Faculty
Raymond S Niaura
Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Raymond Niaura studies the biobehavioral substrates of tobacco dependence, including factors that influence adolescent and early adult tobacco use trajectories.
Joshua Epstein
Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Joshua M. Epstein is a world-renowned pioneer of agent-based modeling, and has applied it to a staggering array of problems in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Debra Furr-Holden
Dean of the School of Global Public Health
Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Furr-Holden is an expert in health disparities and policy interventions toward health equity. Her scholarship covers drug & alcohol dependence, psychiatric epidemiology and prevention science.
Robyn Gershon
Clinical Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Robyn Gershon is an occupational and environmental health researcher with experience in disaster preparedness, healthcare safety, and risk assessment and management in high-risk work occupations.
Emily Goldmann
Clinical Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Emily Goldmann is a social epidemiologist who seeks to contextualize and understand the causes and consequences of mental health illness across populations and the varying aspects of life.
Erez Hatna
Clinical Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Erez Hatna researches geoinformatics, spatial analysis, agent-based modeling, and urban systems and dynamics.
Don Des Jarlais
Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Don Des Jarlais is a leader in the fields of AIDS and injecting drug use, and has published extensively on these topics in many different countries.
Farzana Kapadia
Professor of Epidemiology
Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Department of Epidemiology
Dr. Kapadia is an epidemiologist studying the social and structural drivers of HIV/STIs as well as sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
Courtney A McKnight
Clinical Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Courtney McKnight is a Principal Investigator specializing in mixed methods research focused on the epidemiology of drug use, opioid overdose, HIV and HCV infection.
Danielle C Ompad
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Danielle Ompad is an epidemiologist whose work is focused in the areas of urban health, HIV, illicit drug use, and adult access to vaccines.
Saba Rouhani
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Rouhani focuses on characterizing structural environments influencing the risk of overdose & other drug-related harms as well as how drug policy fueled mass incarceration and impacted minorities.
Secondary Faculty
Mari Armstrong-Hough
Assistant Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology
Dr. Mari Armstrong-Hough’s research examines the epidemiological interfaces of tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and non-communicable diseases among high-burden populations.
Rumi Chunara
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon
Director of Center for Health Data Science
Dr. Chunara's research focuses on the design and development of machine learning as well as other statistical methods to address challenges related to data and goals of public health.
Andrea L Deierlein
Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Dr. Andrea Deierlein examines how dietary, behavioral, and environmental factors contribute to reproductive health outcomes and chronic-disease development throughout the lifespan.
Holly Hagan
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Hagan’s research has examined blood-borne and sexually-transmitted infections among people who use drugs, and her work has sought to understand the causes and consequences of substance use disorders.
Thomas Kirchner
Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Kirchner uses mobile and GIS technologies to study the way neighborhood risk and protective factors affect health-related behavior and decision making in real-world contexts.
Joyce A O'Connor
Director of Public Health Nutrition
Director of Advanced Certificate in Public Health
Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Dr. Joyce O'Connor has developed and implemented community based programs aimed at eliminating health disparities and providing access to preventive services for populations with limited access.
Niyati Parekh
Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Associate Vice Provost of Faculty Initiatives for the Office of the Provost
Dr. Niyati Parekh studies and teaches nutrition epidemiology and chronic diseases, specifically she researches the correlations between diet, physical activity, obesity, and cancer.
Nina S Parikh
Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Nina Parikh examines social, psychosocial, and cultural factors impacting ethnic-racial populations and developing strategies that mitigate inequities among the uninsured, immigrants, and elderly.
Lawrence H Yang
Interim Chair and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director, Global Center for Implementation Science
Founding Director, Global Mental Health and Stigma Program
Dr. Larry Yang explores global mental health and how culture relates to stigma, in order to implement interventions that improve recovery from stigmatizing conditions, such as mental illness and HIV.
VISITING FACULTY
Christiana Coyle
Dr. Christiana Coyle's research interests include infectious disease surveillance and emergency management. Prior to NYU, she was a Tribal Health Epidemiologist with the CDC Foundation.
Judith Weissman
Dr. Judith Weissman's research interests include social epidemiology, health services disparities, and mental health trends using large national data sets. Prior to NYU, she was an Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Global Public Health and Tandon School of Engineering. She is also a lawyer and former prosecutor who has advised researchers about the interface between law and gun violence.
Adjunct Faculty
- Amelia Boehme, PhD, MSPH
- Jasmin Choi, MPH, MSW
- Folake Eniola, MPH
- Daniel Hagen, MPH
- Jason Hiestand, MPH
- Dennis Hilgendorf, MPH
- Nicole Hosseinipour, MPH
- Bridget Murphy Hussain, MS, RD, CDE, CDN
- Abbey Jones, MPH
- Robert Jones, MPH
- Sneha Kannoth, MPH
- Sarah Kimball, MPH
- Aisha King, MPH
- Cora Man, MS
- John Meade, MPH
- Adwoa Nantwi, MPH
- Jessica Randazzo, MS
- Benjamin Search, MPH
- Jason Wolfe, MPH
- Celia Wright, MPH
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Program Administrator
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