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: Dr. Dickson-Gomez studies HIV prevention among drug users in the United States, Uganda and El Salvador and is also interested in the influence of structural factors on HIV risk. Her research explores the effects of housing policy on drug users' access to housing and the effectiveness of housing interventions.  Dr. Dickson-Gomez’s work also focuses on the implementation and effectiveness of multi-level interventions to prevent HIV, homelessness and to treat substance use.

jdickson@mcw.edu

Research Interests: patient-reported outcome measures, quality of life, sexual health, women’s health, cancer, mixed methods, infertility, patient decision-making

kflynn@mcw.edu

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

zfranco@mcw.edu

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

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