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  • Thomas D'Aunno

    Thomas D'Aunno

    Professor of Public Health, NYU School of Global Public Health
    Professor of Management, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
    Dr. Thomas D'Aunno's research interests include institutional theory, organizational change, and the performance of healthcare organizations.
  • David Abrams

    David Abrams

    Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dr. David Abrams focuses on systems thinking and social learning theory conceptual approaches to health enhancement and chronic disease prevention.
  • David Abramson

    David Abramson

    Clinical Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dr. David Abramson's work focuses on population health issues associated with disaster-related or stressor-related recovery and resiliency.
  • Prince M. Amegbor

    Prince Michael Amegbor

    Assistant Professor of Global and Environmental Health
    Dr. Prince Michael Amegbor's research specializes in visualizing the geospatial distribution of risks and burdens on health that are associated with environmental exposures.
  • Mari Armstrong-Hough

    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.
  • Jin Yung Bae

    Jin Yung Bae

    Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    Jean Bae's research investigates the differences and various impacts of state and local public health laws on population health outcomes.
  • Lauren Thomas Berube

    Lauren Thomas Berube

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

    Rebecca Betensky

    Chair of the Department of Biostatistics
    Professor of Biostatistics
    Dr. Rebecca Betensky's research focuses on methods for the design and analysis of studies with complex sampling, including dependent truncation and censored covariates.
  • Jo Ivey Boufford

    Jo Ivey Boufford

    Director of the Doctor of Public Health Program
    Clinical Professor of Global and Environmental Health
    With experience in medicine, health policy, and public administration, Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford is an expert in urban health, healthy aging, disease prevention, and health promotion and disparities.
  • Jennifer Cantrell

    Jennifer Cantrell

    Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dr. Cantrell investigates emerging trends in tobacco and nicotine use and industry marketing, clinical countermarketing and policy interventions to diminish tobacco's appeal and promote health equity.
  • Ji Chang

    Ji E Chang

    Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    Dr. Ji Eun Chang researches the factors that contribute to care continuity within and across organizations and how work is coordinated across the social services and healthcare delivery sectors.
  • Virginia Chang

    Virginia W Chang

    Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dr. Virginia Chang focuses on obesity and health disparities; the association of obesity with mortality and disability; and the relationships between health, medical technologies, and stratification.
  • Rumi Chunara

    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.
  • Linda Collins

    Linda Collins

    Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dr. Linda Collins’ interests are in the development, dissemination, and application of the multiphase optimization strategy, a framework to optimize behavioral and social-structural interventions.
  • Dr. Stephanie Cook

    Stephanie H Cook

    Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Associate Professor of Biostatistics
    Dr. Stephanie Cook's research focuses on understanding the complex relationship between stress, health, and social determinants of health across the lifespan.
  • Adolfo Cuevas

    Adolfo Cuevas

    Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dr. Adolfo Cuevas focuses on how psychosocial stressors affect health across the lifespan, employing epidemiological, psychological, and biological approaches to explore these relationships.
  • Alexander Dahlen

    Alex Dahlen

    Clinical Associate Professor of Biostatistics
    Dr. Alex Dahlen brings expertise in statistical science and study design to collaborate with GPH researchers and clinicians working to create innovative solutions to global public health challenges.
  • Andrea Deierlein

    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.
  • Dickey, Chris

    Christopher Patrick Dickey

    Clinical Associate Professor of Global and Environmental Health
    Dr. Chris Dickey is an international development innovator and public health entrepreneur whose work seeks to develop sustainable public health models.
  • Ralph DiClemente

    Ralph DiClemente

    Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dr. Ralph DiClemente focuses on developing intervention packages that blend community and technology-based approaches to optimize program effectiveness and enhance programmatic sustainability.
  • Joshua M. Epstein

    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.
  • Karyn Faber

    Karyn E. Faber

    Director of Undergraduate Experiential Learning
    Clinical Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dr. Karyn E. Faber's areas of expertise are program planning, implementation, management, and evaluation in varied settings including community-based organizations and philanthropic entities.
  • Yang Feng

    Yang Feng

    Professor of Biostatistics
    Dr. Feng's research focuses on machine learning methods with applications in public health, nonparametric and semi-parametric methods, network data analysis, and bioinformatics.
  • Daniel Fogal

    Daniel Robert Fogal

    Assistant Professor of Bioethics
    Daniel Fogal specializes in bioethics, metaethics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
  • Robyn Gershon

    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.
  • Goodman, Melody

    Melody Goodman

    Dean, School of Global Public Health
    Professor of Biostatistics
    Dr. Melody S. Goodman is a biostatistician and research methodologist. Her work goes beyond defining problems and focuses on developing solutions using partner-engaged research approaches.
  • Eliseo Guallar

    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.
  • Kate Guastaferro

    Kate Guastaferro

    Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement and Dissemination of Intervention Optimization
    Director of the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Program
    Dr. Guastaferro's work is devoted to the development, optimization, and implementation of readily implementable interventions focused on the prevention of child maltreatment.
  • Erez Hatna

    Erez Hatna

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

    Cheryl Healton

    Founding Dean of School of Global Public Health
    Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    As Founding Dean of the School, Dr. Cheryl Healton led the academic, service, and research programs.
  • Siyu Heng

    Siyu Heng

    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
    Dr. Siyu Heng's areas of expertise are in methodology research and its applications in public health.
  • Yun Soo Hong

    Yun Soo Hong

    Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
    Dr. Hong's research focuses on cardiovascular disease epidemiology, integrating genetics, multi-omics, and environmental exposures to identify novel determinants of cardiometabolic health.
  • Mark Jit

    Mark Jit

    Chair and Professor of the Department of Global and Environmental Health
    Dr. Mark Jit's research focuses on epidemiological and economic modeling of vaccines to support evidence-based public health decision making.
  • Farzana Kapadia

    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.
  • Thomas Kirchner

    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.
  • Alden Lai

    Alden Lai

    Assistant Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    Alden Lai studies the quality of jobs and work environments (i.e., “work design”) of workers to achieve better employee outcomes and organizational performance.
  • S. Matthew Liao

    S. Matthew Liao

    Director of the Center for Bioethics
    Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics

    Dr. Matthew Liao uses the tools of philosophy to study and examine the ramifications of novel biomedical innovations.

  • Abrania Marrero

    Abrania D Marrero

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Global and Environmental Health
    Abrania Marrero's research investigates human and global environmental changes in small island food systems.
  • Austen Drew McDougal

    Austen McDougal

    Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Bioethics
    Austen McDougal works on the ethics and moral psychology of the heart.
  • Courtney A McKnight

    Courtney A McKnight

    Clinical Associate 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.
  • Yajun Mei

    Yajun Mei

    Professor of Biostatistics
    Dr. Yajun Mei’s research interests are statistics, machine learning, and data science, and their applications in biomedical science and public health.
  • Alexis Merdjanoff

    Alexis A Merdjanoff

    Director of the Environmental Public Health Program
    Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    At the intersection of public health and sociology, Dr. Merdjanoff work explores how social inequalities shape the impact of disaster on health, recovery, and resiliency.
  • Michael H Merson

    Michael Howard Merson

    Interim Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Clinical Professor of Global and Environmental Health
    Dr. Michael Merson's current research is focused on policy issues in pandemic response, evaluating treatment rollout and regaining trust in public health.
  • Joyce Moon Howard

    Joyce Moon Howard

    Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Community Health Science and Practice
    Interim Director of Community Health Science and Practice
    Dr. Joyce Moon Howard's work seeks to understand community needs and is rooted in the community healthcare movement.
  • Corrina Moucheraud

    Corrina Moucheraud

    Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    Co-Director of the Global Center for Implementation Science
    Dr. Corrina Moucheraud is an implementation scientist whose research seeks to improve outcomes by strengthening health systems and enabling the delivery of effective, equitable health services.
  • Genevra Murray

    Genevra Murray

    Assistant Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    Dr. Murray focuses on the organization & management of health care services, examining dimensions of payment & delivery system reform and its impact on racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities.
  • Navario, Peter

    Peter S Navario

    Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    Chief Executive Officer of HealthRight International
    Dr. Peter Navario has extensive field experience establishing, monitoring, and evaluating HIV/AIDS treatment programs and health system capacity building across sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Raymond S Niaura

    Raymond S Niaura

    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.
  • Danielle Ompad

    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.

  • José Pagán

    Jose Pagan

    Chair and Professor of the Department of Public Health Policy and Management
    Dr. José Pagán is a health economist and population health management expert who has led research, implementation and evaluation projects on the redesign of health care delivery and payment systems.
  • Niyati Parekh

    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.
  • Nina S. Parikh

    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.
  • Claudia Passos-Ferreira

    Claudia Passos Ferreira

    Assistant Professor of Bioethics
    Dr. Claudia Passos-Ferreira’s research interests are in the development of consciousness, including theories of infant and machine consciousness, and how they shed light on ethical issues.
  • Emmanuel Peprah

    Emmanuel Peprah

    Associate Professor of Global and Environmental Health

    Dr. Emmanuel Peprah’s research interests lie at the confluence of understanding what, why, and how some evidence-based interventions work in some populations and not others.

  • Jennifer L. Pomeranz

    Jennifer L Pomeranz

    Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    A public health lawyer, Professor Jennifer Pomeranz researches policy and legal options to address the food environment, obesity, and social injustices that lead to health disparities.
  • Jonathan Purte

    Jonathan Purtle

    Associate Professor of Public Health Policy & Management
    Director of Policy Research at NYU’s Global Center for Implementation Science
    ​​​​​​​Dr. Purtle is an implementation scientist whose research focuses on mental health policy.
  • Alexander Quanbeck

    Alexander Quanbeck

    Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow of Bioethics
    Z Quanbeck's research lies at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and 19th-century philosophy, focusing specifically on the ethics of belief.
  • Saba Rouhani

    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 contem...
  • Donna Shelley

    Donna Shelley

    Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    Co-Director of the Global Center for Implementation Science
    Dr. Shelley is a tobacco control and implementation science expert focusing on the implementation, sustainability & scale up of evidence-based interventions for cardiovascular & cancer risk reduction.
  • Hai Shu

    Hai Shu

    Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
    +1 (212) 992-3811
    Dr. Hai Shu is an expert in high-dimensional data analysis, machine/deep learning and medical image analysis.
  • Diana Silver

    Diana R Silver

    Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs
    Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
    Dr. Diana Silver explores the impact of variation in the implementation, adoption, and repeal of state and local public health policies on health outcomes.
  • Jillian C. Strayhorn

    Jillian Strayhorn

    Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Dr. Jillian Strayhorn's research focuses on the complex multi-criteria decision-making that goes into optimizing interventions to achieve public health impact.
  • Yesim Tozan

    Yesim Tozan

    Associate Professor of Global and Environmental Health
    Dr. Yesim Tozan researches health decision science, priority setting, cost-effectiveness, and resource allocation in low- and middle-income countries, with an emphasis on dengue and malaria.
  • Shu (Violet) Xu

    Shu Xu

    Clinical Associate Professor of Biostatistics
    Dr. Shu Xu's work represents the statistical and applied aspects of quantitative methodology, including evaluating and developing statistical methods for longitudinal data analysis.
  • Wen Zhou

    Wen Zhou

    Associate Professor of Biostatistics
    Dr. Wen Zhou's research focuses on developing theories and methods for network data analysis, high-dimensional statistics, multiple testing problems, machine learning, and causal inference.

Affiliated Faculty

Brian HallDirector of the Center for Global Health Equity, Professor of Global Public Health, NYU Shanghaibrianhall@nyu.edu
Pamela A. Morris-PerezProfessor of Psychology and Social Intervention, NYU Steinhardtpamela.morris@nyu.edu

Associated Faculty

Michael A. LindseyDean and Paulette Goddard Professor of Social Work, NYU Silversilver.dean@nyu.edu
Andrea SilvermanAssistant Professor, NYU Tandon School of Engineeringandrea.silverman@nyu.edu

Emeritus Professors

Don Des JarlaisProfessor Emeritusddj2@nyu.edu
Sally GuttmacherNYU School of Global Public Healthsg2@nyu.edu
Holly HaganProfessor Emeritahh50@nyu.edu
Perry HalkitisProfessor Emerituspnh1@nyu.edu
Marion NestleProfessor Emerita, NYU Steinhardtmarion.nestle@nyu.edu


Faculty Fellow

Diana RosenthalProvost's Postdoctoral Faculty Fellowdianamrosenthal@nyu.edu

Research Scientists & Professors

Ian D. AronsonSocial and Behavioral Sciencesla14@nyu.edu
Alexander S. BennettSocial and Behavioral Sciencesasb19@nyu.edu
Andrew BurgieSocial and Behavioral Sciencesaeb5@nyu.edu
Luther ElliottSocial and Behavioral Scienceslce201@nyu.edu
William N. RomGlobal Healthwilliam.rom@nyumc.org

Visiting Faculty

Thomas O'ConnellVisiting Associate Professor, Global Healthtso2@nyu.edu
Scott RosensteinVisiting Associate Professor, Global Healthsar2118@nyu.edu
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