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 Associate Professor |
Air Pollution, Environmental and Occupational Health, Inhalation Toxicology, Molecular Epidemiology, Environmental Risk Assessment |
Reem Aly Lecturer |
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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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Gia Barboza-Salerno, JD, PhD Assistant Professor, joint appointment, College of Social Work |
Drug overdose prevention; Child maltreatment/family violence; Advanced statistical modeling; Spatial analysis; Scholarly writing (publications); Intersection of child welfare and legal system |
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Micah Berman, JD Associate Professor; Joint Appointment, College of Law |
Public Health Law and Policy; Health Care Law and Policy; Tobacco Policy; Global Public Health |
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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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Marielle C. Brinkman Research Professor |
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Karen Dannemiller, PhD Associate Professor |
Integration of engineering with microbiology to address emerging health challenges and environmental concerns; Phylogenetics, metagenomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics |
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Aram Dobalian, PhD, JD, MPH Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Professor and Division Chair |
Natural and manmade disasters, emergencies, and other crises; Health services research: Access and quality of health care; Health policy and health reform |
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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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Ahmad El Hellani, PhD Assistant Professor |
Environmental Health, Tobacco Products, Tobacco Emissions, Tobacco Control, Analytical Chemistry, Inhalation Toxicology, Environmental Risk Assessment |
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Aldenise Ewing, PhD, MPH, CPH Assistant Professor |
Cancer epidemiology; screening and early detection; dissemination and implementation science; community engaged research; racial disparities; recreational sport athletes |
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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, Co-Director, Undergraduate Honors Program |
Cancer epidemiology; women’s health; racial disparities; molecular epidemiology; screening and early detection |
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Amy Ferketich, PhD Professor, Interim Co-Chair |
tobacco control: smoking cessation, tobacco use surveillance, tobacco policy, and tobacco regulatory science |
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Maria Gallo, PhD Associate Dean of Research, Professor |
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Randall Harris, MD, PhD Professor |
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Courtney L. Hebert, MD Associate Professor |
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Jennifer Hefner, PhD Associate Professor |
management practices, clinical informatics, program evaluation, dissemination & implementation science |
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Armando Hoet, PhD, DVM Professor |
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C. Tory Harper Hogan, PhD Assistant Professor |
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Darryl B. Hood, PhD Dean’s Fellow for Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Excellence, 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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Amie Hufton Associate Professor - Practice |
Recovery strategies of minoritized populations affected by natural disasters; risk factors associated with adverse physical, mental and cognitive health in aging minoritized populations; costs and disparities associated with drowning and submersion injuries |
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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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Marian Moser Jones, PhD, MPH Associate Professor |
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Mira Katz, PhD Professor |
reducing cancer disparities among minority and underserved populations |
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Gail Kaye, PhD Professor, Clinical Public Health, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Assessment |
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 Chair and Professor |
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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Thomas J. Knobloch, M.S., Ph.D. Associate Professor – Practice, Comprehensive Cancer Center – Molecular Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program, Center for Advanced Function Foods & Entrepreneurship – Food Innovation Center, OSU COVID19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Team (CICTT) |
My research program includes several key interests: 1. Characterizing malignant molecular progression of epithelial carcinogenesis in cancers associated with tobacco smoking, alcohol consumtion, and HPV infections (oral cancers, cervical cancers). 2. The use of food-based interventions as implementable cancer risk-reduction strategies, with special emphasis on the bioactive phytochemicals present in black raspberries. 3. The emerging role of bacterial cyanotoxins released during harmful algal blooms in the promotion of liver cancer in susceptible populations. 4. Investigating the knowledge gap surrounding effective harm reduction and reducing cancer risk in firefighting personnel. My work is fundamentally translational in nature and emphasizes the integrated participation of genomic (epigenetic, SNPs), transcriptional (expression signatures), metabolic (bioactive signaling cascades), and microbiomic (host-bacterial ecosystems) landscapes |
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Brandon Koch, PhD Assistant Professor |
Causal inference, machine learning, variable selection, Bayesian modeling, and treatment effect heterogeneity. |
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Kathryn Lancaster, PhD, MPH Associate 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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Ashleigh LoVette, PhD Assistant Professor |
Resilience, Trauma, Healing, Community Engagement, Young People of Color, HIV Prevention, Violence Prevention, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Multi-level Interventions, Equity, Health Communication |
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Bo Lu, PhD Professor |
Causal inference, Observational study, Matched designs for complex data structure, Sensitivity analysis for unmeasured confounding, Bayesian Modeling for causal effects, 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 Professor |
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Saira Nawaz, PhD, MPH Assistant 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 |
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; Outcome-dependent sampling designs; |
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Abigail Norris Turner, PhD Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Inclusive Excellence, Professor |
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Alison Norris, MD, PhD Associate Professor; Joint Appointment, College of Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Interim Co-Chair |
sexual and reproductive health with a goal of preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and improving reproductive outcomes for women and men |
Joshua Nowack Lecturer |
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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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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 |
Lynne Parrott Lecturer |
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Electra D. Paskett, PhD Professor, Marion N. Rowley Chair in Cancer Research |
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Joanne G. Patterson, PhD, MPH, MSW Assistant Professor |
Health Equity; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health; Social Determinants of Health; Cancer Prevention; Tobacco Prevention and Cessation; Tobacco Regulatory Science; Health Communications; Community Engaged Research; Implementation Science |
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Marika Haritos Paul, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor; MHA Program Director |
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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, Co-Director, Undergraduate Honors Program |
Disease ecology, modeling infectious diseases, phylogenetics |
Mikkel Quam Assistant Professor - Practice |
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Paul L. Reiter, PhD, MPH 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 |
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 |
tobacco use, adolescents and young adults, health disparities |
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Paul Rosile, PhD, MPH, REHS Associate Professor of Public Health Practice |
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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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Fernanda Schumacher, PhD Assistant Professor |
Robust models, models for censored data, longitudinal data, EM algorithm, and scale mixture of skew-normal distributions. |
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Sharon Schweikhart, PhD Associate Professor |
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Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, PhD, MPH Associate 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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Parvati Singh, PhD, MPA Assistant Professor |
Psychiatric Epidemiology, Racial Disparities, Maternal and Child Health |
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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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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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Matthew Wascher, PhD Assistant Professor - Practice |
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Mark H. Weir, PhD Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Core Faculty - Ohio State Sustainability Institute, Senior Lecturer - College of Medicine, Griffith University, Director - Ecology Epidemiology and Population Health Program, Infectious Disease Institute |
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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 access barriers and financial burdens for vulnerable populations |