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Faculty

Eliseo Guallar

Chair and Professor of the Department of Epidemiology
Dr. Guallar is an epidemiologist whose research is focused on the study of cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention.

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.

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

Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Furr-Holden is an expert in health disparities and policy interventions toward health equity. Her scholarship covers drug and 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.

Erez Hatna

Clinical Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Dr. Erez Hatna researches geoinformatics, spatial analysis, agent-based modeling, and urban systems and dynamics.

Farzana Kapadia

Professor 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

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.

Faculty with a Secondary Appointment in Epidemiology

Mari Armstrong-Hough

Associate 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.

Lauren Thomas Berube

Clinical Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Dr. Lauren Berube's research identifies predictors and outcomes of prenatal, postpartum, and childhood health behaviors, with a focus on understanding how dietary patterns contribute to cardiometabolic health outcomes.

Andrea L Deierlein

Director of Public Health Nutrition
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.

Niyati Parekh

Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Initiatives and Global Engagement, 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.

VISITING FACULTY

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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

  • Kayleigh Blaney, DrPH, MPH
  • Amelia Boehme, PhD, MSPH
  • Paul Brown, MA, MPH
  • Ugonnaya Caleb-Ugwuowo, MD, MPH
  • Jasmin Choi, MPH, MSW
  • Dennis Hilgendorf, MPH
  • Nicole Hosseinipour, MPH
  • Abbey Jones, PhD, MPH
  • Sarah Kimball, MPH
  • Lingzi Luo, MPH, MSW
  • Kathleen Lynch, MS, MPH
  • John Meade, MPH
  • Brandi Moore, MPH
  • Adwoa Nantwi, MPH
  • German Rivera-Castellar, MS, MPH
  • Michelle Smith, MPH
  • Benjamin Spoer, PhD, MPH
  • John Wetmore, MPH
  • Jason Wolfe, MPH

STAFF

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Rachael Parenta

Program Administrator
rap9701@nyu.edu
212-992-5589

Justin Lebron

Administrative Aide
jl14370@nyu.edu
212-992-3813