Stuart A. Capper, DrPH Professor Department of Health Systems Management SL 29 School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Tulane University 1430 Tulane Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70112-2699 PH: 504-988-6758 FAX: 504-584-3783

Stuart A. Capper, DrPH is Professor of Health Systems Management in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University. Stuart also serves as Assistant Director of the Food Safety Initiative, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC; and is a member of the faculty of the CDC Preventive Medicine Residency Program.

Capper has served as Associate Dean of the School of Public Health and Chairman of the Department of Health Care Organization & Policy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Prior to his appointment at UAB in 1977, he served as Senior Staff to the Chancellor of the Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans. He also has held administrative positions in hospitals, facilities for the mentally retarded, and a health systems agency. Through the Sparkman Center for International Public Health Education, Capper has taught graduate public health management courses at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru and the Chiang Mai University Medical Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Stuart has been the Principal Investigator or co-principle investigator on projects concerning the implementation of strategic management processes in several state health departments. He has received funding from the Bureau of Health Professions to conduct management case research for public health practice in collaboration with public health practitioners, and he has been funded by the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health for the development and presentation of masters level management courses for MCH students. He is currently funded by HRSA for the development and presentation of internet-based continuing education programs for public health practitioners and CDC to conduct case research on food safety and to work on Bioterrorism Preparedness efforts. His publications in the area of public health management have appeared in journals such as Public Health Reports, Public Productivity and Management Review, Health Services Management Review, Preventive Medicine, Academic Medicine, The European Journal of Public Health and the Case Research Journal. He is senior author on a book recently published by Sage Publishers entitled Public Health Leadership and Management: Cases and Context.