Search Text ="Public Health"
| College | Name | Degree | Institution | Level | Research Interests | |
| Public Health | Abbott, Ann | Ph.D., JD | The University of Texas - Health Sciences Center, Houston; Boston Universit, | Instructor | Public sector management; Healthy communities movement and democratic participation; Health policy analysis; Health law and ethics; Legal and ethical basis of Public Health Practice; Public health law reform; Health Policy and Management | |
| Public Health | Adams, John | Ph.D. | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986 | Professor | Translational research in gene discovery for therapeutic intervention strategies; Examine infective stages of malaria parasites, focusing on merozoite and sporozoite ligands, their function in host cell invasion, status as targets for therapeutic developm | |
| Public Health | Alfonso, Maya | PhD | University of South Florida, Tampa, 2007 | Assistant Professor | Assessing community capacity for implementing and sustaining preventive health interventions; HIV/AIDS; Tobacco control, training and prevention; Self-injury during adolescence; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Alio, Paula (Amina) | PhD | University of South Florida, Tampa, 2000 | Assistant Professor | Health disparities; Obesity; Maternal and child health; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Azizan, Azliyati | Ph.D. | University of Tennessee, Memphis, 1995 | Assistant Professor | Molecular and cellular biology; Microbiology; Tropical public health; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Baldwin, Julie | Ph.D. | The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimor, 1991 | Professor | HIV/AIDS and substance abuse prevention; Health issues for Native American populations; Community-based participatory research; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Barnett, Elizabeth | Ph.D. | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993 | Associate Professor | Cardiovascular disease; Social inequalities in health; Medical geography; Racial and ethnic disparities in health; African-American health issues; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Bernard, Thomas E | Ph.D. | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 1975 | Full Professor | Evaluation and control of heat stress and strain; Ergonomics; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Borenstein, Amy | Ph.D. | University of Washington, Seattle, 1988 | Full Professor | Genetic and environmental causes of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the elderly; Detection of Alzheimer's disease many years before symptoms emerge; Studies of older African-Americans; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Branch, Laurence | Ph.D. | Loyola University, Chicago, 1971 | Full Professor | Gerontology, Elder Abuse, Public Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Health Policy, Survey Research; Health Policy and Management | |
| Public Health | Brooks, Stuart | MD | University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 1962 | Full Professor | Environmental and occupational factors in the initiation of asthma; Irritant-induced asthma and RADS; Host factors in the development of respiratory illnesses from infectious agents and Anthrax; Inhalation toxicology; Health effects of mold in indoor envi | |
| Public Health | Brown, Charles Hendricks | Ph.D. | University of Chicago, Chicago, 1981 | Full Professor | Biostatistics; Prevention research; Missing data; Multivariate statistics; Longitudinal design and analysis; Psychiatric epidemiology; Computational statistics; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Bryant, Carol | Ph.D. | University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1978 | Distinguished USF Health Professor | Social Marketing; Community based research; obesity prevention; Environmental conservation; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Buhi, Eric | Ph.D. | Texas A&M University, College Station, 2006 | Assistant Professor | Child and Adolescent Health issues; Community-Academic Partnerships in Public Health; Sexuality Education and Sexual Violence Prevention; School and College Health; Program Evaluation and Measurement; Quantitative Research and Analytic Methods; Community | |
| Public Health | Buhi, Lori | MS | Emory University, Atlanta, 2001 | Visiting Instructor | Community-based participatory research; Community-based prevention marketing; Reproductive health; Prevention and management of chronic diabetes and cardiovascular diseases; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Cannons, Andrew | PhD | University of Bradford, United Kingdom, 1984 | Assistant Professor | Developing rapid detection and molecular typing methods for identification and surveillance of agents of bioterrorism; emerging infectious diseases; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Cattani, Jacqueline | Ph.D. | University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, 1984 | Professor | Biodefense; Global health; Disease surveillance; Intervention research; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Chang, Chu-Hsiang (Daisy) | PhD | University of Akron, Akron, 2005 | Assistant Professor | Exploring effects of leadership on employee safety performance; Studying the effects of organizational violence climate on employee strains, physical violence and verbal aggression; Exploring the impact of employee differences in self regulation n safety | |
| Public Health | Coreil, Jeannine M. | Ph.D. | University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1979 | Full Professor | Illness support groups; Cultural models of illness; Infectious and tropical diseases; Breast cancer; Haitian populations; Qualitative methods; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Coulter, Martha | DrPH | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1984 | Full Professor | Maternal and child health; Family violence; Children with special needs; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Dagne, Getachew | Ph.D. | University of California, Riverside, 1996 | Associate Professor | Behavioral data analysis; Image processing; Spatial statistics; Bayesian inference; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Daley, Ellen | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, Tampa, 2000 | Assistant Professor | Women's health; Sexually transmitted diseases; Human Papillomavirus; Adolescent health; Health risk-taking behaviors; Temperament type; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Darr, David | MD | The George Washington University, Washington, 1971 | Assistant Professor | Perinatal data; Relationship of physician or hospital volume to outcomes in preterm labor; Accuracy of gestational age determinations in vital statistics; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | De Baldo, Ann | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, Tampa, 1980 | Full Professor | International tropical public health; Immunology; Infectious Diseases; Global Health | |
| Public Health | DeBate, Rita | PhD | University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1995 | Associate Professor | Program Planning; Evaluate Obesity; Eating Disorder; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Graven, Stanley | MD | University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1956 | Full Professor | Physical and developmental environment of the high risk newborn; Fetal and neonatal sensory development; Early learning in children with special needs and developmental problems; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Gulitz, Elizabeth | Ph.D. | Illinois State University, Normal, 1983 | Associate Professor | Adolescent health; Maternal and infant health; Teen pregnancy; Program evaluation; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Haiduven, Donna | Ph.D. | University of California, San Francisco, 2000 | Visiting Assistant Professor | Infectious Disease Exposure Prevention; Occupational Infection Control; Healthcare Facility Bioreadiness Plans; Percutaneous Injuries; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Hammad, Yehia | ScD | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 1974 | Full Professor | Aerosol science; Air sampling; Indoor air quality; Respiratory protective equipment; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Harbison, Raymond | Ph.D. | The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1969 | Full Professor | Mechanisms of toxicity; Human toxicology; Neurotoxicology; Hepatotoxicology; Pharmacology; Illicit drugs Pharmokinetics; Risk assessment and management Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Huang, Yangxin | Ph.D. | Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, 2000 | Assistant Professor | HIV Dynamic modeling for durg exposure; drug efficacy and response of anti retrovirial therapies in AIDS clinical trials; biolobical mechanisms of HIV infection and treatment strategies; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Izurieta, Ricardo | DrPH; MD | University of Alabama at Birmingham; Central University of Ecuador, | Assistant Professor | Tropical and Infectious Diseases; Vaccinology; Vectorborne and waterborne diseases; Ecological changes and emerging diseases; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Jawad, Foday | PhD | University of Lancaster, United Kingdom, 2004 | Assistant Professor | Fate and behavior of persistent organic pollutants in the environment and the effects on human health; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Kwa, Boo | Ph.D. | University of Malaya, Malaysia, 1977 | Full Professor | Emerging infectious diseases; International health and disease; Tropical public health; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Kyle, Dennis | PhD | Clemson University, Clemson, 1984 | Professor | Development of new drugs for malaria and leishmaniasis; trypanosomiasis, and amoebic meningoencephalitis; Elucidating mechanism(s) by which the malaria parasite evades the action of artemisinin drugs; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Landis, Danielle | PhD | University of South Florida, 2003 | Assistant Professor | Global health; competencies to curriculum; leadership; workforce development; public health preparedness, including leadership and epidemiology; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Large, John | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, Tampa, 2002 | Assistant Professor | Quantitative methods and analysis; Production and operational analysis and optimization; Financial performance analysis and improvement methodologies; Health Policy and Management | |
| Public Health | Liller, Karen | Ph.D., EdS | University of South Florida, Tampa; University of South Florida, Tampa, | Full Professor | Prevention of childhood injuries; Development and evaluation of injury prevention and health promotion programs; Medical sciences; Epidemiology of injuries across the life span; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Marhefka, Stephanie | PhD | University of Florida, Gainesville, 2002 | Assistant Professor | HIV and AIDS in children and adolescents; Parent child communication; adolescent sexuality; adherence to medical regimen; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Mason, Thomas | Ph.D. | The University of Georgia, Athens, 1973 | Full Professor | Geographically-determined risks for cancer and other chronic diseases; Lung and bladder cancer etiologies; Computer applications in epidemiology; Screening for bladder cancer with occupational cohorts; Defined - population surveillance systems; Epidemiolo | |
| Public Health | McCluskey, James | MD | University of South Florida, Tampa, 1998 | Assistant Professor | Role of endogenous airway buffering capacity in response to acid/alkaline inhalation; Toxicology; Industrial hygiene; Blood borne pathogens; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | McDermott, Robert | Ph.D. | The University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981 | Full Professor | Adolescent health; Health behavior; Program evaluation; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Milhous, Willbur | PhD | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1983 | Professor | Translational research to develop new therapies for prevention and treatment of global tropical emerging diseases; Conduct interdisciplinary research in product and process innovation; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Mlynarek, Steven | Ph.D. | The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimor, 2000 | Associate Professor | Industrial hygiene and safety; Aerosol science and technology in industrial hygiene; Inhalation challenge testing; Indoor environmental quality; Biodefense and personal protective equipment; Occupational exposure assessment; Environmental and Occupational | |
| Public Health | Monaghan, Paul | PhD | University of Florida, 2000 | Assistant Professor | Safety intervention in migrant workers; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Mortimer, James | Ph.D. | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1970 | Full Professor | Preclinical detection of Alzheimer’s disease in the general population; Co-PI of the Nun Study; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Nembhard, Wendy | Ph.D. | The University of Texas, Health Sciences Center, Houston, 2000 | Assistant Professor | Preterm delivery/low birth weight; birth defects; pregnancy-related hypertension; women's health; Infant mortality; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Olson, Karen | MD | University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1992 | Instructor | Outcomes from workers’ compensation injury treatment; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Orban, Barbara | Ph.D. | University of California, Los Angeles (1987), | Associate Professor | Quality improvement in healthcare; Emergency medical and trauma systems; Health outcomes; Hospital financial performance; Health Policy and Management | |
| Public Health | Osman, Hana | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, Tampa, 2001 | Assistant Professor | Aging and Public Health; Medical Ethics; Research Ethics; End-Of-Life Decision Making; Advance Directives; Advance Care Planning; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | O’Rourke, Kathleen | Ph.D. | University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, 1994 | Professor | Unintended pregnancy among the U.S. Military: Health promotions among Hispanic and African-American women; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Perrin, Karen | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, Tampa, 1996 | Associate Professor | Teen pregnancy prevention; Adolescent health; School health issues; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Perry-Casler, Suzanne | Ph.D. | The University of Toledo, Toledo, 1996 | Assistant Professor | Maternal and child health/prenatal care; Tobacco prevention; Juvenile delinquency issues; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Petersen, Donna | ScD | The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Maryland, 1989 | Full Professor Maternal and Child Health, Global H | Maternal and Child Health, Perinatal public health; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Poor, Noreen | Ph.D. | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 1996 | Associate Professor | Environmental chemistry; Ambient air quality; Measurement of air pollutants; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Pracht, Etienne | Ph.D. | Louisiana State University and A&M College, Baton Rouge (1998), | Associate Professor | Economics of Mediated politics with particular emphasis on provider reimbursement mechanisms and cost containment efforts; Advocacy of the Florida trauma system with an emphasis on health outcomes; Health Policy and Management | |
| Public Health | Reid, William | Ph.D. | University of Missouri, Columbia, 1969 | Associate Professor | Leadership; Public Health Practice; Public Health Administration: Workforce development; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Rentos, Pantelis | Ph.D. | The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1970 | Associate Professor | Safety management; Industrial hygiene; Preventive medicine and environmental health; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Richards, Ira | Ph.D. | New York University, New York, 1976 | Associate Professor | Illicit substance toxicology; Toxicology; Respiratory toxicology; Asthma research; Hazard preparedness; Environmental emergency responsiveness; Laboratory safety; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Rusnak, Laura | MPH | University of Florida, Gainesville, 2002 | Instructor | Community Health education; Dean's Office | |
| Public Health | Salihu, Hamisu | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, 2001 | Associate Professor | Multiple pregnancies; Stillbirth; Maternal Obstetric complications including near-miss and maternal morality; Successive pregnancy outcomes; Racial/ethnic disparities in birth outcomes; International maternal and child health; Epidemiology and Biostatisti | |
| Public Health | Sanchez-Anguiano, Aurora | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, Tampa, 1999 | Visiting Assistant Professor | Occupational and infectious disease epidemiology; Falls and injury prevention; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Schwartz, Skai | Ph.D. | The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1995 | Associate Professor | Cardiovascular; Sleep; Psychosomatics; Methodology; Pharmacoepidemiology; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Sear, Alan | Ph.D. | Purdue University, West Lafayette (1971), | Associate Professor | Information systems in health care; Health care outcomes and measurement of health services efficiencey; Organizational behavior; Health Policy and Management | |
| Public Health | Shearer, Darlene | DrPH | University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1999 | Assistant Professor | Health issues for MCH populations with cognitive limitations; Children with disabilities; Evaluation of home visiting models; Parent participation in early intervention programs and services; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Stockwell, Heather | ScD | The Johns Hopkins University - School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimo, 1984 | Full Professor | Cancer epidemiology; Environmental and occupational causes of cancer; Cancer in women and minorities; Radiation epidemiology; Methodologic issues in case-control studies; Epidemiologic health surveillance; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Stuart, Amy | Ph.D. | Stanford University, 2002 | Assistant Professor | Air Pollutant Transport and Chemistry; Environmental Computational modeling; Human Exposures to Air Pollutants; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Szollas, Rosemary | MD | University of South Florida, 2002 | Instructor | Effective pain management strategies for the Workers’ compensation patient; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Szonntagh, Eugene | Ph.D. | Technical University of Budapest (1975 & 1999), | Professor | Chemical agents; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Trede, Teri | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, 2006 | Visiting; Instructor | Aging/successful aging; Sexuality; Sexual Behavior; Volunteerism; Religiosity; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Unnasch, Thomas | Ph.D. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1981 | Professor | Extensive Collaborations with investigators in the developing world to study vector-borne infectious diseases; Mentoring students in conducting research from basic questions to the developing methods to assess the progress of onchocerciasis elimination pr | |
| Public Health | Van Olphen, Alberto | PhD; DVM | Purdue University, West Lafayette; Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pr, | Assistant Professor | Develop biosensors and diagnostic protocols for detection and develop therapeutic drugs, immune-stimulators and vaccines against potential bioterrorism agents and emerging viral pathogens and diseases; Provide agencies and companies a testing facility for | |
| Public Health | Vandeweerd, Carla | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, Tampa, 2003 | Assistant Professor | Elder Mistreatment; mistreatment related to dementia, social work and domestic violence in caregivers for Alzheimer’s patients; Community and Family Health | |
| Public Health | Wagner, Norbert | PhD; MD | University of Hamberg, Germany; Technical University of Aachen, Germany, | Associate Professor | International environmental and occupational health; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Wang, Tao | Ph.D. | Ohio State University, Columbus, 2005 | Assistant Professor | Statistics genomics; bioinformatics; design and analysis of micro array gene expression data; Breast Cancer studies using micro array technology; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Wang,, Wei | Ph.D. | Fudan University, China, 1999 | Visiting Instructor | Survival analysis; quantitative analysis of supply chain and logistic system and mixed-effect models: Prevention studies and Methodologies; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Wathington, Deanna | MD | University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 1994 | Visiting Program Director | Minority health and health disparities; Women’s health; Domestic violence; Dean's Office | |
| Public Health | Westhoff, Wayne | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, Tampa, 1994 | Assistant Professor | Latin America and Caribbean Basin; Health education; Humanitarian Assistance; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Wilke-Corvin, Jaime | Ph.D. | University of South Florida, 2006 | Assistant Professor | Global Health disparities, with special emphasis in Maternal and Child Health; refugee health, humanitarian assistance, disaster management and poverty and inequality in developing countries; Global Health | |
| Public Health | Wolfson, Jay | DrPH; JD | The University of Texas, Health Sciences Center, Houston; Stetson Universit, | Full Professor | Health law, finance, and policy; Workers compensation and employee health benefits programs; Legal and financial factors influencing physician and hospital organization and operation; Environmental and Occupational Health | |
| Public Health | Wu, Yougui | Ph.D. | University of Maryland, College Park, 2001 | Assistant Professor | Design issues in longitudinal studies; Biostatistical methods in dementia; Family data analysis; Epidemiology and Biostatistics | |
| Public Health | Zhu, Yiliang | Ph.D. | University of Toronto, Canada, 1992 | Professor | Health risk assessment; Statistical methods and models for spatial and temporal data; Health care outcomes evaluation; Statistical application in bio-terror detection; Disparity in global health; Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
