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
Natalie E Chichetto PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Alcohol Abuse
- Behavioral Health Syndemics
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Gut Microbiome
Linda B Cottler PhD, MPH, FACE
Dean’s Professor Of Epidemiology
Research Interests:
- Substance Use Epidemiology, particularly opioids
- Drug addiction
- community engagement
Yiyang Liu
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Alcohol and substance use
- HIV
- HIV Prevention
- Mental Health
- data science
- electronic health records
Jinling Liu
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Aging
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Causal inference
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
Catalina Lopez-Quintero
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Access to prevention and care
- Alcohol and substance use
- Behavioral epidemiology
- Health disparities and vulnerable populations
- Population Neuroscience
Ashley Malin
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Environmental Epidemiology
- Environmental Toxicology
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Nutrition and Wellness
Simone Marini
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Data Integration
- HIV
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
Guanhong Miao
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Multi-omics
- Security and privacy
- Statistical methods
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
Krishna Vaddiparti
Assistant 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
Sai Zhang
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Computational biology
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Machine Learning
- Precision Medicine
Jinying Zhao MD, PhD
Deans Endowed Chair And Professor Director, Center For Genetic Epidemiology And Bioinformatics (GeneBio), Preeminence Faculty
Research Interests:
- Aging and Age related disease
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Diabetes
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Major depression
- Multi-omics
- Precision Health
- Statistical Genetics
- Translational Bioinformatics
Joint Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, MSc
Professor And Division Chief, Population Health Sciences; Associate Director For Population Sciences, UF Health Cancer Center
Graduate Faculty
Graduate faculty may serve as supervisory committee chairs, co-chairs, and internal members, but they may not serve as external members.
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George J Arnaoutakis | Associate Professor | gja10@ufl.edu |
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Rebecca J Beyth | Professor Emeritus | rbeyth@ufl.edu |
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Muna Canales | Clinical Associate Professor | muna.canales@medicine.ufl.edu |
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Yenisel Cruz-Almeida | Associate Professor & Associate Director, Pain Research & Intervention Center Of Excellence | cryeni@ufl.edu |
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Derek A Cummings | Professor; EPI Associate Director For Education And Graduate Programs | datc@ufl.edu |
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Awewura Kwara | Professor Of Medicine, VA Section Chief | awewura.kwara@medicine.ufl.edu |
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Michael Lauzardo | Professor; Deputy Director Of Emerging Pathogens Institute | mike.lauzardo@medicine.ufl.edu |
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Ira M Longini | Professor | ilongini@ufl.edu |
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Todd Manini | Professor; Division Chief Of Clinical And Population Health Integration; Co-Director Of The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center | tmanini@ufl.edu |
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J. Glenn Morris | Director, Emerging Pathogens Institute | jgmorris@epi.ufl.edu |
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Michael G Perri | Dean Emeritus | mperri@ufl.edu |
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Sonja A Rasmussen | Professor | skr9@ufl.edu |
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Marco Salemi | Holloway Professor In Experimental Pathology; EPI Associate Director For Research Initiatives | salemi@pathology.ufl.edu |
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Stephanie Staras | Professor And Associate Chair Of Faculty Development | sstaras@mail.ufl.edu |
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Marie N Séraphin | Assistant Professor | nancy.seraphin@medicine.ufl.edu |
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Scott L Tomar | Professor | stomar@dental.ufl.edu |
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Almut G Winterstein | Distinguished Professor, Director For CoDES, Director For Consortium For Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research | almut@ufl.edu |