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 Care
![Micah Aaron](/faculty-profiles/images/micaaron.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care
![Denise Anthony](/faculty-profiles/images/deniseum.jpg)
- Rubin Chair of Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Sociology
- Professor, School of Information
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy
![Melissa Beck](/faculty-profiles/images/melissbe.jpeg)
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Program Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Care, Nutrition, Public Health Practice
![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
![Kyle Grazier](/faculty-profiles/images/kgrazier.jpg)
- 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
![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
![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
![Lewis Morgenstern](/faculty-profiles/images/lmorgens.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Neurology Emergency Medicine and Neurosurgery
- Director, Stroke Program
Areas of Expertise
Brain Disorders, Health Care, Health Equity, Social Epidemiology
![Edward Norton](/faculty-profiles/images/ecnorton.jpg)
- UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Economics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Care, Health Economics
![Minal Patel](/faculty-profiles/images/minalrp.jpg)
- Associate Chair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity
![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
![Simone Rauscher Singh](/faculty-profiles/images/singhsim.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy
![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
![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
![Brian ZikmundFisher](/faculty-profiles/images/bzikmund.jpg)
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Research Professor, Internal Medicine
- Interim Co-Director, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Communication
![Andrew Admon](/faculty-profiles/images/ajadmon.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
- Associate Investigator, VA Center for Clinical Management Research
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Health Care, Health Informatics, Modeling, Respiratory Viruses
![John Ayanian](/faculty-profiles/images/ayanian.jpg)
- 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
![Mark Bicket](/faculty-profiles/images/mbicket.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Care, Health Policy, Opioids, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![Tom Buchmueller](/faculty-profiles/images/tbuch.jpg)
- 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
![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
![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
![Christopher Friese](/faculty-profiles/images/cfriese.jpg)
- Elizabeth Tone Hosmer Professor of Nursing
- Professor, Nursing
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Health Care, Health Policy
![Sarah Hawley](/faculty-profiles/images/sarahawl.jpg)
- Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy
![Rodney Hayward](/faculty-profiles/images/rhayward.jpg)
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Director, National Clinician Scholars Program
Areas of Expertise
Health Care
![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
![Joseph Kolars](/faculty-profiles/images/jckolars.jpg)
- 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
![Gretchen Piatt](/faculty-profiles/images/piattg.jpg)
- 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
![Sarah Reeves](/faculty-profiles/images/sleasure.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
- Director, Child Health Evaluation and Research Fellowship
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Child Health, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy
![Amy Rothberg](/faculty-profiles/images/arothber.jpg)
- Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Diabetes
- Adjunct Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Care, Maternal Health, Nutrition, Reproductive Health
![Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin](/faculty-profiles/images/noPicture_person.jpg)
- Research Professor, Family Medicine in Michigan Medicine
- Research Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, New York Physicians Against Cancer (NYPAC), New York, New York
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity
![Michael Thompson](/faculty-profiles/images/mthompsnew.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Assistant Professor, Cardiac Surgery
- Director of Analytic Strategy, Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy
- Co-Director, Michigan Value Collaborative
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy
![Lauren Wallner](/faculty-profiles/images/lwallner.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine
- Co-lead, Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, Rogel Cancer Center
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity
![Susan Woolford](/faculty-profiles/images/noPicture_person.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Michigan Medicine
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior Health Education
- Associate Director, Program for Equity in Adolescent and Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, Michigan Medicine
- Associate Director, Michigan Child Health Equity Collaborative, Department of Pediatrics, Michigan Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Communication, Occupational Health, Public Health Practice
![Olga Yakusheva](/faculty-profiles/images/yakush.jpg)
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Systems Populations and Leadership, School of Nursing
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy, Precision 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
![Courtland Keteyian](/faculty-profiles/images/cketeyia.jpg)
- Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health
- President/CEO, Jackson Health Network
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Care, Occupational Health, Public Health Practice
![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
![Marianne Udow-Phillips](/faculty-profiles/images/mudow.jpg)
- Lecturer, Health Policy and Management
- Senior Advisor, Center for Health and Research Transformation
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Care, Health Policy, Substance Use
![Seth Wolk](/faculty-profiles/images/swwolk.jpg)
- Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care
![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
![John Griffith](/faculty-profiles/images/jrg.jpg)
- Andrew Pattullo Collegiate Professor, Health Management and Policy (Emeritus)
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy
![Richard Lichtenstein](/faculty-profiles/images/lichto.jpg)
- Associate Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Urban Health
![Dean Smith](/faculty-profiles/images/deans.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
- Dean and Richard A. Culbertson Professor of Health Policy and Systems Management at the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Public Health Practice