Public Health Sciences (PHS) faculty study the individual, collective, environmental, and economic factors that affect the health of human populations. The multidisciplinary environment encourages cross-disciplinary research. Faculty from PHS advise and collaborate on projects throughout the University including with faculty from sociology, social work, public policy, psychology, and economics. Our faculty design and implement observational and experimental studies in both community and clinical settings, and we develop and implement complex analytic methods to understand the determinants of health, the efficacy of interventions, and the structure and financing of health care at the population level. Bringing together these fields in one department underscores their commonality and enhances opportunities for interdisciplinary research. Substantively, faculty research themes include social, economic, and environmental determinants of health both within the U.S. and across the globe, genetics and disease, the economics of health care, and the evaluation and implementation of new technologies in public health and clinical care. In terms of methodological expertise, our faculty develop innovative approaches in: infectious disease modeling, multilevel, clustered and longitudinal data; clinical trials; administrative health data; and statistical methods to assess the genetic and molecular basis of disease.
Biostatistics: Lin Chen, PhD; James Dignam, PhD; Robert Gibbons, PhD; Donald Hedeker, PhD; Eric Polley, PhD; Mei-Yin Polley, PhD; Yuan Ji, PhD
Epidemiology; Health Behavior: Habibul Ahsan, MD, MMedSc; Kavi Bhalla, PhD; Joseph Bruch, PhD; Brian Chiu, PhD; Dezheng Huo, MD, PhD; Diane Sperling Lauderdale, PhD; Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, PhD; Olga Morozova, PhD; Brandon Pierce, PhD; John Schneider, MD, MPH, Marcia Tan, PhD; Jasmin Tiro, PhD
Health Services Research: Betsy Cliff, PhD; Elbert Huang, MD; R. Tamara Konetzka, PhD; Harold Pollack, PhD; Prachi Sanghavi, PhD; Loren Saulsberry, PhD