| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tryfon Beazoglou | | Associate Professor | beazoglou@nso1.uchc.edu |
| Health economics, applied microeconomics |
| Barbara Blechner | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | blechner@nso.uchc.edu |
| Advance care planning in primary care; confidentiality, HIPPA regulations & medical records; clinical ethics committees; end of life issues |
| 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 | Assistant Professor | burleson@up.uchc.edu |
| Alcohol & other substance abuse prevention & treatment; research design & analysis of observational, experimental & clinical trials |
| Audrey Chapman | Community Medicine & Health Care | Professor | achapman@uchc.edu |
| Barriers to equitable access to genetic testing and services in CT; ethical dimensions of embryonic stem cell research; and the institutional requirements for promoting the right to health |
| Martin G. Cherniack | Division of Occ and Env Medicine | Professor | cherniack@nso.uchc.edu |
| Occupational health, ergonomics, environmental epidemiology |
| Jonathan Covault | Psychiatry | Professor | covault@psychiatry.uchc.edu |
| Neurobiology of schizophrenia, clinical application of biologic & genetic markers in schizophrenia, psychiatric genetics |
| Kenneth Dangman | Division of Occ and Env Medicine | Assistant Professor | Dangman@up.uchc.edu |
| Occupational and Environmental Health; Indoor Air Quality and Respiratory Disease; Quantitative studies of serial Spirometry |
| Barbara Dicks | School of Social Work | Associate Professor | barbara.dicks@uconn.edu |
| AIDS prevention (international, women, children); faith-based initiatives and health; women's health |
| Mary Eberle | Center for Public Health and Health Policy | Assistant Professor | meberle@uchc.edu |
| Criminal justice system and persons with developmental disabilities |
| Pamela Erickson | Anthropology | Associate 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 | Nutritional 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 |
| Richard Fortinsky | Center on Aging | Associate Professor | 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 |
| David Gregorio | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | gregorio@nso.uchc.edu |
| Surveillance methods in cancer epidemiology |
| Amala Guha | Immunology | Assistant Professor | guha@nso2.uchc.edu |
| Population-based studies in aging, cancer & infectious disease; mind-body medicine (traditional medicine) & herbal drug development; etc. |
| W. Penn Handwerker | Anthropology | Professor | w.handwerker@uconn.edu |
| Cultural anthropology, ethnographic research methods; power, culture and social relations, etc. |
| Dennis Heffley | Economics | Professor | dheffley@uconnvm.uconn.edu |
| Urban and regional economics, health economics |
| Charles Huntington, III | Community Medicine and Healthcare | Assistant Professor | huntington@adp.uchc.edu |
| Health policy, health care and public health workforce issues, strategic planning, evaluation |
| Rene Jahiel | Community Medicine and Health Care | Lecturer | jahiel@nso2.uchc.edu |
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| Jeffrey Kramer | School of Business | Associate Professor | jkramer@uconn.edu |
| Long-term health care management; managed care; international health care systems |
| Brenda Kurz | School of Social Work | Assistant Professor | Brenda.Kurz@uconn.edu |
| Perinatal depression among low-income women of color |
| Zita Lazzarini | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | lazzarini@nso.uchc.edu |
| Public health law, privacy and confidentiality; surrogate decision-making at the end of life; HIV prevention among pregnant women and injection drug users; and health and human rights |
| Robin Leger | Pediatrics | Assistant Professor | rleger@uchc.edu |
| Pediatric onset chronic illness and disability; life-span measures in health status, functional status and health related quality of life, Adolescent transitions |
| Judy Lewis | Community Medicine and Health Care | Professor | lewisj@nso.uchc.edu |
| Medical sociology, maternal and child health, medical education |
| John Meyer | Occupational and Environmental Medicine | Assistant Professor | meyer@uchc.edu |
| Occupational reproductive hazards, social epidemiology and occupational health, surveillance, occupational medicine education |
| Tim F. Morse | Community Medicine and Healthcare | Associate Professor | TMorse@uchc.edu |
| Social & economic costs of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, health effects of vibration, ergonomics of hand tools, epidemiology of occupational diseases, etc. |
| Rafael Pérez-Escamilla | Nutritional Sciences | Professor | rafael.perez-escamilla@uconn.edu |
| Health disparities/inequities, breastfeeding determinants and interventions, child nutrition in HIV affected communities in Africa |
| David Pendrys | Behavioral Sciences and Community Health | Associate Professor | pendrys@nso1.uchc.edu |
| Oral epidemiology, cardiology |
| Nancy Petry | Psychiatry | Associate Professor | petry@psychiatry.uchc.edu |
| Clinical research studies in addictive behaviors, including correlates & behavioral treatments of drug use disorders, and risk factors & treatments for problem gambling |
| Carol Pfeiffer | Department of Medicine | Associate Professor | pfeiffer@nso1.uchc.edu |
| Clinical skills assessment |
| 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 |
| Juan Salazar | Pharmacy | Adjunct Assistant Professor | juan.salazar@uconn.edu |
| Pediatric and youth HIV treatment and prevention; STD research, including syphillis pathogenesis and epidemiology in developing countries |
| Rexford Santerre | Economics | Professor | rexford.santerre@business.uconn.edu |
| Health economics and health insurance, primarily; also health care management. |
| Stephen Schensul | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | schensul@nso2.uchc.edu |
| AIDS risk in Mauritius and Sri Lanka; applied health research, community development and sexual risk |
| Joan Segal | Community Medicine and Health Care | Assistant Professor | segal@nso.uchc.edu |
| Gerontology, especially home care as an alternative to institutionalization |
| Richard Stevens | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | bugs@neuron.uchc.edu |
| Cancer epidemiology and the possible role of iron overload; "circadian disruption" and its potential role in breast cancer |
| Eileen Storey | Occupational and Environmental Medicine | Associate Professor | storey@nso.uchc.edu |
| Occupational/environmental health, pulmonary disease, intervention effectiveness |
| 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 |
| Edward Thibodeau | Behavioral Sciences and Community Health | Assistant Professor | thibodeau@nso.uchc.edu |
| Recruitment of dental healthcare professionals; workforce disparities in dentistry; stereotypes and dentistry |
| Marcia Trapé | Occupational and Environmental Health | Associate Professor | trape@nso.uchc.edu |
| Occupational health/migrant workers/employee health problems |
| Jane Ungemack | Community Medicine and Health Care | Assistant Professor | ungemack@nso2.uchc.edu |
| Health services research with a focus on substance abuse treatment and prevention |
| Thomas Van Hoof | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | vanhoof@uchc.edu |
| Quality improvement |
| John Vernon | Finance | Assistant Professor | jvernon@business.uconn.edu |
| Pharmaceutical industry, decision analysis, healthcare markets, regulation, health policy, cost-benefit & cost-effectiveness analysis, etc. |
| Stephen Walsh | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | walsh@nso.uchc.edu |
| Contribution of biomechanical, psychosocial & organizational risk factors to MSD etiology & productivity loss; primary focus on health care & org'l & work envt |
| Nicholas Warren | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | warren@nso.uchc.edu |
| Organizational culture, working conditions and patient safety; also, multilevel etiology of musculoskeletal disorders |
| Scott Wetstone | Community Medicine and Health Care | Associate Professor | wetstone@nso.uchc.edu |
| Educational methodologies |
