Current Students
Penny Bennett
Areas of Interest:
Sarah Brannon
Areas of Interest: The effects of psychological stress on health and neurocognitive function; the relationship between metabolic, inflammatory, and neurotrophic factors and cognitive health; interventions to promote healthy lifestyle and primary, secondary, and tertiary disease prevention; translation of research into practice
Emily Chasco
Master's Degree: Anthropology
Areas of Interest: Medical Anthropology, sexual and reproductive health, women's cancers
Mary Christenson
Areas of Interest: physical activity in people with arthritis in rural communities
Jeffrey Clayman
Master's Degree:
Areas of Interest:
Amy Conroy
Master's Degree: Public Health
Areas of Interest: HIV, gender, Africa
Sara Cooper
Areas of Interest: injury epidemiology including suicide, sexual assault and domestic
violence, motor vehicle injuries
Maria de Jesus Diaz-Perez
Master's Degree: Social Psychology
Areas of Interest: Latino immigrant health, racial/ethnic health disparities, health disparities
Brooke Dorsey
Master's Degree: Forensic Psychology
Areas of Interest:
Health disparities, the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African American women, and socioeconomic trends in illegal drug use
Andrew Duvall
Areas of Interest: active transportation, public bicycle sharing, city-scale health/behavioral interventions, social ecology, urban systems, sustainable urban infrastructure
Cristy Geno-Rasmussen
Areas of Interest: health disparities, maternal and child health, obesity and chronic disease prevention, health literacy, medical ethics
Ira Gorman
Areas of Interest:
Debbie Guenther
Master's Degree: Health Education
Areas of Interest: Obesity, maternal/child health
Bridget Hulbirt
Areas of Interest: social inequalities, health disparities, community-based health promotion, and use of technology in health promotion
Whitney Jones
Master's Degree: Public Policy
Areas of Interest: chronic disease management, cancer, diabetes
Alanna Kulchak Rahm
Master's Degree: Genetic Counseling
Areas of Interest: health decision making and risk communication, translational and diffusion research, uptake of and barriers to genetic services, patient and provider education, direct-to-consumer advertising, media analysis, cancer genetics, and genetic testing, personalized medicine/personalized genomics, health and genetic literacy
Courtney Lee
Master's Degree: Cultural Anthropology w/concentration in Medical Anthropology
Areas of Interest: Health policy, health disparities, globalization and health
Carrie McConnell
Areas of Interest:
Stacey McKenna
Master's Degree: Medical Anthropology
Areas of Interest: methamphetamines & work, Cambodia, political economy of drugs, ethnography of drug use
Deanna McQuillan
Master's Degree: Sociology
Areas of Interest: worksite wellness
Susan Moore
Areas of Interest:
Ernesto Moralez
Master's Degree: Public Health
Areas of Interest: colorectal cancer, mental health
Stephanie Phibbs
Master's Degree: Public Health
Areas of Interest: Community-Based Participatory Research to increase youth physical activity
Mario Ramos
Master's Degree:
Areas of Interest:
Deborah Rinehart
Master's Degree: Applied Health Psychology
Areas of Interest: community-based illness prevention, HIV & STD prevention, substance abuse prevention and treatment, integration of mental health and primary care and the cost effectiveness of public health and health care services
Stacy Salomonsen-Sautel
Master's Degree: Applied Social Research and Evaluation
Areas of Interest: children's physical activity and active commuting to school, neighborhood influences on health, social ecological models
Amy Stone Hammerich
Areas of Interest:
Christine Tagliaferri
Master's Degree: Medical Anthropology
Areas of Interest: viral Hepatitis (B,C), vaccines, developing world
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
Alisa Velonis
Master's Degree: Public Health
Areas of Interest: Intimate partner violence, specifically focusing on the gendered nature of violence in relationships
Ryan Walters
Master's Degree: Public Health
Areas of Interest: Africa, development, poverty, engineering
Lisa Waugh
Master's Degree: Public Administration
Areas of Interest: Mexican immigrant health, postpartum cultural practices, postpartum contraception, la cuarentena
Jerry Wulff
Master's Degree: Medical Anthropology
Areas of Interest: breastfeeding decision-making, Taiwan