Aging & Neurodegenerative Diseases
Faculty
Barrington, Wendy
Associate Professor
PhD, MPH
Social determinants and health disparities; obesity and cancer prevention; community-based participatory research (CBPR)
Baseman, Janet G.
Professor and Acting Chair
MPH, PhD
206-616-1495
Applied epidemiology in public health practice; informatics; infectious disease epidemiology; surveillance; coronavirus; Covid-19; emerging diseases; epidemics; pandemics; disease outbreaks
Casey, Joan
Associate Professor
206-543-0408
Sustainable Communities, Climate Change, Disaster resilience, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Health Equity, Heat, Wildfires
Chu, Helen Y
Professor
Maternal immunization, in particular vaccines against influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
Drewnowski, Adam
Professor
PhD, MA
206-543-8016
Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health, Nutritional Epidemiology, Physical Activity, Obesity and Diabetes
Enquobahrie, Daniel A.
Professor
MD
206-543-7559
Cardiovascular/metabolic, reproductive/perinatal, and genetic/epigenetic epidemiology.
Farquhar, Carey
Professor
MD
206-542-4278
AIDS epidemiology and HIV prevention in Africa; heterosexual and vertical HIV transmission
Fohner, Alison
Assistant Professor
PhD, MS
Genetic epidemiology; pharmacogenetics; clinical informatics; healthcare disparities, implementation of genetic testing
Fretts, Mandy
Associate Professor
PhD, MPH
206-543-9236
American Indian health, Diabetes, Interventions, Nutrition
Gloster, Anne-Marie
Associate Teaching Professor
PhD, MPH
Culinary arts/food science education; healthy eating behaviors.
Guthrie, Brandon L
Associate Professor
PhD, MPH
206-543-4278
Improving engagement in care among people living with HIV.
Hajat, Anjum
Associate Professor
PhD, MPH
Financial instability, psychosocial stress, stress biomarkers, air pollution epidemiology, epidemiology methods
Halloran, M. Elizabeth
Professor
DSc, MD, MPH
Developing novel designs, methods of statistical analysis, and interpretation of vaccine field studies and other interventions; causal inference
Hawes, Stephen E.
Professor
PhD, MS
HPV, HIV-1 and HIV-2, and other sexually transmitted infections in Senegal West Africa, cervical cancer, HPV screening and vaccination, biomarkers for early detection and recurrence of cancer, global health, and maternal and child health.
Heckbert, Susan R
Professor
MD, PhD
206-221-7775
Clinical epidemiology; cardiovascular epidemiology; aging/neuroepidemiology; genetic associations with cardiovascular disease
Hemingway, Susan
Professor
PhD
206-598-0555
Etiology; diagnosis and prevention of fetal alcohol syndrome
John-Stewart, Grace C.
Professor
MD, MPH, PhD
206-543-4278
HIV-1 transmission, pathogenesis, co-infections, and treatment; molecular epidemiology, implementation science, clinical trials
Kaufman, Joel D
Professor
MD, MPH
206-616-8229
Clean Air, Sustainable Communities, Environmental Health, Occupational Medicine, Pollution, Wildfires
Kernic, Mary A.
Research Associate Professor
PhD, MPH
206-685-1716
Intimate partner violence and child maltreatment, public health law research, social disparities of health, epidemiological methods, injury epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology
Khosropour, Christine M
Associate Professor
PhD, MPH
206-685-1617
Infectious Disease Epidemiology; Public Health Practice; Clinical Epidemiology
Kim, Hyunju
Assistant Professor
PhD, MPH, BA
Nutrition, Metabolomics, Proteomics, DNA methylation, Cardiovascular disease, Kidney disease
Kirk, Elizabeth
Teaching Professor and Associate Dean
Intern
206-685-9513
Chronic disease states, such as dietary and inflammatory influences, as well as sports nutrition.
Kukull, Walter A
Professor
PhD, MS
206-616-1765
Neuroepidemiology: conditions causing adult cognitive impairment and dementia
Lampe, Johanna W
Research Professor
PhD, MS
206-667-6580
Nutritional epidemiology; dietary interventions to test the effects of plant-food constituents on biomarkers of cancer risk
Li, Christopher I-Fu
Research Professor
MD, PhD, MPH
206-667-7444
Studies of cancer early detection, etiology and clinical outcomes with a focus primarily on breast cancer.
Lindstroem, Sara
Associate Professor
MSc, PhD
206-221-3148
Cancer Epidemiology; Cardiometabolic Disease Epidemiology; Genetic Epidemiology
Littman, Alyson
Research Professor
MPH, PhD
206-277-4182
Physical activity; obesity; lower limb amputation; health promotion activities in people with physical disabilities
Lund, Anne E
Teaching Professor
RDN, MPH, BS
206-221-4920
Obesity prevention through school wellness policies; physical activity promotion and screen time reduction
Malone, Kathleen E
Research Professor
PhD, MPH
206-667-4632
Epidemiology of breast cancer, including environmental and genetic predictors of developing breast cancer, and determinants of outcomes following breast cancer; cancer survivorship
Manhart, Lisa E.
Professor
MPH, PhD
206-744-3646
Clinical epidemiology of reproductive tract infections in men and women; social context of sexual risk behavior; psychosocial implications of HIV and STI.
McClelland, R. Scott
Professor
MD, MPH
206-543-4278
International epidemiology; prevention and treatment of HIV-1 and sexually transmitted diseases in resource-limited settings
McTiernan, Anne
Research Professor
MD, PhD
206-667-7979
Breast & colon cancer; exercise; obesity; chemoprevention; cancer survivorship; hormones
Meisner, Julianne
Assistant Professor
PhD
Safe Workplaces, Agricultural health and safety, Environmental Health, Infectious diseases, Occupational Health, One Health
Mooney, Steve
Associate Professor
PhD, MS
Big data; Built environment; causal inference; physical activity; transport-related injury
Mugwanya, Kenneth K
Associate Professor
MBChB, MS
206-520-4520
HIV prevention; Clinical epidemiology; Pharmacology of antiretroviral preexposure prophylaxis; Implementation science; Reproductive health
Peters, Ulrike
Research Professor
PhD, MPH
206-667-2450
Molecular and genetic epidemiology; nutritional prevention of cancer; cancer epidemiology; gene diet interactions
Phipps, Amanda
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
PhD, MPH
206-667-7741
Cancer epidemiology, molecular epidemiology, cancer survival
Psaty, Bruce M
Professor
MD, PhD, MPH, MA
206-221-7775
Cardiovascular epidemiology; myocardial infarction and stroke; pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety; epidemiological methods
Reiner, Alexander
Research Professor
MD, MSc
206-667-2710
Genetic epidemiology of atherosclerotic, thrombotic and cardiovascular disease; population biology; genomics
Restar, Arjee
Assistant Professor
Postdoctoral, PhD, MPH, BS
Transgender and nonbinary health, health policy; social epidemiology; behavioral, social and structural determinants of health; substance use prevention and care; mental health promotion; HIV/STI prevention and care; behavioral economics; gender affirming care
Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali
Professor
PhD, MD, MPH
206-221-1602
Evaluates community-based interventions, social programs, and public policies for their impact on multiple forms of violence with a particular emphasis on preventing firearm-related harm.
Santaularia, Jeanie
Assistant Professor
MPH, PhD
Social epidemiology, violence prevention and intervention, immigration climate, reproductive justice, causal effects, community-engaged research, & selection bias and misclassification in violence surveillance systems
Schwartz, Steve
Professor
PhD, MPH
206-685-1799
Epidemiology of cancer; cardiovascular disease and female reproductive conditions; interaction of molecular genetics and environmental factors in health and disease
Seiler, Jessie
Teaching Associate
PhD, MPH, BA
- White supremacy culture
- Violence and bullying based on race, immigration status, and other social identities
- Mixed methods
- Qualitative methods
- Meta-science and epistemology of epidemiology
Smith, Nicholas
Professor
PhD, MPH
206-221-1279
Cardiovascular pharmacoepidemiology; genetic epidemiology; clinical epidemiology; health services research
Spiker, Marie
Assistant Professor
PhD, MSPH, RDN
206-685-3645
Safe Food, Sustainable Communities, Community-engaged Research, Health Equity, Nutrition, Policy
Winer, Rachel L.
Professor
MPH, PhD
206-616-5081
Epidemiology and prevention of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections and HPV-related cancers