Faculty Research Interests

Armstrong, Donna Associate Professor
Community-level predictors of premature heart disease mortality rates. Social class and race and premature heart disease mortality. Community planning including jobs and skills development and public transit systems to reduce the risk of coronary mortality in low income population.

Backenson, Bryon Assistant Professor

Baptiste, Mark Assistant Professor
Cancer epidemiology including research on cholesterol, environmental risk factors, personal and lifestyle risk factors, neuroblastoma, cervical cancer and cancer control.

Bell, Erin Assistant Professor
Occupational and environmental epidemiology, health effects of pesticides, reproductive epidemiology, including birth defects, cancer epidemiology, the use of GIS techniques for exposure assessment.

Birkhead, Gus Associate Professor
Communicable disease epidemiology; epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases, public health surveillance, HIV/AIDS prevention.

Boscoe, Francis Assistant Professor spatial analysis, applications of geographic information systems in public health, cancer epidemiology, and data collection and quality in central disease registries. He is currently working on a geographic study of sunlight exposure and its beneficial association with non-skin cancers.

Carrascal, Alvaro Assistant Professor Acute HIV infection, smoking and HIV, morbidity and mortality among HIV infected populations. International health.
Coles, Bruce Assistant Professor Communicable disease epidemiology; epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases

DeHovitz, Jack Adjunct Professor
Natural history of HIV infection in women; epidemiology of HIV infection in Central/Eastern Europe.

Dennison, Barbara

Druschel, Charlotte Assistant Professor
Perinatal epidemiology; congenital malformation research, congenital malformation registry; environmental epidemiology.

Eidson, Millicent Associate Professor
Zoonotic diseases, rabies, West Nile Virus, geographic information systems (GIS), infectious disease forecasting.

Farrell, Louise Lecturer

Fisher, Brian Assistant Professor
Community approaches to promote active living and healthy lifestyles. Worksite-based resources supporting healthy lifestyles.

Fitzgerald, Edward Professor
Adverse health effects of environmental and occupational exposures to toxic agents, particularly polychlorinated hydrocarbons; perinatal epidemiology; psychosocial epidemiology.

Freudenheim, Jo Adjunct Professor

Gage, Timothy Professor
Hazards modeling of mortality patterns and survival analysis; genetic epidemiology; quantitative methods. Dr. Gage is also affiliated with the Department of Anthropology. To learn more about his work in the field of Anthropology, click here

Gensburg, Lenore Assistant Professor
Adverse health effects of environmental and occupational exposures to toxic agents, Love Canal Follow-Up Health Study.

Grady, Sue Adjunct Assistant Professor
Medical geography and GIS applications in epidemiology; health disparities research, including racial/ethnic disparities in low birthweight; multilevel modeling; international health

Guda, Chittibabu Assistant Professor
Developing bioinformatics tools to analyze and extract useful knowledge from biological datasets. Primary research areas include developing prediction methods for protein subcellular localization, domain-domain interactions in proteins and determining the subcellular topology of disease-associated proteins

Hosler, Akiko Assistant Professor
Diabetes and chronic disease epidemiology, effects of socio-environmental factors on health, survey research methods, and applied GIS.

Hwang, Syni-an Assistant Professor
Application of statistics in expert systems; data analysis; modeling; multivariate analysis; sampling technique and theory; survival analysis.

Kacica, Marilyn Clinical Associate Prof

Kramer, Laura Associate Professor

Kuznetsov, Igor Assistant Professor
Bioinformatics. Application of computational and statistical methods to problems in genomics and proteomics

Lazariu, Victoria Assistant Professor

Lessner, Larry Assistant Professor
Point Processes, Application of Marked Poisson Processes, Survival Analysis, The Generalized Linear Model, Analysis of AIDS Surveillance Data

Lewis-Michl, Betsy Assistant Professor

Lin, Shao Assistant Professor
Reproductive epidemiology, including birth defects, prematurity, low birthweight and fertility; paternal lead exposure and adverse reproductive outcomes; asthma and air pollution, reproductive health among nurses.

Mahoney, Martin Adjunct Associate Prof.

Marshall, Betsy Adjunct Assistant Prof.

Mauer, Matt Assistant Professor
Occupational and environmental health, health effects in World Trade Center response workers, health effects related to the built environment and open spaces

McClamroch, Kristi Assistant Professor
Quantitative methods, sexually transmitted infections including HIV, decision-making, sex workers in developing settings

McLaughlin, Colleen Assistant Professor

McNutt, Louise-Anne Associate Professor
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Violence Prevention and Health Effects Related to Violence Epidemiologic Methods.

Michalek, Arthur Adjunct Associate Prof.
Cancer education; cancer epidemiology and screening; Native American studies; special populations research.

Morse, Dale Professor
A spectrum of emerging infections including foodborne diseases, influenza, tuberculosis, AIDS, and general areas of surveillance, workforce development and international health.

Moslehi, Roxana Assistant Professor
Genetic and Epidemiologic Studies of Cancer and Cancer Precursors

Nasca, Phil Professor
Epidemiology of breast and female reproductive system tumors and childhood neoplasia; cancer control research.

Parsons, Donald Adjunct Professor

Pruzek, Bob Professor
Measurement, psychometric methods, research design and especially multivariate analysis and regression.

Reilly, Andrew Assistant Professor

Schell, Larry Professor
Reproductive epidemiology, human growth and development; biological impact of urban environments; Native Americans: anthropometric and genetic variation. Dr. Schell is also affiliated with the Department of Anthropology. To find out more about his work in Anthropology.

Schulte, Elaine Assistant Professor
Immunization: physician practices and missed opportunities; lead poisoning: prevention, community education, management, treatment and long-term follow-up.

Schymura, Maria Assistant Professor
Cancer epidemiology; screening for breast cancer; time trends in cancer incidence; epidemiologic methods.

Smith, Lou Assistant Professor
HIV/AIDS epidemiology, perinatal transmission of HIV, HIV incidence surveillance, hepatitis C seroprevalence.

Smith, Perry Assistant Professor
AIDS/HIV epidemiology; AIDS case surveillance; HIV seroprevalence and seroincidence studies; health care worker HIV transmission.

Spadola, Mary Adjunct Lecturer
Training various clinical research industry personnel on the conduct of clinical trials and responsibilities in accoordance with applicable regulations and buidelines

Stephens, P. Clay Assistant Professor
HIV/AIDS, STD's Hepatidities and TB, Intervention and Care, Community Involvment and Communtiy-Based Research: Ethics and Study Design, Harm Reduction as a route to behavior change.

Stratton, Howard Professor
Measurement error models, mixture mortality models, selection bias corrections, hidden marker chains.

Stricof, Rachel Assistant Professor
Healthcare Epidemiology, Tuberculosis preventionand control, Infection prevention and control, communicable disease control

Strogatz, David Associate Professor/Chair
Etiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease, stroke and the risk factors for these diseases; socioeconomic and racial comparisons in the occurrence of disease; applications of epidemiology in the evaluation of public health.

Talbot, Thomas Assistant Professor

Therriault, Gene Adjunct Assistant Prof.

Triner, Wayne Clinical Associate Prof
Pain management, paitient satisfaction and patient expectations as related to the emergency department. Evaluating population attitudes associated with emergency waiver of consent studies. A study under development is related to novel interventions of geriatric trauma patients and their impact on long-term mortality.

Wade, Nancy Adjunct Associate Prof

Wallace, Barbara Assistant Professor
Infectious disease epidemiology; communicable disease outbreak investigations; public health preparedness planning.

Westphal, Bob Associate Professor
Bioterrorism Preparedness; Nonproliferation/Counterproliferation Biological Weapons

White, Dennis Associate Professor
Vector-borne zoonotic and human diseases, ecology, vector biology and environmental assessment.

Wilkinson, Gregg Adjunct Professor

Wu, Chuntao Assistant Professor
Evaluation of treatments of cardiovascular disease, clinical epidemiology.

Yucel, Recai M. Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Analysis of missing and multilevel data, Bayesian data analysis, computational algorithms and software development, methods for response errors, observational data analysis and methodological issues in public health research and prevention research.

Zdeb, Mike Assistant Professor
Reproductive epidemiology, including maternal mortality, cesarean childbirth, infant mortality; computer applications in epidemiology, including the management and use of large data bases, computerized mapping; validity and confidentiality issues regarding the use of third-party databases

Zurbenko, Igor Professor
Multivariate methods in Statistics, Time series, Geographich data analysis, parametric and nonparametric approach. Analysis of real data in Time and Space.