Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research

Leadership

• María E. Fernández, PhD
  Vice President of Population Health and Implementation Science; Co-Director, UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science, UTHealth Houston
  Lorne Bain Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medicine; Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences; Director, Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research; UTHealth Houston School of Public Health

Program Directors

• Patricia Dolan Mullen, DrPH, MLS
  The University of Texas System Distinguished Teaching Professor, UTHealth President’s Scholar,
  Minnie Stevens Piper Professor

• Sheryl A. McCurdy, PhD
  Professor

Faculty

• Robert C. Addy, PhD
  Faculty Associate

• Marlyn Allicock, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• John Atkinson, DrPH
  Faculty Associate

• Kimberly A. Baker, DrPH
  Assistant Professor
  Director, Public Health Practice

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

• Cici Xi Chen Bauer, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Marie Brault, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Louis D. Brown, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Yuh-Pey Anne Buu, PhD (Stats), PhD (Ed. Psych)
  Professor

• Paula M. Cuccaro, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Maria Eugenia Fernández-Esquer, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Kayo Fujimoto, PhD
  Sally W. Vernon, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor in Social Determinants of Health
  Professor

• Leah Whigham Grendell, PhD, FTOS
  Associate Professor

• Natalia Heredia, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Belinda Hernández, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Eric C. Jones, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Christine Markham, PhD
  Professor
  Interim Chair, Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences Department

• Caitlin Murphy, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Brett Perkison, MD, MPH, FACOEM
  Assistant Professor

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

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

• Lara S. Savas, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Vanessa Schick, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Laura Aubree Shay, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Ross Shegog, PhD
  Professor

• Kymberle Landrum Sterling, DrPh
  Associate Professor

• Irene M. Tami-Maury, DrPH
  Assistant Professor

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

• Melissa Valerio-Shewmaker, PhD
  Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Development and Diversity
  Associate Professor, UTHealth School of Public Health at Brownsville

• Sally W. Vernon, PhD
  Professor
  Blair Justice, PhD Professorship in Mind-Body Medicine and Public Health

• Tim Walker, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• J. Michael Wilkerson, PhD
  Associate Professor

• Qian Xiao, PhD
  Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Derek Craig, PhD, MPH
  NCI Postdoctoral Fellow

• Paul G. Yeh, MD, MPH
  NCI Postdoctoral Fellow

Predoctoral Fellows

• Jacquelin Cordero
  NCI Predoctoral Fellow

• Emanuelle Dias
  NCI Predoctoral Fellow

• Tiffany Suragh
  NCI Predoctoral Fellow

• Alex Tortolero
  NCI Predoctoral Fellow