Primary Faculty

Maria Glymour, ScD, MS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Lifecourse
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Social determinants of health in aging; Cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia; Socioeconomic and geographic determinants of stroke incidence and outcomes; Causal inference in social epidemiology

Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
Professor
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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

Michael A. Kohn, MD, MPP
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Machine Learning
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Diagnostic and prognostic testing for stroke, myocardial infarction, sepsis, and other emergency conditions; expert on database management for clinical research

Jeffrey N. Martin, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Kaposi's sarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, HIV infection, cervical cancer, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, International research, education in clinical and epidemiological research, mentoring junior faculty or trainees, public health, global health, Africa

Paul Wesson, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- HIV, health disparities, surveillance, population size estimation, sampling methods, social determinants, intersectionality

Justin White, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Health economics, behavioral risk factors, tobacco use, global health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation

Fan Xia, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- developing statistical methods in causal inference; causal mediation analysis; cluster randomized trials/stepped wedge trials to solve health research problems, including Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's related disorders, HIV, and COVID-19.
Secondary Faculty

Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Lifecourse
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, role of sensory impairments and other chronic diseases in brain aging, social determinants of health, causal inference methods
Emeritus Faculty

Isabel Elaine Allen, PhD, MS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Meta analysis, data science, longitudinal data analysis, statistical genetics, Bayesian statistics
Postdoc

Dakota Cintron, PhD
Postdoc
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Global Health
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Design, Graphical Models, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Item Response Theory, Latent Variable and Structural Equation Modeling, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Monte Carlo Simulation

Kendra D. Sims, PhD
Postdoc
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Environmental determinants of older adult health disparities