
Jon Agley
Associate ProfessorDeputy Director of Research, Prevention Insights
Scholarly Interests
- Substance Use and Comorbidity
- Mental Health
- Implementation Science
- Program Evaluation
- Meta-Science (e.g., trust, methodology)

Scholarly Interests
- Food systems and nutrition security
- Hydration and health
- Pregnancy, fetal, and child health
- Micronutrient deficiencies (in particular, iron)
- Maternal and pediatric obesity

Scholarly Interests
- Computational public health
- Mathematical epidemiology
- Infectious disease epidemiology

David Allison
DeanDistinguished Professor
Provost Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Obesity, energetics, nutrition
- Longevity, lifespan, and aging
- Statistical methods
- Causal inference
- Clinical trials
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and integrity

Jared Allsop
Clinical Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Recreational Therapy
- Social effects
- Summer camp
- Chronic illness
- Disability
- Active Learning
- Pedagogy

Scholarly Interests
- 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

Scholarly Interests
- Community health improvement plans
- Coalition development
- Community engagement
- Public health partnerships

Charles Beeker
Clinical ProfessorDirector, Center for Underwater Science
Scholarly Interests
- Scientific Diver training
- Protection of underwater cultural and associated biological resources
- Shipwrecks as Marine Protected Areas
- Underwater Archaeology

Aurelian Bidulescu
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Risk assessment/stratification in large cohorts
- Predictive models and biomarkers for cardio-metabolic conditions/diseases
- Genetic epidemiology with emphasis on genome wide and epigenome-related association studies
- Global health and health disparities

Scholarly Interests
- Motor control
- Sensorimotor learning
- Multisensory processing
- Neurophysiology
- Brain stimulation

Scholarly Interests
- Implementing these policies
- Organization, national, and global food policies

Kevin K. Byon
ProfessorDirector of the Sport Marketing & Management Program
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Marketing
- Sport Consumer Behavior
- Sport Tourism
- Measurement/Statistics

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 ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Enteric pathogens
- Fecal waste streams for public health surveillance
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment
- Environmental health microbiology
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

Stephen Carter
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Therapeutic utility of hypoxia-/heat-therapy
- Gut microbiota and exercise training
- Exercise-oncology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology

Scholarly Interests
- Altitude training
- Hypoxia
- Exercise performance of elite athletes
- Cardiopulmonary limitations to exercise performance

Suvo Chatterjee
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Maternal and fetal health
- Bioinformatics
- Bayesian Methods
- Functional data analysis
- Genetic epidemiology
- Statistical genomics

Scholarly Interests
- Climate Change Impacts on Health
- Vector-Borne, Zoonotic and Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Insect Vector Ecology
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Quantitative Modeling

Scholarly Interests
- Social impacts of tourism
- Hospitality and tourism marketing
- Sustainability in hospitality and tourism

Scholarly Interests
- Mental health and well-being
- Lifespan development
- Motivational development

Scholarly Interests
- Pace of Aging
- Anthropogenic Disturbances
- Health & Aging

Richard Cleland
Adjunct Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Deceptive Advertising of Health-Related Products
- Regulation of the Marketing of Health-Related Products
- Substantiation of Health Claims

Paul Coates
Adjunct ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Genetic Disorders of Human Lipoprotein Metabolism
- Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation

Scholarly Interests
- Youth Sport Travel
- Youth Sport Management
- Experimental Learning Techniques

Scholarly Interests
- 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

Scholarly Interests
- Law
- Health
- Policy
- Service
- Internship
- AmeriCorps

Scholarly Interests
- Pedagogy
- Students
- Curriculum
- School health

Scholarly Interests
- Sociology
- Quantitative methods

Scholarly Interests
- Applied Time Series Analysis
- Tobacco and Nicotine Research
- Data Analysis
- Computational Statistics
- Biostatistics

Scholarly Interests
- Obesity
- Gender differences in dietary responses to stress
- Motivations for eating
- Biobehavioral and environmental determinants of food choice

Scholarly Interests
- Environmental justice
- Interdisciplinary health sciences
- Health impact assessments
- Children's environmental health
- Childhood lead poisoning prevention

Stephanie Dickinson
Academic SpecialistExecutive Director, Biostatistics Consulting Center
Scholarly Interests
- Linear mixed models

Carrie Docherty
Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic AffairsProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Ankle instability
- Health related quality of life
- Proprioception and neuromuscular control

Heather Eastman-Mueller
Clinical Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Sex education and curriculum development
- College students knowledge, attitudes, behaviors
- Gender identity and expression
- Sexual and reproductive health promotion

Kate Eddens
Associate Research ScientistScholarly Interests
- Health-related technology development
- Cancer prevention, control, and survivorship
- Applied health communication
- Methods and measurement
- Social epidemiology
- Social network methods and analysis
- Health inequalities

Scholarly Interests
- Climate change
- Agriculture & the environment
- Socio-economic systems
- Human behavior & decision-making
- Communication & media

Scholarly Interests
- Behavior and Molecular Genetics
- Peer and Family Functioning
- Mental Health
- Alcohol, Marijuana, Vaping
- Adolescent and Early Adult Development

Scholarly Interests
- Career Development
- Life Span Development
- Aging and Longevity

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
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Law
- Intercollegiate Athletics
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Kathy Finley
Senior LecturerDean's Fellow and SPH Honors Program Director
BSPH Internship Coordinator: Community Health and Epidemiology
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiovascular Health
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Scholarly Interests
- Diet and Health
- Research, Marketing and Reportage Quality
- Intersection of Food Science and Nutrition and Public Health
- Food and Nutrition Regulations and Policy

David Fluharty
Senior LecturerDepartmental Director of Undergraduate Studies
Scholarly Interests
- Improving the teaching of statistics
- Connections among Philosophy of Science, Ethics, and Statistics

Scholarly Interests
- Visitor-centered, two-way interpretation through dialogue
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the outdoors and environmental professions

Stephen French
Adjunct Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Food Science and Technology
- Public Health
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Feeding Behavior
- Energy Balance

Scholarly Interests
- Disabilities
- Physical activity

Scholarly Interests
- Implementation science
- HIV
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Behavioral science

Edlin Garcia Colato
Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Workplace mental health
- Help-seeking behaviors
- Mental health literacy
- Behavioral health

Ruth Gassman
Senior ScientistExecutive Director of Prevention Insights
Scholarly Interests
- Alcohol abuse
- Drug abuse
- Health services

Victoria Getty
Senior LecturerDirector, Didactic Program in Dietetics
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Dietary sodium and health
- Hydration and health
- Racial health disparities
- Exercise physiology

Scholarly Interests
- Leadership development
- Curriculum design
- Diversity education

Scholarly Interests
- Physical activity and weight-loss maintenance
- African American women and physical activity
- Innovative teaching strategies
- Faith-based physical activity
- Sport and future physical activity

Nana Gletsu Miller
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Nutritional interventions targeting obesity-related disease
- Nutrition after bariatric surgery
- Nutrient bioavailability
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes in adolescent

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

Allison Gruber
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Wearable Technology
- Running Injury
- Gait Biomechanics

Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Reproductive health
- Reproductive decision-making
- Latin America
- Health disparities
- Indigenous groups
- Culturally responsive frameworks

Scholarly Interests
- 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 ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Cardiometabolic health: obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease
- Neurocognitive function & brain health
- Psychosocial stress and wellness, including early life adversity
- Randomized controlled trials
- Equity in clinical research and interventions, including Indigenous and rural populations
- Increasing representation of diverse voices in science

Debby Herbenick
Provost ProfessorDean's Eminent Scholar
Director, Center for Sexual Health Promotion
Scholarly Interests
- Population-representative sexual health
- Women's sexual health
- Rough sex behaviors
- Sexual pleasure
- Sexual behavior trends in the U.S.

Jordan Hill
Assistant Research ScientistScholarly Interests
- Health equity
- Family caregiving
- Telehealth
- Technology-based interventions
- Health systems engineering
- Human-centered design and universal design
- Human factors and ergonomics

Richard Holden
Assistant Dean for Faculty SuccessProfessor
Dean's Administrative Fellow for Organizational Strategy
Founding Director, Center for Health by Design
Dean's Eminent Scholar
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

Scholarly Interests
- Berry bioactives
- Oxidative stress and inflammation

Scholarly Interests
- Physical education teacher education
- PE K-12
- Aquatics

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 ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Esports consumer behavior
- Sport consumer behavior
- Sport marketing
- Measurement
- Sportscape

Scholarly Interests
- Concussion
- Environmental Physiology
- Cardiovascular Physiology
- Autonomic Physiology
- Exercise Physiology

Jeanne Johnston
Clinical ProfessorAssociate Chair, Academic Affairs
Scholarly Interests
- Physical activity
- Assessment
- Technology
- Aging
- College population

Evan Jordan
Interim ChairAssociate 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 HealthScholarly Interests
- Survey Research
- Abortion Attitudes
- Influence of alcohol intoxication on correlates of sexual assault
- Sexual violence prevention
- Sexual consent and refusal communication

Scholarly Interests
- Substance abuse prevention
- Survey research methods

Corey Kalbaugh
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Collaborative research
- Health services research
- Health care delivery
- Vascular surgery
- Clinical epidemiology
- Implicit bias
- Health equity
- Health disparities
- Peripheral artery disease

Lisa Kamendulis
Associate ProfessorAssociate Chair
Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology of PFAS Chemicals
- Contribution of Environmental Chemicals on Disease
- Obesity and Cancer
- Animal Models of Human Diseases

Scholarly Interests
- 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 ProfessorScholarly 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

Jackie Kingma
Clinical Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Manual Therapy
- Rehabilitation Techniques
- Spine Injuries and Conditions
- General Medicine in Athletics
- Connective Tissue Pathology

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

Douglas Landsittel
Adjunct ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Propensity scores
- Causal inference
- Patient-centered outcomes research
- Comparative effectiveness research

Scholarly Interests
- Home health care
- Hospice
- Nature-based interventions
- Alzheimer's disease
- Health equity
- Participatory approaches
- Gerontology

Scholarly Interests
- Mixed methods inquiry
- Public health workforce and instructional development
- Sexual/reproductive health
- Adolescent and emerging adult health
- Intervention design and evaluation
- Health education and health promotion

Scholarly Interests
- Non-parametric statistics
- High dimensional data
- Next-generation sequencing
- Genome-wide association studies
- Gene-by-gene and gene-by-environment interactions
- Statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology

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

Christina Ludema
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Infectious diseases
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social epidemiology
- Causal inference

Scholarly Interests
- Women's health
- Breast cancer
- Environmental factors and cancer relationship

Jon Macy
Assistant Dean for Academic ProgramsProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Gun violence prevention
- Youth sports safety and promotion
- Tobacco control
- Smoking cessation
- Tobacco prevention
- Public health policy

Scholarly Interests
- CAI
- Cutaneous Reflexes
- Functional Performance

Scholarly Interests
- Dietary and lifestyle interventions

Scholarly Interests
- Effectors of salt and water metabolism in hypoxemic COPD
- Oxygen effect on energy metabolism in hypoxemic COPD
- Exercise induced bronchospasm in athletes and regular exercisers
- Cardiopulmonary response to exercise in health and disease


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

Scholarly Interests
- Behavioral change
- Intervention research
- Optimal management of diabetes
- Diabetes prevention
- Nutrition and lifestyle behaviors


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
Scholarly Interests
- Resistance Training
- Triathlon Performance
- Soldier Performance

Scholarly Interests
- Family health
- Ethnic minority families
- Media influence on families
- Religiosity
- Social support
- Emotional Intelligence
- Organizational Communication

Josephine Mwangi
Associate InstructorScholarly Interests
- Community engagement
- Health disparities
- Addictive behavior, specifically substance use and commodity

Stephen O’Brien
Visiting Senior Scientist
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 ProfessorDirector of All IN for Health, Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Scholarly Interests
- Adapted Physical Activity / Exercise
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Developmental Disabilities
- Implementation Science
- Mental and Physical Health
- Rural Health

Maria Parker
Interim Assistant Dean for Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postdoctoral ResearchAssistant Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other drug use
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Tobacco Regulatory Science
- Vulnerable Populations

Armando Peña
Assistant ProfessorScholarly 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

Scholarly Interests
- Program Planning, Design, and Evaluation
- Aging and Chronic Conditions
- Health Disparities
- Physical Activity and Sport

Jiayao Qi
Clinical Assistant ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Organizational Behavior
- Human Resource Management
- Sport Analytics
- Research Method

Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other substance use Chronic pain Mental health Pharmacoepidemiology Behavioral genetics

Scholarly Interests
- Behavioral and psychological determinants of physical activity
- The placebo effect in sport and exercise
- Pacing strategies in sport performance
- Overtraining syndrome
- Anxiety and sport performance
- Exercise and mental health

Edmond Ramly
Associate ProfessorProgram Director of Design & Implementation Sciences


Scholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Racial health disparities
- Hydration and health
- Dietary sodium and health
- Cardiovascular physiology

Roberto A. Rodríguez
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Rapid methods for determination of viral infectivity
- Water reuse technologies and mechanisms of viral disinfection
- Ecology of enteric viruses
- UV Disinfection
- Fate and transport of viruses in the environment

Miriam Jocelyn Rodriguez
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Culturally adapted interventions for dementia patients and caregivers
- Healthy Aging across cultures
- Risk and protective factors among culturally diverse populations at risk for ADRD
- Relationships between cultural factors and AD biomarkers
- Neuropsychological functioning among ethnically diverse older adults
- Health disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)

Javier Rojo
ProfessorDean's Eminent Scholar
Scholarly Interests
- Nonparametric multivariate survival estimation.
- Estimation of distribution functions subjected to order restrictions.
- Partial orders of probability distributions.
- Statistical decision theory and dimension reduction techniques.
- Heavy-tailed densities (distributions), and connections with extreme value theory.
- Nonparametric function estimation with shape and order restrictions.
- Algorithms to assess the reliability of complex systems with special attention to the power grid.

Molly Rosenberg
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Infectious disease epidemiology: HIV, STIs, SARS-CoV-2
- Sexual health promotion
- Cognitive aging
- Cash transfers, microfinance, micro-enterprise
- Poverty alleviation and health across the lifecourse
- Global health
- Social epidemiology

Jerono Rotich
Associate Dean for Organizational Climate, Inclusion, and BelongingProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Immigration and refugee health Community health engagement Behavior modification and obesity prevention Public health and global partnerships Health disparities, diversity, and inclusion Behavior Modification and psychosocial determinants of physical activity Health Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Youth Development and Underserved Youth Sports Immigrant and Refugee Acculturation Global Heal and International Education Community Engagement

Scholarly Interests
- Medicare Population
- Health Policy Implications
- Econometrics and Causal Inference Methods
- Healthy Aging
- Gerontology
- Health Economics
- Health Disparities Research
- Health Services Research in Aging

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
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
- Athletic training education

Zachary Schlader
Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Renal physiology
- Integrative physiology

Grace Sembajwe
Interim Department Chair for Epidemiology and BiostatisticsProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Exposure Assessment
- Occupational Epidemiology
- Risk Assessment

Scholarly Interests
- Health disparities and structural interventions
- Mental health
- Opioid misuse and overdose
- Nicotine and marijuana vaping

Scholarly Interests
- Health risk assessment
- Dose-response analysis
- Environmental modeling
- Environmental policy
- Biostatistics

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
- Global health
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
- Social determinants of health
- Experiential learning in global public health

Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin
Clinical ProfessorAssociate Chair
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Professional Development and Training
- Sexuality Education in School and Community-Based Settings
- Intervention Design and Implementation
- Community Health Needs and Assets Assessments
- Community-Based Participatory Research

Patricia Silveyra
Anthony D. Pantaleoni Eminent ScholarDepartment Chair
Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Molecular effects of vaping
- Animal models of environmental exposures
- Sex differences in asthma
- Air pollution and lung disease

Braden Singleton
Academic SpecialistScholarly Interests
- Military
- Performance
- Tactical
- Strength

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

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

Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition

Scholarly Interests
- Safety management at events
- Anticipating and addressing alcohol consumption and behavior at events
- Legal liability and risk management

Scholarly Interests
- Explainable machine learning for causal inference
- Health geography and disparity
- Life course approach to the environmental exposures
- High- and multi-dimensional data integration
- Molecular epidemiology

Scholarly Interests
- Sexual Health Attitudes among Spanish-speaking Latinx communities
- Quantitative Sampling and Measurement Practices for Underrepresented Populations

Colby Vorland
Assistant Research ScientistScholarly Interests
- Nutrition
- Meta-research
- Research rigor and reproducibility

Kelly Robert Walsh
Adjunct Associate ProfessorScholarly Interests
- Healthy weight management
- Digestion and bioavailability
- General pediatric nutrition
- Premature infant nutrition/ metabolism

Eric Walsh-Buhi
Department ChairProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent health
- Sexual health promotion
- Health communication
- Digital health/social media

Scholarly Interests
- Food insecurity
- Mental health
- Community nutrition


Michael S. Willett
Executive Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and EnrollmentClinical Associate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Management (Sport Finance)
- Youth Fitness
- Strength Training

Antonio Williams
Beinner Family Professor in Sports Marketing and ManagementProfessor
Scholarly Interests
- Sport marketing
- Personal fitness
- Branding

Scholarly Interests
- Parent-Child Relations
- Child Development
- Maternal Child Health
- Professional Preparation

Eduardo Ximenes
Associate ProfessorScholarly 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

William Yarber
Provost ProfessorSenior Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
Scholarly Interests
- Sexuality education
- Condom use
- Human sexuality
- Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS
- Disability and Sexual Health

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)

Scholarly Interests
- Bayesian Methods
- Structural Equation Models
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Reliability Modeling
- Dimension Reduction