Faculty

Susan T. Mayne, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, Chronic Disease Epidemiology Division Head

Belanger, Kathleen

Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

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
Principal Investigator, National Childrens Study, Connecticut Center at Yale

Research Interests:Perinatal and pediatric epidemiology; Evidence-based health care and medicine

Cartmel, Brenda

Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Nutrition; Cancer prevention; Cancer survivorship

Chapman, Donna

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:breastfeeding, health disparities, breastfeeding peer counseling, maternal and child nutrition

Desai, Mayur

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

DeWan, Andrew

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Genetic epidemiology; Asthma; Preeclampsia; Sepsis; Age-related macular degeneration

Dubrow, Robert

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Glioma; Glioblastoma; HIV; Cancer

Ettinger, Adrienne

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Effects of environmental exposures on reproductive, perinatal, and children's health; global health; nutrition; molecular epidemiology

Gupta, Jhumka

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Gender-based violence; Reproductive health; HIV; Mental health; Refugee; Immigrant; Human trafficking; Conflict settings

Hromi-Fiedler, Amber

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Food insecurity; nutrition in emergencies

Ickovics, Jeannette

Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Psychology
Head, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program
Director, Community Alliance for Research & Engagement (CARE)
Deputy Director and Director of Training, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

Research Interests:Pregnancy risk; STI risk

Irwin, Melinda

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Energy balance; Cancer prevention and prognosis

Jones, Beth

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

Kershaw, Trace

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:HIV/STD prevention; Reproductive and maternal-child health epidemiology

Leifheit-Limson, Erica

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Psychosocial Epidemiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Stroke; Outcomes; Quality of Care

Levy, Becca

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Psychology

Research Interests:Psychosocial influences on aging

Lewis, Tené

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Psychosocial Epidemiology; Black-White disparities in Health; Cardiovascular Disease; Women's Health

Lichtman, Judith

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Cardiovascular Diseases; Stroke; Women's Health; Elderly; Young; Outcomes; Quality of Care

Lu, Lingeng

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Cancer Etiology; Cancer Diagnostic and Prognostic Markers; Personalized Therapy

Ma, Xiaomei

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Epidemiology of hematological malignancies

Mayne, Susan

C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Associate Director, Population Sciences at Yale Cancer Center
Division Head, Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Research Interests:Nutritional epidemiology of chronic diseases; Nutrition and cancer prevention and survivorship; cancer epidemiology and genetics

Miller, Alice

Associate Research Scientist in Law and Lecturer in Faculty of Arts and Sciences and 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.

Monin, Joan

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Aging; Caregiving; Emotion; Health; Attachment

Perez-Escamilla, Rafael

Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Director, Office of Community Health

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

Reynolds, Simone

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Risch, Harvey

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

Rothbard, Marianna

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Shebl, Fatma

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

Wang, Rong

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Secondary

Brownell, Kelly

Professor of Psychology, of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Forestry And Environmental Studies

DeVita, Vincent , 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

Gill, Thomas

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

Gould Rothberg, Bonnie

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Medicine (Medical Oncology)

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

Grigorenko, Elena

Emily Fraser Beede Associate Professor in the Child Study Center and Associate Professor of Psychology and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Psychology; Learning disabilities; Neuropsychiatric genetics

Mayes, Linda

Arnold Gesell Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), of Pediatrics and of Psychology
Chair, Directorial Team Anna Freud Centre at London
Special Advisor, Dean

Research Interests:Early adversity; Stress regulation; Parental addiction; Risk for drug use in adolescence; Neural circuitry of social attachment and parental behavior; Developing reward systems; Electrophysiology

McCorkle, Ruth

Florence Schorske Wald Professor of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Interim Specialty Director, Adult Health

Salovey, Peter

Chris Argyris Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Professor of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of Management and of Psychology
Provost of the University

Research Interests:Health Communication; Health Behavior; Human Emotion

Snow, David

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

Tebes, Jacob

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

Tinetti, Mary

Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Investigative Medicine
Director, Program on Aging
Director, Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale

Research Interests:Falls and injuries; Mobility; Clinical decision-making in the face of multiple health conditions; Harms and benefits of medications

Voluntary & Adjunct

Cross, Amanda

Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachel

Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Yu, Herbert

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

Lecturers

Booss, Mary Ann

Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Public Health Practice Manager

Bortnichak, Edward

Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Darefsky, Amy

Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Mueller, Lloyd

Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Mullen, Jewel

Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and in Public Health

Rozanova, Julia

Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Schachtel, Bernard

Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Smith, Megan

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

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

Emeritus

Kasl, Stanislav

Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)