Public Health Experts in Swine Flu

MIAMI - Florida International University has several experts able to comment on the swine flu and its threat on public health. Our experts can discuss a wide range of topics, including pandemics, outbreaks and infectious diseases. Florida International University is home to one of only two accredited schools of public health in the state.

Fernando Treviño, Ph.D.

As dean of FIU’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Treviño is an expert in communicable diseases, outbreaks, public health and pandemics. From 1999 to 2007, Treviño was founding dean and professor of the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. During that period, he also served as director of the Texas Institute for Hispanic Health in the School of Public Health and as director of the school’s Institute for Public Health Research. Treviño also has served as executive director of the American Public Health Association in Washington, D.C., and as executive editor of the American Journal of Public Health. He is a past president of the World Federation of Public Health Associations based in Geneva, Switzerland. Treviño is fluent in Spanish.

Phone: 305-348-5344
Email: Fernando.Trevino@fiu.edu

John A. Rock, M.D.

Dr. Rock, founding dean and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs of the FIU College of Medicine, is the former chancellor of the Health Sciences Center at Louisiana State University and had management oversight of Louisiana’s statewide Charity Hospital System. At LSU, he established a School of Public Health and held the titles of chancellor emeritus and professor of obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and public health. He is an expert on outbreaks, public health and pandemics. Rock received his M.S. in public health at Harvard University in 2003.

Phone: 305-348-0570
Email: John.Rock@fiu.edu

Mary Jo Trepka, Ph.D.

Mary Jo Trepka is an associate professor with the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work at FIU and an expert in infectious diseases. Prior to arriving at FIU, Trepka was the Director of the Office of Epidemiology and Disease Control with the Miami-Dade County Health Department.

Phone: 305-348-7186
Email: Mary_Jo.Trepka@fiu.edu 

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