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Ph.D. in Public Health
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Social and Behavioral Health Sciences
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The faculty members listed below represent the first tier of faculty who have requested an appointment in the doctoral Public Health Field of Study. All have funded research programs with research objectives that merit doctoral investigations and a strong record of publications in peer-reviewed journals. Over half of the faculty members have successfully mentored doctoral students to degree completion. All have a strong record of mentoring of graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows, and are doctorally trained tenure track faculty members who have committed to join the doctoral field of study and who will advise and mentor doctoral students.


Name Department Position Email Address
Research Interests
Robert AseltineBehavioral Sciences and Community HealthAssociate Professoraseltine@uchc.edu
Health sociology, adolescent mental health, quantitative research methods
Marysol AsencioHuman Development and Family StudiesAssociate Professormarysol.asencio@uconn.edu
Latina/o sexualities; sexual and reproductive health
Thomas BaborCommunity Medicine and Health CareProfessor & Chairbabor@nso.uchc.edu
Screening, diagnosis, early intervention, and treatment evaluation of alcohol & drug problems, and related cultural factors
Preston BritnerHuman Development and Family StudiesAssociate Professorpreston.britner@uconn.edu
Child abuse prevention, Social policy and law affecting children and families
Robert BroadheadSociologyProfessorrobert.broadhead@uconn.edu
Medical sociology, drug-related HIV prevention
Mary Elizabeth BruderAJ Pappanikou CenterProfessorbruder@nso1.uchc.edu
Developmental disabilities, early intervention, inclusion of children with special needs in childcare & other early childhood settings
Joseph BurlesonCommunity Medicine and Health CareAssociate Professorburleson@up.uchc.edu
Alcohol & other substance abuse prevention & treatment; research design & analysis of observational, experimental & clinical trials
Valerie DuffyAllied Health SciencesProfessorvalerie.duffy@uconn.edu
Taste and food selection; community-based nutrition interventions
Pamela EricksonAnthropologyProfessorpamela.erickson@uconn.edu
IInfluence of cultural, social, economic, & political factors on health and disease in human populations; ethomedicine; reproduction & MCH
Pouran FaghriAllied Health SciencesProfessorpouran.faghri@uconn.edu
Work-site & community health promotion programs; health related behavior, intervention stragegies, eval of social determinants of health; self-care, self awareness & decision making strategies
Ann FerrisDivision of Public Health and Population SciencesProfessoraferris@uchc.edu
Community nutrition (Maternal & Child Health), nature of iron-deficiency anemia and health status of children living in poverty, lactation & diabetes, etc.
Judith FifieldFamily MedicineProfessorfifield@nso1.uchc.edu
Factors that influence changes over time in social and physical functioning in chronic disease
Jeff FisherPsychology, SocialProfessorjeffrey.fisher@uconn.edu
HIV preventive behavior
Richard FortinskyCenter on AgingProfessor of Medicinefortinsky@nso1.uchc.edu
Cost and quality of services for older adults; health of family caregivers; medicare and medicaid policy research; health outcomes research in geriatrics and gerontology
Sara HarknessHuman Development & Family StudiesProfessorsara.harkness@uconn.edu
Cultural structuring of human development and health;
Victor HesselbrockPsychiatryProfessorhesselbrock@neuron.uchc.edu
Addicition and alcoholism
Linda PescatelloKinesiologyProfessorlinda.pescatello@uconn.edu
Health promotion, exercise and hypertension, physical activity
Susan ReisineBehavioral Sciences and Community HealthProfessorreisine@nso1.uchc.edu
Women's health, including arthritis related to gender differences in paid employment and family work
Nancy RodriguezNutritional SciencesProfessornancy.rodriguez@uconn.edu
Exercise and protein metabolism
Stephen SchensulCommunity Medicine and Health CareProfessorschensul@nso2.uchc.edu
AIDS risk in Mauritius and Sri Lanka; applied health research, community development and sexual risk
Deborah SheltonSchool of NursingAssociate Professordeborah.shelton@uconn.edu
Minority mental health services
Merrill SingerAnthropologyProfessormerrill.singer@uconn.edu
Medical anthropology, health disparities, substance abuse, AIDS, violence, health and global warming, ethical issues in research.
Leslie SnyderCommunication SciencesProfessorleslie.snyder@uconn.edu
Communication, media effects, communication campaigns, and social marketing.
Howard TennenCommunity Medicine and Health CareProfessortennen@nso1.uchc.edu
Stress, coping & adaptation; day to day adaptation to chronic illness and daily patterns and correlates of alcohol use
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