Richard Crespo, Ph.D., is professor of community health. Dr. Crespo is involved in community health in West Virginia and overseas. He directs the community medicine rotation for all family practice residents, teachers international track residents and advises them in selecting international assignments. Additionally he teaches community medicine to second year medical students. Internationally, he consults overseas three to five times a year in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The areas in which he works internationally are program design, disease surveillance, training trainers and evaluation. In West Virginia Dr. Crespo directs numerous grants in chronic disease management, diabetes control, school health and children’s mental health. Most of these grants involve rural health centers throughout the state and link them with community-based initiatives.