Faculty and Staff Listing
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Richard Miech, Ph.D. — Associate Professor, Richard.Miech@cudenver.edu Research Interests: social inequality and health, with special emphasis on illegal drug use and addiction; the social processes that lead to the initiation of health disparities across socioeconomic strata and race/ethnicity |
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Brett, John, Ph.D. — Associate Professor, UC Denver, Anthropology Research Interests: evolutionary medicine, ethnobotany, medical anthropology, evaluation research, nutritional anthropology. |
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Bull, Sheana, Ph.D. — Associate Professor, UC Denver Research Interests: interactive technology to improve health behaviors, culturally appropriate prevention initiatives, use of community-based-participatory-research. |
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Dreisbach, Susan, Ph.D. — Assistant Research Professor, UC Denver, Health and Behavioral Sciences Research Interests: 1) Adolescent risk behaviors and relationship power differentials that put youth at risk for unintended pregnancy, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections; current work focuses on Latino youth in Colorado. 2) Rural HIV/STD prevention with current focus on the link between methamphetamine use and behaviors that put individuals at heightened risk for HIV or STD infection. 3) Translation of evidence-based HIV/STD and unintended pregnancy prevention interventions to rural communities. 4) Evaluation of HIV, STD, and unintended pregnancy prevention interventions. |
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Erzinger, Sharry, Dr.P.H. — Assistant Research Professor, UC Denver, Health and Behavioral Sciences Research Interests: violence prevention, cross-cultural health issues, qualitative research and evaluation, health behavior change. |
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Koester, Stephen, Ph.D. — Professor, UC Denver, Health and Behavioral Sciences and Anthropology Research Interests: social inequality and health, social and structural models of disease prevention, HIV, drug use and hepatitis, political ecology. |
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Main, Debbi, Ph.D. — Professor, UC Denver, Health and Behavioral Sciences Research Interests:impact of the built and social environment on health and health disparities; methods and impacts of community engagement on research translation; and participatory evaluation methods |
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Rooks, Ronica, Ph.D . —Assistant Professor, UC Denver, Health and Behavioral Sciences Research Interests: Coming soon |
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Scandlyn, Jean, Ph.D. — Assistant Research Professor, UC Denver, Health and Behavioral Sciences and Anthropology Research Interests: adolescence and adolescent health, migration, global health and development, contemporary US society, social justice. |
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Thomas, Deborah, Ph.D. — Associate Professor, UC Denver, Geography Research Interests: Environmental Hazards/Disasters, Medical Geography, Social Science Applications of Geographic Information Systems -- especially to health and hazards assessments |
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Tracer, David P., Ph.D. — Associate Professor, UC Denver, Health and Behavioral Sciences and Anthropology Research Interests: maternal and child health, socioeconomic development and health, demography, human ecology and adaptation, decision making theory.
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Yeatman, Sara, Ph.D. — Assistant Professor, UC Denver, Health and Behavioral Sciences Research Interests: Fertility, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and other STIs, sub-Saharan Africa, social demography, research methods
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AFFILIATE FACULTY |
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Bryant, Lucinda, Ph.D. — Assistant Professor, UC Denver, Preventive Medicine and Biometrics Research Interests: healthy aging, aging and public health, end of life. | |
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Coussons-Read, Mary, Ph.D. — Associate Professor, UC Denver, Psychology Research Interests: effects of maternal stress in pregnancy complications and poor birth outcomes, impact of perinatal stress on early immunological and behavioral development, opioid-induced alterations in immune function and infection, Pavolvian conditioning of immune responses. |
Department Staff |
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Abby Fitch, Program Assistant
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