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
Kelly K Gurka MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology
- Community-Engaged Research
- Harm Reduction
- Injury & Violence Epidemiology
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
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:
- Maternal and Child Health
- Mental Health
- Qualitative Research
- 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
Joint Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, MSc
Associate Director for Cancer 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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Rebecca J Beyth | Professor, Associate Residency Program Director | rbeyth@ufl.edu |
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Muna Canales | Clinical Assistant 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 | Associate Professor Of Medicine; 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 | Associate Chair Of Faculty Development And Associate Professor | 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 |