Primary Faculty
Salma Shariff-Marco, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Understanding the role of social determinants of health in shaping and perpetuating health disparities, how neighborhood characteristics (e.g., social, built, and physical environment attributes) and geographic variation may shape cancer-related health behaviors and outcomes across the cancer continuum
Jennifer L. Smith, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Understanding the impact of diagnostic testing on important patient outcomes and understanding the difference in access to different tests and variance in accuracy of these tests, the risk of cancer associated with incidental findings identified on ultrasound and CT imaging, and assessing patterns of radiation from diagnostic imaging
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
Catherine Ines Tcheandjieu Gueliatcha, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Global Health
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
Jacqueline Torres, MPH, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
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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
Erin Van Blarigan, ScD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Innovative study designs to optimize remotely delivered behavioral interventions (e.g., MOST framework, adaptive trials); digital health; cancer survivorship; nutrition; physical activity; nutritional epidemiology
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
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
Fan Xia, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- developing statistical methods in causal inference; causal mediation analysis; cluster randomized trials/stepped wedge trials to solve health research problems, including Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's related disorders, HIV, and COVID-19.
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
Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Global Health
Secondary Faculty
Nisha Acharya, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- design and implementation of clinical trials to determine the optimal treatment for uveitis and ocular inflammatory siseases
Deborah Barnes, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Implementation Science
- Older adults, persons with physical disability, persons with mental illness, cognitive impairment/dementia, cognitive function
Douglas C. Bauer, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- The etiology, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis and other skeletal disorders, clinical biomarkers, and thyroid dysfunction
Stephen Bent, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of herbal remedies and dietary supplements
John Boscardin, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology of Aging
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
Susan Buchbinder, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- Developing, evaluating, and implementing strategies likely to have the greatest impact in preventing new HIV infections
Adithya Cattamanchi, MD, MAS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Tuberculosis, Lung Disease, Health Disparities, Implementation Science
Jing Cheng, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Statistical methods for complex problems in randomized trials and observational studies, dentistry and oral diseases, biomedicine, cancer, infectious diseases, pharmacogenomics, nursing, and public policy research.
Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Prostate and renal cancer management