Faculty Profile
Leah Neubauer, EdD, MA, CPH (she/her)
SPH Senior Director of Integrated Education and Accreditation
Dr. Neubauer is a Clinical Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. She serves as inaugural Senior Director of Integrated Education & Accreditation.
Dr. Neubauer is a nationally-recognized, award-winning educator. As a collaborative scientist and thought partner, her primary area of scholarship is focused on curricular design, decision-making, educator development, accreditation, evaluation, strategy & corresponding programming and policies in the health-related professions and sciences. She has worked in partnership with colleagues to develop and evaluate a range of education and training programs across the USA, Kenya, Nigeria, Mozambique, Zambia & Canada. She has taught courses in communication studies, global health, public health and program evaluation at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.
- EdD, Adult & Continuing Education, National Louis University, 2013
- MA, Interdisciplinary Studies, DePaul University, 2010
- BA, Communication Studies, DePaul University, 2003
- Global Public Health
- Public Health Practice
- Health Equity
- Adult Education
- Program Evaluation
- Akinfaderin, F., Neubauer, L. C., Chen, P. Y., Dillon, A. H., Garita, A., & Makleff, S. (2024). Developing a Community of Practice (CoP) on Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) in a Global Network of Women’s Funds. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, (aop), e20230005.
- Shah, S., Shenkman, J., Chicojay, T., Kamiri-Ong, J., DiPaolo, M., DeClemente, T., ... & Neubauer, L. C. (2024). Building a Future for School-Based Menstruation Health and Hygiene (MHH): Evaluating Implementation of a Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Policy in Chicago Public Schools. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 52(2), 353-374.
- Neubauer, L. C., Aponte‐Soto, L., & Guerrero, A. (2023). Latine evaluators and evaluation: Advancing representation and collective agency. New Directions for Evaluation, 2023(180), 73-77.
- Neubauer, L. C., LaVelle, J. M., Boyce, A. S., & Archibald, T. (2023). The evaluator and evaluation: Critical considerations for the future of education and training. New Directions for Evaluation, 2023(177), 153-162.
- Shenkman, J. L., Neubauer, L. C., Mason, L., Oruko, K., Alexander, K., Phillips-Howard, P. A., & Nyothach, E. (2023). Building menstrual health and hygiene-supportive environments: exploring teachers’ experience in rural Western Kenya. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1206069.
- Zambrana, R. E., Hardaway, C. R., & Neubauer, L. C. (2022). Beyond role strain: Work–family sacrifice among underrepresented minority faculty. Journal of Marriage and Family, 84(5), 1469-1486.
- Neubauer, L. C., Merzel, C., Weist, E. M., Corvin, J. A., Forsman, A., Fraser, J., ... & Runnerstrom, M. G. (2022). Realizing promising educational practices in academic public health: a model for the scholarship of teaching and learning. Frontiers in public health, 9, 750682.
- Harper, G. W., & Neubauer, L. C. (2021). Teaching during a pandemic: A model for trauma-informed education and administration. Pedagogy in health promotion, 7(1), 14-24.
- Galvin, S., Neubauer, L. C., Leonard, W. R., & Doobay-Persaud, A. (2021). Reassessing global health education in the age of COVID-19. Academic Medicine, 96(5), e20.
- Guajardo, A. D., Robles‐Schrader, G. M., Aponte‐Soto, L., & Neubauer, L. C. (2020). LatCrit theory as a framework for social justice evaluation: Considerations for evaluation and evaluators. New Directions for Evaluation, 2020(166), 65-75.
- Neubauer, L. C., & Hall, M. E. (2020). Is inciting social change something evaluators can do? Should do?. New Directions for Evaluation, 2020(166), 129-135.
- Carnethon, M. R., Neubauer, L. C., & Greenland, P. (2019). Competency-Based Postdoctoral Education: An Educational Architecture for Training the Next Generation of Clinical and Population Researchers. Circulation, 139(3), 310-312.
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Areas of Expertise: Global Public Health, Health Equity, Public Health Practice