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
Alison Cohen, PhD
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
Mara Decker, DPH
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
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
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
Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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
Suzanna Martinez, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Lifecourse
- Social Epidemiology
- childhood obesity, sleep, physical activity, diet, food insecurity, health equity, minority health, Latino health, health disparities in higher education
Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Health disparities, race/ethnicity, pathway programs, social entrepreneurship, global health
Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- anal cancer, sexually transmitted infections, congenital syphilis
Eva Raphael, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- drug-resistant infections, community risk factors for infections, urinary tract infections, using molecular microbiology, social, and spatial epidemiology methods to address inequities in community-onset infections
Peggy Reynolds, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Lifecourse
- The role of physical/occupational environmental exposures and windows of susceptibility on cancer risk.
Ann V. Schwartz, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Lifecourse
- Diabetes, osteoporosis, bone marrow adiposity, dual x-ray absorptiometry, body composition
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
[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
Jacqueline Torres, MPH, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Social and migration-related determinants of health and aging in the US and Latin America; health effects of immigration policy across the life-course; health disparities; family dynamics and health
Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Global mental health, HIV/AIDS, adolescent health, health equity, community-engaged research, implementation science, mixed methods
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
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
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
Kristine Yaffe, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Lifecourse
- epidemiology of dementia and cognitive aging, modifiable risk factors for dementia, dementia prevention trials
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