Primary Faculty
Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health, health equity, quality of care, person-centered care, respectful maternity care, global health, implementation science, food security, migrant health, minority health
Isabel Elaine Allen, PhD, MS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Analytics & Data Visualization, Meta-analysis & synthesis research, Clinical Research Design & Analysis, Biometrics, Biostatistics, big data, data analysis, data display, data science, data visualization, machine learning, patient-generated health data, patient-reported outcome measures
Alexis Beatty, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Implementation Science
- Cardiovascular disease, cardiac rehabilitation, health disparities, digital health, implementation science
Henrik Bengtsson, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Genetic Epidemiology
Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
Professor (recall)
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis
Dennis Black, PhD
Professor (recall)
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Lifecourse
Paige Bracci, PhD, MPH, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
Joelle Brown, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Reproductive health, Health economics, HIV/AIDS, Implementation science, Infectious disease, Maternal health, Women's health
John A. ("Tony") Capra, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Machine Learning
- using the tools of computer science and statistics to address problems in genetics, evolution, and biomedicine
June Chan, DSc
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- How diet, exercise, other lifestyle factors are associated with better outcomes in men with prostate cancer; testing if changes in behavior after diagnosis improve cancer survivorship; disseminating evidence-based recommendations and tools to help people with cancer adopt healthier lifestyle practices and improve survivorship
Ingrid Chen, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria
Iona Cheng, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- The role of genetics, health behaviors, environmental exposures, and neighborhood factors on cancer incidence and prognosis
Alison Cohen, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Lifecourse
- Social Epidemiology
- health equity, adolescent and young adult health, social determinants of health, community-based participatory research, program and policy evaluation, environmental health justice, research-practice partnerships
Mara Decker, DrPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Lifecourse
- Social Epidemiology
- Sexual and reproductive health, youth and adolescents, applied research, social epidemiology, health and empowerment, program evaluation, health disparities, global health and development, demographic change and the environment, human rights, social ecology
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Maternal and child health in the developing world with a focus on gender inequality/women's empowerment, family planning and abortion and nutrition in the preconception and pregnancy period
Suzanne Dufault, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- clinical trials, Bayesian methods, simulation studies, dengue, tuberculosis, reproducible research
Richard Feachem, KBE, PhD, DSc(Med)
Professor (recall)
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria
Neelam Sekhri Feachem, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Health policy, financing, and management of health care systems
Jean Feng, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Machine learning, Statistical computing, High-dimensional data
Efstathios (Stathis) D. Gennatas, MBBS, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Neuroscience, neuroimaging, brain development, neurodegenerative disease, neurology, psychiatry, oncology; applied health data science for basic biomedical research and clinical applications; Machine learning research for precision medicine: multimodal data analysis, interpretability, trustworthiness, fairness in predictive modeling, data science and visualization software development
David V. Glidden, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- HIV treatment, HIV prevention, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, Biostatistics, Survival analysis, Competing risks, Multiple events, Causal Inference, Clinical trials, LGBT health
Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- The role of social determinants of health, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, immigration status, sociocultural factors, and neighborhood contextual characteristics, on health outcomes
Rebecca Graff, ScD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Genetic Epidemiology
- prostate cancer, kidney cancer, cancer risk factors, cancer survivorship, genetics, pleiotropy, metabolomics, molecular subtyping
Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Intervention design, linking public health and primary care interventions to address health disparities, implementation and dissemination sciences, chronic disease prevention, safety net innovation, public health literacy, migration and health/trans-national health, and environmental pollution