Dr. Passannante earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College and a PhD from The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Concentration Director for the MPH in Public Health Practice for Health Professionals, and Senior Associate Dean for Educational and Global Program Development at the Rutgers School of Public Health.
Dr. Passannante is an epidemiologist whose research areas have included injury epidemiology and the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Dr. Passannante’s methodological area of expertise is conducting survey research. Her survey research projects have been published in the Journal of Neurosurgery, Neonatal Intensive Care, the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Chest, the Archives of Family Medicine, and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. She has been the principal investigator/co-investigator/consultant on grants funded by CDC, HRSA, NIH, the American Cancer Society, and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
Dr. Passannante is highly regarded for her teaching, receiving many teaching awards. On the national level, Dr. Passannante received the F. Marian Bishop Outstanding Educator Award from the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research and the Abraham Lilienfeld Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Epidemiology from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association.
In her role as Senior Associate Dean for Educational and Global Program Development, Dr. Passannante has led an initiative at the SPH to develop pedagogically sound high-quality asynchronous courses. She recently co-authored a chapter on online teaching (Laura Liang and Marian Passannante, Online Teaching and Learning, Teaching Public Health, Volume 2, EDITORS: Lisa Sullivan, Sandro Galea, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024 (in press)). Dr. Passannante also manages the SPH Office for Global Programs and oversees the process of MOU and global course development with the SPH’s global partner institutions.
