Councils & Committees

Charged with reviewing and recommending to the faculty all matters involving the undergraduate and graduate curricula; functions to review and oversee curricular issues and to make recommendations to the faculty where faculty endorsement by vote is required prior to sending proposals to the Divisional Academic Senate’s Council on Educational Policy or Graduate Council; reviews requests for new courses or modifications in existing courses and course evaluations; and reviews substantial modifications to class sizes, course scheduling, learning objectives, emphasis areas, and guidelines for TAs.

Suellen Hopfer, MS, PhD

(Chair of Committee) Assistant Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

shopfer@hs.uci.edu

Ulrike Luderer, MD, PhD, MPH

Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health

uluderer@uci.edu

David Timberlake, PhD

Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention

dtimberl@uci.edu

Baolin Wu, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

baolin.wu@uci.edu

The faculty council provides a primary means of communication to and with the administration for matters of general concern to the faculty and acts for the faculty on matters delegated by the faculty, including allocation of educational and budgetary resources, academic priorities, and the planning and budgetary process.

Masashi Kitazawa, PhD

(Chair of Committee) Professor of Environmental & Occupational Heatlh

kitazawa@uci.edu

Tim Bruckner, PhD

(Vice Chair of Committee) Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

tim.bruckner@uci.edu

Saurabh Chatterjee, Msc, PhD

Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health & Medicine

saurabhc@hs.uci.edu

Joel Milam, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

milamj@hs.uci.edu

Annie Ro, PhD

Associate Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

annie.ro@uci.edu

Guiyun Yan, PhD

Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention

guiyuny@uci.edu

Charged with reviewing and recommending to the faculty on all matters relating to the criteria for admission of graduate students, freshmen, and transfer students into the public health degrees; reviews and makes recommendations on minimum standards for students to remain in good standing in the program, as well as on issues related to academic notice, students on contracts, dismissals, and student appeals; and serves as a portal for requests and recommendations for improving student welfare and morale.

Brandy Lipton, PhD

(Chair of Committee) Associate Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

blipton@hs.uci.edu

Zuzanna Bic, PhD, MD

Professor of Teaching of Population Health & Disease Prevention

zbic@uci.edu

Andrew Odegaard, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

aodegaar@uci.edu

Robert Phalen, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Environmental & Occupational Health

rfphalen@uci.edu

Assists in developing and reviewing policies and procedures related to faculty and student research; charged with providing advisement and support to the establishment and implementation of research goals; fostering opportunities for interdisciplinary and interprogrammatic research, coordinating the distribution of faculty research resources, and promoting opportunities for success in research productivity, publishing, and funding acquisition; and advise on research space and facilities.

Tim Bruckner, PhD

(Chair of Committee) Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

tim.bruckner@uci.edu

Sean Arayasirikul, PhD

Associate Professor in Residence of Health, Society, & Behavior

sean.arayasirikul@uci.edu

Tetyana Vasylyeva, MSc, MPH, DPhil

Assistant Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention Co-Director, PhD in Public Health Degree Program Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

tvasylye@hs.uci.edu

Michael Kleinman, MS, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Co-Director, Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory

mtkleinm@uci.edu

Min Zhang, MD, PhD, MS, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Director of Biostatistics Shared Resource, UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

minzhang@uci.edu

Margaret Lynn Schneider, PhD

Researcher, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention

margaret.schneider@uci.edu

Assists in developing and reviewing policies and procedures related to faculty and student research; charged with providing advisement and support to the establishment and implementation of research goals; fostering opportunities for interdisciplinary and interprogrammatic research, coordinating the distribution of faculty research resources, and promoting opportunities for success in research productivity, publishing, and funding acquisition; and advise on research space and facilities.

Saurabh Chatterjee, MSc, PhD

(Chair of Committee) Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health

saurabhc@hs.uci.edu

Yunixa Lu

Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention

yunxia.lu@uci.edu

Min Zhang, MD, PhD, MS, PhD

Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

minzhang@uci.edu

Leigh Turner, PhD

Professor of Health, Society, & Behavior

leigh.turner@uci.edu