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David Abrams
Dr. David Abrams focuses on systems thinking and social learning theory conceptual approaches to health enhancement and chronic disease prevention.
David Abramson
Clinical Associate 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 Michael Amegbor
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
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.
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 Elizabeth Boufford
Director of the Doctor of Public Health Program
Clinical Professor of Global 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.
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
Jennifer Cantrell, DrPH, MPA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Jack Caravanos
Dr. Jack Caravanos studies lead and toxic wastes to design safe and evidence-based solutions to environmental pollution.
Ji E 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 W 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
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
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.
Stephanie H Cook
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Dr. Stephanie Cook’s research focus is to understand how structural- and individual-level minority stressors contribute to mental health, physical health, and health behaviors across the life span.
Adolfo Cuevas
Dr. Adolfo Cuevas uses population-level datasets and statistical methods to understand how psychosocial determinants “get under the skin” and increase the risk of aging-related diseases.
Andrea L. Deierlein
Dr. Andrea Deierlein examines how dietary, behavioral, and environmental factors contribute to reproductive health outcomes and chronic-disease development throughout the lifespan.
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
Dr. Chris Dickey is an international development innovator and public health entrepreneur whose work seeks to develop sustainable public health models.
Ralph DiClemente
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.
Joshua 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 E. Faber
Director of Undergraduate Experiential Learning
Director of Public Health Practice
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
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 Robert Fogal
Daniel Fogal specializes in bioethics, metaethics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.
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
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
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.
Kate Guastaferro
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement and Dissemination of Intervention Optimization
Dr. Kate Guastaferro's work is devoted to the development, optimization, implementation and evaluation of effective, efficient, affordable and scalable interventions with high public health impact.
Holly Hagan
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 disor...
Erez Hatna
Dr. Erez Hatna researches geoinformatics, spatial analysis, agent-based modeling, and urban systems and dynamics.
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
Dr. Siyu Heng's areas of expertise are in methodology research and its applications in public health.
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.
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.
Alden Lai
Alden Lai is a health care management scholar who researches organizational cognition and workforce issues. He investigates how health professionals and managers handle complex information at work.
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.
Courtney A 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 A 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.
Michael H Merson
Interim Chair, Department of Global and Environmental Health
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.
Cheryl Merzel
Director of Doctor of Public Health Program
Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Community Health Science and Practice
Cheryl Merzel has over 30 years’ experience in public health research, evaluation, program development, advocacy, and education.
Joyce Moon Howard
Director of Undergraduate Programs
Clinical Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Community Health Science and Practice
Dr. Joyce Moon Howard's work seeks to understand community needs and is rooted in the community healthcare movement.
Genevra Murray
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.
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
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 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.
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 C. Ompad
Director of Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Health Program
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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.
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.
Saba Rouhani
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.
Donna Shelley
Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
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
Dr. Hai Shu is an expert in high-dimensional data analysis, machine/deep learning and medical image analysis.
Diana R 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.
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.
Shu 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 H Yang
Chair and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Director, Global Center for Implementation Science
Founding Director, Global Mental Health and Stigma Program
Dr. Lawrence 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 HI...
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 |
| Omar El Shahawy | Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, Section on Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Use, NYU Grossman School of Medicine | Omar.ElShahawy@nyulangone.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 |
| 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 |
Associated Faculty
| John Billings | Professor, NYU Wagner | john.billings@nyu.edu |
| Carlos Chirinos | Clinical Professor, NYU Steinhardt | carlos.chirinos@nyu.edu |
| Thomas D'Aunno | NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | tdaunno@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 |
| Taraneh Shirazian | Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine | ts2981@nyu.edu |
| Chau Trinh-Shevrin | Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine | chau.trinh@nyumc.org |
| Andrea Silverman | Assistant Professor, NYU Tandon School of Engineering | andrea.silverman@nyu.edu |
| Nancy Van Devanter | Professor, NYU Nursing | nvd2@nyu.edu |
| Dorice Vieira | Associate Professor, NYU School of Medicine | dorice.vieira@nyumc.org |
| Jerome C. Wakefield | Professor of Social Work | jerome.wakefield@nyu.edu |
| 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 |
| Donna Vallone | Associate Professor | dvallone@truthinitiative.org |
| Homer Venters | Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor | hventers@gmail.com |
Research Scientists & Professors
| Ian D. Aronson | Social and Behavioral Sciences | la14@nyu.edu |
| Alexander S. Bennett | Social and Behavioral Sciences | asb19@nyu.edu |
| Andrew Burgie | Social and Behavioral Sciences | aeb5@nyu.edu |
| Luther Elliott | Social and Behavioral Sciences | lce201@nyu.edu |
| William N. Rom | Global Health | william.rom@nyumc.org |
| Janie Simmons | Social and Behavioral Sciences | js8822@nyu.edu |
| Suzan Walters | Epidemiology |
Visiting Faculty
| Moaz Abdelwadoud | Visiting Assistant Professor, Global Health | ma6949@nyu.edu |
| Stephanie Beardman | Visiting Assistant Professor, Bioethics | sb122@nyu.edu |
| Janice Chisholm | Visiting Assistant Professor, Public Health Policy and Management | jac216@nyu.edu |
| Christiana Coyle | Visiting Associate Professor, Epidemiology | cc5172@nyu.edu |
| Amy Davidow | Visiting Associate Professor, Biostatistics | davida02@nyu.edu |
| Joshua Foreman | Visiting Scholar | joshrforeman@gmail.com |
| Elodie Ghedin | Visiting Scholar | elodie.ghedin@nyu.edu |
| Filippa Juul | Faculty Fellow | fcj211@nyu.edu |
| Daniel Khokhar | Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Bioethics | dak417@nyu.edu |
| Jonathan Knutzen | Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Bioethics | jdk9147@nyu.edu |
| Vanessa Li | Visiting Scholar, Social and Behavioral Sciences | |
| Shunsuke Managi | Visiting Research Professor, Public Health Policy and Management | |
| Ann McNeill | Visiting Research Professor, UK Centre of Tobacco and Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS), King's College London |
ann.mcneill@kcl.ac.uk |
| Jonathan Odemugwu | Visiting Assistant Professor, Biostatistics | jno5497@nyu.edu |
| Rachel Ryan | Visiting Assistant Professor, Public Health Nutrition | rw1493@nyu.edu |
| Brian Spitzer | Visiting Assistant Professor, Biostatistics | bjs419@nyu.edu |
| Wilson Wang | Visiting Associate Professor, Global Health | ww1091@nyu.edu |
| Judith Weissman | Visiting Assistant Professor, Epidemiology | weissj14@nyu.edu |
| Jin (Jean) Yung Bae | Visiting Associate Professor, Public Health Policy and Management | jyb219@nyu.edu |