Marissa Brash, DrPH, EdD, MPH, CPH

Marissa Brash, DrPH, MPH, CPH, is the chair of the Department of Public Health. She also serves as an assistant professor in the MSN program in the School of Nursing. Throughout the last decade, she has been working in higher education and has been responsible for developing new academic programs at multiple Southern California institutions. Brash has a passion for teaching while also working on curriculum design, accreditation standards, program implementation, evaluation, and assessment. She is interested in integrating curriculum through interprofessional education efforts between the public health, nursing, health administration, business, mathematics, and social and behavioral health sectors of higher learning healthcare. Brash is nationally certified in public health and has a strong background in biostatistics and epidemiology. Her research interests include epigenetic-based autoimmune public health prevention efforts through lifestyle interventions, and neuroeducation topics related to academic stress and anxiety in the STEM subjects. Additionally, she sits on the Medical Science Advisory Board for Global Genes, a nonprofit serving the rare disease community.