Faculty Research Interests

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.

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	Olorunfemi Adetona, PhD Assistant Professor	Air Pollution, Environmental and Occupational Health, Inhalation Toxicology, Molecular Epidemiology, Environmental Risk Assessment
	Sarah E. Anderson, PhD Professor	understanding psychosocial influences on children's growth and development with a particular focus on childhood obesity prevention
	Rebecca Andridge, PhD Associate Professor	Developing and evaluating statistical methods for handling missing data and for group-randomized trials
	Kellie J. Archer, PhD Chair and Professor	Statistical methods for the analysis of data from high-throughput genomic assays, Discrete and ordinal response modeling, Statistical computing, Supervised learning and data mining
	Micah Berman, JD Associate Professor; Joint Appointment, College of Law	Tobacco control and prevention; the intersection between public health research and legal doctrine
	Philip Binkley, MPH, MD Professor
	Michael Bisesi, PhD Sr. Associate Dean of Academic Affairs 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
	Karen Dannemiller, PhD Assistant Professor	Integration of engineering with microbiology to address emerging health challenges and environmental concerns Phylogenetics, metagenomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics
	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
	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
	Ashley Felix, PhD Associate Professor	Cancer epidemiology; women’s health; racial disparities; molecular epidemiology; screening and early detection
	Amy Ferketich, PhD Professor	tobacco control: smoking cessation, tobacco use surveillance, tobacco policy, and tobacco regulatory science
	Maria Gallo, PhD Interim Chair and Professor, Epidemiology
	Randall Harris, MD, PhD Professor
	Jennifer Hefner, PhD Assistant Professor	management practices, healthcare quality metrics, clinical informatics
	Armando Hoet, PhD, DVM Associate Professor
	C. Tory Harper Hogan, PhD Assistant Professor
	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
	Ayaz Hyder, PhD Assistant Professor, Affiliated 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
	Mira Katz, PhD Professor	reducing cancer disparities among minority and underserved populations
	Gail Kaye, PhD Associate Professor, Clinical Public Health, Director, Undergraduate Programs	childhood obesity prevention, creating healthy food environments, nutrition policies that foster healthy food environments, community based nutrition interventions
	Eben Kenah, PhD Associate Professor	Survival analysis, Epidemiologic methods, Stochastic processes, Phylogenetics and causal inference
	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
	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 Current funded research: Principal Investigator, K01 DA048174: The role of injection partnerships and preferences for reducing HCV risk: Giving a voice to young women in rural Appalachia Administrative Principal Investigator; MPIs: Korthuis/Young, 1U01TR002631: Peer-based Retention Of people who Use Drugs in Rural Research (PROUD-R2) Co-Investigator, MPIs: Go/Miller; R01DA047876: Scaling up HPTN 074: A Cluster Randomized Implementation Trial of an Evidence-Based Intervention for Antiretroviral Therapy for PWID in Vietnam Co-Investigator, PI: Bunger; R34DA046913: Collaborating to implement cross-system interventions in child welfare and substance use
	Jiyoung Lee, PhD Professor	- Cyanotoxin exposure and health risks, - Cyanobacteria, cyanophage, and toxin ecology, - Microbiome & resistome in environments and hosts, - Food-water-climate nexus & emerging infectious diseases, - Zoonotic pathogens: transmission dynamics between domains and human health, - Sustainable intervention of pathogen and antibiotic resistance spread, - Linkage between public health and ecosystem health, - Urban water microbiology, - Microbial source tracking
	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
	Teresa Long, MD, MPH Special Advisor - Community Engagement and Partnership
	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
	William C. Miller, MD, PhD, MPH Senior Associate Dean of Research and Professor
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Susan Olivo-Marston, PhD, MPH Associate Professor - Clinical, Co-Director Public Health Honors Program	My research focuses on using epidemiologic and animal models to investigate how cancer risk is modified by lifestyle. I am particularly interested in the effects of environmental exposures and dietary modifications on cancer risk. More specifically, I am interested in how early life exposures to these factors impacts adult cancer risk. My research uses population-based studies and animal models with the goal of moving between these two disciplines. Much of my research has focused on the impact of early nutrition and obesity on adult cancer risk, specifically breast and colon cancer. Another area of my research is on the impact of childhood secondhand smoke exposure on adult cancer risk and nicotine dependence. More recently, we have started research focusing on how occupational exposures among firefighters impacts cancer risk.
	Tasleem Padamsee, PhD Assistant Professor	HIV/AIDS Breast cancer prevention U.S. health policy Health care institutions Health disparities Women's health Comparative health politics Qualitative research methods Comparative and historical research methods
	Efthimios Parasidis, JD Professor	Bioethics Food Law Health Law Public Health
	Electra D. Paskett, PhD Marion N. Rowley Professor of Cancer Research, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine	Cancer, Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Uterine Cervical Cancer, Adenoma, Polyps, Lymphedema, Fatigue, Endometrial Cancer
	Michael Pennell, PhD Associate Professor	Design and analysis of group randomized trials, first hitting time models for survival analysis, Bayesian nonparametrics, toxicological risk assessment
	Laura Pomeroy, PhD Assistant Professor	Disease ecology, modeling infectious diseases, phylogenetics
	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
	Grzegorz A. Rempala, PhD Professor	Complex Stochastic Systems Theory, Molecular Biosystems Modeling, Mathematical and Statistical Methods in Epidemiology and in Genomics
	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
	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
	Megan E. Roberts, PhD Assistant Professor	adolescent and young adult health, health disparities, and tobacco use
	Elisabeth Dowling Root, PhD Associate Professor	Health and medical geography Population geography Disease ecology Spatial statistics Spatial epidemiology
	Patrick Schnell, PhD Assistant Professor	Bayesian inference, clinical trials, treatment effect heterogeneity, simultaneous inference, and complex diseases.
	Judith Schwartzbaum, PhD Associate Professor
	Sharon Schweikhart, PhD Associate Professor and Interim Chair
	Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor	Reproductive Justice, social determinants of health, adverse birth outcomes, minority health, epidemiology methods
	Eric Seiber, PhD Professor; Director of the Center for HOPES
	Abigail Shoben, PhD Associate Professor	Group sequential methods, longitudinal data, epidemiologic applications, clinical trials
	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
	Min-Ae Song, PhD Assistant Professor - Practice	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
	Kurt Stevenson, MPH, MD Professor
	Qinghua Sun, MD, PhD Assistant Dean for Global Public Health and Professor	1. Effects of particulate air pollution and tobacco smoke on human health, especially pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and obesity 2. Exercise and diet intervention on cardiovascular function and disease development 3. Climate change/global warming on major human diseases
	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
	Christopher M. Weghorst, PhD Professor	Molecular mechanisms of oral carcinogenesis and prevention
	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
	Thomas Wickizer, PhD Stephen F. Loebs Professor
	Jeffrey Wing, PhD Assistant Professor	Cerebrovascular disease; health disparties; prognostic models; epidemiologic methods
	Wendy Yi Xu, PhD Associate Professor	Health care and spending for vulnerable populations

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