Recent Faculty Appointments

SPHHS is pleased to welcome several new faculty members.

Jeffrey Bart Bingenheimer, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Prevention and Community Health

Professor Bingenheimer's interests are in the areas of social epidemiology, social determinants of health-related behaviors, and quantitative methods for studying all of these.

Angelo Elmi, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Professor Elmi's research interests include data analysis issues for repeated measurement and longitudinal data, as well as mixed effects models.

George Gray, PhD
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health

Dr. Gray's primary research interests center around risk characterization, risk communication, and risk policy. He has published on the scientific bases of human health risk assessment, and the ways in which policy considerations influence the risks addressed by regulatory agencies.

Katherine Horton, RN, MPH, JD
Research Professor of Health Policy

Professor Horton's health policy expertise includes Medicare, Medicaid, welfare and Social Security old age and disability assistance, and cardiovascular disease and health policy.

Peter LaPuma, PhD, PE, CIH
Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health

Dr. LaPuma's research currently focuses on lifecycle assessment of the air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions associated with various sustainable energy strategies, with particular attention to economic payback analyses. His interests also lie in the areas of climate change, sustainable energy and industrial hygiene.

Jesse Pines, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Health Policy

With expertise in emergency care, hospital operations research, and research design and epidemiology, Dr. Pines' research interests include emergency department crowding, hospital quality, and diagnostic testing.

Elizabeth Reed, ScD
Assistant Professor of Prevention and Community Health

Professor Reed's expertise and formal training lie in the area of social epidemiology and research methods, specifically focused on gender-based interpersonal violence prevention and HIV/AIDS.

 


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