George Weiner

George Weiner, Ph.D., is executive-in-residence at the Levin College and director of the University's Center for Health Equity. He also holds the William and Elizabeth Treuhaft Chair in Health Planning and Research at The Center for Community Solutions and an adjunct faculty position in the department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Case School of Medicine. At Cleveland State, he is the principal investigator on a three-year, $1.3 million grant from the Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at NIH. He served earlier as vice president for policy analysis and research at the Center for Health Affairs and vice president of planning and institutional research for The MetroHealth System. At MetroHealth, he directed two USAID-funded community health partnerships in Slovakia and made numerous visits to Central and Eastern Europe.

Dr. Weiner's research and teaching interests include health services research and planning, health disparities, and demography and epidemiology. He has held faculty positions at the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse University and the J.J. Nance College of Business Administration at CSU. Before coming to Cleveland, he was an associate social scientist with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica.

He has served on many boards and committees, and been active in community affairs. In 1986, he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Shaker Heights City Council and was subsequently elected to a four-year term. He served on the Shaker Heights Landmark Commission for over ten years, five of them as chairman.

Dr. Weiner received his undergraduate (mathematics) and graduate degrees (urban and regional planning) from Cornell.

Sample Syllabi:

• PAD 601: Applied Quantitative Reasoning
• PAD 693: Special Topics in Public Administration Epidemiology and Demography for Health and Social Services Administration