling and computer simulation for studying complex health and social systems and leads various projects in the domain of public health and health policy analysis, including enhancing access to care for socio-economically disadvantaged populations and Medicaid recipients, prevention of prescription misuse, antibiotic resistance, and epidemics. Dr. Sabounchi has extensive experience in developing system dynamics simulation models through group model building with various stakeholders including residents in low-income communities, policy makers, physicians, and scientists.
Zach Shahn
and Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Dr. Zach Shahn joined the CUNY SPH faculty as assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His research interests center on the theory and application of causal inference methods to estimate time-varying treatment effects. Dr. Shahn received his PhD in statistics from Columbia University advised by David Madigan, was a postdoc at the Harvard School of Public Health supervised by Jamie Robins and Miguel Hernan and worked at IBM Research in the Department of Healthcare and Life Sciences.
