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About AU School of Public Health
The Aristotle University School of Public Health (AUSPH) was formed as a result of Aristotle University receiving numerous requests, both nationally and internationally, to address various determinable global health needs. Indeed, several foreign governmental agencies have requested that Aristotle University assist them in addressing various public health hazards in their nations. In order to properly and effectively engage the proper manpower, academia, scholarship, and leadership to address the needs of populations, both large and small, Aristotle University formed the AUSPH.
AUSPH Mission
The mission of public health is to "fulfill society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy." (Institute of Medicine, Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health, The Future of Public Health. National Academy Press, Washington, DC 1988).
The mission of the AUSPH is to provide quality education, academic scholarship, research, service, and leadership to advance the public’s health and eliminate health disparities.
AUSPH Values
Because public health is complex, inherently multi-disciplinary, and concerns the practice of preventing disease and promoting good health within groups of people, the values that guide the AUSPH are based upon sound principles of public health, interdisciplinary education, science, ethical accountability and professionalism, and community need.
- AUSPH Objectives
The admission requirements for the EM-PA Residency includes:
- to provide an open interactive learning environment which provides the highest level of education, academia and scholarship to all students
- to create an environment that supports excellence in teaching, research, and service
- to promote quality research and thoughtful reasoned criticism
- to strengthen health services for communities
- to disseminate health information and inform policy debates
- to increase the awareness of public health as a public good and fundamental right
- to promote diversity in culture and political views
- to treat all people with respect and to promote intercultural understanding
- to promote academic excellence and the pursuit of truth
- to promote human rights, fundamental freedoms, peace, and the sense of dignity
- to promote human rights of all human research subjects of experimentation
- to promote the World Health Organization’s (WHO) conceptualization of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
- Ten Essential Services of Public Health
So as to provide a working definition of public health and a guiding framework for the responsibilities of local public health systems, the AUSPH promotes the Ten Essential Services of Public Health, as originally created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Core Public Health Functions Steering Committee working with representatives of the U.S. Public Health Service agencies and other major national public health organizations, which include:
- Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
- Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community.
- Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
- Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
- Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health goals and efforts.
- Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
- Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
- Assure a skilled and competent public health care workforce.
- Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
- Research for new insights and apply innovative solutions to health problems.
- The Focus of Public Health
The AUSPH remains dedicated and committed through all its academic and educational instruction, programs, and activities to maintain a focus on the following public health activities so as to promote the public’s health:
- Assessing the health status of the population
- Diagnosing its problems
- Searching for the causes for those problems
- Designing solutions for those problems.
Strategic Affiliations & Milestones
The AUSPH, through its parent, Aristotle University, has already established notable educational affiliations and collaborations with key strategic universities and organizations throughout the world, and has accomplished several milestones. We believe such affiliations and cooperative agreements will further enhance our ability to provide meaningful working relationships across international borders and enhance our ability to contribute to the public good and improve the human condition worldwide.
For instance, Aristotle University currently has established working relationships with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health; the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology.
Additionally, Aristotle University has developed and currently offers the only Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Residency Program in the State of California (and it is only one of five such programs in the United States). Aristotle University offers the PA Residency Program in cooperation with Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital, Norwalk, California. The Aristotle University PA Residency Program is the only PA Residency Program in the United States which requires the completion of the Masters of Public Health (MPH) concomitantly with the PA Residency. Aristotle University offers the MPH to the PA Residents and Podiatric Surgery Residents at Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital as well.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
 Aristotle University has attained a collaborative educational agreement with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Asia-Pacific School of Ethics, wherein Aristotle University established and hosts the UNESCO International Bioethics Journal Club (UNESCO IBJC) (www.AristotleLaw.com)
The UNESCO Asia-Pacific region is the largest of the UNESCO regions; in fact, it includes over 50 Member States of the United Nations and represents over three-quarters of the world’s land mass and nearly half its population. Dr. Gionis has lectured extensively worldwide in the field of bioethics for UNESCO for several years; he also serves as a Member of the UNESCO Working Committee for Ethics in Energy.
Aristotle University's hosting of the UNESCO International Bioethics Journal Club gives Aristotle University direct access to major universities and governmental agencies in approximately 50 Member States of the United Nations. This provides a plethora of opportunity for collaborative education programs and meaningful cultural exchanges.
Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology
Aristotle University has acquired the Joint Study Committee on Clinical Research Ethics (JSCCRE). (www.clinicalresearchethics.com).
The JSCCRE was established in 2006 as a joint collaborative effort between the Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology (FAST) and the American Board of Healthcare Law and Medicine (ABHLM). The JSCCRE was formed with the goal of expanding society’s understanding of the ethical debate concerning international protections for human subjects of clinical research and experimentation throughout the world. The topic of international legal protections for human subjects of clinical research is particularly important and germane to researchers who engage in research and experimentation in the United States as well as internationally.
The Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology is an international network of individuals and institutions established by alumni of the prestigious Fulbright Exchange Program. As an organization established by alumni of that exchange program, the Academy supports the advancement of knowledge and international understanding by linking the current generation of leaders in science and technology from around the world. The American Board of Healthcare Law and Medicine is a private, research, educational organization which conducts its activities on various aspects of healthcare law, public policy, international business and international law. Because its focus has been primarily on establishing educational programs in health law, its operations have been subsumed within the AU LLM Program in Bioethics and Public Health Law and the LLM Program in International Human Rights Law.
This work in collaboration with the Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology has resulted in the creation of a database of all human rights violations against human research and experimentation subjects in the United States.
Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant Residency Program
 The AUSPH offers the only Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Residency Program in the State of California – it does so in cooperation with the Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital Emergency Department (CPDH). This program serves not only as the only current emergency medicine physician assistant residency program in the State of California, but also as the only physician assistant residency program in the United States which will grant a Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree upon completion of the twelve (12) month training program.
Currently, there are a total of forty post-graduate physician assistant residency and fellowship programs offered in the United States which are listed as accredited and are members of the Association of Postgraduate Physician Assistant Programs. The nearest approved physician assistant emergency medicine residency program is located at the University of Texas (San Antonio). The other PA emergency medicine residency programs are located at Johns Hopkins, Medical College of Georgia, and are offered by the United States Army (Texas) and the Air Force (Ohio). After one (1) year of operation, AU intends to seek accreditation of its Emergency Medicine PA Residency Program by the Association of Postgraduate Physician Assistant Programs.
Program leadership for the AUSPH-CPDH PA Residency is as follows:
Thomas A. Gionis, MD JD
MPH MBA MHA LLM |
President, Aristotle University
Dean, Aristotle University School of Public Health
Dean and Professor of Law, Aristotle University College of Law
UCLA Visiting Scholar Public Health, UCLA School of Public Health
ER Director, Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital
Medical Director, Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Western University of Health Sciences
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Craig Garner, JD
Galal Gough, MD
M. Nemazee, MD FACP
M. Esmaili, MD
A. Saljiantis, MD
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Chief Executive Officer, Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital
Medical Director, EM-PA Residency Program
Program Director, EM-PA Residency Program
Director of Surgery, EM-PA Residency Program
Director of Internal Medicine, EM-PA Residency Program
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