Greg R. Alexander, RS, MPH, ScD Project Director, MCH Leadership Skills Training Institute Professor and Chair, Department of Maternal and Child Health School of Public Health University of Alabama at Birmingham 320A Ryals Building 1665 University Blvd. Birmingham AL 35294-0022 PH: (205) 934-6426 FAX: (205) 934-8248 Email: alexandg@uab.edu

Dr. Greg R. Alexander, a MCH epidemiologist, received his Master of Public Health degree from the University of South Carolina in 1976 and his Doctor of Science degree from the Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University in 1986. He is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Maternal and Child Health (MCH), School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has previously held MCH faculty positions at the University of Hawaii, The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Minnesota.

Prior to entering academia, Dr. Alexander worked in both county and state public health departments. He is a registered Environmental Sanitarian. At a state department of public health, he served as a MCH epidemiologist for MCH programs and as a director of biostatistics. Dr. Alexander has maintained an active involvement in public health practice through the provision of technical assistance and continuing education to state public health agencies. Since the early 1990s, Dr. Alexander has served as the director of the MCH Leadership Skills Training Institute, which provides advanced leadership education to the personnel of State Title V agencies. His areas of professional service include: leadership training, program evaluation, needs assessment, performance monitoring, and data analysis. During the last decade, he has provided consultation to more than a dozen state health departments and Title V agencies, while advocating for the development of expanded efforts to train MCH epidemiologists.

Dr. Alexander has over 150 published articles, book chapters and invited technical reports, and has had more than 230 abstracts competitively selected for presentation at professional meetings. He is the co-author of the book, Needs Assessment in Public Health, a practical guide for the conduct of needs assessment and analysis in public health settings. He has received several awards for his research and scholarship, including the 1990 Academic Leadership in MCH Award from the Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health and the 2001 National MCH Epidemiology Award for Advancing Knowledge. He received the University of Alabama at Birmingham President's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998 and in 2001 was awarded the school’s Distinguished Faculty Investigator Award. His general research interests include the investigation of the determinants of racial and ethnic disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes and the assessment of measures of prenatal care utilization and newborn maturity and his areas of education instruction include perinatal and MCH epidemiology, research methodology, applied secondary data analysis techniques, MCH needs and performance assessment and leadership skills. Dr. Alexander is active in a number of professional public health organizations. He is a past President of the National Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society and currently chairs the MCH Council for the Association of School of Public Health and the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center Advisory Committee.