School of Public Health Faculty
Nadia Abdala
Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Applied clinical virology
Achyuta Adhvaryu
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and of Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests:Child health; Economic development; Intra-household resource distribution; Malaria; Health technology adoption; Tanzania
Serap Aksoy
Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:African trypanosomes; Bacterial symbionts of tsetse flies
Frederick Altice
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Director, Clinical and Community Research
Director, HIV in Prisons Program
Director, Community Health Care Van
Icon Professor of Medicine, University of Malaya-Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA)
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Research Interests:Interface between infectious diseases and substance abuse; HIV, HCV, and tuberculosis treatment in vulnerable populations (including injection drug users and prison inmates); antiretroviral therapy; extended release naltrexone, buprenorphine and methadone treatment in management of co-morbid conditions; healthcare integration; adherence interventions; behavioral interventions
Clinical Interests:Infectious diseases; HIV/AIDS; Viral hepatitis (HBV, HCV) and Tuberculosis; Addiction Medicine (Opioid substitution therapy, Pharmacotherapy for alcohol dependence; Methamphetamine Abuse); Motivational Interviewing; Health Services Research; Implementation Science
John Anderson
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Warren Andiman
Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Co-Director, Yale Adoption Clinic
Medical Director, Pediatric AIDS Care Program
Research Interests:Prospective longitudinal studies of clinical outcomes in a cohort of perinatally infected HIV-positive children; Morphologic, metabolic and endocrinologic consequences of longstanding HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy; Virologic and immunologic factors associated with long-term survival in perinatally infected HIV-positive children; AIDS clinical treatment trials in HIV-positive children; Transitioning long-term survivors of pediatric HIV infection into adult healthcare practices; Epidemiology and clinical manifestations of renal disease in HIV positive children
Clinical Interests:Pediatric infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS; Viral disease of children; Clinical trials in children; Diagnostic virology; international adoption; transition of HIV+ adolescents and young adults to adult health care venues
Martine Armstrong
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Geoffrey Attardo
Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Insect vectors; Reproduction; Genetics; Biochemistry; Tsetse fly; Nutrition; Viviparity; Trypanosomiasis; Africa
Diane Aye
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Thomas Balcezak
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Robert Baltimore
Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and Clinical Professor of Nursing
Associate Hospital Epidemiologist (for Pediatrics) Yale New Haven Hospital
Research Interests:Neonatal Infections; Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Infections; Epidemiology of Nosocomial Infections
Clinical Interests:Pediatric Infectious Disease; Nosocomial Infections; Newborn Infections; Tuberculosis; Cystic Fibrosis, pediatric infectious diseases; bacterial diseases; nosocomial infections
Kathleen Belanger
Senior Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Kevin Bentley
Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Lymphatics; Lymph nodes; Type 1 diabetes; Sjögren's syndrome; Lymphotoxin; Homeobox genes; Transgenic mice
Sandy Bogucki
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Firefighter health and safety; Physiology of firefighting; Planning and medical response to disasters
Clinical Interests:Emergency Medical Services
Mary Ann Booss
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Public Health Practice Manager
Jonathan Borak
Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health) and of Medicine (General Medicine)
Marna Borgstrom
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Pres & CEO YNHH
Edward Bortnichak
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Peter Boyle
Professor (Adjunct) of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Michael Bracken
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Professor of Neurology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Co-Director, Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology
Research Interests:Perinatal and pediatric epidemiology; Evidence-based health care and medicine
Elizabeth Bradley
Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Director, Yale Global Health Initiative
Faculty Director, Global Health Leadership Institute
Master, Branford College, Yale College
Research Interests:Global health; Implementation science; Hospice care; Cardiovascular disease and quality of care; Management research
Kelly Brownell
Professor of Psychology, of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Forestry And Environmental Studies
Clinical Interests:Diet; nutrition; food policy; weight stigma issues
Robert Bruce
Assistant Professor of Medicine (AIDS) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:substance abuse/dependence; infectious diseases; HIV; Hepatitis C
Clinical Interests:Substance Abuse/Dependence and Infectious Diseases; HIV; Hepatitis C; Evidence Based Treatments for Addiction and HIV
Richard Bucala
Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology), of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Pathology and Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests:Mechanisms by which host immunity converts from a protective response to one producing disease and tissue pathology; Emergence of steroid resistance; Biochemical, biological, and genetic characterization of the MIF cytokine family; MIF's role in malaria and global infectious diseases; Pharmacologic immuniomodulation of the MIF pathway; Role of fibrocytes in different systemic fibroses
Clinical Interests:Autoimmune diseases; Rheumatoid arthritis; Systemic Fibroses; Y-NHH Consultation
Susan Busch
Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Chair, Health Policy and Management
Research Interests:Health insurance; mental health care; Affordable Care Act implementation
Adalgisa Caccone
Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and Senior Research Associate in Forestry And Environmental Studies and Senior Research Scientist in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Sr Rsrch Scientist/Lect Ecology/Evolutionary Bio & Sch of For & Env Stu, Dir EcoSave, Lect EPH
Marguerite Callaway
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Lisa Calvocoressi
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Maureen Canavan
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Health Policy)
Priscilla Canny
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Gayle Capozzalo
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Michael Cappello
Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease), of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Director, Yale Program in International Child Health
Director, Yale World Fellows Program
Research Interests:Molecular parasitology; Hookworm pathogenesis & vaccine development; International child health
Clinical Interests:Infectious Diseases; Tropical Medicine and Parasitology; International Adoption
Brenda Cartmel
Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Nutrition; Cancer prevention; Cancer survivorship
Matthew Cartter
Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Tiago Castilho
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Donna Chapman
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:breastfeeding, health disparities, breastfeeding peer counseling, maternal and child nutrition
Gail Charnley
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Xi Chen
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and of Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests:Health economics; Development economics; Labor economics; Social interactions and networks; Applied econometrics; China; India; Indonesia
Jamie Childs
Senior Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:hantaviruses; arenaviruses; rabies; rickettsia; bartonella; borrelia; leptospira
Lisa Chung
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Maria Ciarleglio
Associate Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Katrina Clark
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Elizabeth Claus
Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Director of Medical Research, School of Public Health
Research Interests:Meningioma; Genome-wide association study; DCIS; Low-grade glioma; Risk prediction; Genetic epidemiology; CNS breast metastases; Intra-operative MRI; LCIS; Acoustic neuroma
Clinical Interests:Brain tumors; Meningioma; Glioma; Central nervous system metastases; Breast metastases; Acoustic neuroma; Radiosurgery; Computer-Guided Intra-operative Neuronavigation
Paul Cleary
Anna M. R. Lauder Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Professor of Sociology
Dean, Yale School of Public Health
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)
Research Interests:Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Health Services Research
Howard Cohen
Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Medicine (Occupational Medicine) and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Zack Cooper
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy), of Economics and of Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Forrest Crawford
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Amanda Cross
Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Leslie Curry
Senior Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Research Interests:Quality of health care and patient experiences with health and health care systems; Organizational culture and performance; Scale up of innovations; Social and health care spending
Feng Dai
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Genetic Epidemiology, Patient Outcome Research in Anesthesiology
Martha Dale
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Director for China Programs, Global Health Leadership Institute
Richard D'Aquila
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Amy Darefsky
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Louise-Marie Dembry
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Co-Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital Quality Improvement Support Services
Hospital Epidemiologist, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Research Interests:Hospital epidemiology--prevention and control of healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistant organisms; molecular typing techniques in study of prevention and control of healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistant organisms
Clinical Interests:Inpatient management of and consultation for infectious diseases; healthcare associated infections; hospital epidemiology
Mayur Desai
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Director, Advanced Professional MPH Program
Core Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Research Interests:Epidemiologic Methods; Health Services Research; Mental Disorders; Cardiovascular Disease; Global Health
Vincent DeVita, Jr
Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
Research Interests:Drug Resistance; Hodgkin's Disease; Lymphomas; Molecular Technology; Primary Chemotherapy
Clinical Interests:Consultations on Patients with lymphomas; Breast cancer; Melanoma; Hodgkin's disease; Cancer chemotherapy; Epidemiology; Public health
Andrew DeWan
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Genetic epidemiology; Statistical genetics; Asthma; Preeclampsia; Sepsis
Maria Diuk-Wasser
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Disease ecology; eco-epidemiology; spatio-temporal risk modeling; babesiosis; emerging zoonoses; pathogen interactions; coinfection; geographic expansion; dengue; West Nile virus;
Henry Dove
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Arthur Du Bois
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Environmental Health) and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Robert Dubrow
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Glioma; Glioblastoma; HIV-related malignancies; immunosuppression and cancer
Jan Dunn
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Amanda Durante
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Adrienne Ettinger
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Effects of environmental exposures on reproductive, perinatal, and children's health; Global health; Nutrition; Molecular epidemiology
Leah Ferrucci
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Cheryl Fields
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
David Fiellin
Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Public Health (Health Policy)
Professor, Investigative Medicine
Research Interests:Substance abuse treatment in primary care; emergency department and HIV specialty settings opioid agonist treatment with buprenorphine; pharmacologic treatment of alcohol
Clinical Interests:Primary care; general internal medicine; addiction medicine
Erol Fikrig
Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Section Chief, Infectious Diseases
Research Interests:Vector-borne diseases; Lyme disease; Human granulocytic ehrilichiosis; West Nile virus
Clinical Interests:Lyme disease; Anaplasmosis; General infectious diseases; Rheumatology
Durland Fish
Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Forestry And Environmental Studies
Research Interests:Vector-borne diseases; ecology; evolution; epidemiology; prevention; climate change; borrelia; babesia; ticks; mosquitoes
Jason Fletcher
Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
Research Fellow, IZA
Research Interests:Social networks; Gene-Environment Interactions; Adolescent depression; Causal inference; AD/HD; Obesity; Health behaviors
Howard Forman
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, of Economics, of Management and of Public Health (Health Policy)
Director of MD/MBA Program at Yale
Director of MBA for Executives: Leadership in Healthcare
Director, Health Care Management Program
Research Interests:Healthcare policy; Health economics; Medicare and medicaid finance; Radiation risks and consent practices; MQSA; Women in radiology; Workforce in radiology; Undergraduate and graduate education
Clinical Interests:Computed tomography (CT); Abdominal imaging; Genito-urinary imaging; Trauma and emergency imaging
Gerald Friedland
Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:HIV care; Injection drug use and HIV; Anti-retroviral agents; Tuberculosis, HIV and TB drug resistant TB; Prevention and treatment in vulnerable populations
Clinical Interests:Infectious diseases; HIV care
Alison Galvani
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Interests:Applications of epidemiology and evolutionary ecology in the study of numerous diseases
Shelley Geballe
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Janneane Gent
Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Air pollution; Childhood asthma
Alan Gerber
Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science and Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Thomas Gill
Humana Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Investigative Medicine
Director, Yale Program on Aging
Director, Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
Director, Yale Center for Disability and Disabling Disorders
Director, Yale Training Program in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging-Related Research
Research Interests:Epidemiology and prevention of functional decline and disability among community-living older persons
Clinical Interests:Memory loss; Dementia; Geriatric assessment; Depression; Frailty; Functional decline; Disability
William Gillespie
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Gary Ginsberg
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Bonnie Gould Rothberg
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Pathology
Research Interests:Molecular cancer epidemiology; Cancer prognosis; Melanoma - skin cancer; Lung cancer; Lymphangioleiomyomatosis; Tuberous sclerosis; Next-generation sequencing; Immunohistochemistry and quantitative immunofluorescence; Biospecimens and biobanking; Lifestyle choices associated with cancer outcome
Lauretta Grau
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Health psychology; HIV prevention
Elena Grigorenko
Emily Fraser Beede Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Psychology
Research Interests:Psychology; Learning disabilities; Neuropsychiatric genetics
Clinical Interests:Yale Academic Skills Clinic (www.yale.edu/eglab/yasc)
Ralitza Gueorguieva
Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Jhumka Gupta
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Gender-based violence; Reproductive health; HIV; Mental health; Refugee; Immigrant; Human trafficking; Conflict settings
Michael Gusmano
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
James Hadler
Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Gang Han
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Survival data analysis, design and analysis of computer experiments, Bayesian statistics
Robert Heimer
Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Pharmacology
Director, Emerging Infections Program
Research Interests:Mortality and morbidity in relation to injection drug use; HIV and hepatitis C transmission; Evaluation of prevention and treatment for people who inject drugs
Rani Hoff
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Associate Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Director, Northeast Program Evaluation Center
Director, Evaluation Division, National Center for PTSD
Research Interests:Female veterans; Gambling disorders; Program Evaluation; Coping behaviors; Problematic Gaming; PTSD; pain and mental disorders; suicide prevention
Josephine Hoh
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health) and of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Research Interests:Interactions among genes; Environmental exposures
Theodore Holford
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Professor of Statistics
Research Interests:The current research in which Professor Holford participates involves the development and application of statistical methods in health research. This work focuses on methodology for the analysis of spatial and temporal trends in disease.
Sarah Horwitz
Professor Emeritus of Public Health (Health Policy) and Associate Professor in the Child Study Center
Lin Hou
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Amber Hromi-Fiedler
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Food insecurity; nutrition in emergencies; prenatal nutrition
Hao Huang
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Debbie Humphries
Clinical Instructor in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Jeannette Ickovics
Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Psychology
Director, Community Alliance for Research & Engagement (CARE)
Deputy Director and Director of Training, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
Research Interests:Teen pregnancy and STI risk; chronic disease prevention; community engaged research; interventions; randomized controlled trials
Melinda Irwin
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Energy balance; Cancer prevention and prognosis
James Jekel
Professor Emeritus of and Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Bruce Jennings
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Yinlong Jin
Visiting Professor
Hakryul Jo
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Natural and synthetic chemicals; Cancer; Age-related macular degeneration
Beth Jones
Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Cancer; Health disparities; Breast Cancer; Mammography Screening; African American; Black; Hispanic/Latino; Breast Density; Neighborhood; Racism; Obesity; Communication; GST-Polymorphisms; P53; Survival
Amy Justice
Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Public Health (Health Policy)
Section Chief of General Internal Medicine VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Research Interests:Chronic disease; HIV infection; Veterans Aging Cohort Study
Michael Kane
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:High-Performance Statistical Computing, Graphical Models
Edward Kaplan
William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management and Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Research Interests:Operations research for public policy and management; Homeland security and counter terror operations research; HIV/AIDS policy and management issues; Applied probabilistic modeling and statistics
Stanislav Kasl
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Psychosocial Epidemiology
Trace Kershaw
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:HIV/STD prevention; Reproductive and maternal-child health epidemiology
Kaveh Khoshnood
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Program Director- BA-BS/MPH Program in Public Health at Yale
Program Director – Global Health Studies Program at Yale College
Program Director – Global Health Fellows Program at Yale College
Director, Global Health Fellowships and Internships – Yale University
Research Interests:Infectious disease epidemiology
Martin Klein
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Associate Dean for Development and External Affairs
Research Interests:Curriculum Development; Pedagogy; Social Entrepreneurship
Albert Ko
Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Department Chair - Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Research Interests:Leptospirosis; Dengue; Bacterial meningitis; Urban poverty; Vaccine preventable diseases
Nikolay Kolev
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Trypanosoma brucei; RNA processing; Gene expression regulation
Peter Krause
Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and in Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Vector borne diseases
Clinical Interests:Vector borne diseases in children and adults; Pediatric infectious diseases
Harlan Krumholz
Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Investigative Medicine and of Public Health (Health Policy)
Director, Clinical Scholars Program
Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Research Interests:Outcomes research in cardiovascular disease
Clinical Interests:Clinical cardiology; Echocardiography; public health; internal medicine; health outcomes;
Qing Lan
Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Brian Leaderer
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health) and Professor of Forestry And Environmental Studies
Deputy Dean of Public Health
Research Interests:Exposures to air contaminants; Air quality issues
Mary Alice Lee
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Erica Leifheit-Limson
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Psychosocial Epidemiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Stroke; Outcomes; Quality of Care
Lowell Levin
Professor Emeritus of and Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Becca Levy
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Psychology
Director, Social and Behavioral Sciences Division
Research Interests:Psychosocial influences on aging
DeWei Li
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Judith Lichtman
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Cardiovascular Diseases; Stroke; Women's Health; Elderly; Young; Outcomes; Quality of Care
Haiqun Lin
Associate Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Statistical methods for time-varying biological responses
Erika Linnander
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Elisa Long
Assistant Professor of Management and of Public Health (Health Policy)
Lingeng Lu
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Cancer Etiology; Cancer Diagnostic and Prognostic Markers; Personalized Therapy
Shuangge Steven Ma
Associate Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Bioinformatics; Survival analysis; Semiparametric methods; Cancer study; Mental disorders; Health economics
Xiaomei Ma
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Epidemiology of hematological malignancies
Robert Makuch
Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and in the Child Study Center
Research Interests:Clinical studies; Methodology
Linda Marc
Lecturer in Public Health
Education and Curriculum Development Director, Harvard School of Public Health
Research Interests:HIV; Mental Health; Men who have Sex with Men; Sexual Violence; Women; Vulnerable Populations
Lawrence Marks
Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health) and of Psychology
Research Interests:Human sensory, perceptual, and cognitive function; Psychophysics
Susan Mayne
C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Associate Director, Population Sciences at Yale Cancer Center
Department Chair, Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Research Interests:Nutritional epidemiology of chronic diseases; Nutrition and cancer prevention and survivorship; cancer epidemiology and genetics
Clinical Interests:Diet; nutrition
Ruth McCorkle
Florence Schorske Wald Professor of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Interim Specialty Director, Adult Health
Joanne McGovern
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Diane McMahon-Pratt
Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Immune Response to Infectious Disease; immunotherapy; vaccine
Zahirah McNatt
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Stephen Merz
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Alice Miller
Associate Research Scientist in Law and Lecturer in Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Assistant Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Impact of law and policy on construction and experience of gender, sexuality, health and human rights in domestic and global settings.
I George Miller, Jr
John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Section Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Research Interests:Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV); Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV); Tumor virology
Clinical Interests:Viral diseases; Hodgkin's Disease; Kaposi's Sarcoma; Lymphoma; Multiple Myeloma
Joan Monin
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Aging; Caregiving; Emotion; Health; Attachment
Lloyd Mueller
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Jewel Mullen
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and in Public Health
Leonard Munstermann
Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Head Curator of Entomology (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History)
Research Interests:Molecular genetics; insect vectors; phlebotomine sand flies; entomology; phylogeny; taxonomy; speciation
Ingrid Nembhard
Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and of Management
Research Interests:Health care management; Organizational behavior; Organizational learning; Performance improvement; Quality of health care
Linda Niccolai
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Director, HPV-IMPACT Project (Emerging Infections Program)
Research Interests:STIs; HIV
James Niederman
Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Residential College Associate
Elaine O'Keefe
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Jorge Otero
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Clinical Interests:Emergency Medicine health care delivery, Ultrasonagraphy in emergency care, International Emergency Care delivery, Quality improvement in Emergency health care delivery, Cost effective Technologies applied in Middle Income Countries for improvement of delivery of care
A David Paltiel
Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and of Management
Research Interests:Operations research and disease simulation modeling
Sunil Parikh
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Research Interests:translation research in malaria, pharmacology of antimalarials, hiv-malaria co-infection, host response to malaria infection, innate immunity to malaria
Curtis Patton
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Peter Peduzzi
Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Director, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS)
Research Interests:Clinical trials; comparative effectiveness research; general statistical methods; variable selection
Rafael Perez-Escamilla
Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Director, Office of Public Health Practice
Research Interests:Breastfeeding; Household food security measurement and outcomes; Maternal HIV and child development; Community health workers; Type 2 diabetes; Community nutrition program design and evaluation; Maternal-child public health nutrition; Health disparities
Claude Petit
Lecturer in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Melinda Pettigrew
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Research Interests:Infectious diseases
Virginia Pitzer
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Transmission dynamics; Rotavirus; Typhoid fever
Jeffrey Powell
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Forestry And Environmental Studies
Li Qin
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics) and in Medicine (Pulmonary)
James Rawlings
Clinical Instructor in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Harvey Risch
Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Cancer etiology and prevention; Epidemiologic methods; Pancreatic cancer; Ovarian cancer; Gastric cancer; Esophageal cancer; Helicobacter pylori and cancer
Robert Rosenheck
Professor of Psychiatry and of Public Health (Health Policy)
Research Interests:Homelessness; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Ananya Roy
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Global health, gene-environment interactions, Lead, Air pollution, Pesticides, Neurocognition, cardio respiratory disease.
Julia Rozanova
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Nancy Ruddle
Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Cell trafficking and inflammation in autoimmunity and lymphoid organ development
Jennifer Ruger
Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law
Theodore Ruger
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Mark Russi
Professor of Medicine (Occupational Medicine) and of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Director, Occupational Health Services, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Research Interests:Occupational and environmental epidemiology; Infectious disease epidemiology; Healthcare workers' health issues
Clinical Interests:Occupational and environmental health problems; cancers and carcinogenic effects; exposures among healthcare workers
Peter Salovey
Chris Argyris Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Professor of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of Management, of Sociology and of Psychology
Provost of the University
Research Interests:Health Communication; Health Behavior; Human Emotion
Bernard Schachtel
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Marlene Schwartz
Senior Research Scientist in Psychology and in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Eugene Shapiro
Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Deputy Director, Investigative Medicine Program
Co-Director of Education, of KL-2 Mentored Clinical Scholar Program and of Child Health Research, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
Associate Chair for Clinical Translational and Educational Research, Department of Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, Chair, Subboard of Infectious Diseases
Research Interests:Vaccines; Lyme disease; Epidemiology of infectious diseases
Clinical Interests:Lyme disease in children; Infectious diseases; Vaccination
Fatma Shebl
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:HCV response to treatment; Natural history of HCV infection; Immune response; Infection-related cancer; Cancer epidemiology; Cancer immunology; Inflammation; Research methodology
Douglas Shenson
Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Jody Sindelar
Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and of Economics
Executive Committee, ISPS
Research Associate, NBER
Research Interests:Substance abuse economics
Richard Skolnik
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy) and Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests:long-run financing of HIV/AIDS; health financing in low-income countries; TB control; undernutrition;
Michael Skonieczny
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Martin Slade
Lecturer in Medicine (Occupational Medicine) and in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Jonathan Smith
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Megan Smith
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Director, New Haven Mental health Outreach for MotherS (MOMS) Partnership
Research Interests:Mental health promotion and prevention in children and families; Mental illness in pregnancy and parenting; Community-based mental health research; Community-based participatory research in mental health; Gender disparities in mental illness
David Snow
Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Prevention; Health promotion; Workplace interventions; Stress; Coping; Social support; Intimate partner violence
Andre Sofair
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Emerging infectious diseases
Clinical Interests:General internal medicine; Hepatitis C
Lynn Sosa
Assistant Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Tuberculosis- genotyping; Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Stephanie Spangler
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy) and Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Judith Sparer
Lecturer in Medicine (Occupational Medicine) and in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:workplace exposures; exposure to isocyanates, noise and exposure to dust and bacteria in poultry farming
Nina Stachenfeld
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Environmental physiology; Reproductive hormone effects on temperature and body fluid regulation; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome; Orthostatic tolerance; Blood pressure regulation
Denise Stevens
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
John Stitt
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Jan Stolwijk
Professor Emeritus of Public Health and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Meredith Stowe
Associate Research Scientist in Medicine (Occupational Medicine) and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Epidemiology of isocyanates and other occupational or environmental exposures.
Ning Sun
Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Systems Biology; Statistical Analysis; Genomics
Kristina Talbert-Slagle
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Health Policy) and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:global health; complex systems; health spending; social services spending; infectious disease; HIV/AIDS; public-private partnerships; water and sanitation
Jacob Tebes
Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Director, Division of Prevention and Community Research, Department of Psychiatry
Director, The Consultation Center
Director of Psychology, Connecticut Mental Health Center
Research Interests:Community psychology; Prevention & mental health promotion; Adolescent substance abuse; Culture & human diversity; Recovery from mental illness; Research methodology; Program & systems evaluation; Interdisciplinary research; Community science; Team science
Gregory Tignor
Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Mary Tinetti
Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Investigative Medicine
Section Chief, Geriatrics
Research Interests:Falls and injuries; Mobility; Clinical decision-making in the face of multiple health conditions; Harms and benefits of medications
Clinical Interests:Geriatric assessment; Falls and injuries; Dementia; Cognitive impairment
Christian Tschudi
Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interests:African trypanosomiasis; Gene expression profiling; Gene discovery; Next-generation sequencing; RNA interference
Peter Van Ness
Research Scientist in Medicine (Geriatrics) and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Co-Director, Biostatistics Core, Yale Program on Aging
Research Interests:analysis of categorical and longitudinal data; techniques for handling missing data; qualitative data analysis; measurement issues; gerontologic biostatistics
Rong Wang
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Shiyi Wang
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Cost-effectiveness analysis; Comparative effectiveness analysis; Meta-analysis; Outcomes research; Simulation modeling
Zuoheng Anita Wang
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Research Interests:Statistical Genetics; Bioinformatics; Genomics
Daniel Weinberger
Instructor in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:Vaccine effectiveness; Bacterial evolution; Strain dynamics
Brian Weiss
Associate Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Research Interests:insect disease vector; symbiont; trypanosomiasis; Wigglesworthia; Sodalis
Marney White
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Research Scientist in and Associate Research Scientist in Psychology
Associate Director, Yale Center for Anxiety and Mood Disorders
Research Interests:Binge eating disorder; Obesity
Clinical Interests:Eating disorders; Obesity; Smoking cessation; Mood Disorders; Anxiety Disorders
Ted White
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Elsio Wunder, Jr.
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Qingshang Yan
Associate Research Scientist in Public Health (Biostatistics)
Catherine Yeckel
Associate Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Obesity; Insulin resistance; Exercise training
Kimberly Yonkers
Professor of Psychiatry and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Director, PMS and Perinatal Psychiatric Research Program
Research Interests:Women's health; Psychiatric Disorders in Women; Gender Differences in Mental Health; Substance Use Disorders in Women; Perinatal Mental Health; Premenstrual Disorders
Clinical Interests:Mood disorders in women; Premenstrual dysphoric disorder; Managing psychiatric and addictive disorders in pregnancy
Kimberly Yousey-Hindes
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Project Coordinator, Influenza/RDA
Research Interests:Infectious Disease
Herbert Yu
Professor (Adjunct) of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Research Interests:Gene-environment interaction in cancer development and progression; Energy balance and mitogenic growth factors in cancer; Lifestyle's impact on epigenetic regulation in relation to cancer risk and prognosis; Molecular markers for cancer detection, prognosis and treatment
Joseph Zaccagnino
Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Research Staff
Heping Zhang
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Statistics
Research Interests:Biostatistics; Genomics; Epidemiology; Psychiatry; Pregnancy; Infertility; Substance Use; Bioinformatics
Yawei Zhang
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Cancer epidemiology; Etiology; Survivorship; Adverse birth outcomes
Hongyu Zhao
Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Professor of Genetics and of Statistics
Research Interests:statistical genomics; computational biology; genetic epidemiology; genome wide association studies; complex diseases; risk prediction; high dimensional data; dimension reduction; network models; graphical models; bioinformatics; next generation sequencing analysis; cancer genomics; epigenetics; herbal medicine; microbiome; proteomics
Tongzhang Zheng
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Department Chair, Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests:Environmental pollution and human health; Cancer epidemiology and etiology
Bingqing Zhou
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics)
Yong Zhu
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
Research Interests:Circadian genes; MicroRNAs; Shift-work; Breast Cancer; Lymphoma; Prostate Cancer
Alfred Zullo
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Environmental Health)
