Aging & Neurodegenerative Diseases
Faculty
Balkus, Jennifer
Associate Professor
PhD, MPH
206-616-6614
Epidemiology, vaginal health, STIs in women, HIV prevention
Barrington, Wendy
Associate Professor
PhD, MPH
Social determinants and health disparities; obesity and cancer prevention; community-based participatory research (CBPR)
Baseman, Janet
Professor and Associate Dean
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
Drewnowski, Adam
Professor
PhD, MA
206-543-8016
Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health, Nutritional Epidemiology, Physical Activity, Obesity and Diabetes
Enquobahrie, Daniel
Associate 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
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, 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
Professor and Chair
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
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
Professor
MD, MPH, PhD
206-543-4278
HIV-1 transmission, pathogenesis, co-infections, and treatment; molecular epidemiology, implementation science, clinical trials
Jones-Smith, Jessica
Associate Professor
PhD, MPH
206-685-4579
Social, environmental and economic causes and correlates of obesity risk
Kaufman, Joel
Professor
MD, MPH
206-616-8229
Environmental and occupational epidemiology, health effects of diesel exhaust exposures, environmental factors in cardiovascular and respiratory disease, occupational asthma, traffic-related air pollution and environmental health
Kernic, Mary
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
Assistant Professor
PhD, MPH
206-685-1617
Infectious Disease Epidemiology; Public Health Practice; Clinical Epidemiology
Kirk, Elizabeth
Teaching Professor and Associate Dean
PhD
206-685-9513
Chronic disease states, such as dietary and inflammatory influences, as well as sports nutrition.
Kukull, Walter
Professor
PhD, MS
206-616-1765
Neuroepidemiology: conditions causing adult cognitive impairment and dementia
Lampe, Johanna
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
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
Associate Teaching Professor
RDN, MPH, BS
206-221-4920
Obesity prevention through school wellness policies; physical activity promotion and screen time reduction
Malone, Kathleen
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
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, 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
Mock, Charlie
Professor
MD, PhD, MPH
206-744-9430
Injury prevention and trauma care, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
Mooney, Steve
Assistant Professor
PhD, MS
Big data; Built environment; causal inference; physical activity; transport-related injury
Mugwanya, Kenneth
Assistant 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
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
Santaularia, Jeanie
Assistant Professor
Social epidemiology, violence prevention and intervention, immigration climate, reproductive justice, causal effects, community-engaged research, & selection bias and misclassification in violence surveillance systems
Schwartz, Stephen
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
Sharif, Mienah Z.
Assistant Professor
PhD, MPH
Social epidemiology, social determinants of health, Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP), health equity across the lifecourse, health implications of racism, immigrant and refugee health
Smith, Nicholas
Professor
PhD, MPH
206-221-1279
Cardiovascular pharmacoepidemiology; genetic epidemiology; clinical epidemiology; health services research
Winer, Rachel
Professor
MPH, PhD
206-616-5081
Epidemiology and prevention of human papillomavirus (HPV) infections and HPV-related cancers