Faculty Research Interests
Our faculty’s research interests include air pollution, environmental and occupational health, cancer prevention, vaccine hesitancy, HIV/AIDS prevention, natural disasters, epigenetics, social determinants of health, health equity, sexual and reproductive health, health care quality, tobacco control, disease ecology, Bayesian inference, statistical methods for observational studies in population health and more.
Faculty Fellow
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: violence against children; gender-based violence; intergenerational violence transmission; polyvictimization; adolescent health; child health; quantitative methods; mixed-methods; child voice
Associate Professor
Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests: Innate immunity; Air quality; Host defense; Lipid metabolism; Health disparities
Email kymberly.gowdy@osumc.edu
Associate Professor
Health Services Management and Policy
Research Interests: management practices, clinical informatics, program evaluation, dissemination & implementation science
Email hefner.48@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-6813
Professor
Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests: Inhalation toxicology (prenatal exposure models autism), developmental neurobiology (somatosensory cortex), behavioral neurobiology (development of structure-specific paradigms), environmental and biochemical toxicology (Nitroxides, PAH’s), dispersion modeling of PAH’s in environmental justice communities, structural biology, protein structure and function, environmental-exposure health assessment questionnaire development, Modeling exposures across lifetime using public health exposome approach
Email hood.188@osu.edu
Phone 614-247-4941
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology
Research Interests: Maternal & Child health; Exposome; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Bloodborne infections; Sexually transmitted infections; Omics; Big data; Community engaged research
Email hood.214@osu.edu
Clinical Associate Professor
Epidemiology
Research Interests: Recovery strategies of minoritized populations affected by natural disasters; risk factors associated with adverse physical, mental and cognitive health in aging minoritized populations; costs and disparities associated with drowning and submersion injuries
Email hufton.3@osu.edu
Phone 614-247-5747
Associate Professor
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: Youth suicide prevention, intervention development, implementation science, universal school-based youth suicide prevention, parent-based interventions, child and adolescent depression, depression and suicide prevention in primary care
Email hughes.2087@osu.edu
Associate Professor
Core Faculty, Translational Data Analytics Institute
Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests: Systems Science, Agent-Based Modeling, Birth Outcomes/Infant Mortality, Environmental Epidemiology, Air Pollution, Citizen Science, Opioid epidemic, Food insecurity, Smart Cities, Health Economics
Email hyder.22@osu.edu
Phone 614-247-4936
Assistant Professor - Provost's Fellow
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: Implementation science; Traumatic brain injury; Behavioral Health; Mixed methods; Hybrid effectiveness-implementation studies and embedded designs
Email Kathryn.Hyzak@osumc.edu
Professor
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: Reducing cancer among different populations
Email katz.114@osu.edu
Phone 614-293-6603
