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.


Clinical Assistant Professor
Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests: Environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, gut microbiome, antibiotic resistance, water quality, wastewater, metagenomics, One Health
Molly Mills
Associate Professor
Health Services Management and Policy
Research Interests: History of Public Health in North AmericaPandemics, Disasters, and other Public Health CrisesNursing in War and Public Health CrisesWomen's Health and Perinatal HealthAddressing Racism and Health InequitiesMethods: Archival Research, Oral History, Interviews
Marian Moser Jones
Professor Emeritus
Biostatistics
Research Interests: Order and Record Statistics, Measuring Agreement, Stochastic Modeling of Biomedical Data, Biostatistical Applications.
H. N. (Raj) Nagaraja
Associate Professor
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: Health Equity, Systems Implementation of Brain Injury Aware Trauma Informed Care, Vulnerable, Traumatized Populations (Sexual & Domestic Violence Survivors, Homeless Youth), Tobacco Control & Cessation, Intersection of Violence Exposure, Mental Health, Brain Injury & Substance Use, Community-Engaged Evaluation & Research
Julianna Nemeth
Assistant Professor
Biostatistics
Research Interests: Causal inference with survival outcomes; Individualized treatment regimen estimation with survival outcomes; High-dimensional variable selection with survival outcomes; High-dimensional variable selection with measurement error; Two-stage sampling designs.
Andy Ai Ni
Chair and Professor
Epidemiology
Research Interests: sexual and reproductive health with a goal of preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and improving reproductive outcomes for women and men
Alison Norris
Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology
Epidemiology
Research Interests: Understanding the burden of surgical disease and capacity building in LMICs
Benedict Nwomeh
Assistant Professor
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: Place-based initiatives, maternal and child health, health equity
Tonni Oberly
Clinical Associate Professor
Biostatistics
Research Interests: Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Statistics, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling, Statistical Data Visualization, Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, TB, etc.), Environmental Epidemiology, Statistical methods for observational studies in population health, health outcome research and social sciences, Behavioral Medicine and Psychology, Breast Cancer Prevention
James Odei
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Undergraduate Honors Program
Health Services Management and Policy
Research Interests: Breast cancer prevention, Health disparities, U.S. health policy, Health care institutions, Women’s Health, Comparative health politics, HIV/AIDS Policy, Qualitative research methods, Comparative and historical research methods, Medical Sociology, Political Sociology, Feminist Theory
Tasleem J. Padamsee
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