THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON HEALTH & SOCIETY SCHOLARS PROGRAM
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
STEERING COMMITTEE

James Abelson, MD, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Anxiety Disorders Clinic; Associate Director, Trauma, Stress and Anxiety Research Group
  • Interests include: Neuroendocrinology and psychophysiology of anxiety and stress.

Allison Aiello, PhD, MS

  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology
  • Interests include: Life-course socioeconomic determinants of infectious diseases; Individual and neighborhood-level social factors and infections; Social stratification of immune response to infection; The link between infection and chronic disease; Hand hygiene interventions in the clinical and community setting; Antibacterial soap use and antimicrobial resistance.

Daniel G. Brown, PhD

  • Professor, Ecosystem Management, School of Natural Resources & Environment
  • Interests include: Linking observable landscape patterns obtained through remote sensing, ecological mapping, and digital terrain analysis with ecological and social processes. Specific projects focus on the interacting social and ecological aspects of land use and cover change in rural and peri-urban environments using geostatistical and agent-based models and biotic and abiotic interactions at the alpine treeline ecotone.

Sarah A. Burgard, PhD, MS

  • Assistant Professor, Sociology
  • Research Assistant Professor, Population Studies, Institute for Social Research
  • Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
  • Interests include: The ways that stratification by race/ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic position influence people’s opportunities in life and how this influences their health with the long term goal of understanding how policy and intervention could reduce social disparities in health.

Scott D. Campbell, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Urban Planning
  • Coordinator of Doctoral Studies, College of Architecture and Urban Planning
  • Interests include: Conflict between economic development and environmental protection, environmental economics, regional and urban planning

Stephen B. Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.

  • H. Marvin Pollard Professor of Internal Medicine
  • Professor of Internal Medicine, Epidemiology, and Human Genetics - Division of Molecular Medicine & Genetics

Mary Ellen M. Heisler, MD, MPH

  • Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
  • Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clincial Scholars Program
  • Interests include: Chronic illnesses, diabetes and patient self-management of chronic illnesses; patient-doctor relations; disparities in processes and outcomes in chronic illnesses

James Jackson, PhD

  • Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology
  • Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health
  • Director of the Institute for Social Research
  • Interests include: adult development, aging, health, mental health and intergenerational relations among black Americans.

Kenneth Langa, MD, PhD

  • Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
  • Professor, Institute for Social Research
  • Research Investigator, Veterans Affairs HSR&D Center of Excellence
  • Associate Director, Institute of Gerontology
  • Interests include: the epidemiology and costs of chronic disease in older adults, with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

Carlos Mendes de Leon, PhD

  • Professor of Epidemiology
  • Interests include: Aging-related health issues, including physical disability, cognitive decline and quality of life in older age. His research focuses on racial, ethnic and social disparities in these outcomes, and the determinants of these disparities.

Bhramar Mujherjee, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Biostatistics
  • Interests include: Bayesian methods in epidemiology and studies of gene-environment interaction, modeling missingness in exposure, categorical data models, Bayesian nonparametrics, and the general area of statistical inference under outcome/exposure dependent sampling schemes.

Marie O'Neill, PhD

  • Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
  • Associate Professor, Epidemiology
  • Interests include: Health effects of air pollution, temperature extremes and climate change (mortality, asthma, hospital admissions, and cardiovascular endpoints); environmental exposure assessment; and socio-economic influences on health.

Narayan Sastry, PhD

  • Research Associate Professor, Populations Study Center
  • Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center
  • Interests include: Studying the social and spatial dimensions of health, development, and well-being of children and adolescents

Robert Schoeni, PhD

  • Research Professor, Population Studies
  • Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
  • Professor, Economics
  • Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
  • Interests include: Family, labor economics, and demography including analyses of, intergenerational familial transfers, welfare reform, workers' compensation, immigration, and displaced workers

Amy Schulz, PhD, MPH

  • Research Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
  • Research Associate Professor, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
  • Associate Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
  • Interests include: Social factors related to women's mental and physical health.

Alexandra Stern, PhD

  • Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine
  • Associate Director, Center for the History of Medicine Research Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, History, and American Culture
  • Interests include: History of Medicine; Reproductive Politics; Race and Racial Classification

Eduardo Villamor, MD, MPH, DrPH,

  • Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
  • Associate Professor, Epidemiology
  • Interests include: The study of nutritional determinants of maternal and child health with the use of epidemiologic methods.

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