Faculty Experts
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Public Health
Mary S. Applegate
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
School of Public Health
Director
New York State Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Reproductive health; family planning; adolescent pregnancy; sexuality; maternal & child health; breastfeeding promotion; preventive medicine; public health
David O. Carpenter
Director
Institute for Health and Environment
Professor
Environmental Health Sciences and Biomedical Sciences
Human health effects of environmental contaminants, including metals and organic compounds.
Sridar V. Chittur
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Drug discovery; genomics; gene-expression; microarrays; flow cytometry; enzymology; high throughput technologies
Liang Chu
Associate Professor
School of Public Health
Environmental heterogeneous chemistry; surface chemistry
Sharon DeWitte
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
human osteology; paleodemography; paleopathology; paleoepidemiology; the Black Death; epidemics
Diane Dewar
Associate Professor
School of Public Health
Health economics; medical technology; aging; end-of-life care; palliative care; health policy
Mary Gallant
Chair, Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior
Aging; health promotion chronic illness management; social support; public health
Edward Hannan
Distinguished Professor
School of Public Health
Health services research; evidence-based medicine; outcomes research; cardiac surgery; angioplasty, trauma systems; carotid endarterectomy; volume-outcome relationships in health care; medical decision-making; risk-adjustment; medical errors; patient safety
Timothy Hoff
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior
Physicians; managed care; patient safety
Janine Jurkowski
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior
Health disparities/minority health; Latino health; community based public health; disability
Heather Larkin
Assistant Professor
School of Social Welfare
Substance abuse; co-occurring disorders; impact of adverse childhood experiences; homelessness; aging; meditation interventions; integrative service system responses; Integral Restorative Processes (IRP)
Kristi J. McClamroch
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
Epidemiology; sexually transmitted infections (STI); HIV; sex work; Haiti; Madagascar; the Democratic Republic of Congo
Louise-Anne McNutt
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Infectious disease epidemiology; epidemics; HIV/AIDS in developing countries; transmission of bloodborne pathogens (HIV, hepatitis); sexually transmitted diseases; intimate partner violence
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Jean Moore
Director
Center for Health Workforce Studies
New York State healthcare workforce; U.S. healthcare workforce shortages; nursing shortages; minority health workforce disparities; healthcare workforce solutions
Philip Nasca
Dean
Director of Public Health
Etiological studies of breast cancer; cancer of the female reproductive organs; childhood cancers; nursing; cancer epidemiology
Shadi S. Saleh
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior
Prescription drugs; hospital sector; health care financing; health care outcomes; pay-for-performance; substance abuse
Benjamin Shaw
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior
Aging; physical activity among elderly; smoking among elderly; alcohol use among the elderly; health during old age; early life trauma; quality of life in old age; aging in Japan; social epidemiology of aging
Hua Shi
Assistant Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Molecular and cellular biology of transcription and signal transduction; aptamer-mediated multi-pathway control in living organisms; forward engineering approach to drug discovery and development
Kendra Smith-Howard
Assistant Professor
Department of History
History of dairy farming; history of food; history of public health; history of pesticides/antibiotics in agriculture
Carol P. Stenger
Sexuality Counselor
University Counseling Center
Sexuality; sexual health; sex education; European approaches to sex education; AIDS/HIV; sexually transmitted diseases and infections; adolescent sexuality; internet pornography
Martin Tenniswood
Empire Innovation Professor
Department of Biomedical Science
Chemoprevention of prostate cancer; therapies for prostate and breast cancer; diet and prostate cancer
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JoEllen Welsh
Empire Innovation Professor
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Nutrition and cancer; hormones; vitamin D; breast cancer
Recai M. Yucel
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health
Analysis of multivariate incomplete data; multilevel models; Bayesian data analysis; computational statistics and response error problems
