Director
Thomas R. Prohaska, PhD, professor: Psychology of aging, health and illness behavior in the elderly, health promotion, coping with chronic illness, self-care in older adults, doctor/older patient interaction, community interventions with older adults.
Professors
Brian R. Flay, DPhil, UIC Distinguished Professor: Etiology and prevention of smoking, drug abuse, AIDS, and violence, use of mass media for health promotion, comprehensive school- and community-based interventions, research methods. Arden S. Handler, DrPH: Prenatal care delivery and satisfaction, impact of the changing health care environment on the delivery of maternal and child health care, the impact of welfare reform on women's reproductive health, risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes, MCH epidemiology, building capacity in the public health system. Susan L. Hughes, DSW: Long-term care policy, managed care, cost, quality, and effectiveness of community-based services, design of program evaluations, prevention of disability, adoption of/adherence to wellness behavior. Frederick J. Kviz, PhD: Psychosocial factors in health promotion behaviors and health services use, health attitudes and behaviors among mid-life and older adults (especially smoking cessation), health promotion among Asian American/Pacific Islander populations, research methods, survey research. Naomi M. Morris, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACPM: Determinants of pregnancy outcome, MCH and managed care, behavioral effects of reproductive hormones, adolescent behavior. Louis Rowitz, PhD: Leadership in public health, futures research in public health, public health practice. Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD: Anthropology, maternal and child health, quantitative/qualitative research, research methods, community participation, improving pregnancy outcomes, AIDS/STD prevention, violence prevention. Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH: Capacity building, public health performance measurement, workforce and leadership development.
Associate Professors
Noel Chávez, PhD, RD, LD: Health and nutritional status of Latinos, cultural differences in health behaviors, attitudes, health status, and services use, nutritional epidemiology. David L. DuBois, PhD: Etiology and prevention of child and adolescent mental health problems, positive youth development, community-based interventions to promote self-esteem, youth mentoring, program evaluation. Michele A. Kelley, ScD, MSW, MA: Social networks and health in young families, work and family roles and health, academic-community research partnerships, measurement of protective factors (social capital) in established and emerging immigrant communities. Clara Manfredi, PhD: Smoking cessation interventions in public health practice, institutionalization and diffusion of programs in health care settings, cancer prevention and early detection. Nadine R. Peacock, PhD: Women's reproductive health, minority health issues, social, cultural and behavioral aspects of risk and prevention of HIV, STDs and unintended pregnancy, social, cultural and behavioral influences on preterm birth and low birthweight, qualitative health research.
Assistant Professors
Shaffdeen A. Amuwo, PhD, MPH: Child abuse and neglect, violence prevention, minority and immigrant health issues, health professions education, cultural competence in public health. L. Michele Issel, PhD, RN: Outcomes of perinatal case management, measurement of interventions, Medicaid and managed care, qualitative/quantitative methods, organization and management of maternal health services, evaluation. Naoko Muramatsu, PhD: Community and health system factors that affect health and health care experience of the elderly, integration of acute and long-term care, cross-cultural studies of health and aging. Jesus Ramirez-Valles, PhD, MPH: Health education, qualitative/quantitative methods, community organization and participation, HIV/AIDS prevention, Latinos/Latin America. Myrtis Sullivan, MD, MPH: Collaborative community-based research, bronchial asthma and chronic diseases of childhood and adolescence, breast-feeding.
Emeritus
Swailem Hennein, PhD, Leo Levy, PhD, Susan R. Levy, PhD, CHES, Mabel Ross, MD, MPH
Adjunct/Joint Appointments
Bambade Shakoor-Abdulla, PhD, Phyllis E. Bowen, PhD, RD, Suzanne K. Campbell, PhD, William F. Card, MPA, Michael Fagen, PhD, MPH, Alina M. Fernández, MD, MPH, Joseph A. Flaherty, MD, Gretchen V. Fleming, PhD, Shirley G. Fleming, DrPH, CNM, Glenn T. Fujiura, PhD, Stacie Geller, PhD, Michael Glasser, PhD, Sally Graumlich, PhD, Kristina Gupta, DrPH, MS, Rosalie Guttman, PhD, Lena Hatchett, PhD, Tamar Heller, PhD, Eric Henley, MD, MPH, Arthur Hoffman, MD, MPH, Thomas D. Huggett, MD, MPH, Linda M. Kaste, DDS, PhD, Gary W. Keilhofner, DrPH, Joan Kennelly, RN, PhD, MPH, D. Patrick Lenihan, MUPP, J. Joseph Levin, EdD, Edward A. Lichter, MD, M. Nawal Lutfiyya, PhD, Virginia Martinez, JD, Robin J. Mermelstein, PhD, Colleen Monahan, DC, MPH, Job Ngwe, PhD, MEd, Charles N. Onufer, MD, Erica A. Salem, MPH, James Sanders, MD, MPH, Stephen E. Saunders, MD, MPH, William J. Schiller, PhD, Stephanie Smith, MD, MPH, Aquiles Sobrero, MD, Patrick Tolan, PhD
Interim Director
Peter A. Scheff, PhD, CIH, professor: Air quality monitoring, modeling, and management, indoor air quality, industrial hygiene, exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology.
Professors
Daniel O. Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH, Director, Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health: Epidemiologic studies of the health effects of workers exposed to chlorinated phenols, floods, mercury, effects of occupational and environmental stressors, environmental toxicology. Peter Orris, MD, MPH: Occupational and environmental medicine, firefighter health and safety. Richard A. Wadden, PhD, CIH, Director, Industrial Hygiene Program: Indoor air pollution modeling and characterization, measurement and prediction of worker exposure to toxic materials, air pollution source-apportionment models, ozone episode prediction.
Associate Professors
Badi M. Boulos, MD, PhD: Clinical toxicology, industrial and environmental hazards. Michael D. Cailas, PhD: Water and groundwater quality monitoring network design, data analysis, environmental engineering. Lorraine M. Conroy, ScD, CIH: Characterizing workplace contaminant sources, ventilation system model development and validation, workplace exposure assessment. Linda Forst, MD, MPH, Director, Occupational Medicine Residency Program at UIC: Occupational epidemiology, web-based teaching in environmental health, occupational diseases, environmental toxicology, occupational injury epidemiology.
Assistant Professors
Samuel Dorevitch, MD, MPH: Health effects of particulate exposure, asthma research. Serap Erdal, PhD: Environmental and occupational exposure assessment, risk assessment, multi-media modeling of exposure, validation of size selective particle samplers. John E. Franke, PhD, MPH: Development of tracer methods to simulate job health hazards, using physical-chemical models to evaluate engineering controls and worker exposures to health hazards. An Li, PhD: Environmental chemistry, analysis of organic pollutants in environmental samples, remediation of contaminated sediments, measurements and estimation of properties which are related to the transport and fate of organic chemicals in the environment. Rachel Rubin, MD, MPH, Director, Occupational Medicine Residency Program at Cook County Hospital: Occupational medicine, health and safety issues related to shift work. Daniel M. Tessier, PhD: Molecular and cellular toxicology, environmental carcinogenesis, pesticide toxicology, endocrine-disrupting environmental pollutants, and environmental fate analysis. Charles A. Warren, PhD: Human factors and behavioral toxicology, neuropsychological studies of the impact of environmental stressors and pollutants, impact of addiction status (tobacco and gambling) and states of relaxation of EEG, ERP and heart rate.
Instructor
Leslie Nickels, MEd, Director, Continuing Education Program: Development of comprehensive programs for delivering health and safety training to industry, labor, and communities.
Emeritus
Lyndon Babcock, Jr., PhD, PE, Samuel S. Epstein, MD, Edward R. Hermann, PhD, PE, CIH
Adjunct/Joint Appointments
Prashant Banerjee, PhD, John Milton Clark, PhD, Robert A. Cohen, PhD, Janet Collins, MD, MPH, Irina Dardynskaia, MD, PhD, Bruce L. Douglas, PhD, James L. Drummond, DDS, PhD, Katherine Duvall, MD, MPH, Howard Ehrman, MD, MPH, Brian Emmanuel, MPH, Paul Farber, MS, William Franek, PhD, MS, Theodore Hogan, PhD, MS, Janet A. Holden, PhD, Gary M. Hutter, PhD, Patricia Kelleher, MD, MPH, Donna Kenski, PhD, Anne Krantz, MD, MPH, Barry S. Levine, DSc, David Marder, MD, MPH, Doug Nelson, MS, John J. Standard, MS, MPH, CSP, CIH, James J. Stukel, PhD, Mary Ann Suero, PhD, Thomas Theis, PhD
Director
To be named
Professors
Robert C. Bailey, PhD, MPH: HIV/AIDS prevention, growth and nutrition. Jacob A. Brody, MD: Aging, cross-national mortality comparisons, long-term care. Edwin Chen, PhD: Statistical computing, clinical trials. Faith G. Davis, PhD: Ovarian and brain cancer, reproductive epidemiology, radiation health effects. Paul Goldstein, PhD: Violence and substance abuse. Donald Hedeker, PhD: Random effects modeling and longitudinal data analysis. Daniel O. Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH: Occupational and environmental epidemiology, environmental toxicology, health effects of dioxin. S. Jay Olshansky, PhD: Biodemography, aging, and longevity. Victoria Persky, MD: Environmental and cancer epidemiology. Gary Slutkin, MD: Violence reduction. Richard Warnecke, PhD: Cancer prevention and epidemiology. Wayne Wiebel, PhD: AIDS and substance abuse epidemiology, community-based interventions.
Associate Professors
Robert Anderson, PhD, MPH: Longitudinal data analysis, ophthalmology studies, clinical trials. Dulal K. Bhaumik, PhD: Statistical inferences, design of experiments, multivariate analysis. Susan L. Bailey, PhD: Adolescent substance use, quantitative data analysis. Sally Freels, PhD: Survival analysis. Sylvia E. Furner, PhD: Gerontology, analysis of large data sets. Ronald Hershow, MD: Infectious diseases, specifically HIV infection, nosocomial infections, viral hepatitis. Katherine Mallin, PhD: Cancer and occupational epidemiology. Lawrence Ouellet, PhD: AIDS and substance-abuse epidemiology, community-based interventions. Douglas J. Passaro, MD, MPH: Helicobacter pylori, emerging infectious diseases. Marlos A.G. Viana, PhD: Bayesian inference.
Assistant Professors
Hua Yun Chen, PhD: Missing data in survival and longitudinal analysis. Samuel Dorevitch, MD, MPH: Health effects of particulate exposure, asthma research. Ramani S. Pilla, PhD: Mixture problems, spatial statistics, statistical/scientific computation, random effects models, longitudinal and cluster data analysis. Deborah Rosenberg, PhD: Applied statistical and epidemiological methods, perinatal epidemiology, and maternal and child health epidemiology.
Emeritus
Henry M. Gelfand, PhD, Paul S. Levy, ScD, Dale E. Mattson, PhD
Adjunct/Joint Appointments
Norman L. Altman, MPH, Kathleen Baldwin, PhD, Carol Braunschweig, PhD, RD, Terri Byrd, MD, Richard Campbell, PhD, Huan Justina Chang, MD, MPH, Ruyu (Joanne) Chang, MD, PhD, Carol Ciesielski, MD, Lenore Coover, RN, MSN, Julie Dunn, PhD, Nyambi Ebie, MD, Lawrence J. Frateschi, PhD, Robert D. Gibbons, PhD, Melissa Gilliam, MD, MPH, Philip Gorelick, MD, MPH, James Grutsch, PhD, Stuart Hartz, ScD, FACE, William G. Henderson, PhD, Timothy Johnson, PhD, Howard Kravitz, DO, MPH, Rebecca B. Lipton, PhD, Stephen A. Martin, Jr., MD, MPH, Alfonse T. Masi, MD, Terry Mason, MD, Madeline McCarren, PhD, Bridget McCarthy, PhD, Daniel McGee, PhD, Toni Miles, MD, PhD, Richard Nelson, MD, Aurora Pajeau, MPH, Gina Pugliese, MS, Domenic Reda, PhD, Karin Rosenblatt, PhD, Charles Schwamlein, MD, MPH, Stanley Sclove, PhD, Johnson Sonoiki, MD, MPH, James Stebbings, ScD, Barbara Swanson, DNSc, Youfa Wang, MD, MPH, Steven Whitman, PhD.
Director
Jack Zwanziger, PhD, professor: Improving the cost effectiveness of medical care services, health care markets and competition, managed care.
Professors
Gary L. Albrecht, PhD: Disability and rehabilitation, organizational theory, political economy of health. Kendon J. Conrad, PhD, MSPH: Health services research. Kevin G. Croke, PhD: Health and environmental economics, health information systems analysis and design. Susan J. Curry, PhD: Health policy, health promotion, cancer control, community-based and self-help interventions. Robert Kaestner, PhD: Health economics, quantitative methods in health services research, health policy. John R. Lumpkin, MD, MPH: Public health policy and practice. Ronald W. Richards, PhD: Health leadership, health administration.
Associate Professors
Judith C. Cooksey, MD, MPH, clinical associate professor: Health policy and health services research. Judith A. Levy, PhD: AIDS, drug abuse, aging across the life course. Edward K. Mensah, PhD: Health information systems analysis and design, health and environmental economics. Ross M. Mullner, PhD: Factors leading to hospital closures, mergers and consolidations of health facilities, management issues. Robert J. Rydman, PhD: Health services research, medical care epidemiology. Daniel Swartzman, JD, MPH: Toxic substance law and policy, government decision making, social ethics.
Assistant Professors
Bradley M. Gray, PhD: Health economics, public policy. Willliam H. Hammett, MA: Health service management, quality management. Babette J. Neuberger, JD, MPH: Environmental and occupational health law and policy. Karen E. Peters, DrPH: Rural health education, community interventions, project evaluation.
Emeritus
Bernard H. Baum, PhD, Joseph S. Begando, PhD, Viron L. Diefenbach, DDS, Phillip M. Forman, MD, Herbert M. Hazelkorn, DDS, PhD, Marten Kernis, PhD, Seymour H. Yale, DDS
Adjunct/Joint Appointments
Steven Andes, PhD, William W. Baldyga, DrPH, Rosalyn Beecham-Green, PhD, Henry Black, MD, MA, Anita L. Carlson, MS, Frank J. Chaloupka, PhD, Tom H. Christoffel, JD, Jean M. Doherty-Greenberg, DMD, MPH, DSC, William Eliott, MSD, PhD, Raymond Flanders, DDS, MPH, Joshua Freeman, MD, Benn Greenspan, PhD, Dietmar Grohlich, PhD, Marylou Guihan, PhD, Roger P. Hand, MD, Kenneth Henry, JD, Norman Jeddeloh, JD, Mark Jewell, PhD, MPH, Richard Kreig, PhD, Michael Matters, PhD, Rhonda J. Mundhenk, JD, MPH, Judith W. Munson, JD, Georgeen Polyak, PhD, Edwyn Schooley, DDS, MHA, David Slobodkin, MD, MPH, Marge Stearns, MA, MPH, Howard Stone, EdD, Michael Swarzman, MBA, Patricia Taylor, DrPH, MSW, Michele M. Thompson, MA, Robert Todd, MBA, Annette Valenta, DrPH, David Whiteis, PhD