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
Email parasidis.1@osu.edu
Phone 614-688-2103

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
Email patterson.1191@osu.edu
Phone 614-247-1780

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
Email pennell.28@osu.edu
Phone 614-247-7936

Associate Professor
Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests: Disease ecology, modeling infectious diseases, phylogenetics
Email pomeroy.26@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-2942

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
Email quist.24@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-7764

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
Email reiter.36@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-4803

Professor
Biostatistics
Research Interests: Complex Stochastic Systems Theory, Molecular Biosystems Modeling, Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and in Genomics
Email rempala.3@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-0006

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
Email ricks.13@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-4216

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
Email robbins.11@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-1428

Associate Professor
Health Behavior and Health Promotion
Research Interests: tobacco use, adolescents and young adults, health disparities
Email roberts.1558@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-4647
