May 2025 BUSPH, GSDM Faculty Promotions
Congratulations to the following BU School of Public Health and Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine faculty on their recent promotion.
BU School of Public Health
Professor
Yvette Cozier, DSc, Epidemiology, serves as a PI of the ground-breaking Black Women’s Health Study, the largest health research cohort of Black women in the U.S. Her research focuses on immune mediated diseases, especially sarcoidosis, and racially patterned social determinants of health. In the United States, disease patterns differ by sex and race with Black women bearing the greatest burden in terms of incidence, severity and mortality. While at BUSPH, she has taught several courses, principally Introduction to Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology and Quantitative Methods in Public Health. She has received four teaching awards, including the Norman A. Scotch Award for teaching excellence, which is the highest award for teaching at BUSPH. Over the past 20 years Dr. Cozier has been the primary advisor to more than 300 master’s students and a mentor to 16 pre-doctoral trainees.
Madeleine Scammel, ScD, Environmental Health, uses qualitative and quantitative methods to characterize determinants of environmental and occupational exposure and disease in urban and rural settings. In particular, she conducts community-engaged research in response to community concerns, typically in resource poor settings with low access to scientific expertise. Most of her recent work focuses on environmental causes of chronic kidney disease in Central America and heat stress in urban areas. She has served as a primary mentor to eight doctoral students and a committee member or reader for nine additional doctoral students, while also mentoring three post-graduate fellows and numerous MPH students. Most of her classroom teaching has focused on Introduction to Environmental Health and Environmental Health Science, Law and Policy, as well as Community-Engaged Research: Theory, Methods and Applications. She has won several teaching awards, including “Rookie of the Year” in her first year of teaching.
Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Clinical Professor
Hesham Nouh, BDS, DSc, MSD, General Dentistry, joined the faculty in 2015 as a clinical assistant professor of general dentistry followed by promotion to clinical associate professor in 2018. From 2016 to 2022, Dr. Nouh served as Director of Pre-doctoral Prosthodontics & Restorative Dentistry in the department. In 2020, he was appointed as Associate Chair of Gneral Dentistry. In 2022, he was appointed Chair ad interim of General Dentistry, a position he held until he was formally appointed as permanent Chair of General Dentistry in 2024. An engaging teacher, he is the recipient of many teaching awards. In 2018, he was the recipient of the dental school’s most prestigious faculty award, the Spencer N. Frankl Award for Excellence in Teaching. Additionally, the American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics selected him as the 2019 recipient of its Claude R. Baker Faculty Award which recognizes young outstanding predoctoral faculty for excellence in teaching fixed prosthodontics.