Current Students
Ilyse (Lisa) Abrams
Areas of Interest: adolescent risk behavior
Penny Bennett
Areas of Interest:
Scott Bourn
Areas of Interest:
Sarah Brannon
Areas of Interest:
Emily Chasco
Areas of Interest:
Mary Christenson
Areas of Interest: physical activity in people with arthritis in rural communities
Sara Cooper
Areas of Interest: injury epidemiology including suicide, sexual assault and domestic
violence, motor vehicle injuries
Sharon Devine
Areas of Interest: antibiotic dispensing practices of pharmacists, fetal programming, intersection of health care policy and law, land use practices and effect on health in rural Tanzania
Maria de Jesus Diaz-Perez
Areas of Interest: Latino immigrant health, racial/ethnic health disparities, health disparities
Stacy Fischer
Areas of Interest: end of life care and issues surrounding palliative care education, cross-cultural access to end of life care, the access problems of elderly nursing home patients to palliative care
Bridget Gaglio
Areas of Interest: social inequalities, health disparities, community-based health promotion, and use of technology in health promotion
Cristy Geno
Areas of Interest: health disparities, maternal and child health, obesity and chronic disease prevention, health literacy, medical ethics
Ira Gorman
Areas of Interest:
Jenny Hill
Areas of Interest:
Patricia Iwasaki
Areas of Interest: intercultural comparative meanings of health; psychosocial oncology; gender differences in therapeutic social support; mind-body interactions in stress management; MSO, Tai Chi, and Jin Shin Jyutsu as immune system "strengthening" factors
Colleen Julian
Areas of Interest: maternal and infant health, global health, human ecology of high altitude
Brenda Kluhsman
Areas of Interest: psychosocial oncology; decision-making in high-risk and under-served populations, cancer prevention, survivorship and quality of life
Alanna Kulchak Rahm
Areas of Interest:
Courtney Lee
Areas of Interest:
Carrie McConnell
Areas of Interest:
Susan Moore
Areas of Interest:
Kady Nearing
Areas of Interest: community-based health promotion, health disparities and social inequalities, program evaluation
Stephanie Phibbs
Areas of Interest:
Deborah Rinehart
Areas of Interest: substance abuse prevention and treatment, maternal and child health
Stacy Salomonsen-Sautel
Areas of Interest: physical activity in children using a social ecological model
Perry Elana Segura
Areas of Interest:
Jeffrey Smith
Areas of Interest: implementation research, specifically in regard to developing and testing the effectiveness of interventions to implement evidence-based practices for depression and schizophrenia in routine clinical care
Amy Stone Hammerich
Areas of Interest:
Laura Vandiver
Areas of Interest: ethnography of drug use, perceptions of risk, drug user social networks, harm reduction, gender differences in drug use, and alcohol and marijuana use in the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies
Lisa Waugh
Areas of Interest:
Megan Wilson
Areas of Interest: genetics of high-altitude pregnancy