At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, more than 200 professors and research scientists teach tomorrow’s public health leaders and perform cutting-edge research that helps advance the field of public health. Many faculty members are leading experts in their fields who consult with governments, communities, and nongovernmental organizations.
Meet Our Faculty
Faculty who have expertise in Health Equity

- Lecturer IV, Nutritional Sciences
- Director, Dietetics Program
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Nutrition, Precision Health

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Chair, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Air Quality, Brain Disorders, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Modeling

- Alice Hamilton Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Policy
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Insurance, Health Policy

- Chief Medical Executive
- Chief Medical Executive, State of Michigan,
- Adjunct Faculty, Department of Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Opioids, Respiratory Viruses

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Data Management and Statistical Core Leader, Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Brain Disorders, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Epigenetics, Genetics, Genomics, Health Equity, Mental Health, Precision Health, Reproductive Health, Toxicology

- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Equity, Nutrition

- Associate Director, U-M Center for Global Health Equity
- Senior Associate Dean for Global Public Health
- Pearl L. Kendrick Collegiate Professor of Global Public Health
- Professor of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice, Vaccines

- Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance
- Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Insurance, Health Policy, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Substance Use

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Sociology
- Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity

- Research Investigator, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy, Mental Health, Nutrition, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use

- Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
- Adjunct Lecturer, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Air Quality, Child Health, Environmental Health, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Maternal Health

- Professor Emeritus, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
- Co-Associate Director, Program for Research on Black Americans
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Public Health Practice, Racism

- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Paula Allen-Meares Collegiate Professor of Social Work
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Racism

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Urban Health

- Lecturer, Public Health Law
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Maternal Health, Public Health Practice, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health

- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Racism

- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Mental Health

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Complex Systems
- Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems
- Associate Professor, Mathematics
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Modeling, Public Health Practice, Vaccines, Water Quality

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Co-Director, Certificate in Social Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Equity, LGBT Health, Racism, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use

- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Faculty Lead, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice, Racism

- Research Scientist Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Faculty Associate, Southeast Asian Studies
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Social Epidemiology

- Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of PediatricsProfessor, Health Management and Policy
- Director of Faculty Programs, Office of Health Equity and Inclusion
- Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Government Relations
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice

- Associate Chair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Racism, Substance Use

- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Equity, Maternal Health, Racism, Reproductive Health, Urban Health

- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Health Policy

- Richard Carl Jelinek Professor of Health Services Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Mental Health

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Brain Disorders, Child Health, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Maternal Health, Nutrition, Occupational Health, Racism, Reproductive Health, Social Epidemiology, Women’s Health

- Associate Professor, Kinesiology
- Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Equity

- Lecturer, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Nutrition

- Research Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Genetics, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Precision Health

- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Research Scientist, Center for Clinical Management Research
- Staff Physician
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Urban Health

- Research Investigator
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Equity, Mental Health, Occupational Health

- Research Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Health Equity
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Opioids, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use

- Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Public Health
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Founder, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH)
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Modeling, Social Epidemiology

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Diabetes, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Reproductive Health, Sleep, Women’s Health

- Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer, CVS Health
- Appointee, Biden-Harris Administration COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Child Health, COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy

- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Associate Professor of Global Public Health
- Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health

- John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
- Faculty Affiliate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
- Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
- Co-Director, Certificate in Social Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Brain Disorders, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Social Epidemiology

- Director, University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity
- Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Medicine
- Josiah Macy, Jr., Professor of Health Professions Education
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity

- M. Anthony Schork Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Firearm Injury Prevention, Genetics, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Substance Use

- Associate Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Urban Health

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Research Professor, Neurology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Equity, Women’s Health

- Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Senior Advisor, Poverty Solutions
- Faculty Associate, Latina/o Studies Program
Areas of Expertise
Health Communication, Health Equity, Racism

- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Racism, Urban Health

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Director, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health [on sabbatical 2023-2024]
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Mental Health, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Neurology Emergency Medicine and Neurosurgery
- Director, Stroke Program
Areas of Expertise
Brain Disorders, Health Care, Health Equity, Social Epidemiology

- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Professor Emeritus, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor Emeritus, Urology, Medical School
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Racism, Social Epidemiology

- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Associate Director, Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Mental Health, Racism

- Chair, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Racism, Social Epidemiology

- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy, Opioids, Substance Use

- Associate Chair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity

- Associate Professor, Learning Health Sciences
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Co-Director, Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Equity

- Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Communication, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Urban Health

- Associate Professor, College of Education, Health and Human Services, University of Michigan Dearborn
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Communication, Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice

- University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Equity, Racism

- Associate Professor of Epidemiology
- Research Associate Professor, Survey Research
- Director, Certificate in Public Health Genetics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Brain Disorders, Chronic Disease, Diabetes, Epigenetics, Genetics, Genomics, Health Equity, Precision Health, Social Epidemiology

- CEO, Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
- Adjunct Faculty, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Nutrition, Public Health Practice, Women’s Health

- Associate Professor, Nursing
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Co-Director, Training and Education Core, University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center
- Director, Certificate in Injury Science
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Equity, Mental Health, Substance Use, Urban Health

- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Respiratory Viruses, Vaccines

- Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology
- Co-lead, Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, Rogel Cancer Center
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity

- Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Diabetes, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Mental Health, Nutrition, Precision Health, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health

- Research Investigator
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Health Equity, Social Epidemiology

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, COVID-19, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Modeling
- Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Brain Disorders, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Clinical Trials, COVID-19, Diabetes, Environmental Health, Genetics, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Mental Health, Modeling, Nutrition, Precision Health, Substance Use, Vaccines, Women’s Health

- Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Research
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Child Health, Epigenetics, Genetics, Health Equity, Mental Health, Precision Health, Reproductive Health, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use