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 Global Public Health
![Sara Adar](/faculty-profiles/images/sadar.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Chair, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Air Quality, Brain Disorders, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Modeling
![K Rivet Amico](/faculty-profiles/images/ramico.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Health Communication, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health
![Ella August](/faculty-profiles/images/eaugust.jpg)
- Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Editor-in-Chief, PREPSS (Pre-Publication Support Service)
- Clinical Associate Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Communication
![Stuart Batterman](/faculty-profiles/images/stuartb.jpg)
- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Professor, Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Areas of Expertise
Air Quality, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Global Public Health, Occupational Health, Urban Health, Water Quality
![Ana Baylin](/faculty-profiles/images/abaylin.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
- Associate Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Nutrition
![Michael Boehnke](/faculty-profiles/images/boehnke.jpg)
- Richard G. Cornell Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Chronic Disease, Diabetes, Genetics, Genomics, Global Public Health, Precision Health
![Philip Boonstra](/faculty-profiles/images/philb.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, Clinical Trials, COVID-19, Global Public Health
![Matthew Boulton](/faculty-profiles/images/mboulton.jpg)
- Professor of Epidemiology
- Senior Associate Dean for Global Public Health
- Associate Director, U-M Center for Global Health Equity
- Pearl L. Kendrick Collegiate Professor of Global Public Health
- Professor of Preventive Medicine
- Director, Minority Health & Health Disparities International Research Training Program
- Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- Professor of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease Division, Michigan Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice, Vaccines
![Andrew Brouwer](/faculty-profiles/images/brouweaf.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Modeling, Respiratory Viruses, Substance Use, Tobacco
![Fan Bu](/faculty-profiles/images/fbu.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, COVID-19, Diabetes, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Modeling, Social Epidemiology, Vaccines
![Miatta Buxton](/faculty-profiles/images/mabuxton.jpg)
- Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
- Adjunct Lecturer, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Air Quality, Child Health, Environmental Health, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Maternal Health
![Melissa Creary](/faculty-profiles/images/mcreary.jpg)
- 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
![Ifeolu David](/faculty-profiles/images/ifedavid.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Mental Health
![J. Tim Dvonch](/faculty-profiles/images/dvonch.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Associate Chair, Environmental Health Sciences
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Environmental Health, Global Public Health
![Marisa Eisenberg](/faculty-profiles/images/marisae.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Co-Director, Michigan Public Health Integrated Center for Outbreak Analytics and Modeling (MICOM)
- 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
![Jackie Goodrich](/faculty-profiles/images/gaydojac.jpg)
- Research Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Global Public Health Faculty Associate
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Environmental Health, Genetics, Global Public Health, Maternal Health, Occupational Health, Precision Health, Women’s Health
![Aubree Gordon](/faculty-profiles/images/gordonal.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Director, Michigan Center for Infectious Disease Threats and Pandemic Preparedness
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease
![Scott Greer](/faculty-profiles/images/slgreer.jpg)
- Professor Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Professor (by courtesy), Political Science
Areas of Expertise
Aging, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Policy
![Alexis Handal](/faculty-profiles/images/ahandal.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate 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
![Kevin He](/faculty-profiles/images/kevinhe.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Genetics, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Precision Health
![Andy Jones](/faculty-profiles/images/ajones.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
- Associate Chair, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Nutrition, Sustainable Food Systems
![Elizabeth King](/faculty-profiles/images/eking.jpg)
- 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
![Lindsay Kobayashi](/faculty-profiles/images/lkob.jpg)
- 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
![Yi Li](/faculty-profiles/images/yili.jpg)
- 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
![Richard Neitzel](/faculty-profiles/images/rneitzel.jpg)
- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Director, Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Global Public Health, Occupational Health
![John Piette](/faculty-profiles/images/jpiette.jpg)
- Professor, Health Behavior Health Education
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Director, UM Center for Managing Chronic Disease
- VA Senior Career Scientist
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Informatics, Mental Health, Opioids, Precision Health
![Sari Reisner](/faculty-profiles/images/sreisner.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Faculty Affiliate, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
- Faculty Affiliate, Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and Family Depression Center
Areas of Expertise
Clinical Trials, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Racism, Reproductive Health, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use, Urban Health, Women’s Health
![Abram Wagner](/faculty-profiles/images/awag.jpg)
- 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
![Douglas Wiebe](/faculty-profiles/images/dwiebe.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
- Director, U-M Injury Prevention Center
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Global Public Health
![Chuanwu Xi](/faculty-profiles/images/cxi.jpg)
- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Environmental Health, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease, Water Quality
![Zhenhua Yang](/faculty-profiles/images/zhenhua.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Infectious Disease, Vaccines
![Donglin Zeng](/faculty-profiles/images/dzeng.jpg)
- 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
![HwaJung Choi](/faculty-profiles/images/hwajungc.jpg)
- Research Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
- Research Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Brain Disorders, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy
![Zora Djuric](/faculty-profiles/images/zoralong.jpg)
- Research Professor, Family Medicine
- Research Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Global Public Health, Nutrition
![Gary Freed](/faculty-profiles/images/gfreed.jpg)
- 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
![Michele Heisler](/faculty-profiles/images/mheisler.jpg)
- 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
![Howard Stein](/faculty-profiles/images/howstein.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Dept. of Afroamerican and African Studies
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Policy
![Elyse Thulin](/faculty-profiles/images/noPicture_person.jpg)
- Assistant Research Professor, Health Behavior Health Education
- Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, University of Michigan
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Global Public Health, Mental Health
![Natasha Bagdasarian](/faculty-profiles/images/nghazi.jpg)
- Adjunct Faculty, Department of Epidemiology
- Chief Medical Executive
- Chief Medical Executive, State of Michigan, Department of Health and Human Services
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Opioids, Respiratory Viruses
![Theodore Hanss](/faculty-profiles/images/ted.jpg)
- Lecturer, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health
- Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease
![Christine Stead](/faculty-profiles/images/scheible.jpg)
- 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
![Kathleen Ford](/faculty-profiles/images/kford.jpg)
- 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
![Brant Fries](/faculty-profiles/images/bfries.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
- Research Professor Emeritus, Institute of Gerontology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Child Health, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy, Mental Health
![Friedrich Port](/faculty-profiles/images/portb.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology and Internal Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Policy, Public Health Practice
![Kenneth Warner](/faculty-profiles/images/kwarner.jpg)
- Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Public Health
- Dean Emeritus, School of Public Health
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Policy, Substance Use, Tobacco