Primary Faculty
Alison Cohen, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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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
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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
Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Social 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
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- Social Epidemiology
- Computational epidemiology, health disparities, natural language processing, social media, structural racism, social determinants of health, digital interventions, digital phenotyping, algorithmic bias, societal health
Suzanna Martinez, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Lifecourse
- Social Epidemiology
- The interconnected relationship between sleep, physical activity and diet and as it relates to obesity and cardiometabolic health; food insecurity in higher education; food insecurity as it relates to dementia risk; health equity; minority health; Latino health
Nooshin Razani, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Social Epidemiology
- Pediatric mental health, family and community health, access to greenspace, outdoor play, pediatric resilience
Samira Soleimanpour, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Social Epidemiology
- school health, child and adolescent health, health equity, child and adolescent mental health, program and policy evaluation, community-based participatory research
Dara Torgerson, PhD
Associate Professor
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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
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
Jennifer Yarger, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- sexual and reproductive health, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, urinary tract infections, adolescent and young adult health, health equity, access to care, telehealth, health insurance, health education, health literacy, program and policy evaluation
Secondary Faculty
Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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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
Christine Dehlendorf, MD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Implementation Science
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- contraceptive counseling and family planning disparities
Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Social Epidemiology
- reducing healthcare disparities among racially diverse populations with severe mental illness, advancement of women and minorities within medicine
Shabnam Peyvandi, MD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Social Epidemiology
- Neonatal health
Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Implementation Science
- Social Epidemiology
- Health equity, patient safety, implementation science, digital health, social media, cancer survivorship, and health information technology
Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Social Epidemiology
- healthcare disparities, outcomes research, prostate cancer, bladder cancer
Affiliate Faculty
Tomás J. Aragón MD, DrPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Social Epidemiology
- Population health improvement, Organizational performance, Health leadership
Emeritus Faculty
Lawrence Green, DrPH, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Social Epidemiology
- Program planning, evidence and evaluation issues in health services, public health and policy
Postdoc
Ruijia Chen, ScD
Postdoc
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Social Epidemiology
- Psychosocial determinants of cognitive aging, racial disparities in cognitive aging, longitudinal cognitive aging methods
Thu Nguyen, ScD, MSPH
Fellow
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Research Area(s):
- Social Epidemiology
- The impact of social factors on health across the lifespan, modifiable factors for which interventions can be designed to promote health