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, decision making, 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: housing, homelessness and informal/slum settlements, drug use, HIV, social determinants of health, law and policy, LGBTQ, HCV, cervical cancer
Kathryn Flynn, PhD, MS
Research Interests: patient-reported outcome measures, quality of life, sexual health, women’s health, cancer, mixed methods, infertility, patient decision-making
Zeno Franco, PhD
Research Interests: mass disaster, crisis events (large and small), veterans’ mental health, heroism (social psychology), information systems, community engagement, sensor-based data collection, mobile mental health
Carol Galletly, JD, PhD, MA
Research Interests: law and policy, community empowerment through official systems, immigration law and immigrants, dating violence/intimate partner violence, criminal HV exposure laws, confidentiality/privacy of public health data, drug and alcohol use disorders, grant writing
Katinka Hooyer, PhD
Research Interests: veteran mental health, arts-based research, collective healing practices, psychedelic-assisted therapy, moral injury, trauma, medical anthropology, nontraditional qualitative research
Steven John, PhD, MPH
Research Interests: HIV prevention, sexually transmitted diseases, 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: early childhood development and screening, trauma-informed education of school children, impact of Medicaid expansion on diabetes, Emergency department use with COVID, COVID-19 antibody tests of vulnerable populations
David Nelson, PhD
Research Interests: social determinants, primary care, food security, housing stability, community engagement, connectedness, public health, quality of life
Alan Nyitray, PhD, MS
Research Interests: sexually transmitted infections, anal cancer, epidemiology, HPV, LGBTQ, cancer screening
Katherine Quinn, PhD, MA
Research Interests: racial disparities in HIV, sexual health, LGBTQ health, qualitative methods and analysis, stigma, housing and homelessness
Ryan Spellecy, PhD
Research Interests: research ethics, ethical issues in mental health, community-based research ethics, character, IRBs, pediatric ethics, genomics and ethics, informed consent
Rebekah Walker, PhD, MS
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Research Interests: social determinants of health, socioeconomic disparities, race/ethnic disparities, food insecurity, diabetes, chronic disease, racism, inner city environment
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
Aaron Winn, PhD, MPP
Research Interests: outcome research, causal analysis, medication adherence, health disparities, comparative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness analysis, diffusion of new treatments, conflict of interest
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
Leonard Egede, MD, MS
Research Interests: health disparities, racism, health services research, development and testing of interventions, community-based participatory research, implementation science, health systems 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: Women's leadership, population health, community health, systems change, medicine and public health, values in medicine.
Leslie Ruffalo, PhD
Research Interests: food security, school-based health and wellness, caregiver support, mental health, rural health, and Veteran health.