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Epidemiology PhD Program
Below is a list of Epidemiology Graduate Faculty who have expressed interest in mentoring students matriculating Fall 2015.
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Allen, Susan
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Alonso, Alvaro
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Berkelman, Ruth
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Epidemiology, prevention, and outcomes of cardiovascular diseases, with a special interest in cardiac arr
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Clinical and translational research training, his research interests are focused on tuberculosis,
healthcare and molecular epidemiology, and global health.
Etiology and primary prevention of colon cancer, diet and nutrition in the etiology and primary
prevention of cancer, development and application of treatable biomarkers of risk for cancer,
chemoprevention trials and molecular and patho-epidemiology.
Health impacts of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions, systematic reviews of water quality
and sanitation interventions to prevent diarrheal disease and enteric infection, assessments of
water and sanitation interventions in emergency and outbreak response, and cost and costeffectiveness analyses of water and sanitation interventions in developing countries
Epidemiology of opportunistic infections in HIV and other immune deficiencies the epidemiology
and transmission dynamics of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and issues related to
early diagnosis of HIV, access to care and compliance with antiretrovirals for hard-to-reach
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Epidemiology PhD Program
Below is a list of Epidemiology Graduate Faculty who have expressed interest in mentoring students matriculating Fall 2015.
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Drews-Bostch, Carey
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Fedirko, Veronika
Flanders, Dana
Gandhi, Neel
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Gazmararian, Julie
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Developmental disabilities such as cognitive disability and autism; eye diseases, particularly
congenital cataracts; the developmental impact of vision disorders; methods for developing and
validating questionnaire-based instruments and impact of selection bias.
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Molecular biomarkers of carcinogenesis, including genetic and metabolic biomarkers, colon and
liver cancer etiology and survival, and diet and nutrition in primary prevention of cancer.
Causal inference.
Uptake and adoption, sustainability, and health impacts of water, sanitation, and hygiene
behaviors and technologies, soil-transmitted helminths and trachoma.
Concurrent epidemics of tuberculosis and HIV, with a particular interest in drug-resistant
tuberculosis.
Social epidemiology, maternal and child health, childhood obesity, health literacy, early childhood
intervention and education, and physical activity and academic achievement among elementary
students.
Prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, respiratory and neurobehavioral outcomes in
children, and transgender health.
HIV and aging; HIV and non AIDS defining cancers; HIV prevention among men who have sex with
men; racial disparities in access to care in HIV; HIV prevention in migrant picker populations.
The role of diet and nutrition in the etiology and prevention of chronic diseases—especially
cancer—and the development and application of improved dietary assessment methods in
chronic disease research.
Preterm delivery and stillbirth, maternal morbidity/mortality, and the prevention of unwanted
pregnancies and their consequences.
Epidemiology PhD Program
Below is a list of Epidemiology Graduate Faculty who have expressed interest in mentoring students matriculating Fall 2015.
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Howards, Penny
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Reproductive epidemiology, methodological issues in reproductive epidemiology and fertility in
cancer survivors.
Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in cardio-metabolic diseases in the US and Latin
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HIV & STI epidemiology; mathematical modeling of infectious disease; network science for
infectious disease; causal inference methods; complex survey sampling design and analysis;
computer science, computational epidemiology, and scientific software development
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Prediction research in public health; evaluation of prediction models and tests; risk stratification;
translational research; methods development; meta-analysis and systematic reviews.
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Analysis of correlated data, modeling strategies for mathematical modeling of epidemiologic data,
logistic regression and survival analysis methods, teaching epidemiologic methods, and
development of instructional materials for epidemiologic and biostatistical methods.
Disparities in and social determinants of reproductive and pregnancy outcomes, place-based
social determinants of health including residential segregation, housing mobility, and
neighborhood effects on health, spatial epidemiology and spatial/GIS methods for the study of
chronic, reproductive, and perinatal outcomes and social determinants of early childhood
cognitive development.
breast cancer control, gene-treatment interactions and tumor markers of recurrence; and
epidemiological methods.
Immune response of individuals and populations to parasitic and enteric viral pathogens,
especially those involved in foodborne and waterborne disease
Epidemiology PhD Program
Below is a list of Epidemiology Graduate Faculty who have expressed interest in mentoring students matriculating Fall 2015.
Areas of Research
Levy, Karen
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Lewis, Tene
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Lopman, Ben
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infectious disease epidemiology, vaccines, child health and immunization, mathematical modeling
of infectious diseases, cohort studies and longitudinal data, diarrheal disease, viral evolution and
epidemiology, surveillance, enteric viruses especially norovirus and rotavirus
Environmental exposures and endocrine/reproductive and neurologic outcomes; reproductive
epidemiology, developmental origins of health and disease, gene x environment interactions and
mechanisms of multi-generational health effects (e.g. epigenetics), and design and
implementation of prospective cohort studies; diseases of aging, especially dementia.
Racial disparities among patients with chronic kidney disease; anemia and kidney disease as risk
factors for cardiovascular disease and stroke; studies of the familial aggregation of chronic kidney
disease; and studies examining reasons for patient and treatment center variations in quality of
care, vascular access and vaccination use and outcomes among patients with ESRD
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Ecology and Epidemiology of Waterborne Diseases. Impact of Arsenic exposure on infectious
diseases in children
Psychosocial epidemiology and the effect of psychological and social factors on black-white
disparities in chronic and cardiovascular disease, particularly among women.
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molecular mechanisms that drive the association between components of energy balance (e.g.
obesity and physical activity) and carcinogenesis, specifically focusing on aberrant regulation of
gene expression, beginning during fetal development, across the life-course.
Pediatric epidemiology, research methodology, clinical outcomes research, cancer survivorship
Epidemiology PhD Program
Below is a list of Epidemiology Graduate Faculty who have expressed interest in mentoring students matriculating Fall 2015.
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Moe, Christine
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Mulle, Jennifer
Narayan, Venkat
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Oakley, Godfrey
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Omer, Saad
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Orenstein, Walter
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Norovirus disease, detection, and epidemiology; environmental transmission of enteric diseases,
typhoid fever and paratyphoid infections; water, sanitation, hygiene and food safety for the
urban poor; water, sanitation and hygiene and healthcare-acquired infections in healthcare
facilities in low-income settings; and environmental risk assessment and environmental
surveillance for infectious diseases
Genetic susceptibility variants that predispose for severe psychiatric illness, particularly
schizophrenia.
the epidemiology and prevention of diabetes, obesity, and vascular diseases
Elimination of spina bifida-f (folic acid preventable spina bifida), epidemiological and policy
research for birth defects prevention, and ongoing studies Vitamin B12 and pernicious anemia in
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Vaccines
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Improving the control of vaccine-preventable diseases through trials of promising vaccine
candidates, development of the critical database needed to formulate sound immunization
policies, health services research to evaluate the best means of implementing immunization
recommendations, and determining barriers to successful immunization delivery
Kidney disease; End organ failure requiring solid organ transplantation; Racial, socioeconomic,
and geographic disparities in healthcare services, access and delivery; healthcare quality and
outcomes research; community-based participatory research; mobile health technology; patient
and provider education
Biological markers and psychological risk factors in pregnancy disorders, infection and immunity in
neurodevelopment, and etiological pathways in mental illness.
Epidemiology PhD Program
Below is a list of Epidemiology Graduate Faculty who have expressed interest in mentoring students matriculating Fall 2015.
Areas of Research
Plantinga, Laura
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Rosenberg, Eli
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Sanchez, Travis
Shah, Amit
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Spaulding, Anne
Steenland, Kyle
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Genetic causes of intellectual and developmental disorders, nondisjunction of human
chromosomes, primary ovarian insufficiency, genetic mapping of complex traits, fragile X
syndrome, down syndrome
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Chronic disease epidemiology, particularly related to kidney disease and lupus; geriatric
epidemiology; healthcare quality; healthcare in underserved populations; delivery of patientcentered care
Infectious disease epidemiology; HIV, STI, and HCV. Behavioral, social, and care aspects of HIV
transmission with particular focus on the MSM population. Methodological interests in disease
surveillance, statistical and network modeling, and development of software to support research
studies.
Infectious disease epidemiology, particularly HIV and STDs, new technology for epidemiology and
disease intervention, systems development for monitoring and evaluating public health programs
and behavioral and biomedical interventions to prevent infectious disease acquisition and
transmission.
The effects of traumatic events and psychosocial stress on cardiovascular disease with a focus on
arrhythmia and physiology. Evaluation of ECG biomarkers for CVD events using large cohort data.
Use of mobile health technologies for health/risk assessment. Genetic risk factors for arrhythmia.
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HIV, hepatitis C, influenza, sexually transmitted diseases and other infectious disease surveillance
and management, with a special emphasis on institutionalized populations and treatment as
prevention. Other interests include survival analysis in incarcerated populations.
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Nutritional epidemiology; Life-course epidemiology; Methods in monitoring and evaluation;
Research ethics
Epidemiology PhD Program
Below is a list of Epidemiology Graduate Faculty who have expressed interest in mentoring students matriculating Fall 2015.
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Sullivan, Patrick
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Sun, Yan
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Tolbert, Paige
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Vaccarino, Viola
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Wall, Kristin
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HIV prevention among men who have sex with men; internet-based research methods, including
internet-based virtual cohorts; geomapping of surveillance data to inform and evaluate public
health practice and program; provision of sexual health and prevention services for most at risk
populations in Africa; and couples-based HIV prevention approaches for men who have sex with
men.
epigenomics and gene-environment interaction of cardiovascular disease risk, genetic association
studies of cardiovascular disease and hypertension in multi-ethnic populations, metabolomics
study of cardio-metabolic diseases, multi-omics study of complex disease, host genetic factors of
infectious disease and methods development for pathway, network and systems analysis of
complex disease
carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, pesticides, water pollution, and most recently the pulmonary,
cardiac and reproductive health effects of ambient air pollution
Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention, influence of sociodemographic, behavioral,
and psychological factors on cardiovascular disease risk, heart disease in women, and effect of
stress on heart disease.
HIV prevention, family planning, cost-effectiveness, resource allocation, decision-making,
epidemiological methods
Cancer surveillance and development of surveillance systems (national and international),
utilization of claims data in quality of cancer care evaluation, socioeconomic disparities in cancer
care and outcomes, patient and provider influences on colorectal and breast cancer disparities
and cancer care, and cancer survival and survival research methodology.