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
Health Behavior and Health Education Faculty
Department Chair

- Interim Chair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, ELSI Research Training Program
- Co-Director, Dual Degree Program in Public Health and Genetic Counseling
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Genetics, Health Communication, Mental Health, Precision Health
Department Associate Chair

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Mental Health

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

- 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

- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Associate Professor, Combined Program in Education and Psychology
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Mental Health, Substance Use

- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center

- Research Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Health Equity

- 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

- Associate Research Scientist, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Evaluation Director, Center for Managing Chronic Disease

- 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, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Nutrition

- Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education
- Associate Professor of Global Public Health

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

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

- 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

- Irwin Rosenstock Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine
- Associate Director for Community Engagement and Health Disparities Research at the Unive

- Interim Chair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, ELSI Research Training Program
- Co-Director, Dual Degree Program in Public Health and Genetic Counseling
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Genetics, Health Communication, Mental Health, Precision Health

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

- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship

- Assistant Dean, Student Engagement and Practice
- Director, Undergraduate Education
- Clinical Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
LGBT Health

- 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

- Marshall H. Becker Collegiate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Professor, Psychology
- Professor, Combined Program in Education and Psychology
- Co-Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Firearm Injury Prevention, Mental Health
Faculty with Joint Appointments

- Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education

- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Carol J. and F. Edward Lake Term Clinical Professor
- Professor at the Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences

- Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education

- Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, Injury Center

- Research Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
- Research Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education

- 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

- 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

- Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education

- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, School of Nursing
- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education

- 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

- Associate Professor, Neurology
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education

- 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

- Associate Professor, School of Information
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Adjunct Faculty

- 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

- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
- Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Firearm Injury Prevention
Emeritus Faculty

- 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 Emeritus, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Marshall H. Becker Collegiate Professor of Public Health

- Professor Emeritus, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Associate Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
- Director, Program for Research on Black Americans