Research Faculty
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Rural Health, Cardiovascular, Health Promotion, Chronic Disease Risk Reduction, Public Health, Nonpharmacological Intervention, Health Disparities
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Children, Infant Feeding Practices, Infant Growth, Breastfeeding, Eating Behaviors (in Infants and Young Children), Health Disparities in Maternal-Child Health, Childhood Obesity Prevention
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Mindfulness Meditation, Self-Care Measures, Caregivers, Children with Special Healthcare Needs, Caregiving Effects on Immunity and Inflammation, and the Use of Technology to Implement Self-Care Measures
Endowed Professor
Research Areas: Implementation Science, Maternal Health, Stigma Reduction, HIV Prevention, Mental Health, Innovative Clinical and Pragmatic Trials, Community Engaged Action-Oriented Research, Global Development, mHealth and Digital Health
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Pain and Symptom Management, Gut-Brain Axis, Multi Omics, Healthy Aging, Multiple Chronic Conditions, Heart Failure, Cardio-oncology
Associate Professor
Research Areas: E-Health/Mental Health Literacy, Psychiatric Care, Deliberate Practice, Decision Making, ADHD
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Prostate and Colorectal Cancer Screening and Quality of Life among Minorities, Cancer and Health Communication, Intersectionality of SDOH and Cancer Screening, Vaccine Hesitancy Intervention, College Student Health, Health Disparities
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Cardiovascular and Chronic Disease, Heart Failure, Self-Management, Coping, Problem-Solving, Psychosocial Outcomes, Health Disparities (Rural)
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Embedding behavioral interventions into medical care pathways; Clinical research and treatment of chronic pain and addiction; Self-transcendence as a therapeutic mechanism
Associate Dean for Research, Distinguished and Endowed McKenzie Professor, Director Institute on Digital Health and Innovation
Research Areas: Stigma reduction, HIV prevention and care continuum, adolescent health, mHealth and Digital Health, Sexual and gender minority populations
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Behavioral Science, Aging, Integrating genomics/epigenetics into studying how exercise may improve cognition among people with type 2 diabetes
Associate Professor, Co-Director of Brain Science & Symptom Management Center
Research Areas: Pain, Psychosocial Risk Factors, Non-Pharmacological Intervention, Mindfulness, CBT, CAM, Self-Management
Professor, Director of Brain Science & Symptom Management Center
Research Areas: Statistical Learning; Network Analysis; Time Series; Big complex data with applications in Digital Health, Clinical
Trials, Systems Biology, Infectious Disease, and Neural Development and Disorders
Trials, Systems Biology, Infectious Disease, and Neural Development and Disorders
Assistant Dean for Research, Professor, and Co-Founder, Co-Director, Center of Population Sciences for Health Equity
Research Areas: Stress, Trauma, Mood Disorder, Mental Health Disparities, Socio-Cultural Determinants of Health and the Intersectionality of Ethnicity, Race, Gender and Mental Health Disparities.
Professor, Associate Director, Institute on Digital Health and Innovation
Research Areas: HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, eHealth and mHealth interventions, digital health, health equity, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), medication adherence, LGBTQ health
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction, Anemia in HF, Heart Failure in Women, Exercise, Cardiovascular Disease, Chronic Disease Management and Prevention, Lifestyle Medicine
Associate Professor
Research Areas: mHealth, VR Application, eHealth Literacy, Data Mining, Text Mining, Vulnerable and Underserved Population, Dementia, Online Information Seeking Behaviors
Director of Research Operations, Institute on Digital Health and Innovation
Research Areas:
Assistant Professor
Research Areas: chronic health conditions, chronic pain, wearables, community-based interventions
Dean and Professor
Research Areas: Digital Health, Aging, Clinical Trials, Lifestyle Intervention, Precision Health, Health Equity, Multiple Chronic Conditions
Assistant Dean for Research, Professor, Director of PhD in Nursing Science Program
Research Areas: Skills acquisition, expertise in health disciplines, applied cognition and measurement of cognitive processes, public health, care of persons living with HIV/AIDS, stigma among healthcare workers towards vulnerable persons.
McKenzie Endowed Professor Health Equity Research, Founding Director, Center of Population Sciences for Health Equity
Research Areas: HIV Disease Progression and Management, Migration and Health, Mental and Sexual Health among Sexual Minorities, Substance Misuse, Integration of Innovative Behavioral/Social Science and Clinical Methodologies for Studying the above Topics
Assistant Professor, Assistant Director, Center of Population Sciences for Health Equity
Research Areas: Sexual, gender, and racial health disparities, sexual health, mental health
