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Dr. Michael Merson's current research is focused on policy issues in pandemic response, evaluating treatment rollout and regaining trust in public health.

Dr. David Abrams focuses on systems thinking and social learning theory conceptual approaches to health enhancement and chronic disease prevention.

Dr. David Abramson's work focuses on population health issues associated with disaster-related or stressor-related recovery and resiliency.

Dr. Mari Armstrong-Hough’s research examines the epidemiological interfaces of tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and non-communicable diseases among high-burden populations.

Dr. Cantrell investigates emerging trends in tobacco and nicotine use and industry marketing, clinical countermarketing and policy interventions to diminish tobacco's appeal and promote health equity.

Dr. Virginia Chang focuses on obesity and health disparities; the association of obesity with mortality and disability; and the relationships between health, medical technologies, and stratification.

Dr. Linda Collins’ interests are in the development, dissemination, and application of the multiphase optimization strategy, a framework to optimize behavioral and social-structural interventions.

Dr. Stephanie Cook's research focuses on understanding the complex relationship between stress, health, and social determinants of health across the lifespan.

Dr. Adolfo Cuevas focuses on how psychosocial stressors affect health across the lifespan, employing epidemiological, psychological, and biological approaches to explore these relationships.

Dr. Ralph DiClemente focuses on developing intervention packages that blend community and technology-based approaches to optimize program effectiveness and enhance programmatic sustainability.

Dr. Karyn E. Faber's areas of expertise are program planning, implementation, management, and evaluation in varied settings including community-based organizations and philanthropic entities.

Dr. Guastaferro's work is devoted to the development, optimization, and implementation of readily implementable interventions focused on the prevention of child maltreatment.

Dr. Kirchner uses mobile and GIS technologies to study the way neighborhood risk and protective factors affect health-related behavior and decision making in real-world contexts.

At the intersection of public health and sociology, Dr. Merdjanoff work explores how social inequalities shape the impact of disaster on health, recovery, and resiliency.

Dr. Joyce Moon Howard's work seeks to understand community needs and is rooted in the community healthcare movement.

Dr. Raymond Niaura studies the biobehavioral substrates of tobacco dependence, including factors that influence adolescent and early adult tobacco use trajectories.

Dr. Nina Parikh examines social, psychosocial, and cultural factors impacting ethnic-racial populations and developing strategies that mitigate inequities among the uninsured, immigrants, and elderly.

Dr. Jillian Strayhorn's research focuses on the complex multi-criteria decision-making that goes into optimizing interventions to achieve public health impact.