New faculty for Spring 2021
Jess Edwards, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Research interests: epidemiologic methods, infectious diseases, causal inference
Tanya Garcia, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Research interests: longitudinal data analysis, neurogenerative diseases, prediction models, survival analysis
Lisa Gralinski, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Research interests: the host and viral genetic factors that drive coronavirus disease severity that can be harnessed to develop new avenues of therapeutic intervention for emerging coronavirus like COVID-19
Abigail Hatcher, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Behavior
Research interests: social interventions for health, HIV care and treatment in the context of intimate partner violence, mental ill health, and poverty
Lauren Hill, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Professor of Health Behavior
Research interests: behavioral interventions to address determinants of HIV/AIDS risk and treatment outcomes.
Chantel Martin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Research interests: social epidemiology and life course theory; reproductive, perinatal and pediatric epidemiology; biological markers of health
Amanda Northcross, PhD
Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Research interests: using chemistry and engineering to identify exposures to air pollution and to develop interventions to reduce pollution
Arrianna Planey, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management
Research interests: interactions between health policies, healthcare access and utilization, and underlying population-level health inequities
Timothy Sheahan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Research interests: developing broad-spectrum therapeutics to treat coronavirus infections like COVID-19 and those that may emerge in the future
Bonnie Shook-Sa, DRPH
Clinical Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Research interests: causal inference, survey sampling, infectious diseases, epidemiology
Lisa Spees, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management
Research interests: improving access to care, social epidemiology, application of implementation science to cancer, large population-based datasets
Emma Tzioumis, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nutrition
Research interests: maternal and child nutrition, both globally and locally – specifically malnutrition, complementary feeding and maternal experiences in the perinatal period
Karen Volmar, JD, MPH
Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management
Research interests: utilizing program evaluation and legal research to inform health policy development
Ciara Zachary, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management
Research interests: state and federal policy analysis; increasing access to affordable and quality care, especially to underserved populations; Medicaid
Read Gillings faculty spotlight to hear more about four of these faculty members.
