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Daniel Agley
Assistant Research Scientist
Research Interests
- Disaster preparedness
- Health promotion
- Evaluation research
Jon Agley
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Program Evaluation
- Implementation Science
- Mental Health
- Substance Use and Comorbidity
David Allison
Dean
Distinguished Professor
Provost Professor
Research Interests
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and integrity
- Clinical trials
- Causal inference
- Statistical methods
- Longevity, lifespan, and aging
- Obesity, energetics, nutrition
Jared Allsop
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Disability
- Chronic illness
- Summer camp
- Social effects
- Therapeutic recreation
Randi "Jeanie" Alter
Academic Specialist
Nicole Anderson
Director of International Programs
Trent Applegate
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
- School health
- Automated External Defibrillation (AED)
- CPR retention
- School health
- Automated External Defibrillation (AED)
- CPR retention
- School health
- Automated External Defibrillation (AED)
- CPR retention
Rodrigo Armijos
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Gobal health
- Health challenges of Latinos/Hispanics, other ethnic minority groups, and immigrants
- Food insecurity, health, and health care
- Epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious diseases
- Air pollutant exposure (especially UFP and PM2.5), inflammation, oxidative
Priscilla Barnes
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Private organizations
- Public organizations
- Health disparities
- Public health systems
Jonathon Beckmeyer
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Family health
- Family systems
- Romantic experiences
- Substance use
- Adolescent and young adult health
Charles Beeker
Clinical Professor
Research Interests
- Scientific diver training
- Protection of underwater cultrural and associated biological resource
- Shipwrecks as marine protected areas
- Underwater archaeology
Ana Bento
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Epidemiology, prevention and control of (re)-emerging infectious diseases
- Mathematical models of transmission
- Phylodynamics
- Bayesian inference
Aurelian Bidulescu
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Global health and health disparities
- Genetic epidemiology with emphasis on genome wide and epigenome-related association studies
- Predictive models and biomarkers for cardio-metabolic conditions/diseases
- Risk assessment/stratification in large cohorts
Earl Blair
Visiting Lecturer in Safety Management
Research Interests
- Safety and Organizational Culture
- Safety Related Behavior
- Safety Performance Measurement
- Safety Education
Hannah Block
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Brain stimulation
- Neurophysiology
- Multisensory processing
- Sensorimotor learning
- Motor control
Andrew Brown
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Research rigor and reproducibility
- Meta-research
- Obesity
- Nutrition
Robert Burns
Adjunct Professor of Practice
Kevin Byon
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Sport consumer behavior
- Sport marketing
- Sport service marketing
- Sport tourism
- Measurement/Statistics
Stephen Carter
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Therapeutic utility of hypoxia-/heat-therapy
- Exercise-oncology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
Keith Chapin
Clinical Associate Professor
Robert Chapman
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Cardiopulmonary limitations to exercise performance
- Exercise performance of elite athletes
- Hypoxia
- Altitude training
Zhongxue Chen
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Collaborative researches
- Statistical genetics
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Bayesian methods
- Meta-analysis
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Linear mixed models
- Clinical trial
- Nonparametric methods
- Statistical hypothesis testing
Joseph Chen
Professor
Research Interests
- Sustainability in hospitality and tourism
- Hospitality and tourism marketing
- Social impacts of tourism
Angela Chow
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Motivational development
- Lifespan development
- Mental health and well-being
Cassandra Coble
Clinical Assistant Professor
Shu Cole
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Tourism development
- Service evaluation in travel & hospitality
- Travel behavior
- Accessible travel & hospitality
Gina Depper
Assistant Research Scientist
Mallori DeSalle
Research Associate
Research Interests
- Dissemination of evidence-based strategies
- Use of motivational Interviewing in healthcare
- Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in primary care
Stephanie Dickinson
Academic Specialist
Research Interests
- Logistic regression
- Linear mixed models
- Epidemiology
- Hypothesis testing
- Statistical consulting and collaboration
Carrie Docherty
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Professor
Research Interests
- Proprioception and neuromuscular control
- Health related quality of life
- Ankle instability
Brian Dodge
Professor
Research Interests
- Bisexuality
- Risk and protective factors for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI)
- Sexual and gender minority (SGM) health and well-being
- Sexuality-related stigma and resilience
Kate Eddens
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Health inequalities
- Social network methods and analysis
- Social epidemiology
- Methods and measurement
- Applied health communication
- Cancer prevention, control, and survivorship
- Health-related technology development
Keisuke Ejima
Assistant Research Scientist
Research Interests
- Mathematical & Statistical Model
- Reporting Bias
- Obesity/Nutrition Epidemiology
Kit Elam
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Gene-Environment Interplay
- Molecular and Behavioral Genetics
- Substance Use (Alcohol, Marijuana, Opioids)
Ruth Engs
Professor Emerita
Research Interests
- Health history
- Alcohol abuse
- Spiritual health
- Health reform
Alan Ewert
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
- Natural environments
- Risk motivation
- Military veterans
- Resilience
- Outdoor adventure
Courtney Fecske
Clinical Associate Professor
Kathy Finley
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Cardiovascular Health
Alyce Fly
Professor
Research Interests
- Nutrition
- Diet and peripheral vascular health
- Breastfeeding
- Diet and peripheral vascular health
- Obesity
- School interventions
Brian Forist
Lecturer
Research Interests
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the outdoors and environmental professions
- Visitor-centered, two-way interpretation through dialogue
Deb Getz
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Diversity education
- Curriculum design
- Leadership development
Shawn Gibbs
Executive Associate Dean
Professor
Research Interests
- Personal protective equipment
- Industrial hygiene
- Highly infectious disease management
- Ebola Virus Disease
- Biocontainment
- Bioaerosols
- Antibiotic resistance
Kathleen Gilbert
Professor Emerita
Research Interests
- Qualitative research
- Cross-national research
- Stress and resilience in the family
- Loss and meaning making
- Infant and pregnancy loss
- Death of a child
- Loss and grieving in the context of family
- Bereavement
Virginia Githiri
Lecturer
Research Interests
- Sport and future physical activity
- Faith-based physical activity
- Women and sport
- African American women and physical activity
- Physical activity and weight-loss maintenance
Nana Gletsu Miller
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes in adolescent
- Nutrient bioavailability
- Nutrition after bariatric surgery
- Nutritional interventions targeting obesity-related disease
Hank Green
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Applied network science
- Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Personal networks and health
Alison Greene
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Evidence-based treatment
- Technology utilization in treatment
- Cost analysis
- Process evaluation
- System-level change
- Mental health
- Juvenile drug courts
- Adolescent substance abuse treatment
- Substance use disorders
- Sexual health
- Sexual health education
- Health education for youth
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Cultural competency
- Indigenous groups
- Health disparities
- Latin America
- Reproductive policy
- Reproductive health
Jaroslaw Harezlak
Interim Department Co-Chair, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Professor
Research Interests
- Physical activity and accelerometry
- Network analysis
- HIV-related cognitive impairment
- Brain imaging
- Clustered and longitudinal data analysis
- Mixed model methodology
- Structured high-dimensional data
- Statistical regularization methods
- Functional data analysis
Barbara Hawkins
Professor Emerita
Research Interests
- Genealogy for life fulfillment
- Methodologies for longitudinal research
- Designing environments for active aging
- Aging well through active living
Debra Herbenick
Professor
Research Interests
- Male and female sexual function
- Condom use
- Sexual pleasure
- Sexual enhancement products
- Women's sexual health
Brandon Howell
Dean's Chief of Operations and Special Projects
Lecturer
Research Interests
- Restaurant public health practices
- Biohazard and infectious disease training in hospitality operations
- Hospitality and event management
Wasantha Jayawardene
Assistant Research Scientist
Research Interests
- Obesity and effectiveness of obesity interventions
- Use of alcohol, tobacco, opioids, and other drugs
- Intersection of substance use behaviors and obesity
- Rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in research
Larissa Jennings Mayo-Wilson
Associate Professor
Jeanne Johnston
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests
- College population
- Aging
- Technology
- Assessment
- Physical activity
Evan Jordan
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Stress
- Coping
- Emotions
- Tourism impacts
- Tourism planning and development
- Wearable and mobile measurement tools
Kristen Jozkowski
Professor
Mikyoung Jun
Assistant Research Scientist
Research Interests
- Survey research methods
- Substance abuse prevention
Keisuke Kawata
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Electroencephalography
- Ocular-motor system
- Blood biomarker
- Subconcussion
- Traumatic brain injury
Noy Kay
Clinical Professor
Research Interests
- Death education
- International health study
- Lifestyles education
- Health promotion
Patrick Kelly
Academic Specialist
Research Interests
- Victimization prevention
- Mind-body wellness
- Conflict de-escalation and resolution
- Aggression and violence in sport
- Martial arts
Carol Kennedy-Armbruster
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
- Healthy lifestyles
- Water exercise
- Functional training
Vanessa Kercher
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Physical activity promotion
- Motivation
- Behavior change
- Program Assessment
- Survey methods
- Instrument Development
Khalid Khan
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Agricultural and rural health
- Children and adolescent health
- Effects of environmental hazards on brain development and thyroid hormones
- Water and Health
- Hearing Conservation
Junhyoung (Paul) Kim
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Disability/Disorder
- Leisure Activities
- Minority health
- Successful aging
James Klaunig
Professor
Research Interests
- Nuclear receptor mediated toxicity
- Pesticide toxicity and human risk
- Cancer biology
- Dose response
- Risk assessment
- Carcinogenesis
- Toxicology
Doug Knapp
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Global environmental issues
- Interpretation
- Environmental education
Julie Knapp
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Internship experiences
- Student learning
- Leadership
- Management
David Koceja
Department Chair, Kinesiology
Professor
Research Interests
- Balance
- Motor control
- Elderly
- Spinal reflex system
- Neuromuscular control
Carrie Lawrence
Assistant Research Scientist
Bill Layden
Adjunct Professor of Practice
Aurora Le
Academic Specialist
Research Interests
- Infectious diseases of public health significance
- Worker Training
- Occupational Safety & Health
- Biosafety
Ming Li
Associate Professor
Research 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
Hsien-Chang Lin
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Vaping and smoking behaviors
- Prescription medication misuse
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Health services and outcomes research
- Health economics and policy
Margaret Lion
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
- Video and Hobby Gaming with Physical Activity and Health
- Active Learning
- Instructional Technology
Nianjun Liu
Interim Department Co-Chair, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Professor
Research Interests
- Collaborative research
- Statistical methods
- Biostatistics
- Precision medicine
- High dimensional and big data
- Bioinformatics
- Genetic epidemiology
- Statistical genetics and genomics
David Lohrmann
Professor
Research Interests
- HIV/STD prevention
- Sexuality education
- Drug abuse prevention
- Tobacco
- Alcohol
- Health education
- School health promotion
Christina Ludema
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Causal inference
- Social epidemiology
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Infectious diseases
Juhua Luo
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Environmental factors and cancer relationship
- Breast cancer
- Women's health
Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson
Department Chair, Environmental and Occupational Health
Professor
Jon Macy
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Program evaluation
- Tobacco prevention
- Smoking cessation
- Tobacco control
- Health policy
Leif Madsen
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Functional Performance
- Cutaneous Reflexes
- CAI
Evan Mayo-Wilson
Associate Professor
Laura McCloskey
Professor
Research Interests
- Families and health
- Adolescent socio-sexual health
- Disparities in mental health
- Child abuse
- Violence against women
Alyssa McPherson
Academic Specialist
Research Interests
- Athletic trainers as physician extenders
- Platelet-rich plasma
- Healthcare and injury in drum corps
- Performing arts medicine
- Dance medicine
Joel F. Meier
Professor Emeritus
Timothy Mickleborough
Professor
Research Interests
- Human stress physiology
- Contributions of central and peripheral factors in human muscle fatigue
- Respiratory system determinants of fatigue in health and disease
- Cardiopulmonary limitations to exercise
- Respiratory disorders in athletes
Susan Middlestadt
Professor
Research Interests
- Reasoned action approach
- Behavior change
- Intervention design
- Theory
Michelle Miller
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Research Interests
- Prescription for special populations
- Exercise program design
- Fitness assessment
Alison Miller
Visiting Lecturer
Martha Morse
Lecturer
Brian Moscicki
Lecturer
Rasul Mowatt
Professor
Research Interests
- Critical pedagogy
- Cultural studies
- Social justice
- Leisure behavior
Maresa Murray
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Social support
- Religiosity
- Media influence on families
- Ethnic minority families
- Family health
Tyler Neimeyer
Visiting Lecturer
Research Interests
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Physical activity, & green space
- Leisure & stress management
Erik Nelson
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Recruitment for online studies
- Multilevel models
- Bayesian spatial statistics
- Substance abuse
- Health disparities
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Cancer screening and prevention
- Spatio-temporal epidemiology
Cecilia Obeng
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Culture, Care, and Child Health
- Pre-School Children's Health
- The Role of the Family in the Development of the Child Especially Children with Health Problems
- Culture and Immigrant Families' Health
- Infant Feeding (Breastfeeding) and Child Health
Courtney Olcott
Assistant Research Scientist
Research Interests
- Feminist scholarship
- Adolescent mental health
- Substance abuse prevention
- Program development, management, and evaluation
Karo Omodior
Assistant Professor
Arthur Owora
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Sports Epidemiology
- Precision Medicine
- Maternal-Child Health
- Pharmaceutical Statistics
- Bayesian Methods
- Psychometrics
Maria Parker
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Vulnerable Populations
- Tobacco Regulatory Science
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Opioid and other drug use
Charles Pearce
Academic Specialist
Research Interests
- Human Error - Industrial Design
- Motor Skills & Motor Learning
- Ergonomics & Human Factors
Paul M. Pedersen
Professor
Research Interests
- Sport management
- Intercollegiate and interscholastic sports
- Sport organization personnel
- Sport communication
Jennifer Piatt
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Spinal cord injury
- Adaptive sports
- Specialized camps
- Social inclusion
Patrick Quinn
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Behavioral genetics
- Opioid and other substance use
- Clinical psychology
John Raglin
Professor
Research Interests
- The placebo effect in sport and exercise
- Overtraining syndrome in athletes Pacing and sport performance
- Anxiety and sport performance
- Exercise and mental health
William Ramos
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Waterparks
- Swimming
- SOPARC
- Physical activity
- Water
- Pools
- Aquatics
Molly Rosenberg
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Time-to-event analysis
- Social epidemiology
- Sexual health promotion
- Structural drivers of HIV and sexually transmitted infections
Zachary Schlader
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Renal physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Environmental physiology
- Exercise physiology
Kan Shao
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Biostatistics
- Environmental policy
- Environmental modeling
- Dose-response analysis
- Health risk assessment
John Shea
Professor
Research Interests
- Wellness
- Human factors
- Ergonomics
- Training
- Motor learning
- Motor control
- Motor skills
Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin
Clinical Professor
Research Interests
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Community Health Needs and Assets Assessments
- Intervention Design and Implementation
- Sexuality Education in School and Community-Based Settings
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Professional Development and Training
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Joanna Shimek
Clinical Assistant Professor
Kevin Slates
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Ergonomics
- Industrial hygiene
- Biological occupational and environmental hazards
- Unintentional injury prevention
David Smiley
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests
- Golf and cognitive decline prevention
- Tourism and public health
- Technology and student learning outcomes
- Student persistence in higher education
Todd Smith
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Firefighter safety and health
- Workplace health promotion
- Occupational health psychology
- Ergonomics & human factors
- Injury prevention and control
- Safety culture/climate
- Occupational safety and health
Lisa Spence
Assistant Research Scientist
Carmen Tekwe
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Statistical Proteomics
- Aging
- Nutrition Epidemiology
- Statistical Methods for Medical Devices
- Physical Activity Assessment
- Radiation and Cancer Epidemiology
- Functional Data Analysis
- Latent Class Analysis
- Latent Variable Models
- Measurement Error
Celina Thomas
Visiting Lecturer
Mohammad Torabi
Chancellor's Professor
Research Interests
- HIV/AIDS
- Drug abuse
- Prevention
- Public health education
Danny Valdez
Assistant Professor
Eric Walsh-Buhi
Department Chair, Applied Health Science
Professor
Margaret Weigel
Professor
Research Interests
- Air pollution and cardiorespiratory health of women and children
- Household food insecurity: impact on diet, nutrition, health, and development
- Global environmental health
- Environmental and occupational epidemiology
Michael Willett
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Strength Training
- Youth Fitness
- Sport Management (Sport Finance)
Pengcheng Xun
Associate Scientist
Research Interests
- Computer-intensive method
- Dimension reduction
- Meta-analysis
- Nutrition epidemiology
- Statistical methods
William Yarber
Provost Professor
Research Interests
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Human sexuality
- Sex
- AIDS/HIV
Mary Yoke
Visiting Lecturer
Research Interests
- Energy Expenditure Measurement
- Self-affirmation and the Intention to be Active
- Pleasure Versus Exercise Intensity
- The Role of Pleasure in Physical Activity
- Physical Activity in the Workplace
- Guidelines for Light (non-exercise) Activity
- Sedentary Behavior
- Physical Activity Beliefs
- Health Behavior
- Older Adult Activity Behavior
Juha Yoon
Lecturer
Research Interests
- Mega sport events (e.g. Youth Olympic Games, Olympics)
- Social network analysis in Sport
- Sport communication and online communication networks
Sarah Young
Interim Department Chair, Recreation Park and Tourism Studies
Professor
Research Interests
- Community health issues
- Youth sports
- Physical activity motivational readiness
- Legal issues in recreation
Roger S. Zoh
Associate Professor
Research Interests
- Dimension Reduction
- Reliability Modeling
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Structural Equation Models
- Bayesian Methods