Public & Community Health Faculty

Research Interests: Health equity, global health, environmental health/justice, structural racism, racial segregation/housing discrimination, geospatial analysis/GIS, community engaged research, chronic disease

kbeyer@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Patient-reported outcomes, quality of life, social determinants of health, decision making, health disparities, mixed methods, survey design, cancer

rcusatis@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Environmental health, toxicology, risk assessment, Native American partnerships, ecology, epidemiology

mdellinger@mcw.edu

Research Interests: HIV/AIDS; substance use and misuse; social determinants of health; housing and homelessness; informal settlements; neighborhood deprivation

jdickson@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Patient-reported outcome measures, health-related quality of life, genitourinary research, cancer, surveys, mixed methods, patient decision-making, interventions

kflynn@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Major disasters and crisis events, information systems, mental health, mental health crisis, PTSD, informatics, mHealth systems, sensor systems, genomics

zfranco@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Infectious disease, policy, law, HIV, immigration, public health departments, dating violence

cgalletl@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Veteran mental health, arts-based research, collective healing practices, psychedelic-assisted therapy, moral injury, trauma, medical anthropology, nontraditional qualitative research

khooyer@mcw.edu

Research Interests: HIV prevention, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual and gender minority health, quantitative methods, mHealth, biomedical prevention, health behavior theory, intervention acceptability

sjohn@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Violence, drug overdoses, opioids, incident reviews, data (analysis, visualization, mapping), program evaluation, Nexus public health and public safety, community-engaged research

ckostelac@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Bayesian Methodology, machine learning, health outcomes in populations, disparities, design of cancer studies, individualized predictions, individualized treatment rules, survival analysis

laud@mcw.edu

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

jmeurer@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Social determinants, primary care, food security, housing stability, community engagement, connectedness, public health, quality of life

danelson@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Sexually transmitted infections, anal cancer, epidemiology, HPV, LGBTQ, cancer screening

anyitray@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Racial disparities in HIV, sexual health, LGBTQ health, qualitative methods and analysis, stigma, housing and homelessness

kaquinn@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Research ethics, ethical issues in mental health, community-based research ethics, character, IRBs, pediatric ethics, genomics and ethics, informed consent

rspellecy@mcw.edu

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Research Interests: Social determinants of health, socioeconomic disparities, race/ethnic disparities, food insecurity, diabetes, chronic disease, racism, inner city environment

rebwalker@mcw.edu

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

Research Interests: Outcome research, causal analysis, medication adherence, health disparities, comparative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness analysis, diffusion of new treatments, conflict of interest

awinn@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Health disparities, women’s health, structural determinants of health, violence, race and racism, organization of (health care) work

syoung@mcw.edu