EUGENE MIGLIACCIO, MPH, PhD
Dr. Eugene Migliacio served as the Director of Immigration Health Services assigned to the Department of Homeland Security. As Director of IHS some of his many responsibilities and accomplishments are as follows: protecting the US borders utilizing disease screening and prevention controls through administration of a comprehensive health care delivery system, opened seven new ambulatory care clinics and five short stay programs throughout the US, provides leadership for all health care services support to the DHS, established an Emergency Medical Response Team (EMRT) to provide clinical services within 24 hours of an influx of disease, and received the US Vice Presidential Award (Hammer Award) in 2001 for establishing a managed care program which saved $18 million over a four year period. He has been working with the department of Global Health as an Adjunct Professor since 1995. He provides instruction for health finance and global health care evaluation and planning.
Dr. Migliacio is interested in health care services delivery, program planning, cost analysis, management, and reengineering. He is knowledgeable in the public policy surrounding the issue of health care and familiar with the applied quantitative methods used in operations research, decision analysis, queuing theory, and evaluation research. With regard to Global Health his interests lie in the arena of health evaluation and overseas training in health care systems.
Dr. Migliacio has won numerous awards, the most recent being Health Services Officer of the Year (2000). He has published numerous research papers and articles covering a diverse range of topics surrounding health care systems. Some of his more recent work can be found in the Journal of Community Health and the Medical Care Review.
