Medical College of Wisconsin Public & Community Health Faculty

Research Interests: Health equity, global health, environmental health/justice, structural racism, racial segregation/housing discrimination, geospatial analysis/GIS, community engaged research, chronic disease

kbeyer@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Patient-reported outcomes, quality of life, social determinants of health, financial impact of treatment, health disparities, mixed methods, survey design, cancer

rcusatis@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Environmental health, toxicology, risk assessment, Native American partnerships, ecology, epidemiology

mdellinger@mcw.edu

Research Interests: HIV/AIDS; substance use and misuse; social determinants of health; housing and homelessness; informal settlements; neighborhood deprivation

jdickson@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Patient-reported outcome measures, health-related quality of life, genitourinary research, cancer, surveys, mixed methods, patient decision-making, interventions

kflynn@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Major disasters and crisis events, information systems, mental health, mental health crisis, PTSD, informatics, mHealth systems, sensor systems, genomics, veterans

zfranco@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Infectious disease, people who inject drugs, Latino immigrants, law & policy

cgalletl@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Veteran mental health, arts/humanities-based research, psychedelic assisted therapy, trauma, moral injury, arts-based dissemination, qualitative methods

khooyer@mcw.edu

Research Interests: HIV/STI prevention, implementation science, sexual and gender minority health, quantitative methods, mHealth, biomedical prevention, health behavior theory, intervention acceptability

sjohn@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Violence, drug overdoses, opioids, incident reviews, data (analysis, visualization, mapping), program evaluation, Nexus public health and public safety, community-engaged research

ckostelac@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Bayesian Methodology, machine learning, health outcomes in populations, disparities, design of cancer studies, individualized predictions, individualized treatment rules, survival analysis

laud@mcw.edu

Research Interests: COVID epidemiology, trauma informed care, childhood resiliency, lead poisoning, team science, climate change environmental sustainability, and health

jmeurer@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Social determinants, justice, food security, housing stability, lead free MKE

danelson@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Self-care, self-screening, cancer, HPV

anyitray@mcw.edu

Research Interests: LGBTQ health, stigma, racial discrimination, intersectionality, HIV prevention and treatment, qualitative methods

kaquinn@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Racial disparities in HIV, sexual health, LGBTQ health, qualitative methods and analysis, stigma, housing and homelessness

rebwalker@mcw.edu

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

Research Interests:cancer prevention, cancer survivorship, social determinants of health, minoritized women's health, faith based initiatives

jkwarteng@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Health disparities, women’s health, structural determinants of health, violence, race and racism, organization of (health care) work

syoung@mcw.edu

Research Interests: trauma, biological mechanisms, violence prevention and intervention, Posttraumatic stress disorder, mental health, secondary prevention, social determinants of health, gun violence

tcassini@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Community-engaged research, religion & medicine, end-of-life care ethics, cultural accommodation, behavioral interventions, diversity & inclusion

apadela@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Cancer, geriatrics, disparities, health services research

jneuner@mcw.edu

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.

hargart@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Health disparities, women’s health, structural determinants of health, violence, race and racism, organization of (health care) work

cmaurana@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Health equity, social determinants of health, food security, school-based health & wellness, caregiver burden, rural health

lruffalo@mcw.edu

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

Research Interests: Grounded Theory, Cultural Diversity, Organizational Innovation

gjordan@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Cancer Disparities, Multi-Disciplinary Research, Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education, Maternal and Infant Health Disparities

jeolson@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Prematurity, infant health, family functioning for infants with complex health needs, social determinants of health, neonatal intensive care

jlagatta@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Hypertension, chronic disease, racial disparities, self management, peer support

jwhittle@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Disparities, cancer, lifestyle, survivorship, prevention, mechanistic pathways

mstolley@mcw.edu

Research Interests: Neighborhood and healthy aging, health equity, life course epidemiology, geospatial analysis/GIS, social determinants of health, long-term care service

weixu@mcw.edu