Faculty
Name |
Contact |
Track |
Research Expertise |
Kristin Anderson, PhD, MPH |
626-8568 |
CBE |
Cancer etiology; Laboratory-based cancer epidemiology; Pancreatic cancer; Adult solid tumors |
Henry Blackburn, MD, MS |
626-9396 |
CBE |
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention and its history; Nutrition and chronic disease; Evolution and culture in mass disease; Epidemiology and prevention in public policy |
Richard Crow, MD |
626-9678 |
CBE |
Preventive cardiology programs, trials and methods; Cardiac rehabilitation and work psychology; Ambulatory ECG recording; Computer applications |
Susan Duval, PhD |
624-3392 |
CBE |
Cardiovascular and diabetes epidemiology; Biostatistical methods; Meta-analysis; Publication bias; Statistical consulting |
Darin Erickson, PhD |
626-0516 |
SBE |
Alcohol prevention and etiology; Latent variable analysis; Longitudinal and time series analysis |
John Finnegan, Jr., PhD |
624-5544 |
SBE |
Media communication and public health; Community campaigns; Media agenda building; Digital information technology and its impact on public health |
Andrew Flood, PhD |
624-2891 |
CBE/SBE |
Nutritional epidemiology; Cancer epidemiology with emphasis on colorectal cancer; Insulin resistance; IGFs and their binding proteins |
Aaron Folsom, MD, MPH |
626-8862 |
CBE |
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; Heart disease surveillance and risk factors |
Jean Forster, PHD, MPH (on sabbatical Jan 08 to Jan 09) |
626-8864 |
SBE |
Public health policy as a prevention strategy; Community-based strategies for chronic disease prevention; Tobacco policy |
Simone French, PhD |
626-8594 |
SBE |
Social and environmental influences on eating and physical activity Behaviors; Community-based strategies for eating behavior change; Adolescent nutrition and physical activity |
Peter Hannan, MStat |
624-6542 |
SBE |
Statistical: Group randomized trials, and hierarchical statistical models in general; generalized regression; imputation procedures for missing values; ROC curves, sensitivity and specificity; classification and regression tree methodology; bayesian statistical methods (I am not *practiced* in this area); structural equation models, latent variable models; directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). Substantive: accelerometry, energy balance, healthy diet, overweight risks |
Bernard Harlow, PhD, MPH |
626-6527 |
CBE/SBE |
Clinical and population-based reproductive epidemiology; the epidemiology of reproductive cancers; data collection methods; and influence of psychiatric disorders on reproductive function |
Lisa Harnack, DrPH, RD |
626-9398 |
CBE/SBE |
Nutritional epidemiology; Nutritional assessment |
Eileen Harwood, PhD |
626-1824 |
SBE |
Social epidemiology; Policy evaluation of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs |
Wendy Hellerstedt, PhD |
626-2077 |
CBE/SBE |
Birth outcomes for underserved women; adolescent reproductive health and pregnancy prevention; pregnancy intention; relationship of parity to chronic disease and birth outcomes, women's health, perinatal and reproductive health, socioeconomic status and health disparities |
Deborah Hennrikus, PhD |
626-8646 |
SBE |
Smoking cessation; Reducing environmental tobacco smoke exposure; Health education in clinical settings |
John Himes, PhD |
624-8210 |
CBE/SBE |
Child growth and nutrition; Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status; Dietary assessment; Obesity and body composition |
David Jacobs, Jr., PhD |
624-4196 |
CBE/SBE |
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; Nutritional epidemiology |
Robert Jeffery, PhD |
626-8580 |
SBE |
Health behavior change; Dietary intervention; Obesity epidemiology, treatment, and prevention |
Rhonda Jones-Webb, DrPH |
626-8866 |
SBE |
Alcohol studies; Alcohol policy as a prevention strategy; Minority health issues; behavioral epidemiology |
Harry Lando, PhD |
624-1877 |
SBE |
Global issues in tobacco reduction; Smoking cessation; Treatment of medically compromised smokers |
DeAnn Lazovich, PhD |
626-9099 |
CBE/SBE |
Cancer prevention and control; Cancer epidemiology |
Alan Lifson, MD, MPH |
626-9697 |
CBE |
HIV/AIDS; International health; Infectious disease epidemiology |
Jennifer Linde, PhD |
624-0065 |
SBE |
Obesity prevention and intervention, Weight control behaviors, Weight loss goals, Public health messages |
Russell Luepker, MD, MS |
624-6362 |
CBE/SBE |
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention; Health behavior; Community trials; Clinical trials |
Leslie Lytle, PhD, RD |
624-3518 |
SBE |
Planning and evaluating eating behavior change interventions in children; Youth health promotion research; Theories of health behavior |
Michael Miller, PhD, MS, MPE |
625-7836 |
CBE |
Statistical analysis; Genetic and epidemiological processes |
Claudia Munoz-Zanzi, MV, MPVM, PhD |
626-2849 |
CBE |
Infectious disease |
Melissa Nelson, PhD |
624-8832 |
SBE |
Environmental and behavioral determinants of excess weight gain and obesity during childhood, adolescence and young adulthood |
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH |
624-0880 |
SBE |
Adolescent health and nutrition, Obesity and eating disorder prevention, Health behavior change, Nutrition education program design and evaluation |
J. Michael Oakes, PhD |
624-6855 |
CBE/SBE |
Quantitative methods; Social epidemiology; Research ethics |
Charles Oberg, MD, MPH |
625-6616 |
CBE/SBE |
Health disparities; Childhood poverty; Health care access and finance |
James Pankow, PhD, MPH |
624-2883 |
CBE |
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; Genetic epidemiology; Diabetes epidemiology |
Mark Pereira, MPH, PhD |
624-4173 |
CBE/SBE |
Nutrition and physical activity in the prevention of obesity; Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease |
Kim Robien, PhD, RD |
625-8279 |
CBE |
Nutrition, molecular epidemiology, cancer survivorship, pharmacogenetics, evidence-based nutrition practice, medical nutrition therapy, parenteral nutrition, hematopoietic cell transplantation |
Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH |
624-0358 |
SBE |
HIV prevention research; Human sexuality; Sex offending and religious identity; Internet-based research; e-Public Health |
Pamela Schreiner, PhD |
626-9097 |
CBE |
Etiology of cardiovascular disease particularly as it relates to lipids, obesity, visceral fat accumulation and the perimenopausal transition; Osteoporosis |
John Sirard, PhD |
626-1733 |
SBE |
Assessment of physical activity; the role of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of obesity in children and adolescents |
Lyn Steffen, PhD, MPH, RD |
625-9307 |
CBE |
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology; nutritional epidemiology; surveillance of cardiovascular disease risk factors |
Mary Story, PhD, MS |
626-8801 |
SBE |
Child and adolescent nutrition, Obesity prevention, Eating behaviors, Environmental and policy change related to healthy eating |
Traci Toomey, PhD, MPH |
626-9070 |
SBE |
Policy research; Community organizing; Prevention of alcohol and tobacco-related problems; Intentional and unintentional injury prevention |
Jian-Min Yuan, PhD, MD |
625-8056 |
CBE |
Environmental and genetic factors in the etiology of cancer |
Adjunct Faculty
Name |
Contact |
Track |
Research Expertise |
Bruce Alexander, PhD, MS |
625-7934 |
CBE |
Occupational and environmental epidemiology; environmental determinants of injury, cancer, respiratory health, reproductive health; global health; application of biological markers in epidemiological research; exposure models for occupational and environmental epidemiology |
Alan Bender, PhD, DVM |
651-201-5882 |
CBE |
Occupational epidemiology, public health surveillance; public health policy |
Jeff Bender, DVM |
625-6203 |
CBE |
Antimicrobial resistance; food safety; zoonoses and emerging diseases |
Sally Bushhouse, DVM, MPH, PhD |
676-5374 |
CBE |
Cancer epidemiology and surveillance |
Timothy Church, MS, PhD |
626-1494 |
CBE |
Cancer screening, prevention, and causes; Epidemiologic study design; Cardiac disease and medical devices |
Richard Danila, PhD |
676-5116 |
CBE |
Emerging infectious diseases including foodborne and bacterial diseases; Preparedness for bioterrorism |
Marla Eisenberg, ScD, MPH |
626-2942 |
SBE |
Influences on adolescent sexual behaviors; health issues of gay, lesbian and bisexual youth; body image and weight control behaviors; teasing and bullying |
Lael Gatewood, PhD |
625-4909 |
CBE |
Health Informatics; Micropopulation; Simulation Health Services Research |
Richard Grimm, PhD, MD |
347-7756 |
CBE |
Clinical trials on hypertension, lipids, CV risk; Women's health; Complementary and alternative medicine |
Myron Gross, PhD |
624-5417 |
CBE |
Antioxidants, oxidative stress and genetic susceptibility in coronary heart disease; Genetic susceptibility and DNA repair in breast and pancreatic cancer; role of micronutrients and flavonoids in aging and disease; Bio-markers of dietary intakes. |
Craig Hedberg, PhD |
626-4757 |
CBE |
Food safety and infectious diseases |
Robert Kane, MD |
624-1185 |
CBE |
Outcomes of acute and long-term care, especially the effects of hospital and post-hospital care; epidemiology of aging; managed care; assessment; long-term care policy |
Arthur Leon, MD |
624-8271 |
CBE |
Exercise science; Exercise physiology |
George Maldonado, PhD, MSPH |
626-2104 |
CBE |
Epidemiologic methodology |
Marshall McBean, MD, Msc |
625-6175 |
CBE |
Use of HCFA data for health policy research; access to care and quality of care, particularly among elderly Americans; cancer surveillance, treatment and outcomes; diabetes epidemiology and treatment; immunization of adolescents; use of health services among the elderly and among different racial groups |
Joseph Neglia, MD, MPH |
626-2778 |
CBE |
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology |
Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH |
626-6770 |
CBE |
national leader detailing the growing concern regarding the use of biological agents as catastrophic weapons targeting civilian populations. After 9/11, served as Special Advisor to Secretary Tommy G. Thompson on issues related to bioterrorism and public health preparedness |
John Oswald, PhD, MPH |
763-438-4711 |
SBE |
Health statistics; behavioral Health Survey-Based Surveillance |
Julie Ross, PhD, MPH |
625-5437 |
CBE |
Molecular epidemiology; Childhood cancer; Adult leukemia |
Randall Singer, DVM, MPVM, PhD |
625-6271 |
CBE |
Infectious disease epidemiology; Ecologic approach to disease systems |
Logan Spector, PhD |
624-3192 |
CBE |
Etiology of childhood cancer; Design, conduct; Analysis of epidemiologic studies. |
Michelle van Ryn, PhD, MPH |
625-9105 |
SBE |
Characteristics of formal and informal social relationships as they influence the quality and success of health interventions, health behaviors, and health outcomes; provider behavior; race/ethnicity disparities in treatments received; quality of cancer care |
Beth Virnig, PhD, MPH |
624-4426 |
CBE |
Administrative data for cancer surveillance and studies of treatment patterns |
