Chair
Stephen Kimmel
Dean’s Professor And Chair
Research Interests:
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Prediction Modeling
Core Faculty
Takis Benos
William Bushnell Presidential Chaired Professor
Research Interests:
- Aging
- Causal inference
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Computational biology
- Liver Disease
- Lung cancer
- Machine learning and applications
Shantrel S Canidate PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor; EPI Associate Director for Outreach and Community Partnerships
Erta Cenko
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- AI Applications in Healthcare
- Cognitive Aging
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Educational Technology
- Wearable Technology
Natalie E Chichetto PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Clinical Trials Design & Analysis
- Alcohol and substance use
- Behavioral Health Syndemics
- Behavioral epidemiology
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Clinical and translational science
- Gut Microbiome
- Psychiatric Epidemiology
Linda B Cottler PhD, MPH, FACE
Professor of Epidemiology
Research Interests:
- Substance Use Epidemiology, particularly opioids
- Drug addiction
- community engagement
Jinling Liu
Assistant Professor & Co-Director, Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics
Research Interests:
- Aging
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Causal inference
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
Yiyang Liu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Alcohol and substance use
- HIV
- HIV Prevention
- Mental Health
- data science
- electronic health records
Catalina Lopez-Quintero
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Alcohol and substance use
- Behavioral epidemiology
- Drug use prevention
- Population Neuroscience
Ashley Malin
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Environmental Epidemiology
- Environmental Toxicology
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Nutrition and Wellness
Simone Marini PHD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Data Integration
- HIV
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
Mattia Prosperi Ph.D., FAMIA, FACMI
Professor and Associate Dean for AI and Innovation; EPI Chief Research Information Officer
Jerne J Shapiro
Instructional Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Applied Epidemiology
- COVID-19
- Field Epidemiology
- Infectious disease epidemiology
- Infectious disease surveillance
- Local and State Health Department
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Ronald I Shorr
Director, Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Center, Malcom Randall VAMC, Research Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida
Research Interests:
- Patient Safety
- Pharmacoepidemiology
Heather A Stark
Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests:
- Global Health
- Maternal and Child Health
- Nutrition and Wellness
Catherine L Striley PhD, MSW, MPE
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
- Access to prevention and care
- Health disparities and Social determinants of health
- Multimorbidity and functional decline
- Substance Use Disorders
- community engagement
Marie N Séraphin PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
- Public Health Genomics
Krishna Vaddiparti
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
- Exposure to violence and victimization
- HIV Stigma and outcomes
- Medical Marijuana – PTSD and Sleep
Deepthi S Varma
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Social Determinants of Women’s health
- Alcohol and substance use
- Mixed Methods Research
- Perinatal Mental Health
- Qualitative Research
- Women’s Health
- mHealth
Drew A Westmoreland MSPH, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Alcohol and substance use
- Behavioral epidemiology
- HIV
- LGBTQ+ health
- Sexual health
- Sexually transmitted infections
Lusine Yaghjyan
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
- Breast cancer risk factors
- Breast cancer risk prediction
- Cancer Screening
- Endocrine disruptors
- Environmental contributors to breast cancer
- Gut microbiome and breast health
- Molecular epidemiology
Joint Faculty
Department:
MD-SURG-POPULATION HEALTH SCI
Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, MSc
Professor and Division Chief, Population Health Sciences, Department of Surgery
Phone:
(352) 294-5822
Email:
dbraithwaite@ufl.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Department:
Department of Epidemiology
Thomas A Pearson MD, PhD
Phone:
(352) 273-5048
Email:
tapearson@ufl.edu
Graduate Faculty
Graduate faculty may serve as supervisory committee chairs, co-chairs, and internal members, but they may not serve as external members.
