Leadership

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

Program Directors

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

• Kimberly A. Baker, DrPH
  Assistant Professor

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

• Cici Xi Chen Bauer, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Louis D. Brown, PhD
  Assistant Professor

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

• Paula M. Cuccaro, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Casey Durand, 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

• Belinda Hernández, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Eric C. Jones, PhD
  Assistant Professor

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

• Brett Perkison, MD, MPH, FACOEM
  Assistant Professor

• Melissa Peskin, PhD
  Associate 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
  Assistant Professor

• Laura Aubree Shay, PhD
  Assistant Professor

• Ross Shegog, PhD
  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
  Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Sharice M. Preston, PhD
  NCI Postdoctoral Research Fellow

• Jacob Szeszulski, PhD
  NCI Postdoctoral Research Fellow

• Su-Wei Wong, PhD, CHES
  NIDA Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Predoctoral Fellows

• Mariana Arevalo, MSPH
  Komen Predoctoral Fellow

• Jessica Austin, MPH
  NCI Predoctoral Fellow

• Andrea Betts, MPH
  NCI Predoctoral Fellow

• Lynn N. Ibekwe, MPH
  NCI Predoctoral Fellow

• Inimfon N. Jackson, MBBCh, MPH
  Komen Predoctoral Fellow

• Frances M. Nguyen, MPH
  Komen Predoctoral Fellow