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.

Photo	Name	Research Interests
	Olorunfemi Adetona, PhD Assistant Professor	Air Pollution, Environmental and Occupational Health, Inhalation Toxicology, Molecular Epidemiology, Environmental Risk Assessment
	Reem Aly Lecturer
	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; Mixture cure models; 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 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
	Marielle C. Brinkman Research Professor
	Karen Dannemiller, PhD Associate Professor	Integration of engineering with microbiology to address emerging health challenges and environmental concerns; Phylogenetics, metagenomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics
	Aram Dobalian, PhD, JD, MPH Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, 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
	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
	Ahmad El Hellani, PhD Assistant Professor	Environmental Health, Tobacco Products, Tobacco Emissions, Tobacco Control, Analytical Chemistry, Inhalation Toxicology, Environmental Risk Assessment
	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
	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 Interim Chair, Health Behavior and Health Promotion, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Co-Director, Undergraduate Honors Program	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 Associate Dean of Research, Chair and Professor, Epidemiology
	Randall Harris, MD, PhD Professor
	Courtney L. Hebert, MD Assistant Professor
	Jennifer Hefner, PhD Associate Professor	management practices, healthcare quality metrics, clinical informatics
	Armando Hoet, PhD, DVM Professor
	C. Tory Harper Hogan, PhD Assistant Professor
	Darryl B. Hood, PhD 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, 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
	Marian Moser Jones, PhD, MPH Associate Professor	History of Public Health in North America Pandemics, Disasters, and other Public Health Crises Nursing in War and Public Health Crises Women's Health and Perinatal Health Addressing Racism and Health Inequities Methods: Archival Research, Oral History, Interviews
	Mira Katz, PhD Professor	reducing cancer disparities among minority and underserved populations
	Gail Kaye, PhD 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
	Eben Kenah, PhD Associate Professor	Survival analysis, Epidemiologic methods, Stochastic processes, Phylogenetics and causal inference
	Liz Klein, PhD, MPH 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
	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	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
	Brandon Koch, PhD Assistant Professor	Causal inference, machine learning, variable selection, Bayesian modeling, and treatment effect heterogeneity.
	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
	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
	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 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
	Joshua Nowack Lecturer
	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
	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
	Efthimios Parasidis, JD Professor	Bioethics; Food Law; Health Law; Public Health
	Lynne Parrott Lecturer
	Electra D. Paskett, PhD Professor, Marion N. Rowley Chair in Cancer Research
	Marika Haritos Paul, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor; MHA Program Director
	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
	Laura Pomeroy, PhD Assistant Professor, Co-Director, Undergraduate Honors Program	Disease ecology, modeling infectious diseases, phylogenetics
	Mikkel Quam Assistant Professor - Practice
	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
	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	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
	Paul Rosile, PhD, MPH, RS Lecturer
	Patrick Schnell, PhD Assistant Professor	Bayesian inference, clinical trials, treatment effect heterogeneity, simultaneous inference, and complex diseases.
	Fernanda Schumacher, PhD Assistant Professor	Robust models, models for censored data, longitudinal data, EM algorithm, and scale mixture of skew-normal distributions.
	Judith Schwartzbaum, PhD Associate Professor
	Sharon Schweikhart, PhD Associate Professor
	Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, PhD, MPH Associate Professor	Reproductive Justice, social epidemiology, adverse birth and maternal outcomes, Black/African American families and communities
	Eric Seiber, PhD Professor; Director of the Center for HOPES
	Abigail Shoben, PhD Associate Professor	Group sequential methods, longitudinal data, epidemiologic applications, clinical trials
	Parvati Singh, PhD, MPA Assistant Professor	Psychiatric Epidemiology, Racial Disparities, Maternal and Child Health
	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
	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
	Matthew Wascher, PhD Assistant Professor - Practice
	Mark H. Weir, PhD Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer - College of Medicine, Griffith University, Core Faculty - Ohio State 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
	Jeffrey Wing, PhD Assistant Professor	Cerebrovascular disease; health disparties; prognostic models; epidemiologic methods
	Wendy Yi Xu, PhD Associate Professor	Health care access barriers and financial burdens for vulnerable populations

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