PUBLIC HEALTH

Faculty

Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, EdD:
Health equity for ethnic/racial populations, structural factors affecting health, Latino health and AIDS and inequality.

Philip Alcabes, PhD:
Epidemiologic methods, social epidemiology, infectious diseases and ethics.

Juan Battle, PhD:
Race, sexuality and social justice.

Luisa N. Borrell, DDS, PhD:
Epidemiologic methods, social determinants of health, social epidemiology.

Jack Caravanos, DrPH:
Environmental and occupational health and industrial hygiene.

Jonathan M. Deutsch, PhD:
Social and cultural aspects of food, foodservice management and cooking.

Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD:
Epidemiology, Demography, Public Health; Integrating biomarkers into social research, health disparities, stress and immune function.

Elizabeth A. Eastwood, PhD:
Health services research, evaluation of palliative care, health and social services for adolescents.

Marianne C. Fahs, PhD, MPH:
Public health economics, urban aging, health policy and quantitative research methods, tobacco control.

Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH:
Incarceration and health, corporate practices and health, municipal urban health policy, public health advocacy.

Marthe Gold, MD, MPH:
Health policy, health economics, resource allocation in health care.

Mark Goldberg, PhD:
Exposure assessment and control technology in the construction industry, translational research in construction, construction activities effect on urban environment.

Jean Grassman, PhD :
Occupational and environmental health, toxicology, the application, use and ethics of biological monitoring.

Michele G. Greene, DrPH:
Physician-patient communications, primary care for older populations, health literacy.

Susan Klitzman, MPH, DrPH:
Evaluation and control of urban environmental hazards, childhood lead poisoning control, urban environmental epidemiology.

Beatrice J. Krauss, PhD:
HIV and adolescence, parent-child health communications, evaluation of community interventions, and transdisciplinary research methods.

Mary Clare Lennon, PhD, MS:
Gender and health, childhood poverty, homelessness and quantitative methods.

Betty Wolder Levin, PhD:
Bioethics, social science of clinical care, social class and health, culture and health.

Jane Levitt, PhD
Health care delivery system, managed care, community coalition-building, community-based participatory research, history of public health

Juliana Maantay, PhD:
Quantative medical geography, Urban health, Environmental health justice, Geographic information science, Health disparities.

Barbara S. Menendez, PhD:
Epidemiology, Differences in incidence and mortality risk between subgroups of Hispanic populations and the non-Hispanic white and African-American populations in the US, Differences between first and second generation Hispanic subgroups in NYC.

Cheryl Merzel, DrPH, MPH:
Community based health promotion, community based participatory research, access to health care, relationship of public health to community capacity development, evaluation of community-based initiatives.

Franklin Mirer, PhD:
Risk assessment and policy in support of safety and health standards and exposure assessment in the occupational environment.

Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD:
Transportation and health, History of epidemiologic ideas.

Kenneth Olden, PhD:
Translation of fundamental discoveries into public health practice and policy.

Gerald M. Oppenheimer, PhD, MPH:
History of public health, chronic disease control, epidemiology.

Jeffrey T. Parsons, PhD:
HIV/AIDS, LGBT issues, substance use and abuse, sexuality

Stacey Plichta, ScD:
Health services research, Reproductive health, Violence and health, Health policy.

Diana Romero, PhD, MPhil, MA:
Community, society and health: poverty policy, maternal and child health, reproductive health, racial/ethnic health disparities, latino health.

Barbara Katz Rothman, PhD:
Sociology and Women's Studies, Issues in motherhood and procreation, new reproductive technologies and genetic testing, and food studies.

Nancy Sohler, PhD:
Research on racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care access with particular interest in substance use, psychiatric disorder and HIV.

Arlene Spark, EdD, RD, FADA, FACN:
Nutrition and food policy, public health nutrition, nutrition education.

Ida Susser, PhD:
Gender, Reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS, U.S., Southern Africa, International health issues, Health and social justice, Social movements around Health.

Anahi Viladrich, PhD, MPhil, MA:
Immigration and health, global/international health, ethnomedicine, cultural determinants of health, health disparities and qualitative research methods.

Darrell P. Wheeler, PhD,MPH,ACSW:
Social science research and Public health

Ming-Chin Yeh, PhD:
Overweight/obesity prevention and management, promotion of fruit and vegetable consumption, assessment of nutrition and physical activity among minority population.