Our faculty's research interests include air pollution, environmental and occupational health, cancer, HIV/AIDS prevention, disease ecology, Bayesian inference, statistical methods for observational studies in population health, epigenetics, social determinants of health, health equity, women's health, healthcare quality metrics and tobacco control.
Faculty Research Interests
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Olorunfemi Adetona, PhD Assistant Professor |
Air Pollution, Environmental and Occupational Health, Inhalation Toxicology, Molecular Epidemiology, Environmental Risk Assessment |
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Sarah E. Anderson, PhD Professor |
understanding psychosocial influences on children's growth and development with a particular focus on childhood obesity prevention |
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Rebecca Andridge, PhD Associate Professor |
Developing and evaluating statistical methods for handling missing data and for group-randomized trials |
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Kellie J. Archer, PhD Chair and Professor |
Statistical methods for the analysis of data from high-throughput genomic assays; Discrete and ordinal response modeling; Mixture cure models; Statistical computing; Supervised learning and data mining |
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Micah Berman, JD Associate Professor; Joint Appointment, College of Law |
Tobacco control and prevention; the intersection between public health research and legal doctrine |
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Philip Binkley, MPH, MD Professor |
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Michael Bisesi, PhD Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Academic Administration and Professor, Interim Chair |
assessment (monitoring) of human exposure to and control of toxic and infectious agents; applied environmental toxicology and microbiology; and hazardous material/emergency incident recognition/response |
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Karen Dannemiller, PhD Assistant Professor |
Integration of engineering with microbiology to address emerging health challenges and environmental concerns; Phylogenetics, metagenomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics |
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Macarius Donneyong, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor |
Drug-drug interactions; The role of the social determinants of health factors on the effectiveness of prescribed medications; Medication outcomes among racial/ethnic minorities |
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Amy L. Fairchild, PhD, MPH Dean and Professor, College of Public Health |
Immigrant Health Inspection, Disease Control, Disease Surveillance and Privacy, Public Health Issues, Tobacco Control |
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Ashley Felix, PhD Associate Professor |
Cancer epidemiology; women’s health; racial disparities; molecular epidemiology; screening and early detection |
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Amy Ferketich, PhD Professor |
tobacco control: smoking cessation, tobacco use surveillance, tobacco policy, and tobacco regulatory science |
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Maria Gallo, PhD Interim Chair and Professor, Epidemiology |
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Randall Harris, MD, PhD Professor |
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Jennifer Hefner, PhD Assistant Professor |
management practices, healthcare quality metrics, clinical informatics |
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Armando Hoet, PhD, DVM Associate Professor |
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C. Tory Harper Hogan, PhD Assistant Professor |
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Darryl B. Hood, PhD Associate Professor |
Inhalation Toxicology (prenatal exposure models autism), Developmental neurobiology (somatosensory cortex), Behavioral neurobiology (development of structure-specific paradigms), Environmental and biochemical toxicology (Nitroxides, PAH’s), Dispersion modeling of PAH’s in environmental justice communities, Structural biology, protein structure and function, Environmental-exposure health assessment questionnaire development, Modeling exposures across lifetime using public health exposome approach |
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Ayaz Hyder, PhD Assistant Professor, Core Faculty, Translational Data Analytics |
Systems Science, Agent-Based Modeling, Birth Outcomes/Infant Mortality, Environmental Epidemiology, Air Pollution, Citizen Science, Opioid epidemic, Food insecurity, Smart Cities, Health Economics |
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Mira Katz, PhD Professor |
reducing cancer disparities among minority and underserved populations |
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Gail Kaye, PhD Associate Professor, Clinical Public Health, Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Programs |
childhood obesity prevention, creating healthy food environments, nutrition policies that foster healthy food environments, community based nutrition interventions |
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Eben Kenah, PhD Associate Professor |
Survival analysis, Epidemiologic methods, Stochastic processes, Phylogenetics and causal inference |
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Liz Klein, PhD, MPH Interim Chair and Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Promotion |
Tobacco control; primary prevention of chronic disease; social determinants of health, Policy, systems and environmental change; primary prevention; public health evaluation |
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Kathryn Lancaster, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor |
design, implementation, and evaluation of behavioral and multilevel interventions to reduce substance use and engage those living with HIV/HCV into the continuum of care |
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Jiyoung Lee, PhD Professor |
Heath risks from cyanotoxin exposure (liver disease, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases); Impact of environmental exposure on microbiome & 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 |
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Stanley Lemeshow, PhD Professor |
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 |
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Teresa Long, MD, MPH Special Advisor - Community Engagement and Partnership |
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Bo Lu, PhD Professor |
Causal Inference, Observational Study, Propensity Score Adjustment with complex designs, Optimal Matching, Survey sampling methodology, Small Area Estimation, Large population survey analysis, Statistical methods for observational studies in population health, health outcome research and social sciences |
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William C. Miller, MD, PhD, MPH Senior Associate Dean of Research and Professor |
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Julianna Nemeth, PhD, MA Assistant Professor |
Health Equity, Trauma-informed Health Behavior Intervention Development, 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 |
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Andy Ai Ni, PhD Assistant Professor |
High-dimensional variable selection with survival outcomes, Individualized treatment regimen estimation with survival outcomes; Outcome-dependent sampling designs; High-dimensional variable selection with measurement error |
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Alison Norris, MD, PhD Associate Professor; Joint Appointment, College of Medicine/Infectious Diseases |
sexual and reproductive health with a goal of preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and improving reproductive outcomes for women and men |
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James Odei, PhD Assistant Professor - Clinical |
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 |
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Susan Olivo-Marston, PhD, MPH Associate Professor - Clinical, Co-Director, Public Health Honors Program |
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Tasleem Padamsee, PhD Assistant Professor |
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 |
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Efthimios Parasidis, JD Professor |
Bioethics; Food Law; Health Law; Public Health |
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Michael Pennell, PhD Associate Professor |
Design and analysis of group randomized trials, first hitting time models for survival analysis, Bayesian nonparametrics, joint modeling, toxicological risk assessment |
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Laura Pomeroy, PhD Assistant Professor |
Disease ecology, modeling infectious diseases, phylogenetics |
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Mikkel Quam Assistant Professor - Practice |
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Paul L. Reiter, PhD, MPH Associate Professor |
Colorectal Cancer, Cancer, Uterine Cervical Cancer, Anus Cancer, Papillomavirus Infections, Mouth Cancer, Condylomata Acuminata, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome |
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Grzegorz A. Rempala, PhD Professor |
Complex Stochastic Systems Theory, Molecular Biosystems Modeling, Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and in Genomics |
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JaNelle Ricks, DrPH, MPA Assistant Professor |
sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS prevention, health disparities, social determinants, adolescent health, sexual and gender minority health, program evaluation |
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Julie Robbins, PhD Associate Professor - Clinical, MHA Program Director |
best practices for improving quality in healthcare delivery, including: electronic health record implementation, patient safety, and strategic human resource management |
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Megan E. Roberts, PhD Assistant Professor |
adolescent and young adult health, health disparities, and tobacco use |
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Elisabeth Dowling Root, PhD Associate Professor |
Health and medical geography; Population geography; Disease ecology; Spatial statistics; Spatial epidemiology |
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Patrick Schnell, PhD Assistant Professor |
Bayesian inference, clinical trials, treatment effect heterogeneity, simultaneous inference, and complex diseases. |
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Judith Schwartzbaum, PhD Associate Professor |
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Sharon Schweikhart, PhD Associate Professor and Interim Chair |
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Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor |
Reproductive Justice, social epidemiology, adverse birth and maternal outcomes, Black/African American families and communities |
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Eric Seiber, PhD Professor; Director of the Center for HOPES |
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Abigail Shoben, PhD Associate Professor |
Group sequential methods, longitudinal data, epidemiologic applications, clinical trials |
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Chi (Chuck) Song, PhD Assistant Professor |
Developing methods for statistical genetics and genomics and methods for meta-analysis or integrative analysis of high-throughput data |
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Min-Ae Song, PhD Assistant Professor |
Epigenetics, Biomarkers of Exposure, Biomarkers of effects, Cancer Risk Factors, Gene-Environment Interactions, Molecular Epidemiology, Tobacco, Cancer Prevention, Cancer, Molecular Carcinogenesis, and Multi-Omics Data |
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Qinghua Sun, MD, PhD Assistant Dean for Global Public Health and Professor |
Effects of particulate air pollution and tobacco smoke on human health, especially pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and obesity; Exercise and diet intervention on cardiovascular function and disease development; Climate change/global warming on major human diseases |
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Andrew Wapner, DO, MPH Assistant Professor - Clinical, Director, Center for Public Health Practice, Director, Master of Public Health Program for Experienced Professionals |
population health planning through integration of health care and public health, with a focus on social and physical environments and their impact on health status |
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Christopher M. Weghorst, PhD Professor |
Molecular mechanisms of oral carcinogenesis and prevention |
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Mark H. Weir, PhD Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer - College of Medicine, Griffith University, Core Faculty - OSU Sustainability Institute, Director - Ecology Epidemiology and Population Health Program, Infectious Disease Institute |
QMRA – quantitative microbial risk assessment; Complex systems modeling and analytics; Health effect optimization through environmental and engineering controls; Water treatment technology and policy; Uncertainty in decision analyses |
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Jeffrey Wing, PhD Assistant Professor |
Cerebrovascular disease; health disparties; prognostic models; epidemiologic methods |
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Wendy Yi Xu, PhD Associate Professor |
Health care and spending for vulnerable populations |