Michigan Public Health welcomes new faculty
Each year, the University of Michigan School of Public Health welcomes leading experts to teach tomorrow's public health leaders and conduct impactful research for a healthier, more equitable world. This academic year, the school welcomes the following new full-time faculty:
Micah Aaron
Assistant Professor, Health Management & Policy
Aaron researches the impact of delivery system actions on healthcare spending and quality indicators, provider consolidation on clinical care integration, and healthcare policy effects on delivery systems.
Dylan Cable
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Cable develops statistical modeling approaches for emerging high-throughput genomics technologies, including spatial transcriptomics and single-cell RNA-sequencing.
John Catalano
Clinical Instructor, Health Management and Policy
Catalano identifies institutional and societal factors underlying depression, anxiety, and suicide among higher education students, focusing on developing interventions and studying the impact of perfectionism on student mental health.
Alexa Eisenberg
Lecturer III, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Eisenberg builds evidence for movements and policy changes supporting tenant rights. She is a faculty affiliate with Poverty Solutions and collaborates with the Housing Solutions for Health Equity initiative.
Darrell Hudson
Professor and Chair, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Hudson studies racial/ethnic differences in depression, including the effects of socioeconomic position, racial discrimination, and coping behaviors. His current work examines how upward social mobility affects Black Americans' health and integrates mental and physical health using a life course framework.
James Huynh
Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Huynh researches health equity/justice, Asian American studies, social movements, and queer and feminist studies. He investigates how LGBTQ communities of color maintain well-being amid challenging social conditions and collaborates with community organizations on health policy activism.
Peter Larson
Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
Larson specializes in social and environmental determinants of health disparities, focusing on how society, economics, and place influence disease risk in underserved communities.
Geila Rajaee
Lecturer III, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Rajaee studies existential concerns, spirituality/religion, chronic disease management, and behavioral health interventions, particularly focusing on preventable diseases and chaplains' roles in health outcomes.
Michael Shepherd
Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Shepherd researches US health politics and policy, rural health disparities, the roles of political parties and race in US health policy, and mass media effects on health attitudes and behaviors.
Elizabeth Slocum
Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
Slocum studies factors influencing COVID-19 recovery time and the impact of tobacco control policies on health outcomes.
Bingkai Wang
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Wang specializes in causal inference using randomized trials and observational studies. He designs and analyzes complex clinical trials and leverages machine learning and large language models to improve clinical studies.