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 Aseltine | Behavioral Sciences and Community Health | Associate Professor | aseltine@uchc.edu |
| Health sociology, adolescent mental health, quantitative research methods |
| Marysol Asencio | Human Development and Family Studies | Associate Professor | marysol.asencio@uconn.edu |
| Latina/o sexualities; sexual and reproductive health |
| Thomas Babor | Community Medicine and Health Care | Professor & Chair | babor@nso.uchc.edu |
| Screening, diagnosis, early intervention, and treatment evaluation of alcohol & drug problems, and related cultural factors |
| Preston Britner | Human Development and Family Studies | Associate Professor | preston.britner@uconn.edu |
| Child abuse prevention, Social policy and law affecting children and families |
| Robert Broadhead | Sociology | Professor | robert.broadhead@uconn.edu |
| Medical sociology, drug-related HIV prevention |
| Mary Elizabeth Bruder | AJ Pappanikou Center | Professor | bruder@nso1.uchc.edu |
| Developmental disabilities, early intervention, inclusion of children with special needs in childcare & other early childhood settings |
| Joseph Burleson | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | burleson@up.uchc.edu |
| Alcohol & other substance abuse prevention & treatment; research design & analysis of observational, experimental & clinical trials |
| Valerie Duffy | Allied Health Sciences | Professor | valerie.duffy@uconn.edu |
| Taste and food selection; community-based nutrition interventions |
| Pamela Erickson | Anthropology | Professor | pamela.erickson@uconn.edu |
| IInfluence of cultural, social, economic, & political factors on health and disease in human populations; ethomedicine; reproduction & MCH |
| Pouran Faghri | Allied Health Sciences | Professor | pouran.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 Ferris | Division of Public Health and Population Sciences | Professor | aferris@uchc.edu |
| Community nutrition (Maternal & Child Health), nature of iron-deficiency anemia and health status of children living in poverty, lactation & diabetes, etc. |
| Judith Fifield | Family Medicine | Professor | fifield@nso1.uchc.edu |
| Factors that influence changes over time in social and physical functioning in chronic disease |
| Jeff Fisher | Psychology, Social | Professor | jeffrey.fisher@uconn.edu |
| HIV preventive behavior |
| Richard Fortinsky | Center on Aging | Professor of Medicine | fortinsky@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 Harkness | Human Development & Family Studies | Professor | sara.harkness@uconn.edu |
| Cultural structuring of human development and health; |
| Victor Hesselbrock | Psychiatry | Professor | hesselbrock@neuron.uchc.edu |
| Addicition and alcoholism |
| Linda Pescatello | Kinesiology | Professor | linda.pescatello@uconn.edu |
| Health promotion, exercise and hypertension, physical activity |
| Susan Reisine | Behavioral Sciences and Community Health | Professor | reisine@nso1.uchc.edu |
| Women's health, including arthritis related to gender differences in paid employment and family work |
| Nancy Rodriguez | Nutritional Sciences | Professor | nancy.rodriguez@uconn.edu |
| Exercise and protein metabolism |
| Stephen Schensul | Community Medicine and Health Care | Professor | schensul@nso2.uchc.edu |
| AIDS risk in Mauritius and Sri Lanka; applied health research, community development and sexual risk |
| Deborah Shelton | School of Nursing | Associate Professor | deborah.shelton@uconn.edu |
| Minority mental health services |
| Merrill Singer | Anthropology | Professor | merrill.singer@uconn.edu |
| Medical anthropology, health disparities, substance abuse, AIDS, violence, health and global warming, ethical issues in research. |
| Leslie Snyder | Communication Sciences | Professor | leslie.snyder@uconn.edu |
| Communication, media effects, communication campaigns, and social marketing. |
| Howard Tennen | Community Medicine and Health Care | Professor | tennen@nso1.uchc.edu |
| Stress, coping & adaptation; day to day adaptation to chronic illness and daily patterns and correlates of alcohol use |
