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, 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
Associate Professor
Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests: Disease ecology, modeling infectious diseases, phylogenetics
Laura Pomeroy
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology
Research Interests: Environmental disasters, flooding, industrial pollution, odors, hydrogen sulfide, environmental justice, community-based participatory research, oil and gas extraction, industrial animal operations
Arbor Quist
Professor
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: Colorectal Cancer, Cancer, Uterine Cervical Cancer, Anus Cancer, Papillomavirus Infections, Mouth Cancer, Condylomata Acuminata, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
Paul L. Reiter
Professor
Biostatistics
Research Interests: Complex Stochastic Systems Theory, Molecular Biosystems Modeling, Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and in Genomics
Grzegorz A. Rempala
Associate Professor
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: sexual and reproductive health, STI/HIV prevention, reproductive justice, contraceptive use, health equity, social determinants, sexual and gender minority health, racial/ethnic minority health, adolescent health
JaNelle Ricks
Clinical Professor
Health Services Management and Policy
Research Interests: Best practices for improving quality in healthcare delivery, including: electronic health record implementation, patient safety, and strategic human resource management
Julie Robbins
Associate Professor
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: tobacco use, adolescents and young adults, health disparities
Megan E. Roberts
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