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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, 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

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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

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Bernadette Boden-Albala, DrPH, MPH

bbodenal@uci.edu

Director and Founding Dean DrPH, MPH, Columbia University

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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

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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

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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

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Marion Fedoruk

mjfedoru@uci.edu

Clinical Professor

Research Interests: Exposure to biological contaminants.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Joel Milam, Ph.D., M.A.

milamj@hs.uci.edu

Professor Ph.D., M.A., University of Southern California

Research Interests: Young adult cancer survivorship, Positive psychology, HIV prevention/control

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Elizabeth Thomas, Ph.D.

eathoma1@uci.edu

Professional Researcher, Program in Public Health; Epidemiology Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Research Interests: Biomarkers, epigenetics, gene expression, psychiatric disorders, neurodegenerative conditions

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Faculty

Scott Bartell, Ph.D.

Hans-Ulrich Bernard, Ph.D.

Zuzana Bic, MUDr.(MD), DrPH

Bernadette Boden-Albala, DrPH, MPH

Tim-Allen Bruckner, Ph.D.

Karen Edwards, Ph.D.

Rufus Edwards, Ph.D.

Marion Fedoruk

Ted Gideonse, Ph.D.

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

Lisa Grant Ludwig, Ph.D.

Suellen Hopfer, Ph.D.

Michael Hoyt, Ph.D.

Luohua Jiang, MD, PhD

Cynthia Lakon, Ph.D.

Alana M.W. LeBrón, Ph.D., MS

Sunmin Lee, ScD

Feng Liu-Smith, PhD

Yunxia Lu, Ph.D.

Hannah Lui Park, PhD

Joel Milam, Ph.D., M.A.

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

Trina Norden-Krichmar, PhD

Andrew Noymer, Ph.D.

Andrew Odegaard, PhD

Oladele Ogunseitan, Ph.D.

Sora Park Tanjasiri, DrPH, MPH

Daniel M. Parker, Ph.D.

Annie Ro, Ph.D.

Miryha Gould Runnerstrom, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Thomas, Ph.D.

David Timberlake, Ph.D.

Kristina Uban, Ph.D.

Veronica Vieira, D.Sc.

Lari B. Wenzel, Ph.D.

Dominik Wodarz, Ph.D.

Jun Wu, Ph.D.

Guiyun Yan, Ph.D.

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