Medical College of Wisconsin Public & Community Health Faculty
Kirsten Beyer, PhD, MPH, MS
Research Interests: Health equity, global health, environmental health/justice, structural racism, racial segregation/housing discrimination, geospatial analysis/GIS, community engaged research, chronic disease
Rachel Cusatis, PhD, MA
Research Interests: Patient-reported outcomes, quality of life, social drivers of health, financial impact of treatment, mixed methods, survey design, cancer
Matthew Dellinger, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Environmental health, toxicology, risk assessment, Native American partnerships, ecology, epidemiology
Julia Dickson Gomez, PhD, MA
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS; substance use and misuse; social determinants of health; housing and homelessness; informal settlements; neighborhood deprivation
Kathryn Flynn, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Quality of life and patient-reported outcomes, psychometrics, survey research, health communication and decision making, women's health
Zeno Franco, PhD
Research Interests: CBPR and men's health should be added to current list posted
Carol Galletly, JD, PhD, MA
Research Interests: Infectious disease, social determinants of health, law and policy, substance use disorder, intimate partner violence
Katinka Hooyer, PhD
Research Interests: Veteran mental health, arts/humanities-based research, psychedelic assisted therapy, trauma, moral injury, arts-based dissemination, qualitative methods
Steven John, PhD, MPH
Research Interests: HIV/STI prevention, implementation science, sexual and gender minority health, quantitative methods, mHealth, biomedical prevention, health behavior theory, intervention acceptability
Constance Kostelac, PhD
Research Interests: Violence, drug overdoses, opioids, excessive alcohol use, firearm violence, incident reviews, data (analysis, visualization, mapping, integration), program evaluation, Nexus public health and public safety, community-engaged research
Aprill Dawson, PhD. MPH
Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health, Health Equity, Older Adults, Aging Health, Type 2 Diabetes, Global Health, Cognitive Function
adawson@mcw.edu
John Meurer, MD, MBA
Research Interests: Evaluate programs to advance child wellness, SEL, and resilience
David Nelson, PhD
Research Interests: Social determinants, justice, food security, housing stability, lead free MKE
Alan Nyitray, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Self-care, self-screening, cancer, HPV
Katherine Quinn, PhD, MA
Research Interests: LGBTQ health, stigma, racial discrimination, intersectionality, HIV prevention and treatment, qualitative methods
Lindsay Nelson, PhD, ABPP-CN
Research Interests: Traumatic brain injury; Systems of care; implementation science; mixed methods; SDOH; mixed methods; latent variable modeling; item response theory
linelson@mcw.edu
Jennifer Walsh, PhD, MA
Research Interests: HIV prevention, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), longitudinal data analysis, adolescent sexual health and risk, social determinants of health, HIV treatment cascade, modern statistical methods, developmental psychology
jwalsh@mcw.edu
Jamila Kwarteng, PhD
Research Interests:cancer prevention, cancer survivorship, social determinants of health, minoritized women's health, faith based initiatives
Staci Young, PhD, MS
Research Interests: Health disparities, women’s health, structural determinants of health, violence, race and racism, organization of (health care) work
Terri deRoon-Cassini, PhD, MS
Research Interests: trauma, biological mechanisms, violence prevention and intervention, Posttraumatic stress disorder, mental health, secondary prevention, social determinants of health, gun violence
Aasim Padela, MD
Research Interests: Community-engaged research, religion & medicine, end-of-life care ethics, cultural accommodation, behavioral interventions, diversity & inclusion
Joan Neuner, MD, MPH
Research Interests: Cancer, geriatrics, disparities, health services research
Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH
Research Interests: Advancing injury prevention and control sciences, global burden of violence, gun violence, novel/innovative ways to link data systems to robust understanding of the burden of injury, health care expansion to include behavioral and social care.
Cheryl A. Maurana, PhD
Research Interests: Health disparities, women’s health, structural determinants of health, violence, race and racism, organization of (health care) work
Leslie Ruffalo, PhD
Research Interests: Health equity, social determinants of health, food security, school-based health & wellness, caregiver burden, rural health
Laura Cassidy, PhD, MS
Research Interests: pediatric trauma, clinical research, social determinants of health and health disparities, global health including the measurement of early childhood development in Uganda and barriers to immunizations in Ugandan children and depression in young mothers in Uganda
lcassidy@mcw.edu
C Greer Jordan, PhD
Research Interests: Grounded Theory, Cultural Diversity, Organizational Innovation
Jessica Olson, PhD
Research Interests: Cancer Disparities, Multi-Disciplinary Research, Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education, Maternal and Infant Health Disparities, Maternal health equity
Joanne Lagatta, MD
Research Interests: Prematurity, infant health, family functioning for infants with complex health needs, social determinants of health, neonatal intensive care
Jeffrey Whittle, MD
Research Interests: Hypertension, chronic disease, racial disparities, self management, peer support
Melinda Stolley, PhD
Research Interests: Disparities, cancer, lifestyle, survivorship, prevention, mechanistic pathways
mstolley@mcw.edu
Wei Xu, PhD
Research Interests: Neighborhood and healthy aging, health equity, life course epidemiology, geospatial analysis/GIS, social determinants of health, long-term care service
Ronald Anguzu, PhD
Research Interests: Maternal and child health, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, health behavior, gender-based violence, global health
ranguzu@mcw.edu
Carissa Tomas, PhD
Research Interests: trauma outcomes, violence and injury prevention, data science, functional MRI
Sarah Kerns, PhD
Research Interests: Cancer survivorship, treatment toxicities, genetic and molecular epidemiology, biomarkers
Sara Kohlbeck, PhD
Research Interests: Suicide prevention, public health, qualitative research
Liliana Pezzin, PhD
Research Interests: health economics; healthcare organization and delivery; economics of aging; outcomes research; policy evaluation
Constance Shumba, PhD
Research Interests: Global health, community-engaged research, infectious diseases, maternal and child health, health workforce, climate change and health
cshumba@mcw.edu
Mukoso Ozieh, MD
Research Interests: Chronic kidney disease, Adults, Type 2 diabetes, social risk factors, health disparities, behavioral lifestyle interventions