Spring 2021
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Gillings welcomes new faculty

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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

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