Erin Ables
Research AssociateData Manager/Analyst II
Phone: 812-855-1237
Email: eables@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-8617-6768
Scholarly Interests
- Data Analysis
- Research Methodology
- Program Evaluation
Jon Agley
Associate ProfessorInterim Executive Director, Prevention Insights
Phone: 812-855-3123
Email: jagley@iu.edu
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 ManagerPhone: 812-856-8322
Email: cherrera@iu.edu
Jared Allsop
Clinical Assistant ProfessorPhone: 812-856-3683
Email: jallsop@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-1065-1942
Scholarly 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
Abdulrazak Balogun
Clinical Associate ProfessorEmail: abalogun@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Total Worker Health
- Psychosocial Hazards & Worker Wellbeing
- Safety Education and Training
- Emerging Technologies & Occupational Safety
Bruce Bare
Risk Management and Emergency Preparedness SpecialistPhone: 812-855-7891
Email: bcbare@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Community health improvement plans
- Coalition development
- Community engagement
- Public health partnerships
Luis Enrique Becerra Garcia
Research/AssociatePhone: 812-855-5436
Email: lebecerr@iu.edu
ORCID: 0009-0005-3085-3287
Scholarly Interests
- Causal inference and epidemiologic methods
- Evaluation of public health and education interventions
- Data systems for strategic planning and institutional decision making
Charles Beeker
Clinical ProfessorDirector, Center for Underwater Science
Phone: 812-855-5748
Email: cbeeker@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Scientific Diver training
- Protection of underwater cultural and associated biological resources
- Shipwrecks as Marine Protected Areas
- Underwater Archaeology
James Belisle
Associate Professor EmeritusEmail: belisle@iu.edu
Mariah Benham
Email: mnbenham@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Survey Statistics
- Program Evaluation
- Gender Representation in Children's Media
- Community Development and Engagement
Aurelian Bidulescu
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-7776
Email: abidules@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-8211-8309
Scholarly 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
Barbara Bland
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Degree AdministrationPhone: 812-855-1251
Email: bbland@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Motor control
- Sensorimotor learning
- Multisensory processing
- Neurophysiology
- Brain stimulation
James Brown
Associate Professor EmeritusEmail: brownj@iu.edu
Xiana Bueno
Associate Research ScientistEmail: xbueno@iu.edu
Jacqueline Burnell
Research TechEmail: jvburnel@iu.edu
Donald Burns
Associate Professor EmeritusEmail: djburns@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Implementing these policies
- Organization, national, and global food policies
Beyza Buyuker
Post Doctoral FellowEmail: bbuyuker@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Abortion attitudes
- Qualitative and quantitative sexual and reproductive health research
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 ProfessorEmail: dscapone@iu.edu
Scholarly 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 ProfessorPhone: 812-855-6593
Email: stjcarte@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-5625-0883
Scholarly Interests
- Therapeutic utility of hypoxia-/heat-therapy
- Gut microbiota and exercise training
- Exercise-oncology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
Kaitlyn Celis
Membership Services Manager, American School Health AssociationPhone: 812-855-1237
Email: ksalb@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Altitude training
- Hypoxia
- Exercise performance of elite athletes
- Cardiopulmonary limitations to exercise performance
Olivia Charlotte Robertson
Postdoctoral FellowEmail: ocrobert@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Maternal-pediatric obesity & metabolic health
- Prenatal Substance Use
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Behavior Genetics
- Causal Inference
- Longitudinal Modeling
- Biomarkers & Stress
Suvo Chatterjee
Assistant ProfessorPhone: 812-855-3579
Email: suvchat@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-9771-109X
Scholarly 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
Phone: 812-855-2781
Email: xiwechen@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-1868-8387
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 ProfessorEmail: rcleland@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Deceptive Advertising of Health-Related Products
- Regulation of the Marketing of Health-Related Products
- Substantiation of Health Claims
Paul Coates
Adjunct ProfessorEmail: pmcoates@iu.edu
Scholarly 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 EmeritusEmail: compton@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Law
- Health
- Policy
- Service
- Internship
- AmeriCorps
Scholarly Interests
- Pedagogy
- Students
- Curriculum
- School health
Alexandra Cottingham
Graduate Recruitment and Student Engagement CoordinatorPhone: 812-855-7887
Email: alecotti@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Sociology
- Quantitative methods
Scholarly Interests
- Applied Time Series Analysis
- Tobacco and Nicotine Research
- Data Analysis
- Computational Statistics
- Biostatistics
Ivaldo Da Silva
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-0038
Email: silvaiv@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-2370-943X
Scholarly Interests
- Women's health
- Mental Health and well-being
- Maternal and Child Heath
- Health & Aging
- Sexual and reproductive health promotion
Jesus Dapena
Professor EmeritusEmail: dapena@iu.edu
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 InnovationPhone: 812-855-6812
Email: adesique@iu.edu
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
Phone: 812-855-5735
Email: mdesalle@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-8585-8596
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 FellowEmail: medisalv@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- New methodologies to regulate chemical safety regulation
Stephanie Dickinson
Academic SpecialistExecutive Director, Biostatistics Consulting Center
Phone: 812-856-9010
Email: sd3@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-2998-4467
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
Phone: 812-856-6035
Email: cdochert@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Ankle instability
- Health related quality of life
- Proprioception and neuromuscular control
Heather Eastman-Mueller
Clinical Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-4851
Email: heastman@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4376-0977
Scholarly Interests
- Sex education and curriculum development
- College students knowledge, attitudes, behaviors
- Gender identity and expression
- Sexual and reproductive health promotion
Kate Eddens
Associate Research ScientistPhone: 812-855-6002
Email: keddens@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-7783-4156
Scholarly 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 FellowEmail: cekpruke@iu.edu
Scholarly 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 DeveloperEmail: limellis@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Career Development
- Life Span Development
- Aging and Longevity
Ruth Engs
Professor EmeritusEmail: engs@iu.edu
Scholarly 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
Phone: 812-855-5943
Email: jimevans@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-3086-0306
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Law
- Intercollegiate Athletics
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Alan Ewert
Professor EmeritusEmail: aewert@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Outdoor adventure
- Resilience
- Military veterans
- Risk motivation
- Natural environments
Isabel Fangman
Research AnalystEmail: ifangman@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Family and child health
- Health of criminal-legal involved individuals
- Pregnancy care and outcomes in criminal-legal settings
Larry Fielding
Professor EmeritusEmail: lfieldin@iu.edu
Kathy Finley
Senior LecturerDean's Fellow and SPH Honors Program Director
BSPH Internship Coordinator: Community Health and Epidemiology
Phone: 812-855-0854
Email: kfinley@iu.edu
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
Phone: 812-855-5964
Email: dfluhart@iu.edu
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 ProfessorEmail: sjfrench@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Food Science and Technology
- Public Health
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Feeding Behavior
- Energy Balance
Scholarly Interests
- Disabilities
- Physical activity
Tsung-chieh (Jane) Fu
Research AssociateEmail: janefu@iu.edu
Scholarly 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 EmeritusEmail: gallahue@iu.edu
Edlin Garcia Colato
Assistant ProfessorPhone: 812-855-3102
Email: eggarcia@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-6927-120X
Scholarly Interests
- Workplace mental health
- Help-seeking behaviors
- Mental health literacy
- Behavioral health
Ruth Gassman
Senior ScientistExecutive Director of Prevention Insights
Phone: 812-855-1237
Email: rgassman@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Alcohol abuse
- Drug abuse
- Health services
Lin Ge
Assistant ProfessorEmail: gelin@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Measurement Error Correction
- Sampling Method
- Causal Inference
- EHR Data Analysis
- Infectious Disease
- Cancer Epidemiology
Leroy Getchell
Professor EmeritusEmail: getchell@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Dietetics education
- Food system sustainability
Scholarly Interests
- Leadership development
- Curriculum design
- Diversity education
Jim Gibson
Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs and Student OmbudspersonPhone: 812-856-1591
Email: jadgibso@iu.edu
Kathleen Gilbert
Professor EmeritusEmail: gilbertk@iu.edu
Scholarly 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 ProfessorPhone: 812-855-7643
Email: ngletsum@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4400-4428
Scholarly Interests
- Nutritional interventions targeting obesity-related disease
- Nutrition after bariatric surgery
- Nutrient bioavailability
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes in adolescent
Scholarly Interests
- Latino/Hispanic Health
- Global Health
- Implementation science
- Child growth and development
- Cardiovascular disease and mental health comorbidities
- Life-course nutrition
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 ProfessorPhone: 812-856-2447
Email: ahgruber@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0750-5656
Scholarly Interests
- Wearable Technology
- Running Injury
- Gait Biomechanics
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-7663
Email: luguerra@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3300-0720
Scholarly 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 GeneralistEmail: efgutzwi@iu.edu
Gwendolyn Hamm
Associate Professor EmeritusEmail: hamm@iu.edu
Jaroslaw Harezlak
Provost ProfessorChair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Phone: 812-855-6719
Email: harezlak@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-3070-7686
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 EmeritusEmail: haven@iu.edu
Barbara Hawkins
Professor EmeritusEmail: hawkinsb@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Aging well through active living
- Designing environments for active aging
- Methodologies for longitudinal research
- Genealogy for life fulfillment
Misty Hawkins
Associate ProfessorEmail: miahawki@iu.edu
Scholarly 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
Phone: 812-855-3994
Email: bhensche@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-0708-5660
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
Phone: 812-855-7011
Email: debby@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0352-2248
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 ScientistEmail: jrh6@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Health equity
- Family caregiving
- Telehealth
- Technology-based interventions
- Health systems engineering
- Human-centered design and universal design
- Human factors and ergonomics
Barbara Hocevar
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-2481
Email: bhocevar@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-1840-4305
Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology of PFAS
- Obesity and Cancer
- Chemical Carcinogenesis
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Cancer Biology
Richard Holden
Assistant Dean for Faculty SuccessProfessor
James A. Caplin, M.D. Chair in Evidence-Based Public Health
Associate Director, Center for Health by Design
Phone: 812-856-6265
Email: rjholden@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Social psychology and behavior change
- Health systems engineering
- Technology-based interventions
- Chronic disease and dementia care
- Healthy aging and disease prevention
Zoe Honeycutt
Instructional DesignerEmail: clhoneyc@iu.edu
Jiancheng Hou
Post Doctoral FellowEmail: jihou@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Music cognitive neuroscience
- Music psychology
Scholarly Interests
- Berry bioactives
- Oxidative stress and inflammation
Scholarly Interests
- Healthcare & Hospitality
- Restaurant Food Safety & Sanitation
- Lodging Bio-hazard & Infectious Disease Mitigation
- Sustainable Tourism
Alexander Hoyt
Facilities Administrative Generalist CoordinatorPhone: 812-855-3878
Email: alexhoyt@iu.edu
Bruce Hronek
Professor EmeritusEmail: bhronek@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Physical Activity for Youth
- Pedagogy in Higher Education
Lavanya Iyer
Associate Director of Content and Brand MerchandisingEmail: lviyer@iu.edu
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 ProfessorPhone: 812-855-5523
Email: jangwoo@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3131-7521
Scholarly Interests
- Esports consumer behavior
- Sport consumer behavior
- Sport marketing
- Measurement
- Sportscape
Scholarly Interests
- Recreational therapy
- Healthy aging
- Evidence-based health promotion
- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
- Arthritis and leisure/sport engagement
- Intergenerational programs and interventions
Hannah Javidi
Post Doctoral FellowEmail: hsjavidi@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Digital technology to promote healthy sexual behaviors
- Adolescent sexual health
Chao Ji
Post Doctoral FellowEmail: jichao@iu.edu
Scholarly 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
Phone: 812-855-5073
Email: jdjohnst@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Physical activity
- Assessment
- Technology
- Aging
- College population
Scholarly Interests
- Alcohol and tobacco control
Evan Jordan
Interim Chair, Department of Health & Wellness DesignAssociate Professor
Phone: 812-855-3528
Email: ejjordan@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-6924-2628
Scholarly Interests
- Mobile Interventions
- Wearable Technology
- Ecological Momentary Assessment
- Healthy Aging
- Stress
Kristen Jozkowski
William L. Yarber Endowed Professor in Sexual HealthPhone: 812-856-4355
Email: knjozkow@iu.edu
Scholarly 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 ProfessorPhone: 812-855-3117
Email: ckalbaug@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-7455-0369
Scholarly 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
Phone: 812-856-3098
Email: lkamendu@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0162-0338
Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology of PFAS Chemicals
- Contribution of Environmental Chemicals on Disease
- Obesity and Cancer
- Animal Models of Human Diseases
Scholarly Interests
- Traumatic brain injury
- Subconcussion
- Blood biomarker
- Ocular-motor system
- Electroencephalography
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 ProfessorPhone: 812-855-3697
Email: vkercher@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0498-5279
Scholarly 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 SpecialistEmail: ckilmark@iu.edu
Minhee Kim
Director of Online EducationEmail: mikim@iu.edu
Jackie Kingma
Clinical Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-1233
Email: jkingma@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-6068-0720
Scholarly Interests
- Manual Therapy
- Rehabilitation Techniques
- Spine Injuries and Conditions
- General Medicine in Athletics
- Connective Tissue Pathology
Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology
- Carcinogenesis
- Risk assessment
- Dose response
- Cancer biology
- Pesticide toxicity and human risk
- Nuclear receptor mediated toxicity
Eric Klopack
Assistant ProfessorEmail: eklopack@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Biological aging
- Population health
- Biomarkers and omics in aging
- Biodemography
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 EmeritusEmail: lkolbe@iu.edu
Meral Kucuk Yetgin
Visiting Research ScholarPhone: 812-320-7100
Email: mkucukye@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-4916-5661
Scholarly Interests
- Obesity
- Cardiometabolic Diseases
- Bariatric Surgery
- Exercise Prescription
- Healthy Lifestyle Behavior
- Public Health
- Weight Management
Douglas Landsittel
Adjunct ProfessorPhone: 812-856-0772
Email: dlandsi@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0452-304X
Scholarly 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
- Statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology
- Gene-by-gene and gene-by-environment interactions
- Integrative genomic analysis
- High dimensional data
- Non-parametric statistics
Scholarly Interests
- Substance Use and Misuse
- Tobacco Control
- Secondary Data Analysis
- Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes
Alice Lindeman
Associate Professor EmeritusEmail: lindema@iu.edu
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 AnalystEmail: longemi@iu.edu
Christina Ludema
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-9181
Email: cludema@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-810X
Scholarly 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
Phone: 812-855-9201
Email: amacagno@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4133-2098
Scholarly Interests
- Data management and analysis
- Project/Program management
- R programming
- REDCap programming
- Biology
- Scientific writing
Jon Macy
Assistant Dean for Academic ProgramsProfessor
Phone: 812-856-0704
Email: jtmacy@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-2925-8585
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 EmeritusEmail: marshall@iu.edu
Amanda McClain
Administrative CoordinatorEmail: amanpott@iu.edu
Laura McCloskey
Professor EmeritusEmail: lmcclosk@iu.edu
Scholarly 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
Blair McKissock
Associate Clinical ProfessorEmail: bmckisso@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Nature-based intervention efficacy and mechanisms of change
- Manualized treatment development in equine and animal-assisted services
- Implementation science in experiential and recreation therapy
- Facilitation competencies and engagement strategies
- Outdoor and adventure modalities for stress reduction and resilience
Scholarly Interests
- Program Evaluation
- Evaluation Consulting and Technical Assistance
- Strategic Planning
- systems Change and Community Prevention Programming
Joel F. Meier
Professor EmeritusEmail: jfmeier@iu.edu
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 EmeritusEmail: semiddle@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Theory
- Intervention design
- Behavior change
- Reasoned action approach
Wrenn Milbourn
Career Insights Data AnalystEmail: milbourn@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Behavioral change
- Intervention research
- Optimal management of diabetes
- Diabetes prevention
- Nutrition and lifestyle behaviors
Arthur Mindheim
Assistant Professor EmeritusEmail: mindheim@iu.edu
Tony Mobley
Dean EmeritusEmail: mobley@iu.edu
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
Phone: 812-856-7231
Email: bmoscick@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Resistance Training
- Triathlon Performance
- Soldier Performance
Rebecca Mueller
Research Associate and Public Health ConsultantPhone: 812-855-2196
Email: rebmuell@iu.edu
Ariel Mulinix
Financial Administration CoordEmail: arielm@iu.edu
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
Phone: 812-856-5213
Email: marjmurr@iu.edu
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
Corinne Nicholson
Food Services SupervisorEmail: cnichols@iu.edu
Cecilia Obeng
ProfessorDirector Maternal and Child Health Program
Phone: 812-856-0502
Email: cobeng@iu.edu
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)
Phone: 812-856-3380
Email: jotten@iu.edu
Zulfukar Ozdogan
Instructional Designer / Learning ConsultantEmail: zulfozdo@iu.edu
Melissa Pangelinan
Associate ProfessorDirector of All IN for Health, Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Email: mpangel@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-6087-2423
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
Phone: 812-856-1419
Email: chelsiep@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-5262-9693
Scholarly Interests
- Linear and generalized linear mixed models
- High Performance Computing
- Scientific writing
- R programming
- Multiple Imputation
Erik Parker
Research AssociateBiostatistician I
Phone: 812-856-0190
Email: erikpark@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-5537-7900
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
Assistant Dean for Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postdoctoral ResearchAssociate Professor
Phone: 812-856-5950
Email: map2@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-9763-1129
Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other drug use
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Mental Health
- Tobacco Regulatory Science
- Vulnerable Populations
Danielle Parker
Director of Events and CeremoniesEmail: bryantdm@indiana.edu
Armando Peña
Assistant ProfessorEmail: arpena@iu.edu
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
Scholarly Interests
- Muscle Health
- Obesity
- Cardiometabolic Health
- Aging Nutrition
- Gestational Diabetes
- Maternal Nutrition
- Controlled-feeding diet interventions
James Peterson
Professor EmeritusEmail: japete@iu.edu
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 SchedulingPhone: 812-856-3540
Email: aimpolk@iu.edu
Megan Post
Director of Graduate Engagement, Admissions, and RecruitmentPhone: 812-855-3923
Email: postm@iu.edu
Rebecca Prato
Administrative Assistant, Center for Health by DesignPhone: 812-855-0068
Email: rprato@iu.edu
Jiayao Qi
Clinical Assistant ProfessorEmail: qi1@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Organizational Behavior
- Human Resource Management
- Sport Analytics
- Research Method
Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other substance use
- Chronic pain
- Mental health
- Pharmacoepidemiology
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
Phone: 812-855-5096
Email: eramly@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-5023-0838
Michael Razo
Technology AssistantEmail: mrazo@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
- Substance abuse prevention
- Behavioral, social, and community health
E. Kevin Renshler
Program DirectorAssociate Clinical Professor
Phone: 812-855-4421
Email: edkrensh@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Strategy and Leadership
- Value Creation through Innovation
- Entrepreneurship in Non-Business Programs
- Community-Based Learning Opportunities
Desiree Reynolds
Research AssociatePhone: 812-855-7872
Email: desiree@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3250-5428
Scholarly Interests
- Disordered Gambling
- Behavioral Health
- Stress Management
Taylor Ritchie
Director of Content Creation and OutreachEmail: tayritch@iu.edu
Lisa Rizzi
Admin Generalist CoordinatorEmail: lrizzi@iu.edu
Jeffrey Roberts
Grant Program ManagerTechnical Writer and Editor
Phone: 812-855-1237
Email: jefwrobe@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Racial health disparities
- Hydration and health
- Dietary sodium and health
- Cardiovascular physiology
Roberto A. Rodríguez
Associate ProfessorEmail: roalrodr@iu.edu
Scholarly 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 ProfessorPhone: 812-856-1661
Email: mijrodri@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0816-8313
Scholarly 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
Phone: 812-855-6901
Email: jrojo@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-4062-8543
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 ProfessorPhone: 812-856-2509
Email: rosenmol@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-6679-6791
Scholarly 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 EmeritusEmail: cmross@iu.edu
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
Ruth Russell
Professor EmeritusEmail: russellr@iu.edu
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
Phone: 812-855-3029
Email: kryckman@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-9496-4147
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
- Public Health Technical Assistance
- Social Marketing and Communications
- Behavioral Health
- Community Service Design and Implementation
Scholarly Interests
- Athletic training education
Sofia Sanchez
Post Doctoral FellowEmail: sofosanc@iu.edu
Zachary Schlader
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-6953
Email: zschlade@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3590-3958
Scholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Renal physiology
- Integrative physiology
John Schrader
Clinical Professor EmeritusEmail: schrade@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Kinesiology
- Athletic training
Grace Sembajwe
Interim Executive Associate DeanProfessor
Phone: 812-856-5120
Email: gsembajw@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-7163-4743
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 FellowEmail: shikshar@iu.edu
Scholarly 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
- Experiential learning
- Classroom engagement
- Golf industry
- Education-based athletics
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
Phone: 812-855-2673
Email: csherwoo@iu.edu
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 EmeritusEmail: shier@iu.edu
Patricia Silveyra
Anthony D. Pantaleoni Eminent ScholarChair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Professor
Phone: 812-855-3979
Email: psilveyr@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-7083-8915
Scholarly Interests
- Molecular effects of vaping
- Animal models of environmental exposures
- Sex differences in asthma
- Air pollution and lung disease
Ivanka Simic Stanojevic
Assistant ProfessorPhone: 812-856-1095
Email: isimics@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-8581-354X
Scholarly Interests
- Disability and sexual health
- Women's sexual health
- LGBTQ+ sexual health
- Rough sex behaviors and autistic individuals
- Sexuality education for people with disabilities
- Sexual health support in recreational therapy practice
- Sexual behavior as leisure behavior
Susan Simmons
Assistant Dean for Career Development and Alumni RelationsPhone: 812-856-4437
Email: suscrowe@iu.edu
Braden Singleton
Academic SpecialistEmail: brsingle@iu.edu
Scholarly 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 ProgramPhone: 812-855-7334
Email: ksobiech@iu.edu
Christy Sparks
Graduate Admissions and Recruitment Communications Technology CoordinatorPhone: 812-855-3321
Email: ccsparks@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Metabolic Health
- Body Weight/Composition
- Dietary Interventions
Madelyn Springer
Research AnalystEmail: mrspring@iu.edu
Joel Stager
Professor EmeritusEmail: stagerj@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Human stress physiology
- Oxygen transport
- Human development and aging
- Competitive swimming
Scholarly Interests
- Ecological Momentary Assessment
- Recreational Therapy
- Digital Health Technology
- Digital Therapeutics
- Artificial Intelligence
Paul Surburg
Professor EmeritusEmail: surburg@iu.edu
Carmen Tekwe
The John & Carole Seffrin Endowed Professor of Public HealthPhone: 812-855-3787
Email: ctekwe@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-1857-2416
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 FellowPhone: 812-855-2006
Email: dethapa@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-5689-0837
Scholarly Interests
- Meta-research
- Clinical trials
- Epidemiological methods
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and replicability
- Aging research
- Program evaluation
- Nutrition and obesity research
Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition
Caitlin Thilges
Assistant Director of Events & CeremoniesEmail: caithilg@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Safety management at events
- Anticipating and addressing alcohol consumption and behavior at events
- Legal liability and risk management
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
- Health Communication
- Human AI Interaction
- Social Informatics and New Media Mining
Scholarly Interests
- Complex systems and their dynamics
- Mathematical and computational modeling of infectious diseases
Colby Vorland
Assistant Research ScientistPhone: 812-855-2758
Email: cvorland@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4225-372X
Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition
- Meta-research
- Research rigor and reproducibility
Janet Wallace
Professor EmeritusEmail: wallacej@iu.edu
Kate Wallace
Executive Director of Marketing, Communications, and OutreachPhone: 812-855-3217
Email: sullivak@iu.edu
Kelly Robert Walsh
Adjunct Associate ProfessorEmail: kerwalsh@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Healthy weight management
- Digestion and bioavailability
- General pediatric nutrition
- Premature infant nutrition/ metabolism
Eric Walsh-Buhi
Chair, Department of Applied Health ScienceProfessor
Phone: 812-855-4867
Email: erwals@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-1690-5352
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent health
- Sexual health promotion
- Health communication
- Digital health/social media
Jingyi Wang
Director, Didactic Program in DieteticsClinical Assistant Professor
Phone: 812-856-0792
Email: jw61@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Food insecurity
- Mental health
- Community nutrition
Kai Wang
Faculty/InstructorEmail: kwa2@iu.edu
Tyler Watkins
Financial Administration SpecialistEmail: jastwatk@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Food & water insecurity exposures and maternal-child nutrition and health
- Toxic metal exposure sources and maternal-child health
- Infectious disease epidemiology, prevention & control especially leishmaniasis and tuberculosis
Verena Werkmann
Post Doctoral FellowEmail: vwerkman@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Vector Biology and Control
- Vector Ecology
- Tropical Diseases
- Disease Ecology
Jerry Wilkerson
Professor EmeritusEmail: jedwilke@iu.edu
Michael S. Willett
Clinical ProfessorExecutive Assistant Dean
Phone: 812-855-6210
Email: mwillett@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Management (Sport Finance)
- Youth Fitness
- Strength Training
Antonio Williams
Beinner Family Professor in Sports Marketing and ManagementProfessor
Phone: 812-855-3061
Email: aw22@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Sport marketing
- Personal fitness
- Branding
Scholarly Interests
- Nonmarital and premarital pregnancies
- Transition to parenthood
- Romantic relationship development and stability
- Qualitative research
Stacey Wiseman
Clinical FacultyEmail: sclausin@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Geriatric nutrition
- Food allergies
- Home food production
Scholarly Interests
- Parent-Child Relations
- Child Development
- Maternal Child Health
- Professional Preparation
Eduardo Ximenes
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-4573
Email: eximene@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-9087-0218
Scholarly 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
Renata Ximenes
Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions and RecruitingPhone: 812-855-1965
Email: rximenes@iu.edu
William Yarber
Provost ProfessorSenior Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
Phone: 812-855-7974
Email: yarber@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Sexuality education
- Condom use
- Human sexuality
- Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS
- Disability and Sexual Health
Jerad Yeagley
Assistant Professor EmeritusEmail: yeagley@iu.edu
Hope Zeller
Project Coordinator, Hoosier Sport (Kinesiology)Adjunct Instructor (HEWD)
Email: hzeller@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Bayesian Methods
- Structural Equation Models
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Reliability Modeling
- Dimension Reduction
