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Jon Agley
Associate Professor
Deputy Director of Research, Prevention Insights
Scholarly Interests
- Program Evaluation
- Implementation Science
- Mental Health
- Substance Use and Comorbidity
Sixtus Aguree
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Maternal and pediatric obesity
- Micronutrient deficiencies (in particular, iron)
- Pregnancy, fetal, and child health
- Hydration and health
- Food systems and nutrition security
Marco Ajelli
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Mathematical epidemiology
- Computational public health
Kristen Allen-Watts
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Digital Phenotyping
- Telehealth
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Rural Health
- Cardiometabolic and HIV multimorbidity
- Community Based Participatory Research
David Allison
Dean
Distinguished Professor
Provost Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and integrity
- Clinical trials
- Causal inference
- Statistical methods
- Longevity, lifespan, and aging
- Obesity, energetics, nutrition
Jared Allsop
Clinical Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Pedagogy
- Active Learning
- Disability
- Chronic illness
- Summer camp
- Social effects
- Recreational Therapy
Randi 'Jeanie' Alter
Academic Specialist
Scholarly Interests
- Coordinated school health
- Adolescent substance use disorder prevention
- Non-profit management as it pertains to membership organizations
Trent Applegate
Senior Lecturer
Scholarly 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
Scholarly Interests
- Global 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
Scholarly Interests
- Public health partnerships
- Community engagement
- Coalition development
- Community health improvement plans
Charles Beeker
Clinical Professor
Director, Center for Underwater Science
Scholarly Interests
- Underwater Archaeology
- Shipwrecks as Marine Protected Areas
- Protection of underwater cultural and associated biological resources
- Scientific Diver training
Ana Bento
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Epidemiology, prevention and control of (re)-emerging infectious diseases
- Mathematical models of transmission
- Phylodynamics
- Bayesian inference
Aurelian Bidulescu
Associate Professor
Scholarly 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
Hannah Block
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Brain stimulation
- Neurophysiology
- Multisensory processing
- Sensorimotor learning
- Motor control
Robert Burns
Adjunct Professor of Practice
Kevin K. Byon
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport consumer behavior
- Sport marketing
- Sport service marketing
- Sport tourism
- Measurement/Statistics
Angela G. Campbell
Scholarly Interests
- Maternal and Child Health
- Racial Disparities and Health
- Substance Use and Addiction
- Population Health
- Electronic Health Records
Drew Capone
Scholarly Interests
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
- Environmental health microbiology
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment
- Fecal waste streams for public health surveillance
- Enteric pathogens
- Antimicrobial resistance
Stephen Carter
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Environmental physiology
- Exercise-oncology
- Gut microbiota and exercise training
- Therapeutic utility of hypoxia-/heat-therapy
Robert Chapman
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiopulmonary limitations to exercise performance
- Exercise performance of elite athletes
- Hypoxia
- Altitude training
Luis Chaves
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Quantitative Modeling
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Insect Vector Ecology
- Vector-Borne, Zoonotic and Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Climate Change Impacts on Health
Joseph Chen
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sustainability in hospitality and tourism
- Hospitality and tourism marketing
- Social impacts of tourism
Angela Chow
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Motivational development
- Lifespan development
- Mental health and well-being
Daniella Chusyd
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Health & Aging
- Anthropogenic Disturbances
- Pace of Aging
Paul Coates
Adjunct Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation
- Genetic Disorders of Human Lipoprotein Metabolism
Cassandra Coble
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Experimental Learning Techniques
- Youth Sport Management
- Youth Sport Travel
Shu Cole
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Travel experience of people with disabilities and the elderly
- Travel participation of people living with spinal cord injury
Sarah Commodore
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Air Quality
- Exposure Assessment
- Health Disparities
Raul Cruz
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Biostatistics
- Computational Statistics
- Data Analysis
- Tobacco and Nicotine Research
- Applied Time Series Analysis
Angela De Leon
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Biobehavioral determinants of food choice
- Motivations for eating
- Gender differences in dietary responses to stress
- Obesity
Michelle Del Rio
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Childhood lead poisoning prevention
- Heavy metal exposures and their effects on children
- Health impact assessments
- Interdisciplinary health sciences
Mallori DeSalle
Scholarly 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
Executive Director, Biostatistics Consulting Center
Scholarly Interests
- Logistic regression
- Linear mixed models
- Epidemiology
- Hypothesis testing
- Statistical consulting and collaboration
Carrie Docherty
Interim Vice Provost for Strategy and Innovation
Executive Associate Dean
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Proprioception and neuromuscular control
- Health related quality of life
- Ankle instability
Heather Eastman-Mueller
Academic Specialist
Scholarly Interests
- Sexual and reproductive health promotion
- Gender identity and expression
- College students knowledge, attitudes, behaviors
- Sex education and curriculum development
Kate Eddens
Associate Research Scientist
Scholarly 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
Kit Elam
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Gene-Environment Interplay
- Molecular and Behavioral Genetics
- Substance Use (Alcohol, Marijuana, Opioids)
Jennifer Engels
Adjunct Lecturer
Internship Coordinator
Scholarly Interests
- Aging and Longevity
- Life Span Development
- Career Development
Temitope Erinosho
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Under-served populations
- Rural
- Physical activity
- Obesity
- Early child care settings
- Reducing health disparities
Ellen Evans
Department Chair
Professor
Courtney Fecske
Clinical Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Disability sport
- Adaptive figure skating
- Qualitative methods
- Therapeutic recreation
- Inclusive teaching
Kathy Finley
Senior Lecturer
BSPH Internship Coordinator
SPH Honors Program Director
Scholarly Interests
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Cardiovascular Health
Brent Flickinger
Adjunct Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Food and Nutrition Regulations and Policy
- Intersection of Food Science and Nutrition and Public Health
- Research, Marketing and Reportage Quality
- Diet and Health
David Fluharty
Adjunct Professor of Practice
Scholarly Interests
- Connections among Philosophy of Science, Ethics, and Statistics
- Improving the teaching of statistics
Brian Forist
Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the outdoors and environmental professions
- Visitor-centered, two-way interpretation through dialogue
Karla Galaviz
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Behavior change
- Physical Activity
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diabetes
- HIV
- Implementation science
Ruth Gassman
Senior Scientist
Executive Director of Prevention Insights
Scholarly Interests
- Health services
- Drug abuse
- Alcohol abuse
Victoria Getty
Director, Didactic Program in Dietetics
Scholarly Interests
- Food system sustainability
- Nutrition education
Deb Getz
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Diversity education
- Curriculum design
- Leadership development
Virginia Githiri
Lecturer
Scholarly 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
Scholarly Interests
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes in adolescent
- Nutrient bioavailability
- Nutrition after bariatric surgery
- Nutritional interventions targeting obesity-related disease
Ines Gonzalez Casanova
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Life-course nutrition
- Cardiovascular disease and mental health comorbidities
- Child growth and development
- Implementation science
- Global Health
- Latino/Hispanic Health
Justin Greaves
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Virology
- Transport modeling of pathogens
- Wastewater based epidemiology for emerging pathogens
- Environmental microbiology
Hank Green
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Applied network science
- Health promotion
- Disease prevention
- Personal networks and health
Alison Greene
Assistant Professor
Scholarly 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
Allison Gruber
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Gait Biomechanics
- Running Injury
- Wearable Technology
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Cultural competency
- Indigenous groups
- Health disparities
- Latin America
- Reproductive policy
- Reproductive health
Jaroslaw Harezlak
Professor
Scholarly 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
Misty Hawkins
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Increasing representation of diverse voices in science
- Equity in clinical research and interventions, including Indigenous and rural populations
- Randomized controlled trials
- Psychosocial stress and wellness, including early life adversity
- Neurocognitive function & brain health
- Cardiometabolic health: obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease
Debby Herbenick
Professor
Director, Center for Sexual Health Promotion
Scholarly Interests
- Sexual behavior trends in the U.S.
- Sexual pleasure
- Rough sex behaviors
- Women's sexual health
- Population-representative sexual health
Richard Holden
Department Chair
Dean's Eminent Scholar
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Healthy aging and disease prevention
- Chronic disease and dementia care
- Technology-based interventions
- Health systems engineering
- Social psychology and behavior change
- Health equity and social determinants of health
Wura Jacobs
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention
- Social and behavioral epidemiology
- Biopsychosocial substance use determinants and risks
- Tobacco, cannabis, and opioids use/co-use
- Adolescent/young adult health and risk behaviors
Blair Johnson
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Exercise Physiology
- Autonomic Physiology
- Cardiovascular Physiology
- Environmental Physiology
- Concussion
Jeanne Johnston
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- College population
- Aging
- Technology
- Assessment
- Physical activity
Tanya Jones
Lecturer
Undergraduate Coordinator
Scholarly Interests
- Historical and sociocultural aspect of sport in modern society
- The intersection of race, politics, and sport and its effect on society
- Racial and gender equality in sport
Evan Jordan
Assistant Professor
Doctoral Research Coordinator
Scholarly Interests
- Stress
- Healthy Aging
- Emotions
- Wearable Technology
- Mobile Interventions
Mikyoung Jun
Assistant Research Scientist
Scholarly Interests
- Survey research methods
- Substance abuse prevention
Corey Kalbaugh
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Peripheral artery disease
- Health disparities
- Health equity
- Implicit bias
- Clinical epidemiology
- Vascular surgery
- Health care delivery
- Health services research
- Collaborative research
Keisuke Kawata
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Electroencephalography
- Ocular-motor system
- Blood biomarker
- Subconcussion
- Traumatic brain injury
Patrick Kelly
Academic Specialist
Scholarly Interests
- Victimization prevention
- Mind-body wellness
- Conflict de-escalation and resolution
- Aggression and violence in sport
- Martial arts
Kyle Kercher
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport governance
- Behavior change
- Cardiovascular disease prevention
- Diversity, equity, inclusion
- Multi-level physical activity interventions
- Sport-based youth development in underserved populations
Vanessa Kercher
Clinical Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Physical activity promotion
- Motivation
- Behavior change
- Program Assessment
- Survey methods
- Instrument Development
Junhyoung (Paul) Kim
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Mobile-based Multi-domain Intervention
- Virtual Reality
- Dementia Prevention
- Health Inequalities
- Minority Health
David Klurfeld
Adjunct Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition
- Prevention of chronic diseases
- Animal models
- Experimental design
Doug Knapp
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Impact of the outdoors on the quality of life of adolescents and teens
- Interpretation
- Environmental education
Julie Knapp
Clinical Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Pedagogy
- Active Learning
- Parks and Recreation's link to community health and wellness
- Continuing Education
- High Impact Learning Practices and Student Learning
- Leadership and Management
David Koceja
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Balance
- Motor control
- Elderly
- Spinal reflex system
- Neuromuscular control
Douglas Landsittel
James A. Caplin, M.D. Chair in Evidence-Based Public Health
Department Chair
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Comparative effectiveness research
- Patient-centered outcomes research
- Causal inference
- Propensity scores
Alyssa Lederer
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Health education and health promotion
- Intervention design and evaluation
- Adolescent and emerging adult health
- Sexual/reproductive health
- Public health workforce and instructional development
- Mixed methods inquiry
Ming Li
Associate Professor
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
Hsien-Chang Lin
Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Recruitment
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Vaping and smoking behaviors
- Prescription medication misuse
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Health services and outcomes research
- Health economics and policy
Margaret Lion
Senior Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Video and Hobby Gaming with Physical Activity and Health
- Active Learning
- Instructional Technology
Maria Litvinova
Assistant Research Scientist
Scholarly Interests
- Epidemiologic characteristics of infectious diseases
- Socio-economic drivers of infectious disease transmission
- Health disparities and vulnerable populations
- Infectious disease transmission and social networks
- Computational modeling
Nianjun Liu
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Statistical genetics and genomics
- Genetic epidemiology
- Bioinformatics
- High dimensional and big data
- Precision medicine
- Biostatistics
- Statistical methods
- Collaborative research
Christina Ludema
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Causal inference
- Social epidemiology
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Infectious diseases
Juhua Luo
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Environmental factors and cancer relationship
- Breast cancer
- Women's health
Jon Macy
Interim Assistant Dean for Graduate Education
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Scholarly Interests
- Public health policy
- Tobacco prevention
- Smoking cessation
- Tobacco control
- Youth sports safety and promotion
- Gun violence prevention
Leif Madsen
Clinical Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Functional Performance
- Cutaneous Reflexes
- CAI
Kevin Maki
Adjunct Professor of Practice
Dean's Eminent Scholar
Scholarly Interests
- Dietary and lifestyle interventions
Edward Mannix
Adjunct Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiopulmonary response to exercise in health and disease
- Exercise induced bronchospasm in athletes and regular exercisers
- Oxygen effect on energy metabolism in hypoxemic COPD
- Effectors of salt and water metabolism in hypoxemic COPD
Armin Marquez
Lecturer
Laura McCloskey
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Families and health
- Adolescent socio-sexual health
- Disparities in mental health
- Child abuse
- Violence against women
Alyssa McPherson
Academic Specialist
Scholarly Interests
- Athletic trainers as physician extenders
- Platelet-rich plasma
- Healthcare and injury in drum corps
- Performing arts medicine
- Dance medicine
Timothy Mickleborough
Professor
Scholarly 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
Michelle Miller
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Prescription for special populations
- Exercise program design
- Fitness assessment
Carla Miller
Professor
Director of the Doctoral Program in Nutrition
Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition and lifestyle behaviors
- Diabetes prevention
- Optimal management of diabetes
- Intervention research
- Behavioral change
Martha Morse
Lecturer
Brian Moscicki
Lecturer
Maresa Murray
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Social support
- Religiosity
- Media influence on families
- Ethnic minority families
- Family health
Cecilia Obeng
Professor
Scholarly 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
Karo Omodior
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Ecology of vector-borne diseases
- Global health & health disparities
- Mobile Health-based interventions
- Deep learning in Public Health
- Citizen science & community-based data monitoring
- One health
Arthur Owora
Gallahue Family Professor in Child Development
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sports Epidemiology
- Precision Medicine
- Maternal-Child Health
- Pharmaceutical Statistics
- Bayesian Methods
- Psychometrics
Melissa Pangelinan
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Adapted Physical Activity / Exercise
- Community Based Participatory Research
- Cognitive-Motor Development
- Developmental Disabilities
- Neurophysiology
- Rural Health
Maria Parker
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Vulnerable Populations
- Tobacco Regulatory Science
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Opioid and other drug use
Paul M. Pedersen
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport management
- Intercollegiate and interscholastic sports
- Sport organization personnel
- Sport communication
Cydne Perry
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Controlled-feeding diet interventions
- Maternal Nutrition
- Gestational Diabetes
- Aging Nutrition
- Cardiometabolic Health
- Obesity
- Muscle Health
Jennifer Piatt
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sexual Health and Disability
- Adaptive sports
- Socially Assistive Robots
- Social inclusion
Drew Pickett
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Physical Activity and Sport
- Health Disparities
- Aging and Chronic Conditions
- Program Planning, Design, and Evaluation
Patrick Quinn
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other substance use
- Mental health
- Chronic pain
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Behavioral genetics
John Raglin
Professor
Scholarly 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
Scholarly Interests
- Waterparks
- Swimming
- SOPARC
- Physical activity
- Water
- Pools
- Aquatics
Roberto A. Rodríguez
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Fate and transport of viruses in the environment
- UV Disinfection
- Ecology of enteric viruses
- Water reuse technologies and mechanisms of viral disinfection
- Rapid methods for determination of viral infectivity
Miriam Jocelyn Rodriguez
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Health disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)
- Neuropsychological functioning among ethnically diverse older adults
- Relationships between cultural factors and AD biomarkers
- Risk and protective factors among culturally diverse populations at risk for ADRD
- Healthy Aging across cultures
- Culturally adapted interventions for dementia patients and caregivers
Javier Rojo
Professor
Dean's Eminent Scholar
Scholarly Interests
- Algorithms to assess the reliability of complex systems with special attention to the power grid.
- Nonparametric function estimation with shape and order restrictions.
- Heavy-tailed densities (distributions), and connections with extreme value theory.
- Statistical decision theory and dimension reduction techniques.
- Partial orders of probability distributions.
- Estimation of distribution functions subjected to order restrictions.
- Nonparametric multivariate survival estimation.
Molly Rosenberg
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Social epidemiology
- Global health
- Poverty alleviation and health across the lifecourse
- Cash transfers, microfinance, micro-enterprise
- Cognitive aging
- Sexual health promotion
- Infectious disease epidemiology: HIV, STIs, SARS-CoV-2
Jerono Rotich
Associate Dean for Organizational Climate, Inclusion, and Belonging
Professor
Kelli Ryckman
Associate Dean for Research
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Scholarly Interests
- Perinatal epidemiology
- Maternal mental health
- Neonatal morbidity and mortality
- Genetic epidemiology
- Newborn screening
Rachel Ryder
Senior Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Physical activity
- Aging
- Neuromuscular control
- Motor control
Zachary Schlader
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Integrative physiology
- Renal physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Environmental physiology
- Exercise physiology
Dong-Chul Seo
Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Electronic cigarette and other tobacco use
- Substance use and addiction
- Behavior change
- Mental health
- Social network- and media-based approaches
- Evidence synthesis and quantitative methodology
Kan Shao
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Biostatistics
- Environmental policy
- Environmental modeling
- Dose-response analysis
- Health risk assessment
John Shea
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Wellness
- Human factors
- Ergonomics
- Training
- Motor learning
- Motor control
- Motor skills
Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin
Clinical Professor
Scholarly 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
Patricia Silveyra
Anthony D. Pantaleoni Eminent Scholar
Interim Department Chair
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Lung Inflammation
- Asthma
Kevin Slates
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Ergonomics
- Industrial hygiene
- Biological occupational and environmental hazards
- Unintentional injury prevention
David Smiley
Senior Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Golf and cognitive decline prevention
- Tourism and public health
- Technology and student learning outcomes
- Student persistence in higher education
Todd Smith
Associate Professor
Scholarly 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
Scholarly Interests
- Dietary Interventions
- Body Weight/Composition
- Metabolic Health
Carmen Tekwe
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Statistical Proteomics
- Aging
- Nutrition Epidemiology
- Statistical Methods for Medical Devices
- Physical Activity Assessment
- Radiation and Cancer Epidemiology
- Functional Data Analysis
- Latent Variable Models
- Measurement Error
Danny Valdez
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Quantitative Sampling and Measurement Practices for Underrepresented Populations
- Sexual Health Attitudes among Spanish-speaking Latinx communities
Colby Vorland
Assistant Research Scientist
Scholarly Interests
- Research rigor and reproducibility
- Meta-research
- Nutrition
Kelly Robert Walsh
Adjunct Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Premature infant nutrition/ metabolism
- General pediatric nutrition
- Digestion and bioavailability
- Healthy weight management
Eric Walsh-Buhi
Department Chair
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Digital health/social media
- Health communication
- Sexual health promotion
- Adolescent health
M. Margaret Weigel
Professor
Scholarly 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
Nicole Werner
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Human-centered design and participatory design
- Digital health and technology-based interventions
- Health systems engineering
- Dementia care
- Family caregiving and care networks
- Chronic condition management and prevention
- Social determinants of health and health equity
Michael Willett
Interim Executive Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Enrollment
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Strength Training
- Youth Fitness
- Sport Management (Sport Finance)
Antonio Williams
Interim Assistant Dean for Doctoral Research and Education Growth and Elevation
Beinner Family Professor in Sports Marketing and Management
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Branding
- Personal fitness
- Sport marketing
Eduardo Ximenes
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Human and Animal Food safety
- Sample preparation and pathogenic microorganism faster and sensitive methods development
- Microbiome/Antimicrobial Resistance
- Microbial derived products and related environmentally friendly new processes
William Yarber
Provost Professor
Senior Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
Scholarly Interests
- Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS
- Human sexuality
- Condom use
- Sexuality education
Mary Yoke
Visiting Lecturer
Scholarly 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
- Older Adult Activity Behavior
- Health Behavior
Juha Yoon
Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Mega sport events (e.g. Youth Olympic Games, Olympics)
- Social network analysis in Sport
- Sport communication and online communication networks
Roger S. Zoh
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Dimension Reduction
- Reliability Modeling
- Genomics
- Bioinformatics
- Structural Equation Models
- Bayesian Methods