New faculty for Spring 2021
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Research interests: epidemiologic methods, infectious diseases, causal inference
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Research interests: longitudinal data analysis, neurogenerative diseases, prediction models, survival analysis
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
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
Assistant Professor of Health Behavior
Research interests: behavioral interventions to address determinants of HIV/AIDS risk and treatment outcomes.
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Research interests: social epidemiology and life course theory; reproductive, perinatal and pediatric epidemiology; biological markers of health
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
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management
Research interests: interactions between health policies, healthcare access and utilization, and underlying population-level health inequities
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
Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management
Research interests: utilizing program evaluation and legal research to inform health policy development
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.
