Ilana Gareen

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Research)

Design and conduct of studies of diagnostic imaging technologies.Focus on patient outcomes associated with diagnostic imaging technologies, including the impact of imaging on patient health, patient quality of life, and medical care utilization; interest in the impact of significant incidental findings detected on screening tests on patient health and health care utilization

igareen**[ta]**t.brown.edu

Annie Gjelsvik

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics (Teaching Scholar); Faculty Scholar, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute

Examining childhood health exposures, health care access and outcomes; using national surveillance databases to understand child health; primary investigator for the Brown University Vanguard Center of the Jackson Heart Study.

annie_gjelsvik**[ta]**wn.edu

Chanelle Howe

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Advanced quantitative methods to enhance causal inference; racial/ethnic health disparities; socioeconomic-based health disparities; neighborhood-based health disparities; HIV/AIDS; cardiovascular health; alcohol/drug use.

chanelle_howe**[ta]**wn.edu

Karl Kelsey

Professor of Epidemiology and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Director, Center for Environmental Health and Technology

Investigation of the environmental origins of cancer; epigenetics; Study of gene - environment interaction in cancer and development; examination of the epidemiology of the immune system employing epigenetic techniques in archival blood specimens.

karl_kelsey**[ta]**wn.edu

Simin Liu

Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine

Director, Brown Center for Global CardiometabolicHealth (CGCH)

Etiology of chronic disease with special emphasis on investigating how dietary and biological factors and their interactions influence chronic disease development over a person's lifespan; understanding of how dietary and nutritional factors may interact with genetic susceptibilities in determining an individual's risk; obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, nutrition, clinical epidemiology

simin_liu**[ta]**wn.edu

Eric Loucks

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Graduate Program Director

Research focuses on elucidating biological mechanisms by which social factors such as mindfulness, education, and early life adversity may influence cardiovascular disease. Dr. Loucks has generated research findings that have helped to better understand how biological factors such as inflammatory markers, epigenetics, blood pressure, obesity, lipids, amongst others, may be important mechanisms through which social factors could influence cardiovascular disease. He is now increasingly moving into practical applications of the work, including randomized controlled trials of mindfulness interventions for cardiovascular disease risk reduction.

eric_loucks**[ta]**wn.edu

Mark Lurie

Associate Professor of Epidemiology

International Health Institute

Epidemiology, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, particularly HIV, TB and sexually transmitted diseases in Africa; global health. Examining ways to improve men's movement through the HIV treatment cascade; testing different methods of partner notification for sexually transmitted infections; examining the impact of migration on health care utilization for HIV and NCDs, testing conditional incentives for linkage to HIV treatment.

mark_lurie**[ta]**wn.edu

Brandon D.L. Marshall

Manning Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Examining the causes and consequences of drug and alcohol use, including overdose, HIV/AIDS, and hepatitis C virus infection; structural determinants of health; agent-based modeling; evaluation of harm reduction programs; psychiatric and substance use epidemiology.

brandon_marshall**[ta]**wn.edu

Stephen McGarvey

Professor of Epidemiology and Anthropology; Director, International Health Institute

Global health; noncommunicable diseases, especially cardiometabolic risk factor, in low and middle income countries; genetic epidemiology; obesity; Samoa, American Samoa, South Africa, Kenya.

stephen_mcgarvey**[ta]**wn.edu

Deborah Pearlman

Associate Professor of the Practice

Examining risk and resilience (protective) factors for health risk behaviors (smoking, substance abuse, obesity) and related chronic diseases (asthma, diabetes and heart disease), as well as for mental illness (depression, suicide ideation) and interpersonal violence, using cross sectional and longitudinal data, and applying a social determinants of health framework that examines disparities in the health of children, adolescents and adults at the individual and community levels.

deborah_pearlman**[ta]**wn.edu

David Savitz

Professor of Epidemiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology; Vice President for Research

Studying the health of pregnancy considering environmental, lifestyle, and clinical influences on fetal growth, preterm birth, pregnancy complications, and child health; assessing health effects of environmental pollutants; use of epidemiology to inform policy and health behaviors.

david_savitz**[ta]**wn.edu

Gregory Wellenius

Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Associate Director, Center for Environmental Health & Technology

Performing research to inform the development of healthy and sustainable urban environments, including examining the impacts of outdoor and indoor air pollution, climate change, and the built environment on human health and wellbeing across the lifespan

gregory_wellenius**[ta]**wn.edu

Tongzhang Zheng

Professor of Epidemiology; Director, Brown-China Center for Environmental Health Sciences

Investigating human cancer risk related to environmental and occupational exposures, genetic and epigenetic factors and gene-environment interaction.Particularly interested the fetal origin hypothesis stating that many human cancers start in utero.Also interested in prenatal exposures and fetal growth trajectories and child growth.

tongzhang_zheng**[ta]**wn.edu

Katie Biello

Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Science

Identifying and understanding the underlying risk factors for social inequities in HIV/STIs and developing behavioral interventions to reduce HIV risk among racial, sexual and gender minorities and those in resource limited settings, both domestically and globally.

katie_biello**[ta]**wn.edu

Colleen Caron

Clinical Assistant Professor; Director of Data Analytics, Research and Evaluation Unit at RI Department of Children, Youth & Families.

Examining multilevel factors predictive of child welfare, behavioral health and juvenile justice outcomes employingmultiple research designs, longitudinal, program evaluation and subpopulation comparisons, and general surveillance.Examining the application of data and study findings to inform program, policy and system interventions

colleen_caron**[ta]**wn.edu

Eunyoung Cho

Associate Professor of Dermatology

eunyoung_cho**[ta]**wn.edu

Issa Dahabreh

Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

Issa_Dahabreh**[ta]**wn.edu

Valery Danilack

Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

valery_danilack**[ta]**wn.edu

Dorothy Dumont

Assistant Professor of Practice

Senior public health epidemiologist at RI Department of Health

Examining social determinants of health and health disparities, particularly within RI; chronic disease and associated health behaviors; incarceration and public health.

dora_dumont**[ta]**wn.edu

Charles Eaton

Professor of Family Medicine, Director of Center for Primary Care and Prevention

Examining the role of nutrition and physical activity on cardiovascular disease with emphasis on subclinical atherosclerosis,sudden cardiac death, heart failure and its sub-types and osteoarthritis; Examining the role of gender and racial and ethnic differences onrisk of obesity and its subtypes, body composition andmolecular biomarkers on cardiometabolicdisease throughout the lifecycle; Pragmatic Primary Prevention Clinical trials- behavioral weight loss, physical activity, aspirin, flavonoids

charles_eaton**[ta]**wn.edu

Jennifer Friedman

Professor of Pediatrics

Dr. Friedman is a pediatrician who conducts international health research out of Lifespan's Center for International Health Research. Her research addresses quantification of and mechanisms of morbidity of parasitic diseases among pregnant women and children.

jennifer_friedman**[ta]**wn.edu

William Hollinshead

Assistant Professor of the Practice

william_hollinshead**[ta]**wn.edu

Julie Jefferson

Assistant Professor of the Practice

julie_jefferson**[ta]**wn.edu

Yongwen Jiang

Assistant Professor of the Practice

yongwen_jiang**[ta]**wn.edu

Hyun (Hanna) Kim

Assistant Professor of the Practice

hyun_kim**[ta]**wn.edu

Wen-Qing Li

Assistant Professor of Dermatology

wen-qing_li**[ta]**wn.edu

Roland Merchant

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

roland_merchant**[ta]**wn.edu

Matthew Mimiaga

Professor of Behavioral & Social Health Sciences and Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School

Director, Center for Health Equity Research (CHER)

matthew_mimiaga**[ta]**wn.edu

Donna Parker

Associate Professor of Family Medicine (Research)

Smoking cessation among pregnant women and patients with COPD; reproductive risk factors for pregnant women; andclinical trial of patients with COPD

donna_parker**[ta]**wn.edu

Maureen Phipps

Chair and Chace-Joukowsky Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Assistant Dean for Teaching and Research on Women's Health

Phipps' broad interest in women's health has been geared toward improving the health of underserved women.In addition to excellence in clinical care and research, she is dedicated to training the next generation of women’s health providers.

maureen_phipps**[ta]**wn.edu

Abrar Qureshi

Professor and Chair of Dermatology

abrar_qureshi**[ta]**wn.edu

Josiah Rich

Professor of Medicine

josiah_rich**[ta]**wn.edu

Patricia Risica

Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Science

patricia_risica**[ta]**wn.edu

Dwight Rouse

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Dr. Rouse is in his fourth 5-year cycle as Principal Investigator for the NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units (MFMU) Network. He leads a research staff of 16 at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island who have broad experience and expertise in the conduct of large observational and randomized intervention studies.

drouse**[ta]**ri.org

Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research); Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Research)

Research interests: primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and vascular dementia; psychosocial determinants of cardiovascular disease; mindfulness-based approaches for the promotion of cardiovascular health (physical activity, diet); dissemination of mindfulness-based interventions.

elena_salmoirago-blotcher**[ta]**wn.edu

Peter Simon

Associate Professor of the Practice

peter_simon**[ta]**wn.edu