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
Epidemiology Faculty
Department Chair

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

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Chair, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Global Public Health, Health Equity

- Associate Chair and Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Director, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Mental Health, Substance Use
Core Faculty

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Chair, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Global Public Health, Health Equity

- Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Editor-in-Chief, PREPSS (Pre-Publication Support Service)
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Communication

- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Data Management and Statistical Core Leader, Michigan
- Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Genetics, Mental Health, Precision Health, Reproductive Health

- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Nutrition

- 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

- Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Substance Use

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

- Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
- Adjunct Lecturer, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Environmental Health, Global Public Health, Maternal 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 Informatics, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Infectious Disease

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Equity, LGBT Health, Racism, Substance Use

- Hunein F. and Hilda Maassab Professor of Epidemiology
- Director, Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
- Director, Integrated Training in Microbial Systems
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Infectious Disease, Maternal Health, Women’s Health

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Global Public Health
- Director, Michigan Center for Infectious Disease Threats and Pandemic Preparedness
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease

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

- Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Health Equity, Public Health Practice, Racism, Urban Health

- Associate Research Scientist, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Substance Use

- Associate Dean for Education
- Millicent W. Higgins Collegiate Professor of Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Reproductive Health, 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
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Equity

- Research Investigator, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Informatics, Precision Health, Women’s Health

- Lecturer III, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice

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

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Infectious Disease

- Research Scientist, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Reproductive Health, Women’s Health

- Associate Chair and Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Director, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Mental Health, Substance Use

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Precision Health

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

- John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
- Chair, Biostatistics
- Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics

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

- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Faculty Lead, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Professor, Epidemiology

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Affiliated Faculty, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Medical School
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Women’s Health

- Director, Office of Public Health Practice
- Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Clinical Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease

- Associate Professor of Epidemiology
- Research Associate Professor, Survey Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Genetics, Precision Health

- Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Reproductive Health

- Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Research Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Communication, Infectious Disease

- Research Investigator, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Precision Health, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health

- Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
- Director, U-M Injury Prevention Center
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Global Public Health

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Infectious Disease

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, COVID-19, Health Equity, Infectious Disease
Faculty with Joint Appointments

- Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Investigator, VA Center for Clinical Management Research
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Health Care, Health Informatics

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Anesthesiology
Areas of Expertise
Substance Use

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

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

- Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Environmental Health

- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Research Scientist, Center for Clinical Management Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy

- Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center
- Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center
- Research Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
- Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Racism

- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
- Professor, Department of History
Areas of Expertise
LGBT Health

- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Areas of Expertise
Women’s Health

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
- Director, Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk and Evaluation Program
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Women’s Health

- Amanda Sanford Hickey Professor of Internal Medicine
- Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Dept. of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Public Health Practice

- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Director, Child Health Evaluation and Research Fellowship
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Child Health, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy

- Assistant Dean, Research Faculty, University of Michigan Medical School
- Chief and Professor, Dow Division of Health Services Research, Department of Urology
- Research Professor, Department Epidemiology, School of Public Health

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Dept. of Afroamerican and African Studies
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Policy

- 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
Lecturers

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

- Lecturer III, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice

- Research Area Specialist Intermediate and
- Intermittent Lecturer in Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Genetics
Adjunct Faculty

- Chief Medical Executive
- Chief Medical Executive, State of Michigan,
- Adjunct Faculy, Department of Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Infectious Disease

- Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Program Director, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center
Areas of Expertise
Public Health Practice, Substance Use

- Epidemiologist, Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Health System
- Director, HFHS Health Disparities Research Collaborative
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Racism
- Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease

- 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

- Adjunct Clinical Professor, Epidemiology
- Adjunct Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School
- Medical Director, Hospital Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Special Pathogens at Trinity Health St. Joseph Mercy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Infectious Disease

- Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Medical Director, Washtenaw County Health Department
- Medical Director, Livingston County Health Department
Areas of Expertise
Public Health Practice
Emeritus Faculty

- Associate Research Scientist Emeritus, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Genetics, Women’s Health

- Professor Emeritus, Dental Public Health
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences and Endodontics, School of Dentistry

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

- Professor Emeritus, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor Emeritus, Emergency Medicine

- Professor Emerita, Epidemiology
- Robert Kelch Research Professor Emerita, Pediatrics
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease

- Research Scientist Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Research Scientist Emeritus, Psychology
Areas of Expertise
Mental Health

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health

- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Professor Emeritus, Internal Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease

- Senior Research Scientist Emeritus
- Professor Emeritus, Sociology
- Research Professor Emeritus, Survey Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Health Informatics

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

- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice

- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Thomas Francis, Jr. Collegiate Professor of Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice

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

- Emeritus Professor, Epidemiology and Internal Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Policy, Public Health Practice

- Harold F. Falls Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Director, Glaucoma Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Genetics

- John G. Searle Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Professor Emeritus, Internal Medicine
- Director 1988-2004, University of Michigan Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Cancer

- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Professor Emeritus, Global Public Health
- Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease