Jon Agley
Associate ProfessorDeputy Director of Research, Prevention Insights
Phone: 812-855-3123
Email: jagley@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Substance Use and Comorbidity
- Mental Health
- Implementation Science
- Program Evaluation
- Meta-Science (e.g., trust, methodology)
Scholarly Interests
- Food systems and nutrition security
- Hydration and health
- Pregnancy, fetal, and child health
- Micronutrient deficiencies (in particular, iron)
- Maternal and pediatric obesity
Scholarly Interests
- Computational public health
- Mathematical epidemiology
- Infectious disease epidemiology
David Allison
DeanDistinguished Professor
Provost Professor
Phone: 812-855-1250
Email: allison@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3566-9399
Scholarly Interests
- Obesity, energetics, nutrition
- Longevity, lifespan, and aging
- Statistical methods
- Causal inference
- Clinical trials
- Research rigor, reproducibility, and integrity
Jared Allsop
Clinical Assistant ProfessorPhone: 812-856-3683
Email: jallsop@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-1065-1942
Scholarly Interests
- Recreational Therapy
- Social effects
- Summer camp
- Chronic illness
- Disability
- Active Learning
- Pedagogy
Scholarly Interests
- 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
Phone: 812-855-5748
Email: cbeeker@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Scientific Diver training
- Protection of underwater cultural and associated biological resources
- Shipwrecks as Marine Protected Areas
- Underwater Archaeology
Aurelian Bidulescu
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-7776
Email: abidules@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-8211-8309
Scholarly Interests
- Risk assessment/stratification in large cohorts
- Predictive models and biomarkers for cardio-metabolic conditions/diseases
- Genetic epidemiology with emphasis on genome wide and epigenome-related association studies
- Global health and health disparities
Scholarly Interests
- Motor control
- Sensorimotor learning
- Multisensory processing
- Neurophysiology
- Brain stimulation
Scholarly Interests
- Implementing these policies
- Organization, national, and global food policies
Scholarly Interests
- Measurement/Statistics
- Sport tourism
- Sport service marketing
- Sport marketing
- Sport consumer behavior
Scholarly Interests
- Electronic Health Records
- Population Health
- Substance Use and Addiction
- Racial Disparities and Health
- Maternal and Child Health
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
Scholarly Interests
- Indigenous Health
- Tribal Sovereignty
- Health and Healthcare while Incarcerated
- Systems Change
- Social and Structural Determinants of Health
- Community Based Participatory Research
- Legal Epidemiology
Drew Capone
Assistant ProfessorEmail: dscapone@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Enteric pathogens
- Fecal waste streams for public health surveillance
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment
- Environmental health microbiology
- Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
Stephen Carter
Assistant ProfessorPhone: 812-855-6593
Email: stjcarte@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-5625-0883
Scholarly Interests
- Therapeutic utility of hypoxia-/heat-therapy
- Gut microbiota and exercise training
- Exercise-oncology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
Scholarly Interests
- Altitude training
- Hypoxia
- Exercise performance of elite athletes
- Cardiopulmonary limitations to exercise performance
Suvo Chatterjee
Assistant ProfessorPhone: 812-855-3579
Email: suvchat@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-9771-109X
Scholarly Interests
- Maternal and fetal health
- Bioinformatics
- Bayesian Methods
- Functional data analysis
- Genetic epidemiology
- Statistical genomics
Scholarly Interests
- Climate Change Impacts on Health
- Vector-Borne, Zoonotic and Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Insect Vector Ecology
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Quantitative Modeling
Scholarly Interests
- Social impacts of tourism
- Hospitality and tourism marketing
- Sustainability in hospitality and tourism
Scholarly Interests
- Mental health and well-being
- Lifespan development
- Motivational development
Scholarly Interests
- Pace of Aging
- Anthropogenic Disturbances
- Health & Aging
Richard Cleland
Adjunct Associate ProfessorEmail: rcleland@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Deceptive Advertising of Health-Related Products
- Regulation of the Marketing of Health-Related Products
- Substantiation of Health Claims
Paul Coates
Adjunct ProfessorEmail: pmcoates@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Genetic Disorders of Human Lipoprotein Metabolism
- Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation
Scholarly Interests
- Youth Sport Travel
- Youth Sport Management
- Experimental Learning Techniques
Scholarly Interests
- 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
Phone: 812-856-9010
Email: sd3@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-2998-4467
Scholarly Interests
- Statistical consulting and collaboration
- Hypothesis testing
- Epidemiology
- Linear mixed models
- Logistic regression
Carrie Docherty
Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic AffairsProfessor
Phone: 812-856-6035
Email: cdochert@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Ankle instability
- Health related quality of life
- Proprioception and neuromuscular control
Heather Eastman-Mueller
Clinical Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-4851
Email: heastman@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4376-0977
Scholarly Interests
- Sex education and curriculum development
- College students knowledge, attitudes, behaviors
- Gender identity and expression
- Sexual and reproductive health promotion
Kate Eddens
Associate Research ScientistPhone: 812-855-6002
Email: keddens@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-7783-4156
Scholarly Interests
- Health-related technology development
- Cancer prevention, control, and survivorship
- Applied health communication
- Methods and measurement
- Social epidemiology
- Social network methods and analysis
- Health inequalities
Scholarly Interests
- Climate change
- Agriculture & the environment
- Socio-economic systems
- Human behavior & decision-making
- Communication & media
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
Kathy Finley
Senior LecturerDean's Fellow and SPH Honors Program Director
BSPH Internship Coordinator: Community Health and Epidemiology
Phone: 812-855-0854
Email: kfinley@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiovascular Health
- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Scholarly Interests
- Diet and Health
- Research, Marketing and Reportage Quality
- Intersection of Food Science and Nutrition and Public Health
- Food and Nutrition Regulations and Policy
David Fluharty
Senior LecturerDepartmental Director of Undergraduate Studies
Phone: 812-855-5964
Email: dfluhart@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Improving the teaching of statistics
- Connections among Philosophy of Science, Ethics, and Statistics
Scholarly Interests
- Visitor-centered, two-way interpretation through dialogue
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in the outdoors and environmental professions
Stephen French
Adjunct Associate ProfessorEmail: sjfrench@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Food Science and Technology
- Public Health
- Nutrition
- Obesity
- Feeding Behavior
- Energy Balance
Scholarly Interests
- Disabilities
- Physical activity
Scholarly Interests
- Implementation science
- HIV
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Physical Activity
- Behavior change
Edlin Garcia Colato
Assistant ProfessorPhone: 812-855-3102
Email: eggarcia@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-6927-120X
Scholarly Interests
- Workplace mental health
- Help-seeking behaviors
- Mental health literacy
- Behavioral health
Ruth Gassman
Senior ScientistExecutive Director of Prevention Insights
Phone: 812-855-1237
Email: rgassman@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Alcohol abuse
- Drug abuse
- Health services
Victoria Getty
Senior LecturerDirector, Didactic Program in Dietetics
Phone: 812-855-1531
Email: vgetty@iu.edu
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 ProfessorPhone: 812-855-7643
Email: ngletsum@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4400-4428
Scholarly Interests
- Nutritional interventions targeting obesity-related disease
- Nutrition after bariatric surgery
- Nutrient bioavailability
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes in adolescent
Scholarly Interests
- Latino/Hispanic Health
- Global Health
- Implementation science
- Child growth and development
- Cardiovascular disease and mental health comorbidities
- Life-course nutrition
Scholarly Interests
- Environmental microbiology
- Wastewater based epidemiology for emerging pathogens
- Transport modeling of pathogens
- Virology
Scholarly Interests
- Personal networks and health
- Disease prevention
- Health promotion
- Applied network science
Scholarly Interests
- Health education for youth
- Sexual health education
- Sexual health
- Substance use disorders
- Adolescent substance abuse treatment
- Juvenile drug courts
- Mental health
- System-level change
- Process evaluation
- Cost analysis
- Technology utilization in treatment
- Evidence-based treatment
Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition
- Dietetics
- Nursing
Allison Gruber
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-2447
Email: ahgruber@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0750-5656
Scholarly Interests
- Wearable Technology
- Running Injury
- Gait Biomechanics
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-7663
Email: luguerra@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3300-0720
Scholarly Interests
- Reproductive health
- Reproductive decision-making
- Latin America
- Health disparities
- Indigenous groups
- Culturally responsive frameworks
Scholarly Interests
- 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 ProfessorEmail: miahawki@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Cardiometabolic health: obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease
- Neurocognitive function & brain health
- Psychosocial stress and wellness, including early life adversity
- Randomized controlled trials
- Equity in clinical research and interventions, including Indigenous and rural populations
- Increasing representation of diverse voices in science
Debby Herbenick
Provost ProfessorDean's Eminent Scholar
Director, Center for Sexual Health Promotion
Phone: 812-855-7011
Email: debby@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0352-2248
Scholarly Interests
- Population-representative sexual health
- Women's sexual health
- Rough sex behaviors
- Sexual pleasure
- Sexual behavior trends in the U.S.
Jordan Hill
Assistant Research ScientistEmail: jrh6@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Health equity
- Family caregiving
- Telehealth
- Technology-based interventions
- Health systems engineering
- Human-centered design and universal design
- Human factors and ergonomics
Barbara Hocevar
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-2481
Email: bhocevar@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-1840-4305
Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology of PFAS
- Obesity and Cancer
- Chemical Carcinogenesis
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Cancer Biology
Richard Holden
Department ChairDean's Eminent Scholar
Professor
Phone: 812-856-6265
Email: rjholden@iu.edu
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 ProfessorPhone: 812-855-5523
Email: jangwoo@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3131-7521
Scholarly Interests
- Esports consumer behavior
- Sport consumer behavior
- Sport marketing
- Measurement
- Sportscape
Scholarly Interests
- Concussion
- Environmental Physiology
- Cardiovascular Physiology
- Autonomic Physiology
- Exercise Physiology
Jeanne Johnston
Clinical ProfessorAssociate Chair, Academic Affairs
Phone: 812-855-5073
Email: jdjohnst@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Physical activity
- Assessment
- Technology
- Aging
- College population
Evan Jordan
Associate ProfessorAssociate Chair of Strategic Initiatives
Phone: 812-855-3528
Email: ejjordan@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-6924-2628
Scholarly Interests
- Mobile Interventions
- Wearable Technology
- Ecological Momentary Assessment
- Healthy Aging
- Stress
Kristen Jozkowski
William L. Yarber Endowed Professor in Sexual HealthPhone: 812-856-4355
Email: knjozkow@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Survey Research
- Abortion Attitudes
- Influence of alcohol intoxication on correlates of sexual assault
- Sexual violence prevention
- Sexual consent and refusal communication
Scholarly Interests
- Substance abuse prevention
- Survey research methods
Corey Kalbaugh
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-3117
Email: ckalbaug@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-7455-0369
Scholarly Interests
- Collaborative research
- Health services research
- Health care delivery
- Vascular surgery
- Clinical epidemiology
- Implicit bias
- Health equity
- Health disparities
- Peripheral artery disease
Lisa Kamendulis
Associate ProfessorAssociate Chair
Phone: 812-856-3098
Email: lkamendu@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0162-0338
Scholarly Interests
- Toxicology of PFAS Chemicals
- Contribution of Environmental Chemicals on Disease
- Obesity and Cancer
- Animal Models of Human Diseases
Scholarly Interests
- Traumatic brain injury
- Subconcussion
- Blood biomarker
- Ocular-motor system
- Electroencephalography
Scholarly Interests
- Physical Activity
- Health Equity
- Healthy Aging
- Built Environment
- Social Justice
- Inclusive Science
Scholarly Interests
- Martial arts
- Aggression and violence in sport
- Conflict de-escalation and resolution
- Mind-body wellness
- Victimization prevention
Scholarly Interests
- Sport-based youth development in underserved populations
- Multi-level physical activity interventions
- Diversity, equity, inclusion
- Cardiovascular disease prevention
- Behavior change
- Implementation Science
Vanessa (Martinez) Kercher
Assistant ProfessorPhone: 812-855-3697
Email: vkercher@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0498-5279
Scholarly Interests
- Scuba
- Sailing
- Waterfront
- Aquatics
- Rowing
Jackie Kingma
Clinical Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-1233
Email: jkingma@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-6068-0720
Scholarly Interests
- Manual therapy
- Rehabilitation techniques
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 ProfessorPhone: 812-856-0772
Email: dlandsi@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0452-304X
Scholarly Interests
- Propensity scores
- Causal inference
- Patient-centered outcomes research
- Comparative effectiveness research
Scholarly Interests
- Home health care
- Hospice
- Nature-based interventions
- Alzheimer's disease
- Health equity
- Participatory approaches
- Gerontology
Scholarly Interests
- Mixed methods inquiry
- Public health workforce and instructional development
- Sexual/reproductive health
- Adolescent and emerging adult health
- Intervention design and evaluation
- Health education and health promotion
Scholarly Interests
- 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 ProfessorPhone: 812-855-9181
Email: cludema@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-810X
Scholarly Interests
- Infectious diseases
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social epidemiology
- Causal inference
Scholarly Interests
- Women's health
- Breast cancer
- Environmental factors and cancer relationship
Jon Macy
Assistant Dean for Academic ProgramsProfessor
Phone: 812-856-0704
Email: jtmacy@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-2925-8585
Scholarly Interests
- Gun violence prevention
- Youth sports safety and promotion
- Tobacco control
- Smoking cessation
- Tobacco prevention
- Public health policy
Scholarly Interests
- CAI
- Cutaneous Reflexes
- Functional Performance
Scholarly Interests
- Dietary and lifestyle interventions
Scholarly Interests
- Effectors of salt and water metabolism in hypoxemic COPD
- Oxygen effect on energy metabolism in hypoxemic COPD
- Exercise induced bronchospasm in athletes and regular exercisers
- Cardiopulmonary response to exercise in health and disease
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
Phone: 812-856-7231
Email: bmoscick@iu.edu
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 InstructorEmail: jomwangi@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Community engagement
- Health disparities
- Addictive behavior, specifically substance use and commodity
Stephen O’Brien
Visiting Senior ScientistEmail: stjobrie@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Infant Feeding (Breastfeeding) and Child Health
- Culture and Immigrant Families' Health
- The Role of the Family in the Development of the Child Especially Children with Health Problems
- Pre-School Children's Health
- Culture, Care, and Child Health
Melissa Pangelinan
Associate ProfessorDirector of All IN for Health, Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Email: mpangel@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-6087-2423
Scholarly Interests
- Adapted Physical Activity / Exercise
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Developmental Disabilities
- Implementation Science
- Mental and Physical Health
- Rural Health
Maria Parker
Interim Assistant Dean for Undergraduate, Graduate, and Postdoctoral ResearchAssistant Professor
Phone: 812-856-5950
Email: map2@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-9763-1129
Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other drug use
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Tobacco Regulatory Science
- Vulnerable Populations
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 ProfessorEmail: qi1@iu.edu
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
Phone: 812-855-5096
Email: eramly@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-5023-0838
Scholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Racial health disparities
- Hydration and health
- Dietary sodium and health
- Cardiovascular physiology
Roberto A. Rodríguez
Associate ProfessorEmail: roalrodr@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Rapid methods for determination of viral infectivity
- Water reuse technologies and mechanisms of viral disinfection
- Ecology of enteric viruses
- UV Disinfection
- Fate and transport of viruses in the environment
Miriam Jocelyn Rodriguez
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-1661
Email: mijrodri@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0816-8313
Scholarly Interests
- Culturally adapted interventions for dementia patients and caregivers
- Healthy Aging across cultures
- Risk and protective factors among culturally diverse populations at risk for ADRD
- Relationships between cultural factors and AD biomarkers
- Neuropsychological functioning among ethnically diverse older adults
- Health disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD)
Javier Rojo
ProfessorDean's Eminent Scholar
Phone: 812-855-6901
Email: jrojo@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-4062-8543
Scholarly Interests
- Nonparametric multivariate survival estimation.
- Estimation of distribution functions subjected to order restrictions.
- Partial orders of probability distributions.
- Statistical decision theory and dimension reduction techniques.
- Heavy-tailed densities (distributions), and connections with extreme value theory.
- Nonparametric function estimation with shape and order restrictions.
- Algorithms to assess the reliability of complex systems with special attention to the power grid.
Molly Rosenberg
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-2509
Email: rosenmol@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-6679-6791
Scholarly Interests
- Infectious disease epidemiology: HIV, STIs, SARS-CoV-2
- Sexual health promotion
- Cognitive aging
- Cash transfers, microfinance, micro-enterprise
- Poverty alleviation and health across the lifecourse
- Global health
- Social epidemiology
Jerono Rotich
Associate Dean for Organizational Climate, Inclusion, and BelongingProfessor
Email: jprotich@iu.edu
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
Phone: 812-855-3029
Email: kryckman@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-9496-4147
Scholarly Interests
- Newborn screening
- Genetic epidemiology
- Neonatal morbidity and mortality
- Maternal mental health
- Perinatal epidemiology
Scholarly Interests
- Motor control
- Neuromuscular control
- Aging
- Physical activity
Scholarly Interests
- Athletic training education
Zachary Schlader
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-6953
Email: zschlade@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3590-3958
Scholarly Interests
- Exercise physiology
- Environmental physiology
- Cardiovascular physiology
- Renal physiology
- Integrative physiology
Grace Sembajwe
Interim Department Chair for Epidemiology and BiostatisticsProfessor
Phone: 812-856-5120
Email: gsembajw@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-7163-4743
Scholarly Interests
- Exposure Assessment
- Occupational Epidemiology
- Risk Assessment
Scholarly Interests
- Health disparities and structural interventions
- Mental health
- Opioid misuse and overdose
- Nicotine and marijuana vaping
Scholarly Interests
- Health risk assessment
- Dose-response analysis
- Environmental modeling
- Environmental policy
- Biostatistics
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
Phone: 812-855-2673
Email: csherwoo@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Professional Development and Training
- Sexuality Education in School and Community-Based Settings
- Intervention Design and Implementation
- Community Health Needs and Assets Assessments
- Community-Based Participatory Research
Patricia Silveyra
Anthony D. Pantaleoni Eminent ScholarDepartment Chair
Professor
Phone: 812-855-3979
Email: psilveyr@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-7083-8915
Scholarly Interests
- Molecular effects of vaping
- Animal models of environmental exposures
- Sex differences in asthma
- Air pollution and lung disease
Braden Singleton
Academic SpecialistEmail: brsingle@iu.edu
Scholarly 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 ScientistPhone: 812-855-2758
Email: cvorland@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4225-372X
Scholarly Interests
- Nutrition
- Meta-research
- Research rigor and reproducibility
Kelly Robert Walsh
Adjunct Associate ProfessorEmail: kerwalsh@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Healthy weight management
- Digestion and bioavailability
- General pediatric nutrition
- Premature infant nutrition/ metabolism
Eric Walsh-Buhi
Department ChairProfessor
Phone: 812-855-4867
Email: erwals@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-1690-5352
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent health
- Sexual health promotion
- Health communication
- Digital health/social media
Scholarly Interests
- Food insecurity
- Mental health
- Community nutrition
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 EnrollmentClinical Associate Professor
Phone: 812-855-6210
Email: mwillett@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Sport Management (Sport Finance)
- Youth Fitness
- Strength Training
Antonio Williams
Beinner Family Professor in Sports Marketing and ManagementProfessor
Phone: 812-855-3061
Email: aw22@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Sport marketing
- Personal fitness
- Branding
Scholarly Interests
- Parent-Child Relations
- Child Development
- Maternal Child Health
- Professional Preparation
Eduardo Ximenes
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-4573
Email: eximene@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-9087-0218
Scholarly Interests
- Human and Animal Food safety
- Sample preparation and pathogenic microorganism faster and sensitive methods development
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Microbial derived products and related environmentally friendly new processes
William Yarber
Provost ProfessorSenior Director, Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
Phone: 812-855-7974
Email: yarber@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Sexuality education
- Condom use
- Human sexuality
- Sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS
- Disability and Sexual Health
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)
Email: hzeller@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Bayesian Methods
- Structural Equation Models
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Reliability Modeling
- Dimension Reduction