Jon Agley
Associate Professor
Deputy Director of Research, Prevention Insights
Scholarly Interests
- Substance Use and Comorbidity
- Mental Health
- Implementation Science
- Program Evaluation
Sixtus Aguree
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Food systems and nutrition security
- Hydration and health
- Pregnancy, fetal, and child health
- Micronutrient deficiencies (in particular, iron)
- Maternal and pediatric obesity
Marco Ajelli
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Computational public health
- Mathematical epidemiology
- Infectious disease epidemiology
David Allison
Dean
Distinguished Professor
Provost Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Obesity, energetics, nutrition
- Longevity, lifespan, and aging
- Statistical methods
- Causal inference
- Clinical trials
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and integrity
Jared Allsop
Clinical Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Recreational Therapy
- Social effects
- Summer camp
- Chronic illness
- Disability
- Active Learning
- Pedagogy
Rodrigo Armijos
Associate Professor
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
Funmilola Ayeni
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Mechanisms of bacterial antibiotic resistance
- Therapeutic foods
- Characterization of bacterial strains as probiotics
- Influence of various factors on the gut microbiota
Priscilla Barnes
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Community health improvement plans
- Coalition development
- Community engagement
- Public health partnerships
Charles Beeker
Clinical Professor
Director, Center for Underwater Science
Scholarly Interests
- Scientific Diver training
- Protection of underwater cultural and associated biological resources
- Shipwrecks as Marine Protected Areas
- Underwater Archaeology
Aurelian Bidulescu
Associate Professor
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
Hannah Block
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Motor control
- Sensorimotor learning
- Multisensory processing
- Neurophysiology
- Brain stimulation
Robert Burns
Adjunct Professor of Practice
Scholarly Interests
- Implementing these policies
- Organization, national, and global food policies
Kevin K. Byon
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Measurement/Statistics
- Sport tourism
- Sport service marketing
- Sport marketing
- Sport consumer behavior
Angela G. Campbell
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Electronic Health Records
- Population Health
- Substance Use and Addiction
- Racial Disparities and Health
- Maternal and Child Health
Ricky Camplain
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Study Design
- Health Equity
- Social and Structural Determinants of Health
- Community Engagement and Community Based Participatory Research
- Physical Activity Epidemiology
- Indigenous Health
- Incarceration and Health
Drew Capone
Assistant Professor
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 Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Therapeutic utility of hypoxia-/heat-therapy
- Gut microbiota and exercise training
- Exercise-oncology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
Robert Chapman
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Altitude training
- Hypoxia
- Exercise performance of elite athletes
- Cardiopulmonary limitations to exercise performance
Suvo Chatterjee
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Maternal and fetal health
- Bioinformatics
- Bayesian Methods
- Functional data analysis
- Genetic epidemiology
- Statistical genomics
Luis Chaves
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Climate Change Impacts on Health
- Vector-Borne, Zoonotic and Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Insect Vector Ecology
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Quantitative Modeling
Joseph Chen
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Social impacts of tourism
- Hospitality and tourism marketing
- Sustainability in hospitality and tourism
Angela Chow
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Mental health and well-being
- Lifespan development
- Motivational development
Daniella Chusyd
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Pace of Aging
- Anthropogenic Disturbances
- Health & Aging
Richard Cleland
Adjunct Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Deceptive Advertising of Health-Related Products
- Regulation of the Marketing of Health-Related Products
- Substantiation of Health Claims
Paul Coates
Adjunct Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Genetic Disorders of Human Lipoprotein Metabolism
- Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation
Cassandra Coble
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Youth Sport Travel
- Youth Sport Management
- Experimental Learning Techniques
Shu Cole
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Travel participation of people living with spinal cord injury
- Travel experience of people with disabilities and the elderly
Sarah Commodore
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Health Disparities
- Exposure Assessment
- Air Quality
Raul Cruz
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Applied Time Series Analysis
- Tobacco and Nicotine Research
- Data Analysis
- Computational Statistics
- Biostatistics
Angela De Leon
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Obesity
- Gender differences in dietary responses to stress
- Motivations for eating
- Biobehavioral and environmental determinants of food choice
Michelle Del Rio
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Environmental justice
- Interdisciplinary health sciences
- Health impact assessments
- Children's environmental health
- Childhood lead poisoning prevention
Stephanie Dickinson
Academic Specialist
Executive Director, Biostatistics Consulting Center
Scholarly Interests
- Statistical consulting and collaboration
- Hypothesis testing
- Epidemiology
- Linear mixed models
- Logistic regression
Carrie Docherty
Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Ankle instability
- Health related quality of life
- Proprioception and neuromuscular control
Heather Eastman-Mueller
Clinical Associate Professor
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 Scientist
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
Jessica Eise
Assistant Professor
Kit Elam
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Behavior and Molecular Genetics
- Peer and Family Functioning
- Mental Health
- Alcohol, Marijuana, Vaping
- Adolescent and Early Adult Development
Jennifer Engels
Adjunct Lecturer
Internship Coordinator
Scholarly Interests
- Career Development
- Life Span Development
- Aging and Longevity
Temitope Erinosho
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Reducing health disparities
- Early child care settings
- Obesity
- Physical activity
- Rural
- Under-served populations
Ellen Evans
Department Chair
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Clinical and community-based interventions
- Weight management behaviors
- Applied exercise physiology
Kathy Finley
Senior Lecturer
Dean's Fellow and SPH Honors Program Director
BSPH Internship Coordinator: Community Health and Epidemiology
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiovascular Health
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Brent Flickinger
Adjunct Associate Professor
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
Visiting Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Improving the teaching of statistics
- Connections among Philosophy of Science, Ethics, and Statistics
Brian Forist
Senior Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Visitor-centered, two-way interpretation through dialogue
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the outdoors and environmental professions
Stephen French
Adjunct Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Food Science and Technology
- Public Health
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Feeding Behavior
- Energy Balance
Karla Galaviz
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Implementation science
- HIV
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Physical Activity
- Behavior change
Edlin Garcia Colato
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Workplace mental health
- Help-seeking behaviors
- Mental health literacy
- Behavioral health
Ruth Gassman
Senior Scientist
Executive Director of Prevention Insights
Scholarly Interests
- Alcohol abuse
- Drug abuse
- Health services
Victoria Getty
Senior Lecturer
Director, Didactic Program in Dietetics
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Dietary sodium and health
- Hydration and health
- Racial health disparities
- Exercise physiology
Deb Getz
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Leadership development
- Curriculum design
- Diversity education
Virginia Githiri
Senior Lecturer
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 Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Nutritional interventions targeting obesity-related disease
- Nutrition after bariatric surgery
- Nutrient bioavailability
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes in adolescent
Ines Gonzalez Casanova
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Latino/Hispanic Health
- Global Health
- Implementation science
- Child growth and development
- Cardiovascular disease and mental health comorbidities
- Life-course nutrition
Justin Greaves
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Environmental microbiology
- Wastewater based epidemiology for emerging pathogens
- Transport modeling of pathogens
- Virology
Hank Green
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Personal networks and health
- Disease prevention
- Health promotion
- Applied network science
Alison Greene
Assistant Professor
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
Allison Gruber
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Wearable Technology
- Running Injury
- Gait Biomechanics
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Reproductive health
- Reproductive decision-making
- Latin America
- Health disparities
- Indigenous groups
- Culturally responsive frameworks
Jaroslaw Harezlak
Professor
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
Misty Hawkins
Associate Professor
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
Debby Herbenick
Provost Professor
Dean's Eminent Scholar
Director, Center for Sexual Health Promotion
Scholarly Interests
- Population-representative sexual health
- Women's sexual health
- Rough sex behaviors
- Sexual pleasure
- Sexual behavior trends in the U.S.
Jordan Hill
Assistant Research Scientist
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 Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology of PFAS
- Obesity and Cancer
- Chemical Carcinogenesis
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Cancer Biology
Richard Holden
Department Chair
Dean's Eminent Scholar
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Health equity and social determinants of health
- Social psychology and behavior change
- Health systems engineering
- Technology-based interventions
- Chronic disease and dementia care
- Healthy aging and disease prevention
Wura Jacobs
Assistant Professor
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)
Wooyoung (William) Jang
Clinical Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Esports consumer behavior
- Sport consumer behavior
- Sport marketing
- Measurement
- Sportscape
Blair Johnson
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Concussion
- Environmental Physiology
- Cardiovascular Physiology
- Autonomic Physiology
- Exercise Physiology
Jeanne Johnston
Clinical Professor
Associate Chair, Academic Affairs
Scholarly Interests
- Physical activity
- Assessment
- Technology
- Aging
- College population
Evan Jordan
Assistant Professor
Associate Chair of Strategic Initiatives
Scholarly Interests
- Mobile Interventions
- Wearable Technology
- Ecological Momentary Assessment
- Healthy Aging
- Stress
Kristen Jozkowski
William L. Yarber Endowed Professor in Sexual Health
Scholarly Interests
- Survey Research
- Abortion Attitudes
- Influence of alcohol intoxication on correlates of sexual assault
- Sexual violence prevention
- Sexual consent and refusal communication
Mikyoung Jun
Assistant Research Scientist
Scholarly Interests
- Substance abuse prevention
- Survey research methods
Corey Kalbaugh
Associate Professor
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 Professor
Associate Chair
Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology of PFAS Chemicals
- Contribution of Environmental Chemicals on Disease
- Obesity and Cancer
- Animal Models of Human Diseases
Keisuke Kawata
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Traumatic brain injury
- Subconcussion
- Blood biomarker
- Ocular-motor system
- Electroencephalography
NiCole Keith
Executive Associate Dean
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Physical Activity
- Health Equity
- Healthy Aging
- Built Environment
- Social Justice
- Inclusive Science
Patrick Kelly
Academic Specialist
Scholarly Interests
- Martial arts
- Aggression and violence in sport
- Conflict de-escalation and resolution
- Mind-body wellness
- Victimization prevention
Kyle Kercher
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport-based youth development in underserved populations
- Multi-level physical activity interventions
- Diversity, equity, inclusion
- Cardiovascular disease prevention
- Behavior change
- Sport governance
Vanessa (Martinez) Kercher
Assistant Professor
David Klurfeld
Adjunct Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Experimental design
- Animal models
- Prevention of chronic diseases
- Nutrition
Julie Knapp
Clinical Assistant Professor
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
David Koceja
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Neuromuscular control
- Spinal reflex system
- Elderly
- Motor control
- Balance
Douglas Landsittel
Adjunct Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Propensity scores
- Causal inference
- Patient-centered outcomes research
- Comparative effectiveness research
Becca Lassell
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Home health care
- Hospice
- Nature-based interventions
- Alzheimer's disease
- Health equity
- Participatory approaches
- Gerontology
Alyssa Lederer
Associate Professor
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
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
Duan Li
Part Time Employee
Margaret Lion
Senior Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Instructional Technology
- Active Learning
- Video and Hobby Gaming with Physical Activity and Health
Maria Litvinova
Assistant Professor
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
Nianjun Liu
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Collaborative research
- Statistical methods
- Biostatistics
- Precision medicine
- High dimensional and big data
- Bioinformatics
- Genetic epidemiology
- Statistical genetics and genomics
Christina Ludema
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Infectious diseases
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social epidemiology
- Causal inference
Juhua Luo
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Women's health
- Breast cancer
- Environmental factors and cancer relationship
Jon Macy
Assistant Dean for Graduate Education
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Gun violence prevention
- Youth sports safety and promotion
- Tobacco control
- Smoking cessation
- Tobacco prevention
- Public health policy
Leif Madsen
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- CAI
- Cutaneous Reflexes
- Functional Performance
Kevin Maki
Adjunct Professor of Practice
Dean's Eminent Scholar
Scholarly Interests
- Dietary and lifestyle interventions
Edward Mannix
Adjunct Professor
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
Jordan McIntire
Clinical Assistant Professor
Lucrecia Mena-Meléndez
Assistant Research Scientist
Scholarly Interests
- Spanish-speaking Latinx research
- Mixed methodologies
- Survey research
- Abortion attitudes
- Sexual and reproductive health
Timothy Mickleborough
Professor
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
Carla Miller
Professor
Director of the Master's and Doctoral Programs in Nutrition
Scholarly Interests
- Behavioral change
- Intervention research
- Optimal management of diabetes
- Diabetes prevention
- Nutrition and lifestyle behaviors
Martha Morse
Lecturer
Brian Moscicki
Lecturer
Undergraduate Coordinator for the B.S. in Kinesiology - Exercise Science Major
Coordinator for the M.S. in Kinesiology Sport and Coaching Science Track
Scholarly Interests
- Resistance Training
- Triathlon Performance
- Soldier Performance
Maresa Murray
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Family health
- Ethnic minority families
- Media influence on families
- Religiosity
- Social support
- Emotional Intelligence
- Organizational Communication
Josephine Mwangi
Associate Instructor
Scholarly Interests
- Community engagement
- Health disparities
- Addictive behavior, specifically substance use and commodity
Stephen O’Brien
Visiting Senior Scientist
Cecilia Obeng
Professor
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
Melissa Pangelinan
Associate Professor
Director of All IN for Health, Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Scholarly Interests
- Adapted Physical Activity / Exercise
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Developmental Disabilities
- Implementation Science
- Mental and Physical Health
- Rural Health
Maria Parker
Interim Assistant Dean for Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postdoctoral Research
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other drug use
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Tobacco Regulatory Science
- Vulnerable Populations
Paul M. Pedersen
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport communication
- Sport organization personnel
- Intercollegiate and interscholastic sports
- Sport management
Cydne Perry
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Muscle Health
- Obesity
- Cardiometabolic Health
- Aging Nutrition
- Gestational Diabetes
- Maternal Nutrition
- Controlled-feeding diet interventions
Drew Pickett
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Program Planning, Design, and Evaluation
- Aging and Chronic Conditions
- Health Disparities
- Physical Activity and Sport
Jiayao Qi
Clinical Assistant Professor
Patrick Quinn
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other substance use
- Chronic pain
- Mental health
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Behavioral genetics
John Raglin
Professor
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 Professor
Program Director of Design & Implementation Sciences
William Ramos
Associate Professor
Austin Robinson
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Racial health disparities
- Hydration and health
- Dietary sodium and health
- Cardiovascular physiology
Roberto A. Rodríguez
Associate Professor
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 Professor
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
Professor
Dean's Eminent Scholar
Scholarly Interests
- Nonparametric multivariate survival estimation.
- Estimation of distribution functions subjected to order restrictions.
- Partial orders of probability distributions.
- Statistical decision theory and dimension reduction techniques.
- Heavy-tailed densities (distributions), and connections with extreme value theory.
- Nonparametric function estimation with shape and order restrictions.
- Algorithms to assess the reliability of complex systems with special attention to the power grid.
Molly Rosenberg
Associate Professor
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
Jerono Rotich
Associate Dean for Organizational Climate, Inclusion, and Belonging
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Immigration and refugee health
- Community health engagement
- Behavior modification and obesity prevention
- Public health and global partnerships
- Health disparities, diversity, and inclusion
- Behavior Modification and psychosocial determinants of physical activity
- Health Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
- Youth Development and Underserved Youth Sports
- Immigrant and Refugee Acculturation
- Global Heal and International Education
- Community Engagement
Indrakshi Roy
Assistant Professor
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
Bret Rust
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
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 Research
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Scholarly Interests
- Newborn screening
- Genetic epidemiology
- Neonatal morbidity and mortality
- Maternal mental health
- Perinatal epidemiology
Rachel Ryder
Senior Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Motor control
- Neuromuscular control
- Aging
- Physical activity
Zachary Schlader
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Renal physiology
- Integrative physiology
Grace Sembajwe
Interim Department Chair for Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Exposure Assessment
- Occupational Epidemiology
- Risk Assessment
Dong-Chul Seo
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Health disparities and structural interventions
- Mental health
- Opioid misuse and overdose
- Nicotine and marijuana vaping
Kan Shao
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Health risk assessment
- Dose-response analysis
- Environmental modeling
- Environmental policy
- Biostatistics
Brian Shaw
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Instructional design and assessment in higher education
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and reporting
- Measurement and psychometrics
- Quantitative research methods
John Shea
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Motor skills
- Motor control
- Motor learning
- Training
- Ergonomics
- Human factors
- Wellness
Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin
Clinical Professor
Associate Chair
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Professional Development and Training
- Sexuality Education in School and Community-Based Settings
- Intervention Design and Implementation
- Community Health Needs and Assets Assessments
- Community-Based Participatory Research
Patricia Silveyra
Anthony D. Pantaleoni Eminent Scholar
Department Chair
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Molecular effects of vaping
- Animal models of environmental exposures
- Sex differences in asthma
- Air pollution and lung disease
Kevin Slates
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Unintentional injury prevention
- Biological occupational and environmental hazards
- Industrial hygiene
- Ergonomics
David Smiley
Senior Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Student persistence in higher education
- Technology and student learning outcomes
- Tourism and public health
- Golf and cognitive decline prevention
Todd Smith
Associate Professor
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
Carmen Tekwe
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Measurement Error
- Latent Variable Models
- Latent ClassAnalysis
- Functional Data Analysis
- Radiation and Cancer Epidemiology
- Physical Activity Assessment
- Statistical Methods for Medical Devices
- Nutrition Epidemiology
- Aging
- Statistical Proteomics
Celina Thomas
Lecturer
Scholarly Interests
- Safety management at events
- Anticipating and addressing alcohol consumption and behavior at events
- Legal liability and risk management
Kedir Turi
Assistant Professor
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
Danny Valdez
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sexual Health Attitudes among Spanish-speaking Latinx communities
- Quantitative Sampling and Measurement Practices for Underrepresented Populations
Colby Vorland
Assistant Research Scientist
Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition
- Meta-research
- Research rigor and reproducibility
Kelly Robert Walsh
Adjunct Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Healthy weight management
- Digestion and bioavailability
- General pediatric nutrition
- Premature infant nutrition/ metabolism
Eric Walsh-Buhi
Department Chair
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent health
- Sexual health promotion
- Health communication
- Digital health/social media
M. Margaret Weigel
Professor
Nicole Werner
Dean's Eminent Scholar
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Social determinants of health and health equity
- Chronic condition management and prevention
- Family caregiving and care networks
- Dementia care
- Health systems engineering
- Digital health and technology-based interventions
- Human-centered design and participatory design
Michael S. Willett
Executive Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Enrollment
Clinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Management (Sport Finance)
- Youth Fitness
- Strength Training
Antonio Williams
Beinner Family Professor in Sports Marketing and Management
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport marketing
- Personal fitness
- Branding
Eduardo Ximenes
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Microbial derived products and related environmentally friendly new processes
- Microbiome/Antimicrobial Resistance
- Sample preparation and pathogenic microorganism faster and sensitive methods development
- Human and Animal Food safety
William Yarber
Provost Professor
Senior Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
Scholarly Interests
- Sexuality education
- Condom use
- Human sexuality
- Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS
- Disability and Sexual Health
Juha Yoon
Lecturer
Master's Degree Coordinator
Scholarly Interests
- Sport communication and online communication networks
- Social network analysis in Sport
- Mega sport events (e.g. Youth Olympic Games, Olympics)
Hope Zeller
Project Coordinator, Hoosier Sport (Kinesiology)
Adjunct Instructor (HEWD)
Roger S. Zoh
Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Bayesian Methods
- Structural Equation Models
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Reliability Modeling
- Dimension Reduction