Faculty

Leadership

• Maria E. Fernandez, PhD
  Lorne Bain Distinguished Professor in Public Health and Medicine
  Director

• Christine Markham, PhD
  Associate Director
  Associate Professor

Program Directors

• Patricia Dolan Mullen, DrPH
  The University of Texas System Distinguished Teaching Professor and President’s Scholar
  Professor

• Sheryl A. McCurdy, PhD
  Associate Professor
  International Program

Faculty

• Robert C. Addy, PhD
  Faculty Associate

• Marlyn Allicock, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• John Atkinson, DrPH
  Faculty Associate

• Bijal Balasubramanian, PhD
  Associate Professor
  Campus Dean, UTHealth School of Public Health in Dallas

• Frank Charlie Bandiera, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Elizabeth Baumler, PhD
  Faculty Associate

• Louis Brown, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Sadie Conway, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Paula M. Cuccaro, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Casey Durand, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Maria Eugenia Fernández-Esquer, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Kayo Fujimoto, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Belinda Hernández, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Katelyn Jetelina, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Kimberly Johnson, DrPH
  Faculty Associate

• Eric C. Jones, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Brett Perkison, MD, MPH, FACOEM
  Assistant Professor

• Melissa Peskin, PhD
  Associate Professor
  Associate Editor, Journal of Primary Prevention

• Lisa Pompeii, PhD
  Associate Professor
  Editor-in-Chief, Workplace Health & Safety Journal

• Jennifer M. Reingle González, PhD
  Associate Professor
  Assistant Regional Dean, UTHealth School of Public Health in Dallas

• Diane Santa Maria, DrPH
  Associate Professor
  Dean Ad Interim of Cizik School of Nursing

• Lara S. Savas, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Vanessa Schick, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Laura Aubree Shay, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Ross Shegog, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Wendell C. Taylor, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Susan Tortolero Emery, PhD
  Distinguished Teaching Professor
  Allan King Professor of Public Health

• Melissa Valerio, PhD
  Associate Professor
  Campus Dean, UTHealth School of Public Health in San Antonio

• Sally W. Vernon, PhD
  Chair, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
  Professor

• Tim Walker, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• J. Michael Wilkerson, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Kai Zhang, PhD
  Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Gregory Knell, PhD
  Postdoctoral Fellow

Predoctoral Fellows

• Mariana Arevalo, MSPH
  Predoctoral Fellow

• Jessica Austin, MPH
  Predoctoral Fellow

• Andrea Betts, MPH
  Predoctoral Fellow

• Lynn N. Ibekwe, MPH
  Predoctoral Fellow

• Inimfon N. Jackson, MBBCh, MPH
  Predoctoral Fellow

• Frances M. Nguyen, MPH
  Predoctoral Fellow

• Jenna Parro, MHA
  Predoctoral Fellow