Medical College of Wisconsin Public & Community Health Faculty
Kirsten Beyer, PhD, MPH, MS
Research Interests: Health equity, global health, environmental health/justice, structural racism, racial segregation/housing discrimination, geospatial analysis/GIS, community engaged research, chronic disease
Rachel Cusatis, PhD, MA
Research Interests: Patient-reported outcomes, quality of life, social determinants of health, financial impact of treatment, health disparities, mixed methods, survey design, cancer
Matthew Dellinger, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Environmental health, toxicology, risk assessment, Native American partnerships, ecology, epidemiology
Julia Dickson Gomez, PhD, MA
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS; substance use and misuse; social determinants of health; housing and homelessness; informal settlements; neighborhood deprivation
Kathryn Flynn, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Patient-reported outcome measures, health-related quality of life, genitourinary research, cancer, surveys, mixed methods, patient decision-making, interventions
Zeno Franco, PhD
Research Interests: Major disasters and crisis events, information systems, mental health, mental health crisis, PTSD, informatics, mHealth systems, sensor systems, genomics, veterans
Carol Galletly, JD, PhD, MA
Research Interests: Infectious disease, people who inject drugs, Latino immigrants, law & policy
Katinka Hooyer, PhD
Research Interests: Veteran mental health, arts/humanities-based research, psychedelic assisted therapy, trauma, moral injury, arts-based dissemination, qualitative methods
Steven John, PhD, MPH
Research Interests: HIV/STI prevention, implementation science, sexual and gender minority health, quantitative methods, mHealth, biomedical prevention, health behavior theory, intervention acceptability
Constance Kostelac, PhD
Research Interests: Violence, drug overdoses, opioids, incident reviews, data (analysis, visualization, mapping), program evaluation, Nexus public health and public safety, community-engaged research
Purushottam (Prakash) Laud, PhD, MS, MA
Research Interests: Bayesian Methodology, machine learning, health outcomes in populations, disparities, design of cancer studies, individualized predictions, individualized treatment rules, survival analysis
John Meurer, MD, MBA
Research Interests: COVID epidemiology, trauma informed care, childhood resiliency, lead poisoning, team science, climate change environmental sustainability, and health
David Nelson, PhD
Research Interests: Social determinants, justice, food security, housing stability, lead free MKE
Alan Nyitray, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Self-care, self-screening, cancer, HPV
Katherine Quinn, PhD, MA
Research Interests: LGBTQ health, stigma, racial discrimination, intersectionality, HIV prevention and treatment, qualitative methods
Rebekah Walker, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Racial disparities in HIV, sexual health, LGBTQ health, qualitative methods and analysis, stigma, housing and homelessness
rebwalker@mcw.edu
Jennifer Walsh, PhD, MA
Research Interests: HIV prevention, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), longitudinal data analysis, adolescent sexual health and risk, social determinants of health, HIV treatment cascade, modern statistical methods, developmental psychology
jwalsh@mcw.edu
Jamila Kwarteng, PhD
Research Interests:cancer prevention, cancer survivorship, social determinants of health, minoritized women's health, faith based initiatives
Staci Young, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Health disparities, women’s health, structural determinants of health, violence, race and racism, organization of (health care) work
Terri deRoon-Cassini, PhD, MS
Research Interests: trauma, biological mechanisms, violence prevention and intervention, Posttraumatic stress disorder, mental health, secondary prevention, social determinants of health, gun violence
Aasim Padela, MD
Research Interests: Community-engaged research, religion & medicine, end-of-life care ethics, cultural accommodation, behavioral interventions, diversity & inclusion
Joan Neuner, MD, MPH
Research Interests: Cancer, geriatrics, disparities, health services research
Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH
Research Interests: Advancing injury prevention and control sciences, global burden of violence, gun violence, novel/innovative ways to link data systems to robust understanding of the burden of injury, health care expansion to include behavioral and social care.
Cheryl A. Maurana, PhD
Research Interests: Health disparities, women’s health, structural determinants of health, violence, race and racism, organization of (health care) work
Leslie Ruffalo, PhD
Research Interests: Health equity, social determinants of health, food security, school-based health & wellness, caregiver burden, rural health
Laura Cassidy, PhD, MS
Research Interests: pediatric trauma, clinical research, social determinants of health and health disparities, global health including the measurement of early childhood development in Uganda and barriers to immunizations in Ugandan children and depression in young mothers in Uganda
lcassidy@mcw.edu
C Greer Jordan, PhD
Research Interests: Grounded Theory, Cultural Diversity, Organizational Innovation
Jessica Olson, PhD
Research Interests: Cancer Disparities, Multi-Disciplinary Research, Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education, Maternal and Infant Health Disparities
Joanne Lagatta, MD
Research Interests: Prematurity, infant health, family functioning for infants with complex health needs, social determinants of health, neonatal intensive care
Jeffrey Whittle, MD
Research Interests: Hypertension, chronic disease, racial disparities, self management, peer support
Melinda Stolley, PhD
Research Interests: Disparities, cancer, lifestyle, survivorship, prevention, mechanistic pathways
mstolley@mcw.edu
Wei Xu, PhD
Research Interests: Neighborhood and healthy aging, health equity, life course epidemiology, geospatial analysis/GIS, social determinants of health, long-term care service
Ronald Anguzu, PhD
Research Interests: Maternal and child health, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, health behavior, gender-based violence, global health
ranguzu@mcw.edu
Carissa Tomas, PhD
Research Interests: trauma outcomes, violence and injury prevention, data science, functional MRI
Sarah Kerns, PhD
Research Interests: Cancer survivorship, treatment toxicities, genetic and molecular epidemiology, biomarkers
Lindsay Nelson, PhD, ABPP-CN
Research Interests:Traumatic brain injury, concussion, quantitative methods, latent variable modeling, outcome measurement, clinical phenotypes, health disparities, healthcare access, community-engaged research, healthcare improvement
linelson@mcw.edu