Faculty
Faculty
Ana Abraido Lanza
Vice Dean of the College of Global Public Health
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Ana Abraído-Lanza research interests include studying the cultural, psychological, social, and structural factors that affect health, psychological well-being, and mortality among Latinos.
David Abrams
Dr. David Abrams focuses on systems thinking and social learning theory conceptual approaches to health enhancement and chronic disease prevention.
David Abramson
Dr. David Abramson's work focuses on population health issues associated with disaster-related or stressor-related recovery and resiliency.
Kamyar Arasteh
Dr. Kamyar Arasteh’s research concerns the epidemiology of HIV infection and hepatitis, and the associated sexual and drug use risk factors.
Julie Avina
Senior Associate Dean, Student and Alumni Affairs
Clinical Associate Professor of Global Health
As Senior Associate Dean of Student & Alumni Affairs, Julie Avina oversees the student experience as an advisor and mentor to our students.
David Barnes
Dr. David Barnes' research focuses on substance use, HCV and HIV infection, and on how social position influences mental and behavioral health outcomes in both expected and paradoxical ways.
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
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.
Marie Bragg
Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Dr. Marie Bragg’s work focuses on identifying and affecting environmental and social factors associated with obesity, food marketing, and health disparities.
Jennifer Cantrell
Dr. Jennifer Cantrell's background is in social and behavioral science, policy evaluation, survey research, measurement, social epidemiology and health disparities.
Jack Caravanos
Dr. Jack Caravanos studies lead and toxic wastes to design safe and evidence-based solutions to environmental pollution.
Julia Cartwright
Chief of Staff
Senior Associate Dean for Communications, Promotion and Public Affairs
Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
With her experience in social change communications, Associate Dean Julia Cartwright promotes the college's goals and mission domestically and internationally.
Ji Eun Chang
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
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
Through computational and statistical methods, Dr. Rumi Chunara researches how unstructured data can have public health applications in the real world.
Stephanie Cook
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Stephanie Cook aims to understand the pathways and mechanisms linking attachment, minority stress, and health among disadvantaged individuals.
Andrea Deierlein
Dr. Andrea Deierlein is a nutritional and reproductive epidemiologist who studies dietary and environmental determinant of obesity and metabolic health-related outcomes.
Don Des Jarlais
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.
Chris Dickey
Director of Global Health
Clinical Associate Professor of Global Health
Dr. Chris Dickey is an international development innovator and public health entrepreneur whose work seeks to develop sustainable public health models.
Ralph DiClemente
Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Dean of Public Health Innovation
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.
LeConté Dill
Director of Public Health Practice
Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. LeConté Dill’s community-engaged research interests are focused on addressing health inequities and fostering protective factors among urban youth of color.
Joshua M. Epstein
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
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.
Robyn Gershon
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.
Elodie Ghedin
A molecular parasitologist and virologist, Dr. Elodie Ghedin uses genomics tools to explore host-pathogen interactions and severe disease outcomes related to parasites and other pathogens.
Emily Goldmann
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.
Melody Goodman
Dr. Melody Goodman researches social risk factors that contribute to health disparities among underserved communities in urban areas and develops culturally competent and evidence-based solutions.
Andrew Goodman
Dr. Andrew Goodman conducts research on population health, policy, and interventions and offers technical assistance and implementation support to varying organizations.
Perry Halkitis
Dr. Perry Halkitis is a leading expert on the intersection of HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, mental health, and biopsychosocial burdens as related to health, human behavior, development, and syndemics.
Erez Hatna
Dr. Erez Hatna researches geoinformatics, spatial analysis, agent-based modeling, and urban systems and dynamics.
Cheryl Healton
Dean of College of Global Public Health
Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
As Dean of the College, Dr. Cheryl Healton leads the academic, service, and research programs.
Farzana Kapadia
Dr. Farzana Kapadia is an epidemiologist interested in understanding the distribution, determinants, and consequences of HIV/AIDS across the lifespan.
Thomas Kirchner
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.
Rudolf Knippenberg
Dr. Rudolf Knippenberg has guided the identification and implementation of effective strategies and policies for public health programs and healthcare systems strengthening in Asia and Africa.
S. Matthew Liao
Director of 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.
Courtney McKnight
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.
Alexis Merdjanoff
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.
Cheryl Merzel
Director of Educational Advancement and Assessment
Clinical Associate Professor of Community Health Science and Practice
Dr. Cheryl Merzel has over 25 years of experience in public health researcher, evaluation, program development, advocacy, and education.
Joyce Moon Howard
Director of Undergraduate Programs
Clinical Associate Professor 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.
Peter Navario
Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
Executive Director, 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 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.
Joyce 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 created innovative curriculum with a student-focused and faculty-driven approach.
Olugbenga Ogedegbe
Dr. Ogedegbe is a leading expert on health disparities research; his work focuses on the implementation of evidence-based interventions for cardiovascular risk reduction in minority populations.
Danielle Ompad
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
Chair and Professor of the Department of Public Health Policy and Management
Dr. Pagan's research expertise is in health economics and population health. He is also Director of the Center for Health Innovation at The New York Academy of Medicine.
Niyati Parekh
Director of Doctoral Studies
Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition
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
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.
Emmanuel Peprah
Director of Implementation Science for Global Health
Assistant Professor of Global 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
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.
Joanna Pozen
Attorney Joanna Pozen has worked on issues of human and women's rights for numerous organizations, including the Center for Reproductive Rights and the United Nations.
Diana Silver
Dr. Diana Silver explores the impact of variation in the implementation, adoption, and repeal of state and local public health policies on health outcomes.
Andrea Silverman
Assistant Professor of Environmental Public Health Sciences
The goal of Dr. Andrea Silverman’s work is to develop sustainable and appropriate wastewater treatment systems, in an effort to protect public health and the environment.
Yesim Tozan
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.
Beverly-Xaviera Watkins
Dr. Beverly-Xaviera Watkins researches minority aging and environmental health disparities with the goal of reducing health disparities, especially in NYC's communities of color.
Shu (Violet) Xu
Dr. Shu Xu's work represents the statistical and applied aspects of quantitative methodology, including evaluating and developing statistical methods for longitudinal data analysis.
Lawrence Yang
Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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.
Affiliated Faculty
| Veronica Ades | Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine | Veronica.Ades@nyumc.org |
| Arthur Caplan | Professor, NYU School of Medicine | Arthur.Caplan@nyumc.org |
| Jane Carlton | Professor, NYU Faculty of Arts and Science | jane.carlton@nyu.edu |
| Dustin Duncan | Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine | Dustin.Duncan@nyumc.org |
| Brian Elbel | Associate Professor, NYU Wagner | Brian.Elbel@nyumc.org |
| Sherry Glied | Professor, NYU Wagner | sherry.glied@nyu.edu |
| Terry Gordon | Professor, NYU School of Medicine | terry.gordon@nyumc.org |
| Stuart Hirsch | Professor, NYU Dental | smh1@nyu.edu |
| Peter Loomer | Professor, NYU Dental | peter.loomer@nyu.edu |
| Richard Niederman | Professor, NYU Dental | rniederman@nyu.edu |
| Carol Skoshkes Reiss | Professor, NYU Faculty of Arts and Science | carol.reiss@nyu.edu |
| Scott E. Sherman | Professor, NYU School of Medicine | Scott.Sherman@nyumc.org |
| Eileen Sullivan-Marx | Professor, NYU Nursing | esm8@nyu.edu |
| George Thurston | Professor, NYU School of Medicine | george.thurston@nyumc.org |
| Homer Venters | Associate Professor, NYU School of Medicine | hventers@gmail.com |
Associated Faculty
| Nathan Bertelsen | Associate Professor, NYU School of Medicine | berten01@nyu.edu |
| John Billings | Professor, NYU Wagner | john.billings@nyu.edu |
| Carlos Chirinos | Clinical Professor, NYU Steinhardt | carlos.chirinos@nyu.edu |
| Ananda Dasanayake | Professor, NYU Dental | ad75@nyu.edu |
| Marc Gourevitch | Professor, NYU School of Medicine | marc.gourevitch@nyumc.org |
| Mary Northridge | Research Associate Professor, NYU School of Medicine | mary.northridge@nyulangone.org |
| Michael O’Connor | Professor, NYU Dental | mpo3@nyu.edu |
| Deborah Padgett | Professor, NYU Silver | deborah.padgett@nyu.edu |
| Victoria Raveis | Professor, NYU Dental | victoria.raveis@nyu.edu |
| Ryan R Ruff | Assistant Professor, NYU Dental | ryan.ruff@nyu.edu |
| Mark Schwartz | Associate Professor, NYU School of Medicine | mark.schwartz@nyumc.org |
| Donna Shelley | Professor, NYU School of Medicine | donna.shelley@nyulangone.org |
| Taraneh Shirazian | Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine | ts2981@nyu.edu |
| Chau Trinh-Shevrin | Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine | chau.trinh@nyumc.org |
| Nancy Van Devanter | Professor, NYU Nursing | nvd2@nyu.edu |
| Dorice Vieira | Associate Professor, NYU School of Medicine | dorice.vieira@nyumc.org |
| Michael Weitzman | Professor, NYU School of Medicine | michael.weitzman@nyumc.org |
| Judith Zelikoff | Associate Professor, NYU School of Medicine | zelikj01@nyu.edu |
| Laurie Zephyrin | Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine | laurie.zephyrin@nyumc.org |
Contributing Faculty
| Raghib Ali | Associate Professor, NYU Abu Dhabi | ra107@nyu.edu |
| Richard Adanu | Professor, University of Ghana | rmadunu@ug.edu.gh |
| Philip Adongo | Professor, University of Ghana | pbadongo@ug.edu.gh |
| Juliet Bedford | Professor | jb5769@nyu.edu |
| Habib Benzian | Professor, NYU College of Dentistry | habib.benzian@nyu.edu |
| Andrew Kolodny | Associate Professor | andrew.kolodny@nyu.edu |
| Jacqueline Martinez | Associate Professor | martinez@nyshealth.org |
| Marion Nestle | Professor, NYU Steinhardt | marion.nestle@nyu.edu |
| Brian Paquette | Associate Professor, NYU Faculty of Arts and Science | brian.paquette@nyu.edu |
| Lori Peek | Associate Professor | lori.peek@colostate.edu |
| Bismark Sarfo | Assistant Professor | bsarfo@ug.edu.gh |
| Michael Tacelosky | Professor | tac.tacelosky@nyu.edu |
| Janet Tobias | Associate Professor | janet@ikanamedia.com |
| Ellyn Toscano | Associate Professor, NYU Florence | ellyn.toscano@nyu.edu |
| Donna Vallone | Associate Professor | dvallone@truthinitiative.org |
Emeritus Professors
| Sally Guttmacher | NYU College of Global Public Health | sg2@nyu.edu |
| Perry Halkitis | Professor Emeritus | pnh1@nyu.edu |
| Marion Nestle | Professor, NYU Steinhardt | marion.nestle@nyu.edu |
Research Scientists
| Ian D. Aronson | Social and Behavioral Sciences | la14@nyu.edu |
| Alexander S. Bennett | Social and Behavioral Sciences | asb19@nyu.edu |
| Luther Elliott | Social and Behavioral Sciences | lce201@nyu.edu |
| William N. Rom | Global Health Programs | william.rom@nyumc.org |
| Janie Simmons | Social and Behavioral Sciences | js8822@nyu.edu |
Visiting Faculty
| Daniel Fogal | Visiting Assistant Professor | danfogal@gmail.com |
| Adam Lerner | Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow | ajl402@nyu.edu |
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Jordan McKenzie |
Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow | jlm763@nyu.edu |
| Ann McNeill | Visiting Research Professor, UK Centre of Tobacco and Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS), King's College London |
ann.mcneill@kcl.ac.uk |
| Claudia Passos-Ferreira | Visiting Assistant Professor | cpassosferreira@gmail.com |
| Martin Raw | Visiting Scholar, International Centre for Tobacco Cessation | martin@martinraw.com |
| Karen Yeates | Visiting Associate Professor | yeatesk@queensu.ca |