Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Professor Research Interest Courses Janet M. Hughes Occupational diseases; Environmental health; Respiratory diseases; Risk assessment; Statistics; John Lefante Statistical data interpretation; Sample size; Lung diesase; Occupational and program evaluation; Health care quality, acess, and evaluation; Geographic information systems; Randomized controlled clinical trials; Statistical data interpretation; Medical informatics; Bioinformatics; Pregnancy outcomes; Survival analysis Longitudinal data analysis; Monte carlo methods; Categorical data analysis; Goodness of fit issues; Data analysis; Evaluation studies; Psychometics; Experimental design; Statistical programming; Geographic Information Systems; Survey design and analysis; Mobile‐based and online surveys; Prostate cancer; Maternal and child health; Lassa fever Multiple regression analysis; Factor analysis; Logistic regression; Sample size and power; Microarray data; Experimental designs; Crossover designs; dialed cross designs; Biological sequence alignment and genome analysis; Statistcal methods in genetics; Design and analysis of clinical trials; Intro To biostatistics Frances Mather Leaan Myers Janet Rice Jeffrey Schaffer Arti Shankar Sudesh Srivastav Data Base Management SAS SPSS STATA GIS Intro to PHGIS ‐Nonparametric Statistics ‐Categorical data analysis ‐Intermediate Biostat ‐Anal Long and Cluster Data ‐intro to stata Intro to Biostat Intro to Biostat Intermediate Biostat Environmental Biostat Design of Experiments 1
Larry Webber Lillian C. Yau Hong‐Wen Deng Yongjun Liu Yao‐Zhong Liu Ming Zhao Jia Li Tiahuna (Tim) Niu Huaizhen Qin Hui Shen Lan‐Juan Partha Das Multicenter clinical trials Obesity; Patient compliance; Risk reduction behavior; Tobacco use cessation; Biometry; Epidemiologic research design; Epidemiologic study characteristics; Regression analysis; Survival analysis; Longitudional studies; stochastic processes; Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes, diabetes compications; Kidney transplant, pancreas transplant; Genetic dissection of human complex diseases; Osteoporosis; genomic convergence analyses; Obesity, sarcopenia and periodontitis Gene identification; complex human diseases; obesity, osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, sarcopenia; molecular genetic technology; statistical genetics methods Functional genomics; proteomics; osteoporosis; periodontitis Cellular and molecular biology of skeleton, genetically altered mouse models for investigating pathophysiological mechanisms of bone formation in osteoporosis DNA variation and human complex traits; genome‐wide association studies; osteoporosis and obesity; genetic variance of DNA sequences Population Genetics, Computational Statistics, Transcriptomics, Bioinformatics Statistical genetics, computational biology, causal inference, survey sampling Osteoporosis and sarcopenia; MeDIP‐Seq; Whole genome sequencing and exome sequencing Obesity, osteoporosis, kidney disease, vitamin D deficiency, genetic epidemiology, and nutritional genomics Osteoporosis and breast cancer Biomarkers; Global methylation changes in osteoporosis; Imprinted tumor suppressor genes; Non‐coding RNA in cancer and osteoporosis; Companion diagnostics assay development ‐Regression Analysis ‐Intro to Biostat ‐Statistical Methods – Survival Data 2
Zingchun Zhao Lei Zhang Yufang Pei and validation; Management and administration of core facilities Proteome‐wide protein expression; Cancer and osteoporosis; Proteomics Applied statistics in genetics; Osteoporosis, bone mineral density, fracture Statistical modeling of genetic problems 3
Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences Professor Maya Begalieva Ted Chen Gretchen Clum Mark Dal Corso Carolyn Johnson Carl Kendall Francoise Kendall Wuleta Lemma Donald (Diego) Rose Research Interest Public health practice; Workforce development; Academia‐practice partnership; Biological basis of public health and disease; Tobacco control; International health; Behavior sciences; Health promotion; Health education, leadership training; Community health sciences; Asian American Health; Relationship of stress and health outcomes in women; Adolescent health; Risk behaviors; PTSD; HIV Prevention Child Health; Immigrant Health; Community Health Worker Training; Faith Based Community Health Preventive Medicine and Public Health Practice; Cultural Competence; Behavioral Medicine: modification of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, cancer or other chronic diseases (diabetes); School‐based health education; Community prevention; Women’s health; Applied Medical Anthropology; Health Disparities; Monitoring and Evaluation; International Public Health Building Capacity; RDS Women’s Health; Reproductive and sexual health; Cultural aspects of health; Health seeking behavior; Program monitoring and evaluation; HIV/AIDS; Monitoring and evaluation; Tropical diseases Socioeconomic determinants of nutrition; Food and nutrition policy; International nutrition Courses Management Community Based Organization; Planning a health education program; Contemporary Issues; ‐Intro to Public Health Practice; ‐Child development and Public Health; ‐formal qualitative methods ‐Intro to monitoring and evaluation; ‐Intro to obstetrics; ‐health care of women ‐Food and Nutrition Policy ‐Nutrition 4
Karis Schollmann Catherine Taylor Social marketing; Health communication Children, social norms, and violence prevention; Child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and their co‐occurrence; Focusing on social norms regarding corporal punishment; Mass media/communication and public health; Primary prevention; Program evaluation; Social epidemiology; Katherine Theall Women and children’s health; Community and social network influences on health outcomes; Race and gender inequities; Substance use and mental health; Social epidemiology David Seal Qualitative Methods, HIV and STD prevention, sexual behavior Alessandra Maternal and child health; reproductive and sexual health; Bazzano nutrition; social and behavioral research in Low and Middle Income Countries Aubrey S. Madkour Adolescent health; Social determinants of health; social epidemiology; Social/contextual determinants of tobacco use among youth in North African nations; Social/contextual determinants of obesity among youth in the Middle East / North African region Marsha Piacun Community Nutrition and Dietetics Assessment and Monitoring ‐Intro to Social Marketing ‐Health Community: Theory and practice ‐Intro monitoring and evaluationg helath programs; Behavior Science 5
Global Environmental Health Sciences Professor Assaf Abdelghani Research Interest Global environmental health and fat of toxic substances in the environment Ann C. Anderson Public Health practice; Education training programs; Education of public health professionals; The application of good science; Disaster management and response; Joseph J. Contiguglia Andrew Englande, Jr. Industrial waste management; Wastewater and water treatment; Bioremediation; Faye L. Grimsley Industrial Hygiene; Indoor air quality; Exposure assessment; Bioaerosois; Elizabeth James Biochemistry; Adult education; Environmental health policy; Community‐based participatory research; Disaster preparedness; Health systems; Toxicity mediated through nuclear receptor signaling pathways; Chaperone proteins and environmental stresses induced by xenobiotic compounds; mutagenesis; carcinogenesis; DNA damage and repair Etiology and epidemiology of occupational and environmental lung disease; exposure assessment and environmental characterization; industrial hygiene chemistry Biosolids treatment, disinfection, stabilization and reuse; industrial residual product development; innovative process development; usage of applied‐
Maureen Lichtveld Charles Miller Roy Rando Robert Reimers Courses ‐Survey of Environmental Health; ‐Field/Lab Application in Environment practice ‐Envir Samples, Monitor and Data Retiring ‐Environmental Disaster response plan and implementation; ‐Special needs disaster response; ‐Water quality management; I‐ndustrial waste treatment and dispose ‐Fundamentals of Environ Chemicals ‐Industrial Hygiene/plant operation; ‐Principles of Industrial Hygiene Environmental policy 6
LuAnn White Gabriele Sabbioni Erik Svendsen He Wang Jeffrey Wickliffe Douglas Swift Kenneth Orie Aurunthavarani Thiyagarajah fields to enhance existing processes Children's health; environmental assessments of disasters Biological monitoring: urinary metabolites, protein adducts, DNA adducts; metabolism; quantitative structure activity relationships Environmental and disaster epidemiology ‐ predominantly of environmentally induced pulmonary illnesses Occupational diseases; bronchial neoplasm; lung neoplasm; pleural neoplasm; mutagenesis; chromosome aberrations Environmental and molecular toxicology; mechani
sms of genetic damage and mutagenesis; gene‐
environment interactions in environmental disease Chemicals and Cancer; Environmental medicine related to ear and hearing disorders; neurotoxic exposure Environmental policy and management; public health law & global health regulations; internation
al‐environment law and management systems Aquatic pathobiology/toxicology‐Exposure assessment; Fish diseases, chemical carcinogenesis‐ hepatic and pancreatic cancers using in vitro and in vivo (fish) models; drinking water disinfection byproducts (trihalomethanes); biological monitoring; biomarker development; environmental chemicals and breast cancer progression 7
Epidemiology Professor Lydia Bazzano Gerald Berenson Pierre Buekens Wei Chen Prescott Deininger Astrid Engel Jeanette Gustat Emily Harville Susan Hassig Aaron Hoffman Tanika Kelly Patricia Kissinger M. A. “Tonette” Krousel‐Wood Research Interest Nutrition and primary prevention; Cardiovascular disease; Diabetes; Etiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease; Lipids; Hypertension; Obesity; Perinatal epidemiology; Randomized controlled trials; Etiology of cardiovascular disease; Genetic epidemiology; Molecular and cancer epidemiology; Genetics; Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; Environmental determinants of physical activity, obesity, and health; Pregnancy epidemiology; Measurement of stress; Epidemiologic methods; HIV; Program evaluation; Prevention and control of communicable diseases; Molecular and environmental epidemiology of cancer; Environmental factors in gene regulation; Genetic epidemiology; Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; STIs/HIV; Infectious diseases; Women’s reproductive health; Substance use; Outcomes assessment of patients with chronic medical conditions; Medical adherence with chronic Courses ‐Epi Methods I ‐Survey Methods ‐Observational Epi ‐Epi of Infectious Diseases’ ‐Infectious Disease Outbreak ‐Epi Methods I ‐Meta‐Analysis Epi of HIV/STIs 8
Nick Makridakis Felicia Rabito Sathanur Srinivasan Xu Xiong Paul Kieran Whelton Jinying Zhao Hirut Gebrekristos Shengxu Li diseases; Molecular epidemiology of cancer and other multifactorial diseases; Environmental epidemiology; Asthma and allergies; Intervention studies; Childhood lead poisoning Etiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease and dyslipidemia; Diabetes; Etiology, prevention, and outcomes of pregnancy complications; Evaluation of perinatal care and intervention; Cardiovascular disease and renal disease epidemiology, prevention, treatment trials, policy, and global health Statistical genetics, cardiovascular genetic epidemiology, epigenetics, bioinformatics HIV co‐infections, health inequalities, sexual behavior, substance use Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; obesity epidemiology; genetic epidemiology Molecular Epi Epi Methods II ‐Reproductive Epi ‐Survey Methodology 9
Global Health Systems and Development Professor Jane Betrand Claudia Campbell Mark L. Diana Hugh Long Lizheng Shi Joni S. Steinberg T.J. Stranova Katherine Andrinopoulos Mai Do Thomas Eisele Anastasia Gage Research Interest Program evaluation; Operations research; Reproductive health; HIV/AIDS; Efficiency of health systems; Health care costs and access among vunerable populations; vertical integration and de‐
intergration of IT services in health care delivery; across systems and geographic boundaries; transaction cost economics and strategic management theory; Medicare/Medicaid policy and payment mechanisms; Health care financing; Pharmaceutical and health care economics; Health care quality, access, and evaluation; Patient flow; Application of quantitative decision models and financial analysis to health systems resource allocation; Cost effective analysis Academic medical organizations; Organization theory and strategic management ; market development; Applied intervention research; Social and behavioral determinants; Incarcerated populations; Human rights; Quality of Care; Health Communication; Impact evaluation; Epidemiology with focus on malaria and child survival; Monitoring and evlation; Survey/sampling methodology; Adolescent health risk behaviors;
Courses ‐Health Strength International Family Planning ‐Health Economics ‐Health Systems Admin/Mgmt ‐Information Systems ‐Payment systems policy and functioning ‐Financial Management ‐Pol Opt on Medical Productive Technology ‐Health Systems Admin/Mgmt ‐Quantative Decision Models ‐Managerial Communication ‐Administration Residency II ‐Scoial impant of HIV/AIDs ‐Practical Issues in HIV/AIDS ‐Household sample applied in dev countries ‐Monitoring & Evaluation 10
David Hotchkiss Paul Hutchinson Joseph Keating Rachel Kidman Jack C.S. Ling Dominique Meekers Nancy Mock Laura Murphy Valerie Paz‐Soldan Natalia Zhivan Peter Scharf Access to and demand for maternal health care services; Gender and domestic violence; Evaluation of health systems strengthening interventions; Access to and demand for primary health services; Socio‐economic disparities in health outcomes and health care utilization; Acces to and demand for health care services; Socioeconomic status affecting health behaviors and outcomes; Vector‐borne disease ecology; Program evaluation; Orphans and vulnerable children; HIV/AIDS; Program evaluation; Managing the development process; Social mobilization; Health advocacy; Iodine deficiency disorders; Adolescent reproductive health; Sexual risk behaviors; Social marketing; Complex emergencies and disaster management; Program evaluation; Managing the development process; Social impacts of AIDS; Technology and society; Population‐environmental development; Population and family planning; Maternal and child health; Public health service and research in Latin America aging and retirement caused by socioeconomic, labor force participation, and health. Criminal Justice; Law enforcement and forensicsl ‐Health economy for developing countires ‐Advanced methods: global health ‐Field Methods/ Program Monitoring and evaluation ‐Community Response for HIV/AIDS ‐Complex Emergencies ‐Population & Environmental relationship theory ‐Developing Issues 11
Mark VanLandingham Joshua Yukich Philip Anglewicz Valerie Yeager Mollye Demosthenidy Technology and education Migration and health; Immigrant health; Disasters and health; HIV/AIDS; Epidemiology and economics of vector‐borne disease; Malaria control in SSA; Economics of targeted intervetions; Migration and health, impacts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, aging in sub‐Saharan Africa, biomarker measures of health, survey methodology Public health partnerships, quality improvement within the public health setting, strategic management, public health preparedness, health information technology, and health care quality issues such as patient satisfaction and access to care Law, Policy ‐Intro to population studies Health Policy Analysis, Intro to Health Systems, Health Law 12
Tropical Medicine Professor Daniel Bausch Barnett Cline Antonio D’Alessandro Elizabeth Didier Peter Didier Young Hong Frederique Jacquerioz Donald Krogstad Nirbhay Kumar Dale Little Preston Marx Richard Oberhelman Susan McLellen Research Interest Epidemiology and control of viral hemorrhagic fever and emerging pathogens; Health and human rights; Research capacity in developing countries; Immunology; Pathogenesis; TB diagnosis, vaccines, and pathogenesis; West‐nile; Microsporidiosis drug testing model; Molecular entomology; Gene expression in mosquitoes; Mosquito/parasite interactions; Global health issues’ systematic reviews; Implementation of evidence‐
based strategies in developing countries; HIV epi; Molecular and genetic basis of resistance to chloroquine and quinine; Development of methods to study pathogenicity; Immunobiology of malaria transmission; Transmission blocking vaccine; Simian models for AIDS pathogenesis; HIV vaccines; Strategies for preventing HIV transmission in women Pediatric diarrhea; Pediatric TB; Courses ‐health and human rights ‐tropical virology ‐Advanced Topics in Emer Path Emeritus Professor Emeritus Professor ‐Genomics in Public Health, ‐multidiscipline global health ‐Immunology Emeritus Professor ‐Preventive tropical med ‐Disease Control in Developing Countries Development of digitized images ‐Clinical Trop Medicine for clinical and lab courses; Surveillance of disease in 13
Latha Rajan Dawn Wesson Mark Wiser Ahmed Aly Juan Pizarro Geetha Bansal Thomas Orihel travelers; Collaborative projects in India and Malaysia; TB, HIV, STDS; Clinical microbiology and infectious diseases; Ecology of arbovirus transmission; Host‐pathogen coevolution; Vector control strategies and tools; Arbovirus infection on human pregnancy outcome; Molecular and cellular biology of protozoan parasites and their interactions with host cells; host‐
parasite interactions Host‐Parasite Interactions and Malaria Vaccine Development Human and parasite proteins, host‐parasite relationships, Plasmodium falciparum Vaccine immunology, vaccine design, infectious disease research, antibody based prevention and treatment research ‐Microbial Disease of Tropical Medicine ‐medical entomology Emeritus Professor 14