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Public Health

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Scott Bartell

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Scott Bartell, Ph.D.

sbartell@uci.edu
Professor, Program in Public Health; Environmental Health Sciences; Epidemiology; Social Ecology; Statistics Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Research Interests: Quantitative research methods in exposure science, risk assessment, and environmental epidemiology
Hans-Ulrich Bernard

Hans-Ulrich Bernard, Ph.D.

hbernard@uci.edu
Professor Emeritus, Program in Public Health; Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Ph.D., University of Goettingen

Research Interests: Papillomaviruses and cervical cancer
Zuzana Bic

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Zuzana Bic, MUDr.(MD), DrPH

zbic@uci.edu
Professor of Teaching, Program in Public Health MUDr.(MD), DrPH,
King Charles University, Prague , Czech Republic
Loma Linda University

Research Interests: Preventive care, lifestyle medicine, corporate health, health literacy and promotion
Bernadette Boden-Albala

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Bernadette Boden-Albala, DrPH, MPH

bbodenal@uci.edu
Director and Founding Dean DrPH, MPH, Columbia University
Tim-Allen Bruckner

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Tim-Allen Bruckner, Ph.D.

tim.bruckner@uci.edu
Associate Professor, Program in Public Health; Planning, Policy, and Design Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests: Perinatal and life course epidemiology, economic downturns and health, mental health
Karen Edwards

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Karen Edwards, Ph.D.

kedward1@uci.edu
Professor, Epidemiology; Program in Public Health Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Interests: Genetic Epidemiology, use of multivariate approaches to define phenotypes for complex diseases
Rufus Edwards

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Rufus Edwards, Ph.D.

edwardsr@uci.edu
Professor, Program in Public Health; Environmental Health Sciences; Epidemiology Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Research Interests: Air pollution, human exposures to particles, environmental epidemiology
Marion Fedoruk

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Marion Fedoruk

mjfedoru@uci.edu
Clinical Professor

Research Interests: Exposure to biological contaminants.
Ted Gideonse

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Ted Gideonse, Ph.D.

t.gideonse@uci.edu
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Program in Public Health Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Research Interests: Public Health Writing, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use and Abuse, HIV/AIDS, Public Health Ethics
Deborah Goodman-Gruen

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Deborah Goodman-Gruen, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.

goodmand@uci.edu
Associate Professor, Epidemiology M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests: Cancer Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Prevention
Lisa Grant Ludwig

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Lisa Grant Ludwig, Ph.D.

lgrant@uci.edu
Professor, Program in Public Health
 Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Natural hazards and disasters, earthquakes, earthquake policy, environmental geology and public health
Suellen Hopfer

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Suellen Hopfer, Ph.D.

shopfer@uci.edu
Assistant Professor, Program in Public Health Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests: Vaccine and Climate change communication; Experimentation of messaging and development of prevention interventions; Cultural adaptation and implementation of HPV vaccine interventions; Latent class and transition analysis; MOST trial designs
Michael Hoyt

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Michael Hoyt, Ph.D.

mahoyt@uci.edu
Associate Professor, Program in Public Health Ph.D., Arizona State University

Research Interests: Biobehavioral processes related to psychological adjustment and coping in the context of cancer and other chronic diseases

Luohua Jiang

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Luohua Jiang, MD, PhD

lhjiang@hs.uci.edu
Associate Professor, Epidemiology MD, PhD, UCLA

Research Interests: Multilevel and Longitudinal Data, Analysis, Latent Variable Modeling, Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Health Disparities Research
Cynthia Lakon

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Cynthia Lakon, Ph.D.

clakon@hs.uci.edu
Interim Chair, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior Administration,
Associate Professor, Program in Public Health Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests: Social networks, ecological and systems models of health, social support, decision making, youth, and drug use
Alana M.W. LeBrón

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Alana M.W. LeBrón, Ph.D., MS

alebron@uci.edu
Assistant Professor, Program in Public Health; Chicano/Latino Studies Ph.D., MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Interests: Racial, ethnic, gender and socioeconomic health inequities, influence of social policies on health

Sunmin Lee

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Sunmin Lee, ScD

sunminl7@hs.uci.edu
Professor
Co-Leader, Cancer Control Program, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center ScD, Harvard

Research Interests: Social Epidemiology, Health Disparities, Cancer Prevention & Cancer Survivorship, Community-Based Participatory Research, Mixed-Methods Research, Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), Minority & Immigrant Health

Feng Liu-Smith

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Feng Liu-Smith, PhD

liufe@uci.edu
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology PhD, Iowa State University

Research Interests: Cancer Epidemiology, cancer biology, melanoma drug resistance, melanoma risk factors, gender difference/gender disparity

Yunxia Lu

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Yunxia Lu, Ph.D.

yunxia.lu@uci.edu
Associate Professor, Program in Public Health; Epidemiology Ph.D., Tongi Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Research Interests: Cancer etiology and prevention, cancer prognosis, obesity epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology
Hannah Lui Park

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Hannah Lui Park, PhD

hlpark@uci.edu
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Program Director, UCI Athena Breast Health Network
Associate Director, Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute PhD, Stanford University

Research Interests: Cancer epigenetics, environmental exposures, DNA methylation, cancer biomarkers, genetic epidemiology, epigenetic epidemiology

Brittany Morey

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Brittany Morey, Ph.D., M.P.H.

brittany.morey@uci.edu
Assistant Professor Ph.D., M.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests: Racial/ethnic health disparities, neighborhoods and health, social determinants, structural racism, immigration, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders

Trina Norden-Krichmar

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Trina Norden-Krichmar, PhD

tnordenk@uci.edu
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology PhD, University of California, San Diego

Research Interests: Bioinformatics; genetic factors in human diseases; gene expression analysis; methylation; non-coding RNA; metagenomics; medical, environmental and marine genomics; pharmacogenomics and computational drug discovery; machine learning and deep learning

Andrew Noymer

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Andrew Noymer, Ph.D.

noymer@uci.edu
Associate Professor, Program in Public Health Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests: Historical epidemiology, social epidemiology, medical demography
Andrew Odegaard

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Andrew Odegaard, PhD

aodegaar@uci.edu
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology PhD, University of Minnesota

Research Interests: diet, nutrition, lifestyle, physical activity, fitness, obesity, body composition, metabolic disorders, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer's, cognition, translation

Oladele Ogunseitan

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Oladele Ogunseitan, Ph.D.

Oladele.ogunseitan@uci.edu
UC Presidential Chair and Professor of Program in Public Health; Environmental Health Sciences Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Research Interests: Microbial diversity and ecology, environmental pollution, industrial ecology, health and development
Sora Park Tanjasiri

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Sora Park Tanjasiri, DrPH, MPH

tanjasir@uci.edu
Health Equity Advisor
Professor, Dept of Epidemiology DrPH, MPH, University of California

Research Interests: Cancer health disparities, cancer prevention, breast and cervical early detection, community-based participatory research

Daniel M. Parker

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Daniel M. Parker, Ph.D.

dparker1@uci.edu
Assistant Professor, Program in Public Health Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology, GIS, microdemography, anthropology
Annie Ro

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Annie Ro, Ph.D.

annie.ro@uci.edu
Associate Professor, Program in Public Health Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Interests: Social determinants of immigrant health, health demography, discrimination and health, social epidemiology
Miryha Gould Runnerstrom

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Miryha Gould Runnerstrom, Ph.D.

miryha@uci.edu
Associate Professor of Teaching, Program in Public Health Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Research Interests: Behavioral and environmental influences on health and well-being, global health
David Timberlake

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David Timberlake, Ph.D.

dtimberl@uci.edu
DECADE Mentor, Associate Professor, Program in Public Health; Epidemiology Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

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

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Kristina Uban, Ph.D.

kuban@uci.edu
Assistant Professor, Program in Public Health Ph.D., University of British Columbia

Research Interests: A focus on the impact of prenatal exposure to alcohol on neurobiological propensity for cognitive and mental health problems in males and females, with alterations in neuroendocrine function serving as an underlying mechanism for increased vulnerability. An overarching theme eucidating sex differences in the impact of prenatal teratogen exposure on brain and hormone (stress and gonadal) systems. Improving mental health outcomes among those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder via targeted neuroendocrine interventions.
Veronica Vieira

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Veronica Vieira, D.Sc.

vvieira@uci.edu
Professor, Program in Public Health; Environmental Health Sciences D.Sc. , Boston University

Research Interests: Mapping health risks, cancer risks, environmental health
Lari B. Wenzel

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Lari B. Wenzel, Ph.D.

lwenzel@uci.edu
Professor, School of Medicine; Program in Public Health Ph.D., Arizona State University

Research Interests: Evaluation of behaviors in cancer patients and survivors
Dominik Wodarz

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Dominik Wodarz, Ph.D.

dwodarz@uci.edu
Professor Ph.D., University of Oxford

Research Interests: Dynamics of cancer and its treatment, Dynamics of virus infections and the immune system, General evolutionary dynamics and population dynamics
Jun Wu

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Jun Wu, Ph.D.

junwu@uci.edu
Associate Professor, Program in Public Health; Environmental Health Sciences Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Research Interests: Environmental Exposure Assessment, Environmental Epidemiology, and Environmental Health Disparity
Guiyun Yan

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Guiyun Yan, Ph.D.

guiyuny@uci.edu
Professor, Program in Public Health; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ph.D., University of Vermont

Research Interests: Epidemiology and vector biology of malaria and other vector-borne infectious diseases

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