Positions

Overview

  • Paul Campbell Erwin, MD, DrPH is Dean of the UAB School of Public Health and Professor in Health Care Organization and Policy. Erwin earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of the South (Sewanee), his medical degree from the UAB School of Medicine, a master’s in public health from John Hopkins University and a doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina. He is certified in internal medicine, public health and preventive medicine, and a leader in establishing formal Academic Health Department collaboratives with public health practice partners. Prior to becoming dean in 2018, Erwin was the Department Head for Public Health at the University of Tennessee, where he served for 11 years. Before joining academia, he was director of the East Tennessee Regional Health Office for the Tennessee Department of Health, overseeing 15 county health departments, mostly in rural Appalachia. He is an associate editor of the American Journal of Public Health and a member of the editorial boards for Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba Review and the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2019 Single-Payer, Multiple-Payer, and State-Based Financing of Health Care: Introduction to the Special Section.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  109:1482-1483. 2019
    2019 Implications of Tennessee's Opioid Legislation for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.  Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice.  20:153-162. 2019
    2019 Evidence-based public health provided through local health departments: Importance of academic-practice partnerships.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  109:739-747. 2019
    2019 Mass exodus of state health department deputies and senior management threatens institutional stability.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  109:681-683. 2019
    2019 Public health undergraduates in the workforce: A trickle, soon a wave?.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  109:685-687. 2019
    2019 The state of the US governmental public health workforce, 2014–2017.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  109:674-680. 2019
    2019 The Academic Health Department: Aging Gracefully?.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  25:32-33. 2019
    2018 Disaster preparedness and response: Who will fund?.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  108:S351-S352. 2018
    2018 Neonatal abstinence syndrome and neurodevelopmental health outcomes: A state of the science.  Journal of Neonatal Nursing.  24:242-246. 2018
    2018 Preparing public health professionals to make evidence-based decisions: A comparison of training delivery methods in the United States.  Frontiers in Public Health.  6. 2018
    2018 Mid-level practitioners in oral health: Tennessee dental professional’s attitudes and perceptions of the dental therapist workforce model.  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.  29:997-1010. 2018
    2018 Toward optimal implementation of cancer prevention and control programs in public health: A study protocol on mis-implementation.  Implementation Science.  13. 2018
    2018 Public Health Agency Accreditation among Rural Local Health Departments: Influencers and Barriers.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  24:49-56. 2018
    2017 In Memoriam: John H. (Jack) Bryant, MD, 1925–2017.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  107:1747-1749. 2017
    2017 Neonatal abstinence syndrome in East Tennessee: Characteristics and risk factors among mothers and infants in one area of appalachia.  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.  28:1393-1408. 2017
    2017 Despair in the American Heartland? A focus on rural health.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  107:1533-1534. 2017
    2017 Development of a research agenda focused on academic health departments.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  107:1369-1375. 2017
    2017 The public health practitioner of the future.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  107:1227-1232. 2017
    2017 Tracking the impact of policy changes on public health practice.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  107:653-654. 2017
    2017 Macro Trends and the Future of Public Health Practice.  Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work.  38:393-412. 2017
    2017 A Population Health Driver Diagram to Address Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  23:e21-e24. 2017
    2017 Functional characteristics of health coalitions in local public health systems: Exploring the function of county health councils in Tennessee.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  23:404-409. 2017
    2017 Intentional Paradigm Change: A Case Study on Implementation of Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP).  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  23:627-637. 2017
    2016 Challenges and innovations in surveying the governmental public health workforce.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  106:1967-1974. 2016
    2016 Do racial inequities in infant mortality correspond to variations in societal conditions? A study of state-level income inequality in the U.S., 1992–2007.  Social Science and Medicine.  164:49-58. 2016
    2016 The Academic Health Department: Academic-Practice Partnerships Among Accredited U.S. Schools and Programs of Public Health, 2015..  Public Health Reports.  131:630-636. 2016
    2016 The US Cancer Moonshot initiative.  Lancet Oncology.  17:e178-e180. 2016
    2016 A Logic Model for Evaluating the Academic Health Department.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  22:182-189. 2016
    2016 Characteristics of Academic Health Departments: Initial Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  22:190-193. 2016
    2015 Implementing administrative evidence based practices: Lessons from the field in six local health departments across the United States.  Primary Care Diabetes.  15. 2015
    2015 Pediatricians and the Oral Health Needs of Children: One Potential Means for Reducing Oral Healthcare Inequities.  Journal- Tennessee Dental Association.  95. 2015
    2015 Forces of change.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  105:836. 2015
    2015 Understanding Mis-implementation in public health practice.  Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology.  48:543-551. 2015
    2015 Does higher income income inequality adversely influence infant mortality rates? Reconciling descriptive patterns and recent research findings.  Social Science and Medicine.  131:82-88. 2015
    2015 A matter of perspective: Seeing Cuban and United States health systems through a cultural lens.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  105:1509-1511. 2015
    2015 A matter of perspective: Seeing cuban and United States' health systems through a cultural lens.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  21:419-421. 2015
    2015 Public health and Cuba: Trading on a two-way street.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  105:S559-S562. 2015
    2015 The diffusion of evidence-based decision making among local health department practitioners in the United States.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  21:134-140. 2015
    2014 Capacity building for evidence-based decision making in local health departments: Scaling up an effective training approach.  Implementation Science.  9. 2014
    2014 Evidence-based public health practice among program managers in local public health departments.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  20:472-480. 2014
    2014 Forming an academic health department: A case example.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  20:304-309. 2014
    2014 Local health department and academic institution linkages for community health assessment and improvement processes: A national overview and local case study.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  20:349-355. 2014
    2014 Local health departments and the 2008 recession: Characteristics of resiliency.  Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology.  46:559-568. 2014
    2014 The academic health department: The process of maturation.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  20:270-277. 2014
    2014 The pattern of association between U.S. economic indicators and infant mortality rates at the state level.  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.  25:1432-1448. 2014
    2014 Understanding administrative evidence-based practices: Findings from a survey of local health department leaders.  Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology.  46:49-57. 2014
    2013 Data synthesis in community health assessment: Practical examples from the field.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  19:468-474. 2013
    2013 Estimated energy expenditures for school-based policies and active living.  Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology.  44:108-113. 2013
    2012 Information-seeking behaviors and other factors contributing to successful implementation of evidence-based practices in local health departments.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  18:571-576. 2012
    2012 Addressing social determinants of health by integrating assessment of caregiver-child attachment into community based primary health care in urban Kenya.  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.  9:3588-3598. 2012
    2012 Fostering more-effective public health by identifying administrative evidence-based practices: A review of the literature.  Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology.  43:309-319. 2012
    2012 A survey of Tennessee veterinarian and physician attitudes, knowledge, and practices regarding zoonoses prevention among animal owners with HIV infection or AIDS.  Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.  240:1432-1440. 2012
    2012 Resources that may matter: The impact of local health department expenditures on health status.  Public Health Reports.  127:89-95. 2012
    2012 Tennessee's county health councils: partnerships to improve the public's health..  Tennessee Medicine.  105. 2012
    2011 State responses to America's health rankings: The search for meaning, utility, and value.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  17:406-412. 2011
    2011 The association of changes in local health department resources with changes in state-level health outcomes..  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  101:609-615. 2011
    2010 Health disparities in rural areas: Te interaction of race, socioeconomic status geography.  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.  21:931-945. 2010
    2009 A self-assessment process for accreditation preparedness: A practical example for local health departments.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  15:503-508. 2009
    2009 A shot in the rear, not a shot in the dark: Application of a mass clinic framework in a public health emergency.  Public Health Reports.  124:212-216. 2009
    2008 Poverty in America: How public health practice can make a difference.  Journal of biochemical toxicology.  98:1570-1572. 2008
    2008 The performance of local health departments: a review of the literature.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  14. 2008
    2008 The physician as public health officer..  West Virginia Medical Journal.  104:38-39. 2008
    2006 Family outbreaks of invasive community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection..  Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms, Molecules and Clusters.  42. 2006
    2006 The local public health system assessment of MAPP/the national public health performance standards local tool: A community-based, public health practice and academic collaborative approach to implementation.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  12:528-532. 2006
    2005 Molecular epidemiology of foodborne hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States, 2003.  Journal of Infectious Diseases.  192:1323-1330. 2005
    2005 Students in the community: MAPP as a framework for academic-public health practice linkages..  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  11:437-441. 2005
    2005 Students in the community.  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  11:437-441. 2005
    2004 Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission from human to canine [3].  Discovery medicine.  10:2258-2260. 2004
    2003 Clinical comparisons of la Crosse encephalitis and enteroviral central nervous system infections in a pediatric population: 2001 Surveillance in East Tennessee.  Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.  31:508-510. 2003
    2003 Trichinellosis associated with bear meat – New York and Tennessee, 2003.  MMWR : Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report.  53. 2003
    2002 La Crosse encephalitis in eastern Tennessee: Clinical, environmental, and entomological characteristics from a blinded cohort study.  Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.  155:1060-1065. 2002
    2001 First isolation of La Crosse virus from naturally infected Aedes albopictus.  Discovery medicine.  7:807-811. 2001
    2000 Health assessment of the East Tennessee region: a simplified approach, using maps..  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.  6:89-93. 2000
    2000 Serological survey and active surveillance for La Crosse virus infections among children in Tennessee.  Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms, Molecules and Clusters.  31:1284-1287. 2000
    1999 Carriage of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and impact of chemoprophylaxis during an outbreak of meningitis at a day care center.  Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms, Molecules and Clusters.  29:1257-1264. 1999
    1999 Newly recognized focus of La Crosse encephalitis in Tennessee.  Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms, Molecules and Clusters.  28:93-97. 1999
    1999 Physician reporting of communicable diseases in east Tennessee: implications for statewide underreporting..  Tennessee Medicine.  92:61-62. 1999
    1997 An outbreak of multidrug resistant pneumococcal meningitis in a day care center.  Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms, Molecules and Clusters.  25:361. 1997
    1996 Health Planning and Health Care for the Poor:: The Internal Ethic of Public Health.  Journal of Health and Social Policy.  7:47-63. 1996
    1996 Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection--Georgia and Tennessee, June 1995. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Journal of the American Medical Association.  275:1150-1151. 1996
    1994 To use or not use combined hormonal oral contraceptives during lactation.  Family Planning Perspectives.  26:26-30. 1994

    Book

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    2016 Scutchfield and Keck's Principles of Public Health Practice 2016

    Chapter

    Year Title Altmetric
    2017 A Case Study on Implementation of Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships. 2017

    Research Overview

  • Erwin’s research interests include evidence-based public health; health disparities, particularly in rural areas; the public health workforce; academic-public health practice collaboratives; and the Cuban health system.

    • Education And Training

  • Doctor of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2009
  • Doctor of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham 1983

    • Full Name

  • Paul Erwin