Faculty
Ph.D. in Public Health with a Concentration in Social and Behavioral Health Sciences
The faculty members listed below represent the first tier of faculty who have requested an appointment in the doctoral public health field of study. All have funded research programs with research objectives that merit doctoral investigations and a strong record of publications in peer-reviewed journals. Over half of the faculty members have successfully mentored doctoral students to degree completion. All have a strong record of mentoring of graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows, and are doctorally trained tenure track faculty members who have committed to join the doctoral field of study and who will advise and mentor doctoral students.
Core
Name |
Position |
|
Department |
Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aseltine, Robert | Professor | aseltine@uchc.edu | Behavioral Science and Community Health | Mental health; risk prevention; evaluation research |
| Babor, Thomas | Professor and Chair | babor@nso.uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Screening, diagnosis, early intervention, and treatment evaluation of alcohol and drug problems, and related cultural factors |
| Faghri, Pouran | Professor | pouran.faghri@uconn.edu | Allied Health Sciences | Worksite and community health promotion programs; health related behavior, intervention strategies, evaluation of social determinants of health; selfcare, self awareness and decision making strategies |
| Ferris, Ann | Professor | ann.ferris@uconn.edu | Medicine | Community nutrition (Maternal and Child Health), nature of iron-deficiency anemia and health status of children living in poverty, lactation and diabetes, etc. |
| Grady, James | Professor | jgrady@uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Application of statistical model building for correlated data; analysis of correlated and longitudinal data; application of general estimating equations; applications of met-analysis to individual patient data |
| Pescatello, Linda | Professor | linda.pescatello@uconn.edu | Kinesiology | Health promotion, exercise and hypertension, physical activity |
| Reisine, Susan | Professor | reisine@nso1.uchc.edu | Behavioral Science and Community Health | Women's health, including arthritis related to gender differences in paid employment and family work |
| Schensul, Stephen | Professor | schensul@nso2.uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | AIDS risk in Mauritius and Sri Lanka; applied health research, community development and sexual risk |
| Singer, Merrill | Professor | merrill.singer@uconn.edu | Anthropology | Medical anthropology, health disparities, substance abuse, AIDS, violence, health and global warming, ethical issues in research |
Secondary
Name |
Position |
|
Department |
Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Britner, Preston | Professor | preston.britner@uconn.edu | Human Development and Family Studies | Child abuse prevention, family-focused programs |
| Burleson, Joseph | Associate Professor | burleson@up.uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Alcohol and other substance abuse prevention and treatment; research design and analysis of observational, experimental and clinical trials |
| Chapman, Audrey | Professor | achapman@uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Health and human rights; ethics |
| Copenhaver, Michael | Associate Professor | michael.copenhaver@uconn.edu | Allied Health Sciences | Refining and evaluating behavioral HIV risk reduction interventions that target high risk drug users in community-based treatment settings |
| Duffy, Valerie | Professor | valerie.duffy@uconn.edu | Allied Health Sciences | Taste and food selection; community-based nutrition interventions |
| Erickson, Pamela | Professor | pamela.erickson@uconn.edu | Anthropology | Influence of cultural, social, economic, and political factors on health and disease in human populations; ethomedicine; reproduction and MCH |
| Fifield, Judith | Professor | fifield@nso1.uchc.edu | Family Medicine | Factors that influence changes over time in social and physical functioning in chronic disease |
| Fortinsky, Richard | Professor of Medicine | fortinsky@nso1.uchc.edu | Center on Aging | Cost and quality of services for older adults; health of family caregivers; Medicare and Medicaid policy research; health outcomes research in geriatrics and gerontology |
| Gregorio, David | Professor | gregorio@nso.uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Chronic Disease surveillance; health disparities |
| Harkness, Sara | Professor | sara.harkness@uconn.edu | Human Development and Family Studies | Cultural structuring of human development and health |
| Hesselbrock, Victor | Professor | hesselbrock@neuron.uchc.edu | Psychiatry | Addiction and alcoholism |
| Kang, Sangwook | Assistant Professor | sangwook.kang@uconn.edu | Statistics | Survival Analysis, Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies, Statistics in Sports |
| Lazzarini, Zita | Associate Professor | lazzarini@nso.uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Health law and ethics; research ethics; law and policy; stem cells; medical humanities |
| Rodriguez, Nancy | Professor | nancy.rodriguez@uconn.edu | Nutritional Sciences | Exercise and protein metabolism |
| Shelton, Deborah | Associate Professor | deborah.shelton@uconn.edu | School of Nursing | Minority mental health services |
| Smith, Jason | Assistant Professor | jasmith@uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Health law; public health law; law and health disparities related to race/ethnicity; health law research methods and design; jurisprudence |
| Snyder, Leslie | Professor | leslie.snyder@uconn.edu | Communication Sciences | Communication, media effects, communication campaigns, and social marketing |
| Swede, Helen | Assistant Professor | hswede@uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Cancer, molecular epidemiology, genetics |
| Tennen, Howard | Professor | tennen@nso1.uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Stress, coping and adaptation; day-to-day adaptation to chronic illness and daily patterns and correlates of alcohol use |
| Ungemack, Jane | Assistant Professor | ungemack@nso2.uchc.edu | Community Medicine and Health Care | Substance abuse treatment and prevention |
| Wu, Helen (Zhao) | Assistant Professor | zwu@uchc.edu | Psychiatry | Substance abuse, use & dependence; health disparity, risk behaviors for STIs |
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