Faculty research interests

Research Interests: Implementation science; Traumatic brain injury; Behavioral Health; Mixed methods; Hybrid effectiveness-implementation studies and embedded designs

Research Interests: Health systems and services research and both global and local (e.g., rural) disability and rehabilitation disparities. Specific interests include geographic disparities in the access and quality of care, including in rural areas; Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatiotemporal analyses; human resources planning and development for under-serviced locations; stakeholder engagement and community-based co-design and service-delivery; patient experience and user engagement in service development.

Research Interests: Reducing cancer among different populations

Research Interests: Survival analysis, Epidemiologic methods, Stochastic processes, Phylogenetics and Causal inference

Research Interests: Tobacco control; primary prevention of chronic disease; social determinants of health, Policy, systems and environmental change; primary prevention; public health evaluation

Research Interests: Heath risks from cyanotoxin exposure (liver disease, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases); Impact of environmental exposure on microbiome and resistome; Cyanobacteria, cyanophage and toxin ecology; Water-food-climate nexus: Ecology of emerging infectious diseases; Sustainable intervention of pathogen and antimicrobial resistance spread; Wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19

Research Interests: Genetics of PTEN in Cowden and related syndromes and familial cancer, genetic alterations in the epithelial and stromal compartment of prostate adenocarcinomas, innate immunity: elucidation and modulation cancer therapy, genetics of PTEN and molecular-based patient care, reducing cervical cancer in Appalachia, breast cancer prevention through nutrition, stress, aging and wound healing

Research Interests: Infectious disease modeling, phylodynamics/phylogenetics, bioinformatics, epidemiological stochastic processes, within-host viral phylodynamics, and policy-related control strategies for emerging infectious diseases.

Research Interests: Resilience, Trauma, Healing, Community Engagement, Young People of Color, HIV Prevention, Violence Prevention, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Multi-level Interventions, Equity, Health Communication

Research Interests: Causal inference, Observational study, Matched designs for complex data structure, Sensitivity analysis for unmeasured confounding, Bayesian Modeling for causal effects, Survey sampling methodology, Small area estimation, Large population survey analysis, Statistical methods for observational studies in population health, health outcome research and social sciences