Core Faculty
Faculty in the Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention represent a wide range of research interests aimed at reducing the global burden of disease:
Professor of Teaching of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Chair & Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Affiliated, Psychological Science, UCI School of Social Ecology
Director of the Biobehavioral Shared Resource, UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center & the UCI Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research
Assistant Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Distinguished Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
UC Presidential Chair
Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Assistant Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention
Co-Director, PhD in Public Health Degree Program
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Chancellor’s Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Affiliated Faculty
The interdisciplinary nature of public health as a field is reflected in the work of our affiliated faculty, who draw expertise from other areas of study to support Wen Public Health’s mission of promoting health equity while reducing the global burden of disease.
Heike Thiel de Bocanegra, PhD, MPH, MA
Affiliated Faculty Professor, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Adjunct Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, School of Medicine
Bharath Chakravarthy, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
MD/MPH Dual Degree Program Director
Yunan Chen, PhD
Associate Professor of Informatics
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Michelle Fortier, PhD
Professor of Nursing
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Daniel L. Gillen, PhD
Professor & Chair of Statistics
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Anjali Yashavi Hari, MD
Affiliated, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology, School of Medicine
Luohua Jiang, MD, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Jacqueline Kim, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor In Residence, UCI School of Medicine
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Masashi Kitazawa, PhD
Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Kate Kuhlman, MS, PhD
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Karen Lindsay, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Shahram Lotfipour, MD, MPH
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Ulrike Luderer, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health
Director, Center for Occupational & Environmental Health
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Dana Mukamel, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Margaret Lynn Schneider, PhD
Researcher, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD
Professor of Psychological Science
Vice Provost, Academic Planning and Institutional Research
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Affiliated, Health, Society, & Behavior
Dara H. Sorkin, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Community Engagement Unit for Institute for Clinical & Translational Science
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Elani Streja, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor in Residence of Medicine
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Bryan Sykes, MA, PhD
Associate Professor of Crimology, Law, and Society
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Veronica Vieira, DSc
Chair & Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health
Affiliated, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention
Nathan Wong, MPH, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Jun Wu, PhD
Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health
Director, Graduate Programs in Environmental Health Sciences
Affiliated, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Affiliated, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Researchers
Researchers contribute valuable expertise and insight to complement our full-time and affiliated faculty.
Jaeeun (Jenny) Cho, MS, MPH
Junior Specialist, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Jose Guillermo Lechuga
Associate Specialist, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Dalila Ortega
Junior Specialist, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Margaret Lynn Schneider, PhD
Researcher, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Xiaoming “Chloe” Wang
Specialist, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Daibin Zhong
Associate Project Scientist, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
Guofa Zhou
Associate Project Scientist, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention
David Zoeter
Associate Specialist, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Postdoctoral Scholars
Marcie Haydon
Postdoctoral Scholar, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Anna Kovalenko, DVM, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention (Vasylyeva Lab)
