

Erin Ables
Research AssociateData Manager/Analyst II
Scholarly Interests
- Data Analysis
- Research Methodology
- Program Evaluation

Jon Agley
Associate ProfessorDeputy Director of Research, Prevention Insights
Scholarly Interests
- Substance Use and Comorbidity
- Mental Health
- Implementation Science
- Program Evaluation
- Meta-Science (e.g., trust, methodology)

Scholarly Interests
- Food systems and nutrition security
- Hydration and health
- Pregnancy, fetal, and child health
- Micronutrient deficiencies (in particular, iron)
- Maternal and pediatric obesity

Scholarly Interests
- Computational public health
- Mathematical epidemiology
- Infectious disease epidemiology

Cynthia Herrera Alley
Department Administrator and Program Manager
David Allison
DeanDistinguished Professor
Provost Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Obesity, energetics, nutrition
- Longevity, lifespan, and aging
- Statistical methods
- Causal inference
- Clinical trials
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and integrity

Jared Allsop
Clinical Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Recreational Therapy
- Social effects
- Summer camp
- Chronic illness
- Disability
- Active Learning
- Pedagogy

Scholarly Interests
- Non-profit management as it pertains to membership organizations
- Adolescent substance use disorder prevention
- Coordinated school health



Scholarly Interests
- Air pollutant exposure (especially UFP and PM2.5), inflammation, oxidative
- Epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious diseases
- Food insecurity, health, and health care
- Health challenges of Latinos/Hispanics, other ethnic minority groups, and immigrants
- Global health



Scholarly Interests
- Mechanisms of bacterial antibiotic resistance
- Therapeutic foods
- Characterization of bacterial strains as probiotics
- Influence of various factors on the gut microbiota

Bruce Bare
Risk Management and Emergency Preparedness Specialist
Scholarly Interests
- Community health improvement plans
- Coalition development
- Community engagement
- Public health partnerships


Charles Beeker
Clinical ProfessorDirector, Center for Underwater Science
Scholarly Interests
- Scientific Diver training
- Protection of underwater cultural and associated biological resources
- Shipwrecks as Marine Protected Areas
- Underwater Archaeology

James Belisle
Associate Professor Emeritus
Mariah Benham
Scholarly Interests
- Survey Statistics
- Program Evaluation
- Gender Representation in Children's Media
- Community Development and Engagement

Aurelian Bidulescu
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Risk assessment/stratification in large cohorts
- Predictive models and biomarkers for cardio-metabolic conditions/diseases
- Genetic epidemiology with emphasis on genome wide and epigenome-related association studies
- Global health and health disparities

Scholarly Interests
- Applied health science
- Divorce
- Interpersonal relationships


Scholarly Interests
- Motor control
- Sensorimotor learning
- Multisensory processing
- Neurophysiology
- Brain stimulation



Zayn Boustani
Clinical Research Assistant

James Brown
Associate Professor Emeritus

Xiana Bueno
Assistant Research Scientist
Jacqueline Burnell
Research Tech
Donald Burns
Associate Professor Emeritus
Scholarly Interests
- Implementing these policies
- Organization, national, and global food policies

Beyza Buyuker
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Abortion attitudes
- Qualitative and quantitative sexual and reproductive health research

Kevin K. Byon
ProfessorDirector of the Sport Marketing & Management Program
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Marketing
- Sport Consumer Behavior
- Sport Tourism
- Measurement/Statistics


Sara Campbell
Program Management Specialist, AEGIS Study
Scholarly Interests
- Electronic Health Records
- Population Health
- Substance Use and Addiction
- Racial Disparities and Health
- Maternal and Child Health

Scholarly Interests
- Incarceration and Health
- Indigenous Health
- Indigenous Determinants of Health
- Social and Structural Determinants of Health
- Health Equity
- Community Engagement and Community Based Participatory Research
- Study Design
- Physical Activity Epidemiology

Scholarly Interests
- Indigenous Health
- Tribal Sovereignty
- Health and Healthcare while Incarcerated
- Systems Change
- Social and Structural Determinants of Health
- Community Based Participatory Research
- Legal Epidemiology

Drew Capone
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Enteric pathogens
- Fecal waste streams for public health surveillance
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment
- Environmental health microbiology
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

Stephen Carter
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Therapeutic utility of hypoxia-/heat-therapy
- Gut microbiota and exercise training
- Exercise-oncology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology

Scholarly Interests
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Gender-based violence


Kaitlyn Celis
Membership Services Manager, American School Health Association

Scholarly Interests
- Altitude training
- Hypoxia
- Exercise performance of elite athletes
- Cardiopulmonary limitations to exercise performance

Olivia Charlotte Robertson
Postdoctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Maternal-pediatric obesity & metabolic health
- Prenatal Substance Use
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Behavior Genetics
- Causal Inference
- Longitudinal Modeling
- Biomarkers & Stress

Suvo Chatterjee
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Maternal and fetal health
- Bioinformatics
- Bayesian Methods
- Functional data analysis
- Genetic epidemiology
- Statistical genomics

Scholarly Interests
- Climate Change Impacts on Health
- Vector-Borne, Zoonotic and Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Insect Vector Ecology
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Quantitative Modeling

Scholarly Interests
- Social impacts of tourism
- Hospitality and tourism marketing
- Sustainability in hospitality and tourism

Xiwei Chen
Research AssociateBiostatistician I
Scholarly Interests
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Survival analysis
- Machine learning
- High-dimensional data analysis
- Statistical consulting and Collaboration

Scholarly Interests
- Mental health and well-being
- Lifespan development
- Motivational development

Scholarly Interests
- Pace of Aging
- Anthropogenic Disturbances
- Health & Aging

Richard Cleland
Adjunct Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Deceptive Advertising of Health-Related Products
- Regulation of the Marketing of Health-Related Products
- Substantiation of Health Claims


Paul Coates
Adjunct ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Genetic Disorders of Human Lipoprotein Metabolism
- Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation

Scholarly Interests
- Youth Sport Travel
- Youth Sport Management
- Experimental Learning Techniques

Scholarly Interests
- Data visualization
- High Performance Computing
- R and Python programming
- Lasso regression, Sparse Group Lasso
- High Dimensional Data

Scholarly Interests
- Travel participation of people living with spinal cord injury
- Travel experience of people with disabilities and the elderly


Scholarly Interests
- Health Disparities
- Exposure Assessment
- Air Quality

David Compton
Professor Emeritus
Keema Cooper

Scholarly Interests
- Law
- Health
- Policy
- Service
- Internship
- AmeriCorps


Scholarly Interests
- Pedagogy
- Students
- Curriculum
- School health

Scholarly Interests
- Sociology
- Quantitative methods

Scholarly Interests
- Applied Time Series Analysis
- Tobacco and Nicotine Research
- Data Analysis
- Computational Statistics
- Biostatistics

Jesus Dapena
Professor Emeritus
Scholarly Interests
- Obesity
- Gender differences in dietary responses to stress
- Motivations for eating
- Biobehavioral and environmental determinants of food choice

Amaury de Siqueira
Assistant Dean for Education and Strategic Innovation
Scholarly Interests
- Environmental justice
- Interdisciplinary health sciences
- Health impact assessments
- Children's environmental health
- Childhood lead poisoning prevention


Mallori DeSalle
Program Management SpecialistSBIRT Program Manager
Scholarly Interests
- Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in primary care
- Use of motivational Interviewing in healthcare
- Dissemination of evidence-based strategies

Mario Di Salvo
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- New methodologies to regulate chemical safety regulation

Stephanie Dickinson
Academic SpecialistExecutive Director, Biostatistics Consulting Center
Scholarly Interests
- Statistical Consulting
- Research design
- Clinical Trials
- Project management
- Grant proposal preparation
- Rigor, Reproducibility, Transparency (RRT)
- Technical communication
- Linear mixed models


Carrie Docherty
Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic AffairsProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Ankle instability
- Health related quality of life
- Proprioception and neuromuscular control




Heather Eastman-Mueller
Clinical Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Sex education and curriculum development
- College students knowledge, attitudes, behaviors
- Gender identity and expression
- Sexual and reproductive health promotion

Kate Eddens
Associate Research ScientistScholarly Interests
- Health-related technology development
- Cancer prevention, control, and survivorship
- Applied health communication
- Methods and measurement
- Social epidemiology
- Social network methods and analysis
- Health inequalities

Scholarly Interests
- Climate change
- Agriculture & the environment
- Socio-economic systems
- Human behavior & decision-making
- Communication & media

Carolyn Damilola Ekpruke
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- The roles of lung and gut microbiomes in asthma
- Immunomodulatory effects of diet and exercise
- Sex differences in airway inflammatory responses

Scholarly Interests
- Behavior and Molecular Genetics
- Peer and Family Functioning
- Mental Health
- Alcohol, Marijuana, Vaping
- Adolescent and Early Adult Development

Scholarly Interests
- Women's and adolescent's health risk behaviors
- School and community health interventions
- Faith based research related to health risk behaviors

Elizabeth Ellis
Content Developer
Scholarly Interests
- Career Development
- Life Span Development
- Aging and Longevity

Ruth Engs
Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Health reform
- Spiritual health
- Alcohol abuse
- Health history


Scholarly Interests
- Reducing health disparities
- Early child care settings
- Obesity
- Physical activity
- Rural
- Under-served populations

Scholarly Interests
- Clinical and community-based interventions
- Weight management behaviors
- Applied exercise physiology

Jim Evans
Clinical Assistant ProfessorInternship Coordinator, Sport Marketing and Management
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Law
- Intercollegiate Athletics
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Alan Ewert
Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Outdoor adventure
- Resilience
- Military veterans
- Risk motivation
- Natural environments

Isabel Fangman
Research AnalystScholarly Interests
- Family and child health
- Health of criminal-legal involved individuals
- Pregnancy care and outcomes in criminal-legal settings

Larry Fielding
Professor Emeritus
Kathy Finley
Senior LecturerDean's Fellow and SPH Honors Program Director
BSPH Internship Coordinator: Community Health and Epidemiology
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiovascular Health
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Scholarly Interests
- Diet and Health
- Research, Marketing and Reportage Quality
- Intersection of Food Science and Nutrition and Public Health
- Food and Nutrition Regulations and Policy

David Fluharty
Senior LecturerDepartmental Director of Undergraduate Studies
Scholarly Interests
- Improving the teaching of statistics
- Connections among Philosophy of Science, Ethics, and Statistics

Scholarly Interests
- School interventions
- Obesity
- Diet and peripheral vascular health
- Breastfeeding
- Diet and peripheral vascular health
- Nutrition

Scholarly Interests
- Visitor-centered, two-way interpretation through dialogue
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the outdoors and environmental professions



Stephen French
Adjunct Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Food Science and Technology
- Public Health
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Feeding Behavior
- Energy Balance

Scholarly Interests
- Disabilities
- Physical activity

Tsung-chieh (Jane) Fu
Research AssociateScholarly Interests
- Analysis of the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior
- Data management

Scholarly Interests
- Implementation science
- HIV
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Behavioral science

David Gallahue
Dean Emeritus
Edlin Garcia Colato
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Workplace mental health
- Help-seeking behaviors
- Mental health literacy
- Behavioral health

Ruth Gassman
Senior ScientistExecutive Director of Prevention Insights
Scholarly Interests
- Alcohol abuse
- Drug abuse
- Health services

Leroy Getchell
Professor Emeritus
Victoria Getty
Senior LecturerDirector, Didactic Program in Dietetics
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Dietary sodium and health
- Hydration and health
- Racial health disparities
- Exercise physiology

Scholarly Interests
- Leadership development
- Curriculum design
- Diversity education

Jim Gibson
Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs and Student Ombudsperson
Kathleen Gilbert
Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Bereavement
- Loss and grieving in the context of family
- Death of a child
- Infant and pregnancy loss
- Loss and meaning making
- Stress and resilience in the family
- Cross-national research
- Qualitative research

Scholarly Interests
- Physical activity and weight-loss maintenance
- African American women and physical activity
- Innovative teaching strategies
- Faith-based physical activity
- Sport and future physical activity


Nana Gletsu Miller
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Nutritional interventions targeting obesity-related disease
- Nutrition after bariatric surgery
- Nutrient bioavailability
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes in adolescent

Soleil Gohouré
Instructional Technology Coordinator, Office of Online Education
Lilian Golzarri Arroyo
Research AssociateAssociate Director BCC & Biostatistician II
Scholarly Interests
- Statistical consulting and collaboration
- Data Analysis
- Hypothesis testing
- Linear & logistic regression
- Linear mixed models
- Survival analysis
- R programming

Scholarly Interests
- Latino/Hispanic Health
- Global Health
- Implementation science
- Child growth and development
- Cardiovascular disease and mental health comorbidities
- Life-course nutrition


Regina Graham
Human Resouces Coordinator, Business Affairs Assistant
Scholarly Interests
- Environmental microbiology
- Wastewater based epidemiology for emerging pathogens
- Transport modeling of pathogens
- Virology

Scholarly Interests
- Personal networks and health
- Disease prevention
- Health promotion
- Applied network science

Scholarly Interests
- Health education for youth
- Sexual health education
- Sexual health
- Substance use disorders
- Adolescent substance abuse treatment
- Juvenile drug courts
- Mental health
- System-level change
- Process evaluation
- Cost analysis
- Technology utilization in treatment
- Evidence-based treatment


Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition
- Dietetics
- Nursing

Scholarly Interests
- Athletic training
- Emergency care

Allison Gruber
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Wearable Technology
- Running Injury
- Gait Biomechanics

Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Reproductive health
- Reproductive decision-making
- Latin America
- Health disparities
- Indigenous groups
- Culturally responsive frameworks

Scholarly Interests
- Applied linear models
- Bayesian methods
- Machine learning algorithms
- High Performance Computing
- Deep learning systems
- R and Python programming

Ella Gutzwiller
Human Resource Generalist
Gwendolyn Hamm
Associate Professor Emeritus


Jaroslaw Harezlak
Interim Department Chair for Epidemiology and BiostatisticsProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Functional data analysis
- Statistical regularization methods
- Structured high-dimensional data
- Mixed model methodology
- Clustered and longitudinal data analysis
- Brain imaging
- HIV-related cognitive impairment
- Network analysis
- Physical activity and accelerometry


Betty Haven
Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus
Scholarly Interests
- Reproductive Health Research
- Organizational Research
- Qualitative Methods

Misty Hawkins
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Cardiometabolic health: obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease
- Neurocognitive function & brain health
- Psychosocial stress and wellness, including early life adversity
- Randomized controlled trials
- Equity in clinical research and interventions, including Indigenous and rural populations
- Increasing representation of diverse voices in science



Scholarly Interests
- Substance abuse use, prevention, and intervention
- Opioid crisis

Scholarly Interests
- Health disparities
- Appalachia
- Environmental Health

Beate Henschel
Research AssociateBiostatistician II
Scholarly Interests
- Epidemiology
- Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Linear Mixed Models
- Nutrition, NHANES data
- Dyadic Social Network data
- SAS programming

Debby Herbenick
Provost ProfessorDean's Eminent Scholar
Director, Center for Sexual Health Promotion
Scholarly Interests
- Population-representative sexual health
- Women's sexual health
- Rough sex behaviors
- Sexual pleasure
- Sexual behavior trends in the U.S.

Jordan Hill
Assistant Research ScientistScholarly Interests
- Health equity
- Family caregiving
- Telehealth
- Technology-based interventions
- Health systems engineering
- Human-centered design and universal design
- Human factors and ergonomics

Richard Holden
Assistant Dean for Faculty SuccessProfessor
Dean's Administrative Fellow for Organizational Strategy
Founding Director, Center for Health by Design
Dean's Eminent Scholar
Scholarly Interests
- Health equity and social determinants of health
- Social psychology and behavior change
- Health systems engineering
- Technology-based interventions
- Chronic disease and dementia care
- Healthy aging and disease prevention


Jiancheng Hou
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Music cognitive neuroscience
- Music psychology


Scholarly Interests
- Berry bioactives
- Oxidative stress and inflammation

Alexander Hoyt
Facilities Administrative Generalist Coordinator
Bruce Hronek
Professor Emeritus


Scholarly Interests
- Physical education teacher education
- PE K-12
- Aquatics


Lavanya Iyer
Marketing Specialist
Scholarly Interests
- Social and substance use epidemiology Youth/Young adult health and risk behaviors Biopsychosocial and structural determinants of youth and young adult substance use Disparities in polysubstance use and comorbidities (e.g., mental health)


Scholarly Interests
- Tourism image salience
- Leisure industry

Wooyoung (William) Jang
Clinical Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Esports consumer behavior
- Sport consumer behavior
- Sport marketing
- Measurement
- Sportscape

Hannah Javidi
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Digital technology to promote healthy sexual behaviors
- Adolescent sexual health


Chao Ji
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Genomic dose-response modeling
- Risk assessment of environmental pollutants

Scholarly Interests
- Concussion
- Environmental Physiology
- Cardiovascular Physiology
- Autonomic Physiology
- Exercise Physiology

Jeanne Johnston
Clinical ProfessorAssociate Chair, Academic Affairs
Scholarly Interests
- Physical activity
- Assessment
- Technology
- Aging
- College population

Scholarly Interests
- Alcohol and tobacco control


Evan Jordan
Interim ChairAssociate Professor
Associate Chair of Strategic Initiatives
Scholarly Interests
- Mobile Interventions
- Wearable Technology
- Ecological Momentary Assessment
- Healthy Aging
- Stress

Kristen Jozkowski
William L. Yarber Endowed Professor in Sexual HealthScholarly Interests
- Survey Research
- Abortion Attitudes
- Influence of alcohol intoxication on correlates of sexual assault
- Sexual violence prevention
- Sexual consent and refusal communication

Scholarly Interests
- Substance abuse prevention
- Survey research methods

Corey Kalbaugh
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Collaborative research
- Health services research
- Health care delivery
- Vascular surgery
- Clinical epidemiology
- Implicit bias
- Health equity
- Health disparities
- Peripheral artery disease

Lisa Kamendulis
Associate ProfessorAssociate Chair
Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology of PFAS Chemicals
- Contribution of Environmental Chemicals on Disease
- Obesity and Cancer
- Animal Models of Human Diseases

Scholarly Interests
- Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Survival Data Analysis
- Clinical Trials
- Logistic and Linear Regression
- SAS, SPSS, STATA, R programming

Scholarly Interests
- Traumatic brain injury
- Subconcussion
- Blood biomarker
- Ocular-motor system
- Electroencephalography

Jason Michael Keeler
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Strength and conditioning
- Tactical population health/performance

Scholarly Interests
- Physical Activity
- Health Equity
- Healthy Aging
- Built Environment
- Social Justice
- Inclusive Science

Scholarly Interests
- Martial arts
- Aggression and violence in sport
- Conflict de-escalation and resolution
- Mind-body wellness
- Victimization prevention

Scholarly Interests
- Sport-based youth development in underserved populations
- Multi-level physical activity interventions
- Diversity, equity, inclusion
- Cardiovascular disease prevention
- Behavior change
- Implementation Science

Vanessa (Martinez) Kercher
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Workforce Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
- Health Promotion Behavioral Interventions
- Health/Wellness Coaching
- Behavioral Science & Motivation
- Psychometrics/Survey Methodology
- Workplace Wellness & Wellbeing

Scholarly Interests
- Scuba
- Sailing
- Waterfront
- Aquatics
- Rowing

Cheryl Kilmark
Program Management Specialist
Minhee Kim
Assistant Director of Online Education
Jackie Kingma
Clinical Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Manual Therapy
- Rehabilitation Techniques
- Spine Injuries and Conditions
- General Medicine in Athletics
- Connective Tissue Pathology

Scholarly Interests
- Human performance
- Postural stability

Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology
- Carcinogenesis
- Risk assessment
- Dose response
- Cancer biology
- Pesticide toxicity and human risk
- Nuclear receptor mediated toxicity

Scholarly Interests
- Experimental design
- Animal models
- Prevention of chronic diseases
- Nutrition

Scholarly Interests
- Leadership and Management
- High Impact Learning Practices and Student Learning
- Continuing Education
- Parks and Recreation's link to community health and wellness
- Active Learning
- Pedagogy

Scholarly Interests
- Neuromuscular control
- Spinal reflex system
- Elderly
- Motor control
- Balance

Lloyd Kolbe
Professor Emeritus

Scholarly Interests
- Causal inference Clinical trials Generalization from unrepresentative experiments Missing data Research reproducibility and replicability


Douglas Landsittel
Adjunct ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Propensity scores
- Causal inference
- Patient-centered outcomes research
- Comparative effectiveness research

Scholarly Interests
- Home health care
- Hospice
- Nature-based interventions
- Alzheimer's disease
- Health equity
- Participatory approaches
- Gerontology

Scholarly Interests
- Mixed methods inquiry
- Public health workforce and instructional development
- Sexual/reproductive health
- Adolescent and emerging adult health
- Intervention design and evaluation
- Health education and health promotion




Scholarly Interests
- Non-parametric statistics
- High dimensional data
- Next-generation sequencing
- Genome-wide association studies
- Gene-by-gene and gene-by-environment interactions
- Statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology


Alice Lindeman
Associate Professor Emeritus
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiovascular Physiology
- Exercise Physiology
- Renal Physiology
- Immunology
- Methodology and Statistics

Scholarly Interests
- Instructional Technology
- Active Learning
- Video and Hobby Gaming with Physical Activity and Health

Scholarly Interests
- Computational modeling
- Infectious disease transmission and social networks
- Health disparities and vulnerable populations
- Socio-economic drivers of infectious disease transmission
- Epidemiologic characteristics of infectious diseases

Scholarly Interests
- Collaborative research
- Statistical methods
- Biostatistics
- Precision medicine
- High dimensional and big data
- Bioinformatics
- Genetic epidemiology
- Statistical genetics and genomics

Scholarly Interests
- School health promotion
- Health education
- Alcohol
- Tobacco
- Drug abuse prevention
- Sexuality education
- HIV/STD prevention

Emily Long
Research Analyst

Christina Ludema
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Infectious diseases
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social epidemiology
- Causal inference

Scholarly Interests
- Women's health
- Breast cancer
- Environmental factors and cancer relationship


Anna Macagno
Research AssociateData Manager/Analyst I
Scholarly Interests
- Data management and analysis
- Project/Program management
- R programming
- REDCap programming
- Biology
- Scientific writing

Jon Macy
Assistant Dean for Academic ProgramsProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Gun violence prevention
- Youth sports safety and promotion
- Tobacco control
- Smoking cessation
- Tobacco prevention
- Public health policy

Scholarly Interests
- CAI
- Cutaneous Reflexes
- Functional Performance

Scholarly Interests
- Dietary and lifestyle interventions

Scholarly Interests
- Effectors of salt and water metabolism in hypoxemic COPD
- Oxygen effect on energy metabolism in hypoxemic COPD
- Exercise induced bronchospasm in athletes and regular exercisers
- Cardiopulmonary response to exercise in health and disease

Edwin Marshall
Professor Emeritus



Laura McCloskey
Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Violence against women
- Child abuse
- Disparities in mental health
- Adolescent socio-sexual health
- Families and health

Scholarly Interests
- Quantitative methods
- Sexual health
- Gender
- Religion



Scholarly Interests
- Program Evaluation
- Evaluation Consulting and Technical Assistance
- Strategic Planning
- systems Change and Community Prevention Programming

Joel F. Meier
Professor Emeritus
Scholarly Interests
- Spanish-speaking Latinx research
- Mixed methodologies
- Survey research
- Abortion attitudes
- Sexual and reproductive health

Scholarly Interests
- Respiratory disorders in athletes
- Cardiopulmonary limitations to exercise
- Respiratory system determinants of fatigue in health and disease
- Contributions of central and peripheral factors in human muscle fatigue
- Human stress physiology

Susan Middlestadt
Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Theory
- Intervention design
- Behavior change
- Reasoned action approach

Wrenn Milbourn
Assistant Director of Employer Relations
Scholarly Interests
- Behavioral change
- Intervention research
- Optimal management of diabetes
- Diabetes prevention
- Nutrition and lifestyle behaviors

Arthur Mindheim
Assistant Professor Emeritus
Tony Mobley
Dean Emeritus



Brian Moscicki
LecturerUndergraduate Coordinator for the B.S. in Kinesiology - Exercise Science Major
Coordinator for the M.S. in Kinesiology Sport and Coaching Science Track
Scholarly Interests
- Resistance Training
- Triathlon Performance
- Soldier Performance


Rebecca Mueller
Research Associate and Public Health Consultant

Maresa Murray
Clinical Associate Professor - Human Development and Family StudiesDirector of Organizational Health - Department of Applied Science
Dean's Administrative Fellow for Non-Tenure Track Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Career Development in the School of Public Health - Bloomington
Scholarly Interests
- Family and Child Ecology
- Interactions Between Communities and Family Health
- Ethnic Family Health
- Family Religiosity Patterns
- Family Roles and Communication Dynamics
- Rhetoric, Culture, and Family Health
- Emotional Intelligence in Organizational Communication

Josephine Mwangi
Associate InstructorScholarly Interests
- Community engagement
- Health disparities
- Addictive behavior, specifically substance use and commodity


Corinne Nicholson
Food Services Supervisor


Stephen O’Brien
Visiting Senior Scientist

Scholarly Interests
- Infant Feeding (Breastfeeding) and Child Health
- Culture and Immigrant Families' Health
- The Role of the Family in the Development of the Child Especially Children with Health Problems
- Pre-School Children's Health
- Culture, Care, and Child Health

Scholarly Interests
- Behavioral, Social and Community Health
- Health Communications
- Public Health Programming Consulting and Technical Assistance

Scholarly Interests
- Linear & logistic regression
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Data cleaning
- Rigor, Reproducibility, & Transparency
- SPSS, SAS, & R

Justin Otten
Executive Director of Strategic InitiativesSenior Executive Advisor to the Dean
Adjunct Faculty, Russian and East European Institute (REEI)

Melissa Pangelinan
Associate ProfessorDirector of All IN for Health, Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Scholarly Interests
- Adapted Physical Activity / Exercise
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Developmental Disabilities
- Implementation Science
- Mental and Physical Health
- Rural Health

Chelsie Parker
Research AssociateBiostatistician I
Scholarly Interests
- Linear and generalized linear mixed models
- High Performance Computing
- Scientific writing
- R programming
- Multiple Imputation

Erik Parker
Research AssociateBiostatistician I
Scholarly Interests
- R programming
- Linear and generalized linear mixed models
- Survival analyses
- Hypothesis testing
- Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data
- Statistical consulting and collaboration
- Data visualization

Maria Parker
Interim Assistant Dean for Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postdoctoral ResearchAssistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other drug use
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Tobacco Regulatory Science
- Vulnerable Populations

Danielle Parker
Director of Events and Ceremonies

Armando Peña
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Response Heterogeneity
- Gestational Diabetes Impacts on Maternal, Offspring, and Breast Milk Outcomes
- Breast Milk Predictors of Childhood Obesity Trajectories
- Addressing Breastfeeding and Infant Obesity Disparities among Latinos

Scholarly Interests
- Sport communication
- Sport organization personnel
- Intercollegiate and interscholastic sports
- Sport management


Maura Josefina Pereira-Leon
Research AssociateScholarly Interests
- Qualitative research
- Social science

Scholarly Interests
- Muscle Health
- Obesity
- Cardiometabolic Health
- Aging Nutrition
- Gestational Diabetes
- Maternal Nutrition
- Controlled-feeding diet interventions

James Peterson
Professor Emeritus
Scholarly Interests
- Program Planning, Design, and Evaluation
- Aging and Chronic Conditions
- Health Disparities
- Physical Activity and Sport

Aimee Polk
Associate Director of Data Management and Scheduling

Rebecca Prato
Administrative Assistant, Center for Health by Design
Jiayao Qi
Clinical Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Organizational Behavior
- Human Resource Management
- Sport Analytics
- Research Method

Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other substance use Chronic pain Mental health Pharmacoepidemiology Behavioral genetics

Scholarly Interests
- Behavioral and psychological determinants of physical activity
- The placebo effect in sport and exercise
- Pacing strategies in sport performance
- Overtraining syndrome
- Anxiety and sport performance
- Exercise and mental health

Edmond Ramly
Associate ProfessorProgram Director of Design & Implementation Sciences


Michael Razo
Technology Assistant

Thirupathi Reddy Mokalla
Postdoctoral Research FellowScholarly Interests
- Statistical Consulting and Collaboration
- SAS, SPSS, Python and R programming
- Linear, Logistic, and Quantile Regression
- PCA, FA and Cluster Analysis
- Clinical Trials
- Multidimensional data
- Nutrition, Obesity

Scholarly Interests
- Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
- Substance abuse prevention
- Behavioral, social, and community health

Desiree Reynolds
Research AssociateScholarly Interests
- Disordered Gambling
- Behavioral Health
- Stress Management

Lisa Rizzi
Admin Generalist Coordinator

Terri Roberts-Leonard
Director of Inclusive Excellence & Belonging
Scholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Racial health disparities
- Hydration and health
- Dietary sodium and health
- Cardiovascular physiology


Roberto A. Rodríguez
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Rapid methods for determination of viral infectivity
- Water reuse technologies and mechanisms of viral disinfection
- Ecology of enteric viruses
- UV Disinfection
- Fate and transport of viruses in the environment

Miriam Jocelyn Rodriguez
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Culturally adapted interventions for dementia patients and caregivers
- Healthy Aging across cultures
- Risk and protective factors among culturally diverse populations at risk for ADRD
- Relationships between cultural factors and AD biomarkers
- Neuropsychological functioning among ethnically diverse older adults
- Health disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)

Javier Rojo
ProfessorDean's Eminent Scholar
Scholarly Interests
- Nonparametric multivariate survival estimation.
- Estimation of distribution functions subjected to order restrictions.
- Partial orders of probability distributions.
- Statistical decision theory and dimension reduction techniques.
- Heavy-tailed densities (distributions), and connections with extreme value theory.
- Nonparametric function estimation with shape and order restrictions.
- Algorithms to assess the reliability of complex systems with special attention to the power grid.

Molly Rosenberg
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Infectious disease epidemiology: HIV, STIs, SARS-CoV-2
- Sexual health promotion
- Cognitive aging
- Cash transfers, microfinance, micro-enterprise
- Poverty alleviation and health across the lifecourse
- Global health
- Social epidemiology

Craig Ross
Professor Emeritus
Jerono Rotich
Associate Dean for Organizational Climate, Inclusion, and BelongingProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Immigration and refugee health Community health engagement Behavior modification and obesity prevention Public health and global partnerships Health disparities, diversity, and inclusion Behavior Modification and psychosocial determinants of physical activity Health Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Youth Development and Underserved Youth Sports Immigrant and Refugee Acculturation Global Heal and International Education Community Engagement

Scholarly Interests
- Medicare Population
- Health Policy Implications
- Econometrics and Causal Inference Methods
- Healthy Aging
- Gerontology
- Health Economics
- Health Disparities Research
- Health Services Research in Aging

Brandon Rucker
Project Management Specialist

Ruth Russell
Professor Emeritus
Scholarly Interests
- Gut-mediated and gut-derived metabolites
- Mitigating risk factors for metabolic disease like Type 2 Diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and can
- Time-restricted feeding (eating)
- Methane production effects on the ecology of the human gut
- Bile acids as nutrient sensors

Kelli Ryckman
Associate Dean for ResearchProfessor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Scholarly Interests
- Newborn screening
- Genetic epidemiology
- Neonatal morbidity and mortality
- Maternal mental health
- Perinatal epidemiology

Scholarly Interests
- Motor control
- Neuromuscular control
- Aging
- Physical activity

Scholarly Interests
- Substance abuse prevention
- Youth substance abuse

Scholarly Interests
- Athletic training education

Sofia Sanchez
Post Doctoral Fellow

Zachary Schlader
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Renal physiology
- Integrative physiology

John Schrader
Clinical Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Kinesiology
- Athletic training

Grace Sembajwe
Interim Department Chair for Epidemiology and BiostatisticsProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Exposure Assessment
- Occupational Epidemiology
- Risk Assessment

Scholarly Interests
- Health disparities and structural interventions
- Mental health
- Opioid misuse and overdose
- Nicotine and marijuana vaping


Scholarly Interests
- Health risk assessment
- Dose-response analysis
- Environmental modeling
- Environmental policy
- Biostatistics

Shikha Sharma
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Mechanisms of endocrine disrupting chemicals in lungs inflammation and diseases
- Environmental toxic exposures
- Sex differences in lung inflammatory responses

Scholarly Interests
- Instructional design and assessment in higher education
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and reporting
- Measurement and psychometrics
- Quantitative research methods

Scholarly Interests
- Motor skills
- Motor control
- Motor learning
- Training
- Ergonomics
- Human factors
- Wellness

Scholarly Interests
- Global health
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
- Social determinants of health
- Experiential learning in global public health

Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin
Clinical ProfessorAssociate Chair
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Professional Development and Training
- Sexuality Education in School and Community-Based Settings
- Intervention Design and Implementation
- Community Health Needs and Assets Assessments
- Community-Based Participatory Research

Nathan Shier
Associate Professor Emeritus

Patricia Silveyra
Anthony D. Pantaleoni Eminent ScholarDepartment Chair
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Molecular effects of vaping
- Animal models of environmental exposures
- Sex differences in asthma
- Air pollution and lung disease

Susan Simmons
Assistant Dean for Career Development and Alumni Relations

Braden Singleton
Academic SpecialistScholarly Interests
- Military
- Performance
- Tactical
- Strength

Scholarly Interests
- Genetics
- Exercise prescription
- Exercise and health

Scholarly Interests
- Unintentional injury prevention
- Biological occupational and environmental hazards
- Industrial hygiene
- Ergonomics

Scholarly Interests
- Student persistence in higher education
- Technology and student learning outcomes
- Tourism and public health
- Golf and cognitive decline prevention

Scholarly Interests
- Occupational safety and health
- Safety culture/climate
- Injury prevention and control
- Ergonomics & human factors
- Occupational health psychology
- Workplace health promotion
- Firefighter safety and health

Kathleen Sobiech
Director of Public Health Practice, Accreditation, and MPH Program
Christy Sparks
Graduate Admissions and Recruitment Communications Technology Coordinator
Scholarly Interests
- Metabolic Health
- Body Weight/Composition
- Dietary Interventions


Madelyn Springer
Research Analyst

Joel Stager
Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Human stress physiology
- Oxygen transport
- Human development and aging
- Competitive swimming


Paul Surburg
Professor Emeritus


Scholarly Interests
- Measurement Error
- Latent Variable Models
- Latent Class Analysis
- Functional Data Analysis
- Radiation and Cancer Epidemiology
- Physical Activity Assessment
- Statistical Methods for Medical Devices
- Nutrition Epidemiology
- Aging
- Statistical Proteomics

Deependra Thapa
Postdoctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Meta-research
- Clinical trials
- Epidemiological methods
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and replicability
- Aging research
- Program evaluation
- Nutrition and obesity research

Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition


Scholarly Interests
- Safety management at events
- Anticipating and addressing alcohol consumption and behavior at events
- Legal liability and risk management





Amy Todd
Program Management Specialist
Scholarly Interests
- Public health education
- Tobacco Prevention & Cancer Control
- Drug abuse
- HIV/AIDS

Scholarly Interests
- Explainable machine learning for causal inference
- Health geography and disparity
- Life course approach to the environmental exposures
- High- and multi-dimensional data integration
- Molecular epidemiology



Scholarly Interests
- Sexual Health Attitudes among Spanish-speaking Latinx communities
- Quantitative Sampling and Measurement Practices for Underrepresented Populations


Scholarly Interests
- Complex systems and their dynamics
- Mathematical and computational modeling of infectious diseases



Colby Vorland
Assistant Research ScientistScholarly Interests
- Nutrition
- Meta-research
- Research rigor and reproducibility

Grace Walden
Graduate Recruitment and Student Engagement Coordinator
Kate Wallace
Executive Director of Marketing, Communications, and Outreach
Janet Wallace
Professor Emeritus

Kelly Robert Walsh
Adjunct Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Healthy weight management
- Digestion and bioavailability
- General pediatric nutrition
- Premature infant nutrition/ metabolism

Eric Walsh-Buhi
Department ChairProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent health
- Sexual health promotion
- Health communication
- Digital health/social media



Scholarly Interests
- Food insecurity
- Mental health
- Community nutrition

Tyler Watkins
Financial Administration Specialist

Verena Werkmann
Post Doctoral Fellow
Scholarly Interests
- Social determinants of health and health equity
- Chronic condition management and prevention
- Family caregiving and care networks
- Dementia care
- Health systems engineering
- Digital health and technology-based interventions
- Human-centered design and participatory design





Scholarly Interests
- Vector Biology and Control
- Vector Ecology
- Tropical Diseases
- Disease Ecology

Jerry Wilkerson
Professor Emeritus
Michael S. Willett
Executive Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and EnrollmentClinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Management (Sport Finance)
- Youth Fitness
- Strength Training

Antonio Williams
Beinner Family Professor in Sports Marketing and ManagementProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport marketing
- Personal fitness
- Branding


Scholarly Interests
- Parent-Child Relations
- Child Development
- Maternal Child Health
- Professional Preparation


Renata Ximenes
Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions and Recruiting
Eduardo Ximenes
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Human and Animal Food safety
- Sample preparation and pathogenic microorganism faster and sensitive methods development
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Microbial derived products and related environmentally friendly new processes


William Yarber
Provost ProfessorSenior Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
Scholarly Interests
- Sexuality education
- Condom use
- Human sexuality
- Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS
- Disability and Sexual Health

Jerad Yeagley
Assistant Professor Emeritus
Scholarly Interests
- Sport communication and online communication networks
- Social network analysis in Sport
- Mega sport events (e.g. Youth Olympic Games, Olympics)

Hope Zeller
Project Coordinator, Hoosier Sport (Kinesiology)Adjunct Instructor (HEWD)

Scholarly Interests
- Bayesian Methods
- Structural Equation Models
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Reliability Modeling
- Dimension Reduction

