Faculty
Rachel Abraham, MD, MPH
Dr. Rachel Abraham, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Community Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, directs the WVU Office for Public Health Practice, which she designed.
The mission of this new WVU Office for Public Health Practice is, to bridge the gap between medicine and public health by identifying community-based learning opportunities that can serve as classrooms for a new generation of health science professionals based on the model detailed in the 2002 Institute of Medicine Report, “Who Will Keep the Public Healthy.”
Dr. Rachel Abraham has also been instrumental in developing and coordinating the WVU Department of Community Medicine Continuing Education Program, the CMED Public Health Grand Rounds (CMED PHGRs), which is integral to the educational efforts of the School of Medicine, the MPH program and continuing education for all healthcare professionals. http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/cmed/ophp/grandRoundsArchive.asp
Dr. Abraham was a key member of the team that developed the first accredited West Virginia Masters in Public Health Program. She has been instrumental in helping to develop programs and curricula for threat response. Dr. Rachel Abraham is also faculty for the new PhD in Public Health Sciences.
Dr. Abraham is also an Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Family & Community Health, Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. She represented Marshall University School of Medicine in the organization of the Prevention Self Assessment Analysis conducted by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine & Health Resources and Services Administration.
Rachel Abraham, a physician with a dedicated interest in rural underserved populations, received her Masters in Public Health from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr. Abraham completed a post doctoral fellowship in Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Abraham teaches Community Medicine MPH courses to West Virginia on-campus as well as off-campus MPH students. She also participates in externally funded initiatives to identify public health training opportunities for West Virginia health sciences students, the learning needs of health department personnel, as well as coordinate training and workforce development in West Virginia.