Primary Faculty
Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
Assistant 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
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
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
Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Tools, tests and technologies that can help identify pregnant women and babies at increased risk for preterm birth and associated birth defects and developmental delays
Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Health disparities, race/ethnicity, pathway programs, social entrepreneurship, global health
Pamela Murnane, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- HIV, maternal and infant health, treatment adherence, global health, implementation science
Dara Torgerson, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Lifecourse
- Machine Learning
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Integrative Genomics, Metabolomics, Statistical Genetics, Minority Health, Neonatology, Respiratory Outcomes
Jennifer Yarger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Area(s):
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Sexual and reproductive health, urinary tract infections, adolescent and young adult health, access to care, health education, health equity, program and policy evaluation
Secondary Faculty
Christine Dehlendorf, MD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Implementation Science
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- contraceptive counseling and family planning disparities
Alison El Ayadi, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Prevention, treatment and post-surgical reintegration for obstetric fistula; determinants of maternal mortality and morbidities, access to obstetric care, and the structural, social and interpersonal factors that configure maternal health disparities
Hannah Glass, MD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Neonatal seizures, neonatal neurocritical care, neuroprotection, environmental health, cerebral palsy, epilepsy
Miriam Kuppermann, PhD, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Patient-centered outcomes, focusing on patient preferences and informed decision making among racially/ethnically and socioeconomically diverse women, including prenatal genetic testing, adult genetic testing for Lynch syndrome, noncancerous uterine conditions, cervical cancer screening and post CIN 2+ treatment surveillance, contraception, and mode of delivery.
Emeritus Faculty
Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Maternal health, family planning, and abortion services in low- and middle-income countries, measurement, people-centered care, quality improvement
Thomas Newman, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Clinical problems in pediatrics, such as jaundice and infections in newborn babies, urinary tract infections and cholesterol screening