Christiaan Morssink, Ph.D., M.P.H.

• Member, MPH Curriculum Committee
• Course Co-Director, PUBH 500 (Nursing 570): Introduction to Public Health
• Course Director, PUBH 513: Sociology and Public Health
• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing
• Coordinator, GPPHS Seminar on Ameliorating Health Disparities

Dr. Morssink holds Candidandus and Doctorandus degrees in cultural anthropology and non-Western sociology, respectively, from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, an MPH from Johns Hopkins, and a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Morssink has 30+ years of practice and teaching experience in public health and related fields in the Netherlands as well as in the Republic of Suriname, where he was head of the Department of Planning and Project Management in the Ministry of Health, and in the United States. His interests include the effects of the built environment on health, elimination of health disparities, and the United Nations Association’s campaign to ban and clear landmines in communities around the world. 

Dr. Morssink is a member of the American Public Health Association, the World Future Society, and The Communitarian Society.

christiaanmo@yahoo.com
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