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:
- Alcohol Abuse
- Behavioral Health Syndemics
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Gut Microbiome
Linda B Cottler PhD, MPH, FACE
Professor Of Epidemiology
Research Interests:
- Substance Use Epidemiology, particularly opioids
- Drug addiction
- community engagement
Yiyang Liu
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, Department of Surgery
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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Adetola F Louis-Jacques | Clinical Assistant Professor | louisjacquesa@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 | Professor; EPI Associate Director of Research Initiatives | 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 | Emerging Pathogens Institute Interim Director; Holloway Professor In Experimental Pathology | 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 |