Lecturers
Lecturers
Eileen Coughlin, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Eileen's involvement in healthcare began as a CPR and Advanced First Aid Instructor followed by attaining an EMT certificate. She has worked for Santa Clara County, TriNet (HR Firm), and the US Dept. of Education and Agriculture to provide training programs. As the Manager of Training and Education for California Pacific Medical Center (Sutter) and O’Connor Hospital (Daughters of Charity), she focused on employee surveys, patient satisfaction, online education system administration, management education
Professional Focus
Eileen specializes in health care management, legal issues, career strategies, and resume development. Her authored courses include seven SHRM sanctioned curriculum HR courses including topics in wellness, diversity, employee development
Jeffrey Daniels, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Dr. Jeffrey Daniels doctorate (D.Env.) was awarded by UCLA in the multidisciplinary field of Environmental Science and Engineering. He specializes in performing prospective and retrospective health risk assessments for substances of toxicological concern (chemical, biological, radiological, and emerging, such as nanomaterials) introduced into environmental media (air, water, soil, and food), and based on consideration of multiple exposure pathways (inhalation, ingestion, and dermal contact). His employers have included the Biomedical and Environmental Research Program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA (Sr. Scientist, focusing on energy, national security, and environmental protection); an environmental health and safety contractor at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA (Sr. Risk Analyst, concentrating on health risk from indoor-air-exposure to contaminants in groundwater at a Superfund Site); and the Hydrological Sciences Division of The Desert Research Institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education in Las Vegas, NV (Assoc. Research Professor, providing public-health expertise and scientific research proficiency to U.S. DOE for identifying risk from radiological contamination of multiple environmental media). Dr. Daniels possesses a stellar scientific publication record, has served on multiple prestigious committees including those of the National Academies of Sciences; U.S. Departments of Energy, Veterans Affairs, and Defense; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and NATO, internationally. Additionally, he has managed projects in Russia (Volgograd) and the Ukraine (Kyiv) for the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention Program of the U.S. Department of State. Before becoming a Lecturer in Health Sciences at CSUEB, he has served in invited guest-lecturer roles at San Jose State, Harvard, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford. Most recently, he has been a substitute teacher (for Advanced Placement STEM high school classes, primarily) in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District (administrating elementary, middle, and high schools in the cities of San Ramon, Danville, and Alamo, CA).
LaChanda Davis, Ph.D.
Lecturer
LaChanda Davis is a lecturer at the Department of Health Sciences. She also teaches at San Francisco State University in the Department of Philosophy. Her area of specialization is Ancient Greek philosophy with an emphasis on ethics. LaChanda has worked at Kaiser Permanente in the Department of Ethics and served as a project manager for the Department of Adult and Family Medicine. She connects her background in philosophy to the field of medicine to explore the ethical dilemmas that arise for health care providers, patients, and patient’s families.
Jana Hiraga, MPH
Lecturer
Jana Hiraga was a co-founder of a West Oakland youth drop-in center called Oakland Youth Aspire. She also worked in the human trafficking field as a trainer and consultant for over 12 years. Jana currently is the Director of Special Projects at the Women’s Daytime Drop in Center that empowers homeless women and children. She has been teaching at CSUEB since 2014 in the Health Science Department. She earned her public health degree at UC Berkeley and graduated with her MPH at SFSU with a focus on community health education.