Director:
Amr Soliman, M.D., Ph.D
Program Director, CEESP
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, UM-SPH
Research Affiliate of the UM Cancer Center
Research Interests: Cancer, cancer epidemiology, international health, developing countries, special populations, field methods
Program Faculty:
Allison Aiello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, UM-SPH
Research Interests: Multidisciplinary approaches for assessing antibiotic resistance in the community, clinical, and institutional setting; life course SES, social context, and infectious diseases in elderly minority populations
Dean Brenner, M.D.
Professor of Medical Oncology
UM Medical Center Co-Director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Unit
Research Interests: Early detection of colorectal cancer in Israel and the Middle East
Dana Dolinoy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Health Sciences
Searle Assistant Professorship in Public Health
Research Interests: Environmental Epigenetics and Nutrition
Betsy Foxman Ph.D.
Professor, Epidemiology
Director, Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of infectious disease
Joel Greenson, M.D.
Professor of Pathology
Research Interests: AIDS and the GI tract, infectious diseases of the liver and GI tract, and neoplasms of the GI tract and liver
Sioban Harlow Ph.D.
CEESP Co-Investigator
Professor of Epidemiology, UM-SPH
Director of the Global Health Research and Training Initiative
Research Interests: Women's health, occupational health, reproductive epidemiology, international health
Howard Hu, M.D., Sc.D.
Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, UM-SPH
Research Interests: Environmental epidemiology, heavy metals, lead, gene-environment, chemical sensitivities, global environmental health
Celina G. Kleer, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pathology
Harold A. Oberman Collegiate Professor of Pathology
Research Interests: Characterization of genes that drive highly aggressive breast cancer phenotypes and development of predictive and prognostic biomarkers
Sofia Merajver, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, UM Center For Global Health
Professor of Medical Oncology, UM Cancer Center
Professor of Epidemiology, UM School of Public Health
Professor of Pathology, UM Cancer Center
Research Interests: Molecular genetics of breast cancer, BRCA1 gene function, angiogenesis, cancer risk assessment
Rafael Meza, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Research Interests: Cancer risk assessment, analysis of cancer epidemiology data using mathematical models of carcinogenesis, smoking and lung cancer risk, colon cancer epidemiology, public health policy modeling, mathematical modeling of infectious disease dynamics, contact network epidemiology, cancers with infectious disease etiology. Stochastic processes, applied probability, statistical inference and dynamical systems
Hal Morgenstern, Ph.D.
CEESP Co-Investigator
Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, UMSPH
Research Affiliate of the University of Michigan Cancer Center
Research Interests: Musculoskeletal conditions, cancers, neuropsychiatric disorders, nonintentional injuries, cardiovascular disease, psychosocial aspects of disease, occupational and environmental health, research methods, and access to and quality of health care
Harold W. Neighbors, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, UM-SPH
Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health
Research Interests: Diversity in public health workforce, racial and ethnic influences on psychiatric diagnosis and community case-finding of mental disorder, use of informal and professional mental health services by African Americans
Jerome Nriagu, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development
Research Interests: Sources, fate and effects of toxic metals in the environment, environmental food contamination, water quality issues in the Great Lakes, history of lead poisoning, environmental justice and environmental health in developing countries
Marie O'Neill, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Research Interests: Environmental epidemiology, air pollution, climate change, environmental equity, international health, cardiovascular mechanisms, community-based participatory research, community-based intervention design and evaluation, lay health workers
Laura S. Rozek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Health Sciences
Research Interests: Environmental Epigenetics and Nutrition, Head and neck cancer,Environmental and Epigenomic Profiling of Pre-Adolescent Females in Rural Versus Urban Egyptian Populations, Alzheimer's disease, In Utero Exposure to Bisphenol A: Effects on the Fetal Epigenom
David Schottenfeld, M.D., M.S.
John G. Searle Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology
Research Affiliate of the UM Cancer Center
Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Interests: Cancer epidemiology and prevention, with focus on prostate, breast, endometrial and colorectal cancers
Vic Strecher, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, UM-SPH
Director of the Health Media Research Laboratory
Associate Director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program
Research Interests: Behavior change, health promotion, disease prevention and management, computer-tailored interventions, multimedia
Max Wicha, M.D.
Director of the UM Comprehensive Cancer Center
Distinguished Professor of Oncology
Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Interest: Breast cancer oncology and molecular genetics
Mark Wilson, Sc.D.
CEESP Co-Investigator
Professor of Epidemiology, UM-SPH
Director of the Global Health Program
Research Interests: Ecology of infectious disease, spatial pattern analysis, global change and health
