Public Health Faculty

Amin, Alpesh [ Profile ]
Professor
Public Health/Medicine
anamin@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Medical Education, Curriculum Development, Hospital Medicine, Anticoagulation.

Publications:

• [ Article ] Hospitalist: The new medical specialty
• [ Book ] Optimizing Delivery of Care for Patients with MRSA Infection: Focus on Transitions of Care

• [ Book ] Incretin-Based Therapies: Review of the Outpatient Literature with Implications for Use in the Hospital and After Discharge
• [ Book ] The Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine: A Framework for Curriculum Development by the Society of Hospital Medicine

Baker, Dean Bradford
Professor
Public Health/Medicine/Pediatrics/Epidemiology
Joint Appointment
dbaker@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Occupational Epidemiology, Work Organization and Work-related Stress, Environmental Epidemiology, Children's Environmental Health

Bartell, Scott [ Profile ]
Assistant Professor
Public Health
sbartell@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Probabilistic models and statistical methods for exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology, and risk/decision analysis

Bernard, Hans-Ulrich [ Profile ]
Professor
Public Health/Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
hbernard@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Papillomaviruses and cervical cancer

Publications:

• [ Article ] Smoking linked to cervical cancer

Bic, Zuzana [ Profile ] [ website ]
Lecturer SOE
Public Health
zbic@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Impact and application of lifestyle medicine on slowing the process of aging and the development of chronic diseases. Develop health literacy programs for the K-12 curriculum and the general public

Bondy, Stephen C. [ profile ] [ website ]
Professor
Public Health/Medicine-Environmental Toxicology
Joint Appointment
scbondy@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Environmental Toxicology, Neurotoxicology, Brain Aging

Brown, Brandon [ profile ] [ website ]
Lecturer
MPH, PhD
brandojb@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Epidemiology, Infectious diseases in developing countries.

Bruckner, Tim-Allen [ Profile ]
Assistant Professor
Public Health/Planning, Policy & Design
tim.bruckner@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Economic downturns and health; perinatal epidemiology; biodemography; mental health policy.

Chandra, Candace S.
Lecturer
Public Health
chandrac@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Global Health Concerns and Issues

Publications:

• [ Video ] Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Global Health Concerns and Issues

Chang, Wayne [ profile ] [ website ]
Associate Professor
Public Health/Medicine
wwchang@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Occupational Medicine

Christopherson, Joanne
Lecturer
Social Science, Demographic and Social Analysis (DASA)
christoj@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Spatial analysis of injury, school violence, suicidology in youth and elderly, alzheimer's disease, inequality in education.

Cohen Silver, Roxane [ profile ] [ website ]
Professor
Psychology & Social Behavior
rsilver@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Coping with traumatic life events (personal losses and collective traumas)

Cygan, Ralph [ Profile ]
Professor
Public Health/Medicine

Research Interests:
Primary Care

Publications:

• [ Article ] Ralph Cygan, Chief executive office, UCI medical center

Detrano, Robert C.
Professor
Radiological Sciences
Joint Appointment
rdetrano@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Developing research and educational programs related to cardiovascular disease in China.

Edwards, Rufus [ Profile ]
Associate Professor
Epidemiology
edwardsr@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Air pollution; human exposures to particles, VOC, greenhouse gas including U.S. and European cities (Expolis); environmental epidemiology.

Grant Ludwig, Lisa [ Profile ] [ website ]
Associate Professor
Public Health
lgrant@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Natural hazards, paleoseismology, active faults, San Andreas fault, southern California faults, San Joaquin Hills, seismic hazard, environmental health and geology

Hubbell, F. Allan [ Profile ]
Professor
Public Health/Medicine
fahubbel@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Health disparities, cancer prevention and control, and access to medical care

Israel, Leslie [ profile ] [ website ]
Associate Professor
lisrael@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Occupational Medicine, Surveillance

Kleinman, Michael [ profile ] [ website ] [ website ]
Professor
mtkleinm@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Environmental Toxicology, Inhalation Toxicology, Oxidative Stress and Cardiopulmonary Diseases

Publications:

• [ Article ] Traffic's true toll

Kornhauser, Elliott [ profile ] [ website ]
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, UCI
Joint Appointment
ekornhau@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Occupational Medicine, Employee Health

Lakon, Cynthia
Assistant Professor
Public Health
clakon@hs.uci.edu

Research Interests:
Ecological models of health and health behavior, social networks and health, social influence, social support, high risk youth populations, homelessness, and substance use.

Lotfipour, Shahram [ Profile ] [ website ]
Professor
Public Health/Medicine
shl@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Use and Abuse, Older Driver Fitness and Driver Safety

Luderer, Ulrike [ profile ] [ website ] [ website ]
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, UCI
Joint Appointment
uluderer@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Occupational Medicine, Environmental Toxicology, Reproductive Toxicology, Developmental Toxicology

Meyskens, Jr., Frank [ profile ] [ website ] [ website ]
Professor
Public Health/Medicine and Biological Chemistry
flmeyske@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Research Interests: Melanoma, chemoprevention, polyamines.

Montoya, Michael J. [ Profile ] [ website ]
Assistant Professor
Chicano-Latino Studies/Anthropology/Public Health
mmontoya@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Community health, chronic disease, participatory action-research, local knowledge, political economy of disease, diabetes, social studies of science and medicine, Latino health, translational science.

Mukamel, Dana [ profile ]
Professor
Health Policy Research
Joint Appointment
dmukamel@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Quality of care; long-term care; risk-adjusted outcomes; racial disparities; health economics; quality report cards

Publications:

• [ Article ] Racial Disparities in Receipt of Influenza and Pneumococcus Vaccinations Among US Nursing-Home Residents

• [ Article ] Nursing Home Termination, Nursing Home Closure, and Many Unanswered Questions

Noymer, Andrew [ Profile ] [ website ]
Assistant Professor
Public Health/Sociology
noymer@uci.edu

Research Interests:
The historical demography and epidemiology of influenza pandemics; the evolution of life expectancy; health and mortality in developing countries.

Ogunseitan, Oladele [ Profile ] [ website ]
Professor
Public Health
Oladele.ogunseitan@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Microbial diversity and ecology; environmental pollution; industrial ecology; health and development

Publications:

• [ Article ] Profiles of Minority Professionals: Oladele Ogunseitan
• [ Article ] The Wild West of Electronic Waste
• [ Article ] Putting together the E-waste puzzle: Oladele Ogunstein on the need for a more cohesive approach

• [ Article ] The e-waste dilemma
• [ Book ] Green Health: An A-to-Z Guide
• [ Video ] Oladele Ogunseitan on E-waste

Schmidt, Terry L. [ profile ]
Lecturer, Public Policy, Economics
Public Health, Business
tschmidt@uci.edu

Research Interests:
The unintended consequences of healthcare reform on clinical research.

Schnall, Peter [ website ]
Professor
pschnall@workhealth.org

Research Interests:
Occupational Epidemiology, Work Organization and Work-related Stress, Cardiovascular Disease

Sparks, Lisa
Adjunct Professor
Public Health
Joint Appointment
lsparks1@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Communication, health, aging, and cancer communication science

Stern, Sharon
Senior Lecturer SOE
Public Health
smstern@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Potable reuse, constructed wetlands for protection of water quality, human health and environmental agents

Stokols, Daniel S. [ Profile ]
Professor
Public Health/Planning,Policy & Design
dstokols@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Environmental design research; community and worksite health promotion; effects of environmental stressors on behavior and health; environmental psychology of the internet

Publications:

• [ Article ] Measuring Collaboration and Transdisciplinary Integration in Team Science

Tapia, Roberto Conyer
Adjunct Professor
Public Health
rtapiaco@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Chronic Disease in Mexico

Timberlake, David [ Profile ]
Assistant Professor
Public Health
dtimberl@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Genetic epidemiology, epidemiology of tobacco, alcohol and other substances of abuse

Vieira, Veronica
Assistant Professor
Public Health
vvieira@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Epidemiology, spatial analysis methods and exposure modeling

Walsh, Eric G.
Lecturer
Public Health
egwalsh@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Stress and Health Disparities

Wenzel, Lari B. [ Profile ]
Professor
Public Health/Medicine
lwenzel@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Evaluation of behaviors in cancer patients and survivors.

Wu, Jun [ Profile ]
Assistant Professor
Public Health
junwu@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Air pollution exposure assessment and air pollution epidemiology

Yan, Guiyun [ Profile ]
Professor
Public Health
guiyuny@uci.edu

Research Interests:
Population ecology and genetics of host-parasite interactions, malaria epidemiology