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Deputy Department Chair
Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
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| Dr. Peter Messeri is a medical sociologist whose focus includes the organization of health care systems, community interventions to promote healthier communities, tobacco control, and the nature of health and social disparities. He has methodological expertise in the conduct of group randomized designs to evaluate interventions at the community and health systems level as well as methods for assessing causal effects for non-experimental studies. Dr. Messeri is the principal investigator of CHAIN project, a 10-year longitudinal study of people living with HIV in New York City, as well as SPNS-IT/HIV TIPS, an evaluation of a web-based information technology application that is intended to assist providers in community-based clinics in the management of HIV disease a CDC funded and a worksite health promotion intervention study. As a consultant for the American Legacy Foundation, Dr. Messeri has been involved in the evaluation of its national anti-smoking campaign (Truth), as well as the evaluation of a multi-state initiative to promote youth empowerment in state and local tobacco control programs. Dr. Messeri has published numerous articles on social support, delivery of health services, tobacco control, and substance use. He is the deputy chair for Doctoral Studies in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences and teaches both introductory and advanced methods courses as well as a theoretical foundations course for doctoral students.
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