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
Director of Undergraduate Programs
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’s research focuses on the social and structural factors underlying substance use, and evaluation of policies and programs to improve public health and safety in the context of the contemporary overdose epidemic.
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
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
- Jay Bala, MPH
- Kayleigh Blaney, DrPH, MPH
- Hedda Boege, MS, MEd
- 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
- Katie Parrotte, PT, DPT, MS
- German Rivera-Castellar, MS, MPH
- Michelle Smith, MPH
- Benjamin Spoer, PhD, MPH
- John Wetmore, MPH
- Jason Wolfe, MPH
STAFF
Justin Lebron
Administrative Aide
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