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.

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
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
Professor, Joint Faculty
Health Services Management and Policy
Research Interests: Bioethics; Food Law; Health Law; Public Health
Efthimios Parasidis
Assistant Professor
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: Health Equity; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) Health; Social Determinants of Health; Cancer Prevention; Tobacco Prevention and Cessation; Tobacco Regulatory Science; Health Communications; Community Engaged Research; Implementation Science; Mixed Methods; Qualitative Methods
Joanne G. Patterson
Professor
Biostatistics
Research Interests: Design and analysis of group randomized trials, first hitting time models for survival analysis, Bayesian nonparametrics, joint modeling, toxicological risk assessment
Michael Pennell
Back to top