Primary Faculty

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


Thomas Hoffmann, PhD, MA
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Biostatistics, Public health, Human genetics, Statistical genetics, High-dimensional data, Statistical computing, Machine learning, Image classification, Age-related hearing impairment, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer

Michelle Hsiang, MD, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria control and elimination, diagnostics, surveillance, mass drug administration, pediatric infectious diseases, clinical trials, operational research

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

Chiung-Yu Huang, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- General biostatistics methodology and its application to the biomedical sciences

Sophie Huddart, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Quality of Care, Patient Outcomes, Case Fatality, Simulation

Lauren Hunt, PhD, RN, FNP
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- hospice, palliative care, older adults, dementia, symptoms, policy, secondary dataset analysis

Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
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

Fei Jiang, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- machine learning methods; high dimensional models; functional data analysis and their applications in analyzing neurological, image, genetics data; adaptive randomization clinical trials

James Kahn, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Health economics, Epidemiology & surveillance, HIV/AIDS, Pharmacology, Substance abuse, Surgery, anesthesia & pain, Tuberculosis


Rachel King, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease

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

John Kornak, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Bayesian image analysis in Fourier Space, Bayesian reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging, statistical image analysis, Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics

Catherine Lee
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- survival analysis, competing risks, multistate models, development and evaluation of risk prediction tools

Krysia Lindan, MD, MS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Implementation Science, people with limited English proficiency, socioeconomically marginalized groups, migrants/refugees, Behavioral interventions; public health advocacy; capacity building, HIV/AIDS, STIs, IDU, female commercial sex workers

Mohsen Malekinejad, MD, DrPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Adverse childhood experiences, blood-borne infections, evidence-based medicine, evidence translation for health policy, HIV/AIDS, global health, sampling methods for hard-to-reach population, sexually transmitted infections, substance use, systematic reviews

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

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

Chuck McCulloch, PhD, MS, MA
Professor (recall)
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Implementation Science
- Biostatistics, Implementation science, Study design, Interdisciplinary research collaboration, Data Science, Longitudinal and clustered data, big data, data analysis, data visualization, machine learning, patient-reported outcome measures, International public health, P4P, Audit and feedback, mHealth

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

Ali Mirzazadeh, PhD, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS

Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor (recall)
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Implementation Science, Health Service Quality, Patient Experience, Maternal and Neonatal Health, Family Planning, Abortion and Post-Abortion Care, Children/youth, Socioeconomically marginalized groups, International (public health), Policy-making institute or agency, Education, Social marketing, Policy advocacy, Web site, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, safe delivery, Interdisciplinary research collaboration, Works-in-progress seminars, Implementation & dissemination science listservs

Meghan Morris, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Social determinants of health within persons who use drugs, including HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; HIV and HCV prevention; the influence of interpersonal factors on disease transmission; the intersection of homelessness and health among people who use drugs; qualitative and quantitative research methods including dyadic research methods.