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Professor Emeritus
Community Health and Social Sciences
Health equity and social determinants of health, impact of policies, poverty and racism on health, social justice and public health ethic
Associate Professor Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Community Health and Social Sciences
Chronic illness management, HIV/AIDS programs and evaluation and reproductive health initiatives
marilyn.auerbach@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0252 Room 810
Adjunct Associate Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
Indigenous ecologies, health, and heritage in the context of global change, in addition to publicly engaged research and dissemination practices.
Adjunct Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
Social justice, public health and wellness promotion
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management
Modeling in Outcomes Research; Statistical Analysis
onur.baser@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9607 Room 522
Distinguished Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Social determinants of health; Health inequities; Racism and racial/ethnic discrimination; Hispanic/Latino health; Research methods
luisa.borrell@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9530 Room 530
Professor Emeritus
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Artisanal Gold Mining, Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-based Programs, Environmental Public Health Services, Global Health, Lead poisoning
Associate Professor Director, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute
Health Policy and Management
Urban food policy, urban planning and public health, environmental health policy, urban agriculture
nevin.cohen@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9605 Room 605
Associate Professor Department Chairperson
Community Health and Social Sciences
Health Education concerning Vaccine Preventable Diseases; Sexual Health in Adolescents and Young Adults; Menstrual Cycle and Menstrual Events, including Menarche and Menopause; Sexual Responding and Pleasure; Prevention of STI and HIV Transmission; Harm Reduction; Health Communication; Sexual Agency; Social Media’s Impacts on Sexual Health; Podcasting as Health Promotion; Intimate Partner Violence and Cyber Sexual Assault
spring.cooper@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9608 Room 608
Adjunct Lecturer
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Epidemiology Methods, Clinical Trials, Higher Education Evaluation/Development/ Learning, Online Course Development, SPSS, Alzheimer's Disease, Longevity
Distinguished Lecturer Director, Center for Immigrant, Refugee and Global Health
Health Policy and Management
Global migrant health policies; strategies and interventions to end violence against women and children; the policies and practices of the United Nations and multi-lateral organizations; the role of philanthropy in international development
Adjunct Lecturer
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Environmental and Industrial Hygiene
Professor Dean
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Reduction of infant mortality, health disparities, and global health
ayman.elmohandes@sph.cuny.edu
Room 711
Professor Emeritus
Health Policy and Management
Public health policy, prevention, health economics, comparative effectiveness, cost effectiveness analysis, health impact assessment, health disparities, elderly, immigrant health, mental health, complex chronic conditions
Associate Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
Chronic disease prevention, child and adolescent health promotion, health equity, health literacy, pediatric obesity prevention and treatment, mental health literacy and access/use of services
sasha.fleary@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0282 Room 611
Associate Professor Deputy Director, Center for Systems and Community Design
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Diet-related disparities, social determinants of diet-related diseases, immigrant health
karen.florez@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9636 Room 636
Distinguished Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
urban food policy, corporate practices and health, social determinants of health inequalities, urban health, interactions between public policies and community interventions
nick.freudenberg@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9604 Room 604
Assistant Professor Director, Nutrition and Dietetic Internship
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Nutrition education, experiential teaching and learning, workforce development in food and nutrition, diet and nutrition impacts on chronic diseases, and nutritional factors in the prevention and care of movement disorders
ann.gaba@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9512 Room 512
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management
environmental health policy, public health law, law of health care administration
elizabeth.geltman@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9524 Room 524
Distinguished Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Population mental health; mental health equity; tobacco; cannabis; alcohol; drug policy; health services research; depression; anxiety; asthma.
renee.goodwin@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9611
Associate Professor
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Occupational and environmental health, toxicology, the application, use and ethics of biological monitoring
jean.grassman@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9517 Room 517
Adjunct Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
The intersection of health and technology, health equity and health policy implications for sexual minorities as well as human participant research ethics.
Distinguished Professor Co-Director, Development Core - Einstein-CUNY-Rockefeller Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Community Health and Social Sciences
Sexual Health, HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Infections, LGBT populations, Drug and Alcohol Use, Sex Work
christian.grov@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0254 Room 812
Research Associate Professor
Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health
Mixed methods, qualitative and ethnographic research methods; development and evaluation of behavioral interventions; digital health interventions; opioid use/misuse and Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder; social epidemiology of drug use and HIV/HCV; sociocultural contexts of risk and prevention; immigrant/migrant health
honoria.guarino@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9625 Room 625
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management
Health systems, vulnerable populations, performance contracting, performance measures in health care with a specific emphasis on public sector substance abuse treatment services
sean.haley@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9544 Room 544
Professor Emeritus
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Aging and longevity
Demographic methodology
Mathematical demography
Demographic methodology
Mathematical demography
Distinguished Professor Department Chairperson; Director, Center for Systems and Community Design; Co-Director, NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center; Founder, Firefly Innovations
Health Policy and Management
Obesity, chronic disease prevention, systems science, design and health, built environment, public-private partnerships, cross-cultural health, strategic science, science policy translation
terry.huang@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0247 Room 803
Assistant Professor
Health Policy and Management
Public Policy in Health Insurance & Labor Markets ● Health and Economic Wellbeing of Low-Income Populations ● Comparative Healthcare Systems & Health Inequalities ● Quasi-Experiments & Interdisciplinary Causal Inference ● Psychosocial & Biological Mechanisms of Health Inequalities
mustafa.hussein@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0249 Room 806
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
Dr. Huynh's research broadly focuses on the influence of neighborhood and social factors on maternal and child health outcomes including preterm birth and gestational weight gain. She is also interested in the utilization of midwifery services.
Associate Professor Department Chairperson
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Health effects of the built environment, quantitative community health needs assessment, environmental health, gentrification, geospatial and spatiotemporal modeling of association between risk/protective factors and health outcomes
glen.johnson@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9518 Room 518
Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Reproductive health, epidemiological methods, causal inference
heidi.jones@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9529 Room 529
Associate Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Infectious Disease Epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, Neurocysticercosis, Global Health, randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
elizabeth.kelvin@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9610 Room 610
Professor Associate Dean for Research
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Health disparities, infant mortality, intimate partner violence
Professor Senior Associate Dean for Administration
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Health Policy, Environmental and Occupational Health, Academic Public Health
Assistant Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
Public health and digital technology, global health, youth and adolescent health and development, social determinants of health, health equity, bioethics, HIV prevention and treatment, mental health, implementation science
Professor
Health Policy and Management
Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD/MASH), Health systems; Public health and policy Viral hepatitis
Professor Executive Director, Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health (CATCH)
Health Policy and Management
Systems science, systems modeling, mathematical and computational modeling, health technology, digital health, health communication, health journalism, Artificial Intelligence
bruceleemdmba@gmail.com; dibbs.alexis@gmail.com
(646) 364-9523 Room 817
Professor Emeritus
Community Health and Social Sciences
Bioethical issues in biomedicine and public health, maternal, child and reproductive health, end-of-life care, social determinants of health status and health care, social justice
Associate Professor Doctoral Program Director
Community Health and Social Sciences
alternatives to measuring pregnancy "intentions," reproductive health in primary care, student parents
meredith.manze@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0251 Room 808
Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
Epidemiology of drug use, HCV/HIV prevention and treatment, criminal justice and health, opioid epidemic, Drug injection in Latin America
pedro.mateu-gelabert@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0250 Room 625
Professor
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Environmental epidemiology related to mining. Disability and the environment, epidemiology of risk related to metal exposure.
Suzanne.Mcdermott@sph.cuny.edu
Room 830
Professor Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs
Health Policy and Management
Community Health, Global Health, HIV/AIDS, Maternal Child Health, Reproductive Justice, Environmental Health and Justice
Professor Emeritus
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Risk assessment policy
Adjunct Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management
Social epidemiology, Public health policy and strategy, Urban health, Community health care ecosystem, Health Equity, Social determinants of health and health equity, Structural racism, Health system development and management, Program development and evaluation, Social venture and entrepreneurship, Asset-based community engagement and development
Distinguished Professor Executive Director, CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Population Health, HIV/AIDS, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Hepatitis C Virus, Global Health, Public Health Surveillance, Epidemiologic Methods, Data Visualization and Data Science, Health Disparities, Implementation Science, Comparative Effectiveness, Clinical Research, Quasi-experimental methods
denis.nash@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9627 Room 627
Associate Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
Community mental health, global mental health, health disparities, implementation science, task-shifting, quality improvement
victoria.ngo@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9612 Room 612
Assistant Professor Center/Institute Faculty Affiliation
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Metagenomics, Natural Language Processing, Database design and development, Transfer Learning, R/Bioconductor software development, Interdisciplinary research, Cloud computing
sehyun.oh@sph.cuny.edu
Room 818
Professor Emeritus
Health Policy and Management
HIV/AIDS
History of cardiovascular epidemiology
History of chronic disease epidemiology
Health care financing
History of cardiovascular epidemiology
History of chronic disease epidemiology
Health care financing
Clinical Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
Communications, social marketing, public health nutrition, college health, health insurance enrollment among college students
chris.palmedo@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9603 Room 603
Associate Professor
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Exposure science, risk assessment, industrial hygiene
brian.pavilonis@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9509 Room 509
Assistant Professor
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Emergency Preparedness and Response, Measurement and Evaluation, Climate Change, Public Health Practice, Information Environments, Behavioral Interventions
Professor
Health Policy and Management
Healthy policy, healthy, aging, elder abuse, intimate partner violence, occupational health of frontline mental health and social services workers, integrative health care, worker wellness
stacey.plichta@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9528 Room 528
Distinguished Lecturer Pandemic Response Institute
Community Health and Social Sciences
Health communication, health literacy and strategic diplomacy.
Vaccine literacy, Digital health and multisector partnerships.
Vaccine literacy, Digital health and multisector partnerships.
Assistant Professor Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Alumni Relations
Community Health and Social Sciences
Adolescent health, women's health, reproductive justice, racism and health, community organizing, collaborative inquiry
lynn.roberts@sph.cuny.edu
Room 513
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Employing diverse computational approaches, Nash seeks to uncover and explain deeply conserved mechanisms of host adaptation for pathogens ranging from bacteriophages to cancer cells. Involved in both theory and practice, Nash’s research group is always open to new collaborations. No dataset is too large or small. No problem is too arcane or mundane.
Professor
Community Health and Social Sciences
Reproductive and sexual health and policy; social welfare policies related to the health of poor and low-income populations; racial/ethnic health disparities; health care access among underserved urban populations; program evaluation and mixed-methods study designs.
diana.romero@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9522 Room 802
Assistant Professor
Health Policy and Management
Global health, behavioral insights, health promotion, chronic disease prevention and management, access to care, universal health coverage, financial protection in health, health equity
Thomas.Rouyard@sph.cuny.edu
Room 808
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management
Her research interest involves adopting tools including systems science methodologies, systems engineering and data analytics to model complex systems and problems pertaining to health outcomes at both the individual and population levels.
nasim.sabounchi@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9590 Room 831
Professor
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Non-communicable diseases, specifically applying evolutionary biology, i.e., growth and reproduction trading-off against longevity, to understand population health, to explain patterns of disease, and to identify new interventions.
Epidemiological methods, specifically application of techniques that enable robust causal inference.
Epidemiological methods, specifically application of techniques that enable robust causal inference.
mary.schooling@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9519 Room 519
Assistant Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Zach's research interests center on the theory and application of causal inference methods to estimate time-varying treatment effects using healthcare data. He hopes to contribute to public health by helping to rigorously assess what works and when. He has a particular interest in critical care applications, but is eager to apply causal inference methodology wherever it is useful.
Clinical Professor Director, CUNY Center for Immigrant, Refugee, and Global Health
Health Policy and Management
Immigrant, Refugee and Global Health and Policy; International Health Organizations
james.sherry@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0246 Room 802
Professor Doctoral Program Director
Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences
Nutrition assessment, diagnoses and interventions, public health nutrition and translational research. Nutrient signaling and biochemical pathways; nutrition in cancer prevention, diagnosis, monitoring and control. mTOR signal transduction. Metabolomics and biomarkers in chronic diseases. Untargeted metabolomics and exposomics.
ghada.soliman@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9515 Room 515
Adjunct Lecturer
Health Policy and Management
Health insurance, the health of immigrant populations, urban health care systems, and disaster preparedness in the public health system.
Assistant Professor Doctoral Program Director
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Maternal child health, Adolescent health, Global health, infectious diseases, reproductive health
Analysis of large datasets, Competing risk analysis, Repeated measures analysis
Program evaluation, Relative risk regression, Survey research
Analysis of large datasets, Competing risk analysis, Repeated measures analysis
Program evaluation, Relative risk regression, Survey research
chloe.teasdale@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9573 Room 543
Associate Professor Co-Facilitator, CUNY SPH Faculty Mentoring Program
Community Health and Social Sciences
Low-income work and job training as social determinants of health, effects of urban and social policies on health, occupational health promotion, qualitative research methods, ethnography, community-engaged research approaches, participatory intervention development
emma.tsui@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0258 Room 813
Professor Department Chairperson
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Data Science, R/Bioconductor software development, Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics, Human Microbiome Analysis
levi.waldron@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9616 Room 616
Assistant Professor
Health Policy and Management
System-level informatics integration, dental informatics, diverse representation in STEM, informatics education, health equity
karmen.williams@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-9659 Room 805
Associate Professor Deputy Department Chairperson
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Statistical methods in mental health research; latent variable modeling.
katarzyna.wyka@sph.cuny.edu
(646) 364-0248 Room 832
Professor
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Clinical trials, observational data, causal methods, survival analysis, health policy, HIV/AIDS.