The online Public Health Management certificate program is an accredited educational program of the highly ranked UIC School of Public Health (SPH). The instructors contributing to this program possess the knowledge and expertise needed to provide participants with a foundation of public health practice, including planning, organizing, controlling and leading.
Daniel Swartzman
Sherry Weingart
Richard Sewell
William C. Kling
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Daniel Swartzman |
Daniel Swartzman, JD, MPH, is an associate professor and the associate director in the Division of Health Policy and Administration of the UIC School of Public Health (SPH).
Dr. Swartzman has been teaching management online for eleven years. He is co-author of the upcoming textbook, Principles of Public Health Management, to be published by Jossey-Bass. As a teacher, Professor Swartzman has been nominated for the Golden Apple twenty-one times and has won this award three times. He was nominated by alumni for the UIC Flame Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001 and by the SPH faculty for the Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has twice been a recipient of the campus-wide Teaching Recognition Award, given by the UIC Council on Excellence in Teaching and Learning. In 2008, he was chosen as a member of the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
Within the UIC School of Public Health, Dr. Swartzman has served as associate dean for student affairs, program director for the Master of Public Health program and as the associate director of the Master of Health Administration program. Dr. Swartzman has held a number of leadership positions in local, state and national organizations, including serving as president of a statewide environmental lobbying group in the 1970s, managing a county-wide political campaign in the 1980s, and most recently serving as the president of his synagogue. In addition, he has practiced law in Chicago for over 30 years, currently as the managing partner for a small law firm.
Professor Swartzman received his law degree cum laude from Northwestern University and a Master of Public Health degree from UIC. He is an adjunct professor of law at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law and a fellow of the UIC Honors College.
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Sherry E. Weingart
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Sherry Weingart, MPH, is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration of the UIC School of Public Health. She has contributed to several public health workforce development initiatives at the School of Public Health, and has conducted health policy analysis and policy implementation projects in wide ranging content areas. Ms. Weingart collaborates with colleagues in the field of public health ethics from the Division of Health Policy and Administration. She is an experienced public health practitioner, who served for many years in planning and program administration capacities at the Cook County Department of Public Health. She is active in national, state and local public health professional organizations.
Ms. Weingart earned her MPH in Health Resources Management from the UIC School of Public Health in 1980.
Richard Sewell
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Richard Sewell is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration of the UIC School of Public Health. He has a long history of involvement in health and human services policy formulation, management and community affairs in the Chicago area. He was executive director of the health systems agency for suburban Cook County and DuPage County, founding president of the Suburban Primary Health Care Council, provider of the Access to Care Program, deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health and executive director of the Chicago Health Policy Council at the University of Chicago. Mr. Sewell was also senior vice president of United Way in Chicago where he led the reform of the agency’s fund distribution system.
In addition, Mr. Sewell has directed the development of plans and policies for health which include “The Ambulatory Care System in Cook County” for the Cook County Board of Commissioners and “The Illinois Plan for Public Health Systems Change” for Public Health Futures Illinois (now the Illinois Public Health Institute). Currently he is principal investigator for the development of a regional plan for health as part of the GoTo 2040 Plan of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.
Furthermore, Mr. Sewell has served on the Chicago Board of Health and the Illinois State Board of Health. He is vice-chairman (and former chairman) of the board of directors of Chicago Neighborhood Health Centers, president of Illinois Action for Children, president of the Illinois Public Health Association, and vice-chairman (and former chairman) of the board of directors of Harborquest. He is also a board member of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and a member of Governor Patrick Quinn’s Taxpayer Action Board.
He received a Master of Public Health degree in Health Administration from the University of Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Science degree from Bowling Green State University.
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William C. Kling
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William C. Kling is an attorney and public policy expert with over 20 years’ experience in the public and non-profit sectors. He currently has an appointment with the UIC School of Public Health, Health Policy and Administration division, where he teaches policy and leadership courses. Mr. Kling also serves as a senior research scientist for UIC, University of Illinois Extension, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office of Sustainability. He received his BA degree in economics from the University of Colorado and his JD degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)-Chicago Kent College of Law with a Certificate in Environmental and Energy Law and Policy.
Throughout his career, Mr. Kling has provided advice and counsel to educational institutions, local governments and non-profit organizations. For the past several years, Mr. Kling has been engaged in public policy work in the areas of childhood obesity prevention, food systems, community preparedness and youth workforce development, including work on the 2007 Farm Bill. His action-oriented public policy work has been funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute, and the Northeast Midwest Institute, among others. He has provided policy consultancy to the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children, Illinois ResourceNet, the Institute for Community Resource Development, and the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group.
Mr. Kling is active in many professional development and community activities. He speaks and writes regularly on a variety of topics. Mr. Kling has been an adjunct professor of law at IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law for over 10 years, teaching a course he developed entitled “Legislative Advocacy.” He presently serves on The Central States SER Board of Directors, The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Council on Economic Education (ICEE), The Advisory Board for the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group,.and on the boards of the Sports is Education Foundation and the Illinois Interagency Nutrition Council (INC). He was one of five attorneys serving as counsel to Governor George Ryan’s Commission to Rewrite the Illinois School Code. He was also on Governor Rod Blagojevich’s Education Transition Team and chaired the Youth Violence Subcommittee. As a parent, he has also chaired his local Parent Teachers Association’s legislative committees for several years.
