The School of Public Health boasts some of the most talented, involved and passionate faculty members in public health. Members of our faculty have been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, received major research grants and are renowned experts in their fields. Their research is routinely published in peer-reviewed, academic journals, and they also appear as noted experts in many mainstream media outlets across the nation.
Department of Community Health and Prevention
Lisa Ulmer, MSW, ScD
Professor, Chair
Research Focus: Social, ecological approach to prevention and reducing public health programs – especially cancer and tobacco use
Nathalie Bartle, EdD
Professor
Research Focus: Maternal and child health
Lisa Bowleg, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: HIV prevention efforts in African-American communities
Nancy Epstein, MPH, MAHL
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Health care for the underserved
Stephen E. Lankenau, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Drug addiction and abuse among youth
Randall L. Sell, ScD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Sample methods and survey design as it relates to LGBT health
Renee M. Turchi, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Health care for children and youth with special health care needs
Augusta M. Villanueva, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Role of race, culture and ethnicity on health status and outcomes
Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Public health ethics, public health genomics and the history of public health
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Arthur L. Frank, MD, PhD
Professor, Chair
Research Focus: Agricultural safety, occupational toxicology, lung disease and cancers, and environmental pollution
Curtis E. Cummings, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Public health preparedness, counter-terrorism and toxicology
Carol Ann Gross-Davis, MS
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Environmental policy and health
Hernando Perez, PhD, MPH, CIH
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Housing and health, bioaerosol assessment and occupational/environmental exposure assessment
Jennifer A. Taylor, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Patient safety, injury prevention and control, and occupational workforce
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Craig J. Newschaffer, PhD
Professor, Chair
Research Focus: Epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders
Amy H. Auchincloss, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: The contribution of resources in residential environments to health disparities by income and race and ethnicity
Zekarias Berhane, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Survival analysis, discrete multivariate analysis and longitudinal data analysis
Alison A. Evans, ScD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Epidemiology and natural history of Hepatitis B and other chronic viral infections
Edward J. Gracely, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Statistics, experimental design/research methods and statistical analysis, and clinical trials
Mary E. Hovinga, PhD, MPH
Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Research Focus: Environmental epidemiology of lead, PCBs and DDT, as well as cognitive disabilities
Brian K. Lee, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Contextual and environmental influences shaping neurological development, maintenance and decline
Nora L. Lee, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Research Interests: Perinatal epidemiology; low birth weight; preterm birth; macrosomia; maternal and child health; second-hand smoke; environmental exposures; autism spectrum disorders; China
Longjian Liu, MD, MSC, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Nutrition and diet-genetic interaction in heart disease and cancer prevention, as well as international health in cardiovascular disease epidemiology
Yvonne L. Michael, ScD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Impact of social characteristics of communities and individuals on population health, particularly as it relates to active aging, women’s health and health disparities
Jana M. Mossey, PhD, MPH, MSN
Professor
Research Focus: Mental health
Marcia Polansky, MS, ScD, MSW
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Clinical trial methods and epidemiological research and evaluation of psycho-social interventions for chronic diseases
Seth Welles, PhD, ScD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: HIV/AIDS natural history, STI risk in sexual minority men of color and impact of childhood sexual abuse on various HIV/STI risk indicators
Issa Zakeri, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Time series analysis, longitudinal data analysis and application of statistics to behavioral, biological and medical sciences
Department of Health Management and Policy
John A. Rich, MD, MPH
Professor, Chair
Research Focus: Men’s health, violence, urban health issues, racial and ethnic health disparities, and primary care medicine
Dennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH
Assoc. Dean for Research, Director of the Center for Health Equality
Research Focus: Racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care
Sandra L. Bloom, MD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Treatment of trauma-related emotional disorders
Darryl R. Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Health services management and outcomes research
Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Nutrition, hunger and chronic disease, as well as human rights and health
Robert I. Field, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H
Professor (Joint appointment with Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel)
Research Focus: Health care and health law
Dennis Gallagher, MA, MPA
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Health policy and local health department structure and financing
Marla J. Gold, MD
Dean, Professor
Research Focus: HIV/AIDS, design of care systems and health administration
William J. Hickey, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Organization behavior, health care administration and MPH career progression
Alison Snow Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Focus: Women’s health, domestic violence, alcohol policy, tobacco control policy, welfare economics and social justice.
Jennifer Kolker, MPH
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Maternal and child health, government and public health, and health and welfare policy
Raymond K. Lum, MPhil, MS
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Asian health, innovation diffusion and organizational learning theory
David Barton Smith, PhD
Research Professor
Research Focus: History and legacy of the racial segregation of health care
Nicole A. Vaughn, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus: Racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, as well as community-based participatory research