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
Alyson Alde
Research AssociateScholarly Interests
- Lead exposure
- Drinking water
Cynthia Herrera Alley
Department Administrator and Program ManagerDavid 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 SpecialistScholarly 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 EmeritusMariah 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 AssistantJames Brown
Associate Professor EmeritusXiana Bueno
Assistant Research ScientistJacqueline Burnell
Research TechDonald Burns
Associate Professor EmeritusScholarly 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
Scholarly Interests
- Measurement/Statistics
- Sport tourism
- Sport service marketing
- Sport marketing
- Sport consumer behavior
Sara Campbell
Program Management Specialist, AEGIS StudyScholarly Interests
- Electronic Health Records
- Population Health
- Substance Use and Addiction
- Racial Disparities and Health
- Maternal and Child Health
Scholarly Interests
- Study Design
- Health Equity
- Social and Structural Determinants of Health
- Community Engagement and Community Based Participatory Research
- Physical Activity Epidemiology
- Indigenous Health
- Incarceration and Health
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
Christy Cavanaugh
Graduate Admissions and Recruitment Communications Technology CoordinatorKaitlyn Celis
Membership Services Manager, American School Health AssociationKiara Chan
Scholarly Interests
- Reducing running-related injury risk
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
- Statistical consulting and Collaboration
- High-dimensional data analysis
- Machine learning
- Survival analysis
- Longitudinal data analysis
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
- Mathematical modelling
- Lasso regression, Sparse Group Lasso
- R and Python programming
- High Performance Computing
- Data visualization
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 EmeritusKeema 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 EmeritusScholarly 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 InnovationScholarly 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 and collaboration
- Hypothesis testing
- Epidemiology
- Linear mixed models
- Logistic regression
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 DeveloperScholarly 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
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 EmeritusKathy 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
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
Natalie Frederixon
Executive Assistant to DeanStephen 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
- Physical Activity
- Behavior change
David Gallahue
Dean EmeritusEdlin 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 EmeritusVictoria 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
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 EducationLilian 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 AssistantScholarly 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 GeneralistJaclyn Hadfield
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Health inequalities among marginalized populations
- Female physical activity
Gwendolyn Hamm
Associate Professor EmeritusScholarly 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 EmeritusScholarly 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
- Statistical Consulting and Collaboration
- Statistical Hypothesis Testing
- Linear Mixed Models
- Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Linear and Logistic Regression
- Programming in SAS
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.
Hayden Hess
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly Interests
- Heat stress
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
Sydney Hoel
Clinical Research CoordinatorRichard Holden
Department ChairDean's Eminent Scholar
Professor
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 CoordinatorBruce Hronek
Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Physical education teacher education
- PE K-12
- Aquatics
Lavanya Iyer
Marketing SpecialistScholarly 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
Anna Jolliff
Clinical Research CoordinatorScholarly Interests
- Alcohol and tobacco control
Evan Jordan
Associate ProfessorAssociate 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
- SAS, SPSS, STATA, R programming
- Logistic and Linear Regression
- Clinical Trials
- Survival Data Analysis
- Longitudinal Data Analysis
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
Vanessa (Martinez) Kercher
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Sport-based youth development in underserved populations
- Multi-level physical activity interventions
- Diversity, equity, inclusion
- Cardiovascular disease prevention
- Behavior change
- Implementation Science
Scholarly Interests
- Scuba
- Sailing
- Waterfront
- Aquatics
- Rowing
Cheryl Kilmark
Program Management SpecialistMinhee Kim
Assistant Director of Online EducationJackie Kingma
Clinical Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Manual therapy
- Rehabilitation techniques
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 EmeritusScholarly 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 EmeritusScholarly 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
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
- Research Design
- Data management and analysis
- Project/Program management
- R programming
- REDCap programming
- Biology
- Scientific writing
- Research Rigor, Reproducibility and Transparency
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 EmeritusLaura 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 EmeritusScholarly 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
Employer Relations SpecialistScholarly Interests
- Behavioral change
- Intervention research
- Optimal management of diabetes
- Diabetes prevention
- Nutrition and lifestyle behaviors
Arthur Mindheim
Assistant Professor EmeritusTony Mobley
Dean EmeritusBrian 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 ConsultantScholarly Interests
- Family health
- Ethnic minority families
- Media influence on families
- Religiosity
- Social support
- Emotional Intelligence
- Organizational Communication
Josephine Mwangi
Associate InstructorScholarly Interests
- Community engagement
- Health disparities
- Addictive behavior, specifically substance use and commodity
Stephen O’Brien
Visiting Senior ScientistScholarly 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
Senior Executive Advisor to the DeanDirector of Strategic Initiatives
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
Danielle Parker
Director of Events and CeremoniesChelsie Parker
Research AssociateBiostatistician I
Scholarly Interests
- Linear and generalized linear mixed models
- High Performance Computing
- Data visualization
- Scientific writing
- R programming
- Mathematical modelling
- Multiple Imputation
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
Erik Parker
Research AssociateBiostatistician I
Scholarly Interests
- Data visualization
- Statistical consulting and collaboration
- Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data
- Hypothesis testing
- Survival analyses
- Linear and generalized linear mixed models
- R programming
Armando Peña
Scholarly 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 EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Program Planning, Design, and Evaluation
- Aging and Chronic Conditions
- Health Disparities
- Physical Activity and Sport
Aimee Polk
Associate Director of Data Management and SchedulingJiayao Qi
Clinical Assistant ProfessorScholarly 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 AssistantThirupathi 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 CoordinatorScholarly 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 EmeritusJerono 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 SpecialistRuth Russell
Professor EmeritusScholarly 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
Scholarly Interests
- Substance abuse prevention
- Youth substance abuse
Sofia Sanchez
Post Doctoral FellowZachary 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
Julia Sherry
LecturerCatherine 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 EmeritusPatricia 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 RelationsBraden 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 ProgramScholarly Interests
- Metabolic Health
- Body Weight/Composition
- Dietary Interventions
Madelyn Springer
Research AnalystJoel Stager
Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Human stress physiology
- Oxygen transport
- Human development and aging
- Competitive swimming
Paul Surburg
Professor EmeritusScholarly Interests
- Community Trainings and Mental Health First Aid
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
Teresa Thuemling
Administrative Director, Center for Health by DesignAmy Todd
Program Management SpecialistScholarly 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
Janet Wallace
Professor EmeritusKate Wallace
Executive Director of Marketing, Communications, and OutreachKelly 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 SpecialistVerena Werkmann
Post Doctoral FellowScholarly 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
Emily Wetzel
School of Public Health - Career ServicesCareer Consultant
André Wilke
Assistant ProfessorJerry Wilkerson
Professor EmeritusMichael 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
Scholarly Interests
- Microbial derived products and related environmentally friendly new processes
- Microbiome/Antimicrobial Resistance
- Sample preparation and pathogenic microorganism faster and sensitive methods development
- Human and Animal Food safety
Renata Ximenes
Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions and RecruitingWilliam 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 EmeritusScholarly 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