Faculty research interests

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: My research program includes several key interests:Characterizing malignant molecular progression of epithelial carcinogenesis in cancers associated with tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, and HPV infections (oral cancers, cervical cancers).The use of food-based interventions as implementable cancer risk-reduction strategies, with special emphasis on the bioactive phytochemicals present in black raspberries.The emerging role of bacterial cyanotoxins released during harmful algal blooms in the promotion of liver cancer in susceptible populations.Investigating the knowledge gap surrounding effective harm reduction and reducing cancer risk in firefighting personnel.My work is fundamentally translational in nature and emphasizes the integrated participation of genomic (epigenetic, SNPs), transcriptional (expression signatures), metabolic (bioactive signaling cascades), and microbiomic (host-bacterial ecosystems) landscapes

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

Research Interests: Overdose harm reduction, child maltreatment, firearm injuries, violence prevention, mixed-methods research, intersection of substance use, child maltreatment and the criminal justice system.