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School of Public Health

Dennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH (University of Texas) Assoc. Dean for Research, Director of the Center for Health Equality; Department of Health Management and Policy, . Urban communities, health disparities, the uninsured, vulnerable populations.

Amy Auchincloss, PhD (University of Michigan ) Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Professor. Environmental determinants of health and the health effects of air pollution; contribution of resources in residential environments to health behaviors, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease; the use of spatial analysis methods and agent-based models.

Nathalie Bartle, EdD (Harvard University) Department of Community Health and Prevention, Professor. Maternal and child health, adolescent health, community training programs.

Zekarias Berhane, PhD (University of Pittsburgh) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Assistant Professor. Modeling time-to-event data with single and multiple outcomes, mixed effect models and regression diagnostics.

Lisa Bowleg, PhD (George Washington University) Department of Community Health and Prevention , Associate Professor. Multiple minority stress, resilience, and coming out issues among Black/African-American, lesbian, gay bisexual and transgendered people (LGBT); the influence of social structural factors (e.g., racism, poverty, incarceration) and gender role and sexuality factors on sexual risk in Black/African-American communities.

Darryl Brown, PhD (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) Department of Health Management and Policy, Assistant Professor. Health care research and planning; patient outcomes and applied health economic methods.

Carla Campbell, MD, MS (Kentucky College of Medicine; Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Associate Professor. Community and environmental medicine, pediatrics, lead poisoning.

Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH (University of Pennsylvania) Department of Community Health and Prevention, Assistant Professor. Human rights and health; race, ethnicity and poverty; nutrition and chronic disease; ethnography and participatory research; complementary and alternative medicine.

Curtis E. Cummings, MD, MPH (Jefferson Medical College) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Associate Professor. Occupational medicine, radiology, chemical and radiation toxicity, Medical Corps, US Navy (Ret.).

Nancy Epstein, M.P.H. (University of North Carolina) Department of Community Health and Prevention, Associate Professor. Healthcare for underserved communities, health education and coalition building, health and disability policy, oral health, faith and health.

Alison A. Evans, Sc D (Harvard School of Public Health) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Assistant Professor. Epidemiology studies of hepatitis B infection and its complications; prevention of liver cancer in East Asian populations in the Delaware Valley.

Arthur L. Frank, M.D., Ph.D. (Mount Sinai School Medicine City University of New York) Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Professor. Environmental and occupational health, agricultural safety and health, pneumoconiosis, occupational toxicology, environmental pollution.

Dennis Gallagher, M.A., M.P.A. (University of Pittsburgh) Department of Health Management and Policy, Associate Professor. Health policy, Medicare/Medicaid/SCHIP, health care access for the uninsured, health system transformation.

Marla Gold, M.D. (University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School) Dean, School of Public Health; Department of Health Management and Policy, Professor. Design of HIV/AIDS care systems, treatment protocols, resource utilization, and epidemiology; CQI, managed care and systems of health care, health administration, behavioral health care and substance abuse treatment systems.

Edward J. Gracely, Ph.D. (Temple University) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Professor. Statistics, experimental design/research methods and statistical analysis, clinical trials.

Carol Ann Gross-Davis, M.S. (Drexel University) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Assistant Professor. Environmental science and engineering, implementation and development of regulations and policy to support various initiatives.

William J. Hickey, Ph.D. (Northwestern University) Department of Health Management and Policy, Associate Professor. Organization behavior, health care administration.

Mary E. Hovinga, Ph.D., M.P.H. (University of Michigan) Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Professor. Surveillance and etiology of mental retardation, environmental epidemiology, and the human health effects of heavy metals, PCBs and DDT.

Jennifer Kolker, M.P.H. (University of Michigan) Department of Health Management and Policy, Assistant Professor. Planning and policy development for health and welfare, early childhood education, epidemiological data collection and analysis, disease controls.

Longjian Liu, MD, M.S.C., Ph.D. (University of Hong Kong) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Professor. Nutrition, aging, cross-cultural and racial/ethnic variation and health.

Raymond K. Lum, M.Phil., M.S. (University of Pennsylvania) Department of Health Management and Policy, Assistant Professor. Organizational learning theory, change management, systems thinking, innovation diffusion, technology transition, e-health.

Jana M. Mossey, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.N. (University of North Carolina) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Professor. Epidemiological methods; research design and methods including observational and clinical trials research; psychosocial aspects of health; epidemiology of aging; depression and chronic pain; sub-threshold and minor depression; pain in the elderly.

Craig J. Newschaffer, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University) Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Professor. Development of methods for monitoring autism spectrum disorders prevalence; participation in the National CADDRE Study of Autism and Child Development.

Hernando Perez, Ph.D., M.P.H., C.I.H., C.S.P. (Purdue University) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Assistant Professor. Children's environmental health, housing and health, environmental and occupational exposure assessment.

Marcia Polansky, M.S., Sc.D., M.S.W. (Harvard University) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Professor. Biostatistics; experimental design/research methods and statistical analysis, clinical trials; asthma epidemiology and interventions; attachment theory and mothers with drug and alcohol addictions.

John A. Rich, M.D., M.P.H. (Duke University Medical School) Chair, Department of Health Management and Policy, Professor. Inner-city health problems, urban violence, men's health and racial disparities.

Randall L. Sell, Sc.D. (Harvard University) Department of Community Health and Prevention, Associate Professor. Demographic variables, defining and measuring sexual orientations, sampling sexual minorities for public health research.

Jennifer A. Taylor, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Johns Hopkins University) Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Assistant Professor. Injury prevention and control, quality improvement, and occupational safety.

Lisa Ulmer, M.S.W., Sc.D. (Johns Hopkins University) Chair, Department of Community Health and Prevention, Professor. Tobacco prevention in high-risk youth; tobacco control in high-risk adults; prevention research methods; cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis; public health advocacy—restricting youth access to tobacco.

Nicole A. Vaughn, Ph.D. (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences) Department of Health Management and Policy, Assistant Professor. Community-based approaches to eliminating health disparities, health care access and utilization among insured and uninsured minority groups, obesity, women's health and the influence of culture on health behaviors particularly for chronic conditions.

Augusta M. Villanueva, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin) Department of Community Health and Prevention, Assistant Professor. Role of race, culture, and ethnicity on health status/outcomes; community-based participatory research; immigrant communities; academic service-learning.

Seth Welles, Ph.D., Sc.D. (Boston University) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Associate Professor. Impact of HIV phenotypic and genotypic antiretroviral drug resistance on HIV disease progression and transmission; psychosocial risk for HIV infection and STDs among sexual minority adults and adolescents, and surveys of sexual minority adults at community festivals and at health-clinics to assess demographic and psychosocial determinants of sexual risk-taking and HIV/STD infections.

Michael Yudell, MPH, MPhil., PhD (Columbia University, City University of New York) Department of Community Health and Prevention, Assistant Professor. Public health genomics, bioethics, history of public health, and addiction.