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Marc D. Hiller, Dr. P.H., Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy, University of New Hampshire 

Education — University of Pittsburgh, B.S., 1972;
University of Pittsburgh, M.P.H., 1974;
University of Pittsburgh, Dr.P.H., 1978.

His primary areas of teaching, public service, and research are in public health (policy and practice; tobacco prevention/control) and ethical issues in health care. Currently he teaches courses in public health ethics in the University’s MPH program, and health care ethics, U.S. health care delivery systems, and public health history and practice in its undergraduate program in health management and policy.

Research Interests — Hiller is an associate professor of health management and policy, having come to UNH from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. From 1999 to 2001, he was a Faculty Fellow in UNH's office of the Vice President for Research and Public Service while continuing to teach in both the department's undergraduate and graduate programs. He has served as a visiting scholar in the Office on Smoking and Health and the Division of Adolescent and School Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society (Atlanta, GA) where his efforts focused on the prevention of tobacco use among 18-25 year olds, particularly on college campuses throughout the U.S.

Professional Organizations/Recognitions— In November 2005, Hiller assumed the leadership role chairing the Committee on Affiliates of the American Public Health Association (APHA), that division of the Association that represents the nation’s 53 state and regional affiliates. Earlier this year, he received the Margaret F. Gloninger Service Award from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, his alma mater, in recognition for his outstanding voluntary contributions to the school and community. He is the recipient of the Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Public Service in 1999, and the New Hampshire Public Health Association's (NHPHA) Presidential Citation in 1998. He has been a National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Fellow in medical ethics at the University of Virginia, a fellow at the Hastings Center, and a visiting faculty member in the Ethics Program of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and at the Muskie Institute of the University of Southern Maine. Hiller was the project director of the New Hampshire Turning Point Initiative, a statewide strategic planning effort to strengthen the State's public health system in the 21st century, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson and W.K. Kellogg foundations. He remains active in the American Public Health Association (APHA), National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH), and the NHPHA, among many other professional and civic organizations. He is the author/editor of two books, Medical Ethics and the Law Implications for Public Policy (1981) and Ethics and Health Administration Ethical Decision Making in Health Management (1986) and, has authored journal articles on a variety of public health and ethical issues and policies.

Personal — He resides in South Berwick ME, with his wife (Karen) and their identical twin sons, Ari and Sage.