Mentors: University of Michigan
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.
Christine Erdmann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Interests: Breast cancer, cancer epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, spatial analysis.
Betsy Foxman Ph.D.
Professor, Epidemiology
Director, Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of infectious disease.
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.
Stephen Gruber, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, UM-SPH
Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine, UM Medical Center
Co-Director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Unit, UM Cancer Center
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology of cancer, inherited susceptibility to cancer, modification of inherited risk.
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.
George Kaplan Ph.D.
Professor, Epidemiology
Director, Center for Social Epidemiology & Population Health (CSEPH) Program
Research Interests: Role of behavioral, social, psychological, and socioeconomic factors in disease prevention and health promotion.
Sofia Merajver, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Oncology, UM Cancer Center
Co-Director of the Breast Oncology Program
Director of the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Evaluation Clinic
Research Interests: Molecular genetics of breast cancer, BRCA1 gene function, angiogenesis, breast and ovarian cancer risk assessment.
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.
Lisa Newman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery, UM Medical Center
Medical Director of the Breast Care Center
Research Interests: ethnicity-related variation in breast cancer risk and outcome, the evaluation and management of high-risk patients, broadened applications for induction chemotherapy, and special surgical techniques.
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.
Edith Parker, Dr.P.H.
Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, UM-SPH
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, UM-SPH
Research Interests: Community-based participatory research, community-based intervention design and evaluation, lay health workers.
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.
MaryFran Sowers, Ph.D.
John G. Searle Professor of Epidemiology, UM-SPH
Director of the Center for Integrative Approaches to Complex Diseases
Research Interests: Women's health, particularly the social and biological interfaces at the mid-life, endocrinology of chronic diseases including osteoporosis, the arthrides, diabetes and related inflammatory processes, impact of biological factors on functional limitations
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.
