Primary Faculty
Alison Cohen, PhD
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- Environmental and Occupational EpidemiologyLifecourseSocial Epidemiology
- health equity, adolescent and young adult health, social determinants of health, community-based participatory research, program and policy evaluation
Mara Decker, DPH
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- LifecourseSocial 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
Maria Glymour, ScD, MS
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- Epidemiology of AgingEpidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological DisordersLifecourseResearch Methods in EpidemiologySocial 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
Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD
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- Cancer EpidemiologyEnvironmental and Occupational EpidemiologyGlobal HealthSocial Epidemiology
- Robert Hiatt is Associate Director for Population Science at Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research interests include: cancer epidemiology, especially breast cancer, cancer prevention & screening, health inequities, health services & outcomes research, social determinants of cancer, environmental health research, environmental exposures in early development related to cancer, mathematical modeling of cancer, global health science
Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH
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- BioinformaticsBiostatisticsMachine LearningSocial Epidemiology
- Computational epidemiology, health disparities, natural language processing, social media, structural racism, social determinants of health, digital interventions, digital phenotyping, algorithmic bias, societal health
Dan Kelly, MD
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- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal HealthInfectious DiseaseLifecourseSocial Epidemiology
- Emerging infectious diseases; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Ebola virus; natural history studies of acute and post-acute infection; causal determinants; quasi-experimental studies; mathematical modeling of infectious disease; global health and research capacity building
Suzanna Martinez, PhD
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- LifecourseSocial Epidemiology
- childhood obesity, sleep, physical activity, diet, food insecurity, health equity, minority health, Latino health, health disparities in higher education
Nooshin Razani, MD, MPH
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- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsImplementation ScienceSocial Epidemiology
- Pediatric mental health, family and community health, access to greenspace, outdoor play, pediatric resilience
Dara Torgerson, PhD
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- BioinformaticsBiostatisticsGenetic EpidemiologyLifecourseMachine LearningReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal EpidemiologySocial Epidemiology
- Integrative Genomics, Metabolomics, Statistical Genetics, Minority Health, Neonatology, Respiratory Outcomes
Paul Wesson, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious DiseaseResearch Methods in EpidemiologySocial Epidemiology
- HIV, health disparities, surveillance, population size estimation, sampling methods, social determinants, intersectionality
Justin White, PhD
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- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological DisordersGlobal HealthImplementation ScienceLifecourseResearch Methods in EpidemiologySocial Epidemiology
- Health economics, behavioral risk factors, tobacco use, global health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation
Secondary Faculty
Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH
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- Epidemiology of AgingEpidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological DisordersLifecourseResearch Methods in EpidemiologySocial 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
Christine Dehlendorf, MD
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- Implementation ScienceReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal EpidemiologySocial Epidemiology
- contraceptive counseling and family planning disparities
Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS
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- Implementation ScienceInfectious DiseaseSocial Epidemiology
- reducing healthcare disparities among racially diverse populations with severe mental illness, advancement of women and minorities within medicine
Shabnam Peyvandi, MD
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- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsSocial Epidemiology
- Neonatal health
Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH
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- Cancer EpidemiologyImplementation ScienceSocial Epidemiology
- Health equity, patient safety, implementation science, digital health, social media, cancer survivorship, and health information technology
Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
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- BiostatisticsCancer EpidemiologyClinical Epidemiology and MethodsSocial Epidemiology
- healthcare disparities, outcomes research, prostate cancer, bladder cancer
Affiliate Faculty
Tomás J. Aragón MD, DrPH
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- Social Epidemiology
- Population health improvement, Organizational performance, Health leadership
Emeritus Faculty
Lawrence Green, DrPH, MPH
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- Social Epidemiology
- Program planning, evidence and evaluation issues in health services, public health and policy
Postdoc
Ruijia Chen, ScD
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- Epidemiology of AgingSocial Epidemiology
- Psychosocial determinants of cognitive aging, racial disparities in cognitive aging, longitudinal cognitive aging methods
Thu Nguyen, ScD, MSPH
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Fellow
- Social Epidemiology
- The impact of social factors on health across the lifespan, modifiable factors for which interventions can be designed to promote health