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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
Email
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
Email
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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