Faculty Research Interests TUXCOE 2004 HRSA Site Visit MCH Core Faculty Gretchen Clum, PhD
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Psychology, HIV, social epidemiology
Research: Relationships among stress and health outcomes in women, adolescent health, risk behaviors, PTSD, HIV prevention Mark Dal Corso, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor
Expertise: Pediatrics, preventive medicine, international child health, cultural
Research: Child health, immigrant health, community health worker training, Faith-based community Health, general preventive medicine & public health practice, cultural competence Tom Farley, MD, MPH
Professor
Expertise: Pediatrics, epidemiology, HIV/STD, environmental approaches to health promotion
Research: HIV/STD, infant mortality, obesity, environmental approaches to health promotion Carolyn Johnson, PhD
Professor
Expertise: Psychology, behavioral science, theory, chronic disease risk, health promotion
Research: School health, tobacco and alcohol, teen pregnancy, physical activity, nutrition, stress, women's health Francoise Grossman Kendall, RN, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor
Expertise: Pediatrics, preventive medicine, international child health, cultural
Research: Child health, immigrant health, community health worker training, Faith-based community Health, general preventive medicine & public health practice, cultural competence Jeanette Magnus, MD, PhD
Professor, Acting CHS Department Chair, and Head of MCH Section
Expertise: Breastfeeding, women's health, chronic diseases, epidemiology, faculty development, mentoring
Research: Breastfeeding, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, self reported health in minority populations, health education in low literacy populations "Section without Walls" Extended Faculty Sue Ellen Abdalian, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Head Pediatrics Section of Adolescent Medicine
Expertise: Adolescent Medicine
Research: HIV prevention and Intervention
Maya Begalieva, MD, PhD, MPH
Part-time Clinical Assistant Professor, MCH Section
Expertise: Academia-Practice Partnership, Workforce Development Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD
Dean, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Professor of Epidemiology, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Expertise: MCH Epidemiology
Research: Immigrant health, evaluation of perinatal interventions
Claudia Campbell, PhD
Professor, Health Systems Management, Health Economist
Expertise: Access to health services, costs, utilization and economic evaluation
Research: Utilization and costs of untreated psychiatric disorders during pregnancy, labor force attachment of low income women with psychiatric disorders Ashley Chin, PhD
Adjunct Professor, MCH Section
Expertise: MCH epidemiology, family-centeredness
Anastasia Gage, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of International Health and Development
Expertise: Monitoring and Evaluation, Reproductive Health
Research: Adolescent health risk behaviors, access to and demand for maternal health care services, gender and domestic violence
Carl Kendall, PhD
Professor, Department of International Health and Development, Tulane School of Public
Director, Center for Global Health Equity
Expertise: Evaluation, medical anthropology, qualitative research, program design, health communication, HIV/AIDS
Research: Applied medical anthropology, health disparities, monitoring and evaluation, international public health capacity building, RDS, health seeking behavior, community research, social networks, primary health care
Joseph Kimbrell, MA, LCSW
CEO, Louisiana Public Health Institute, Executive Director, National Network of Public Health Institutes and Public Health Leadership Society, Adjunct Faculty, Tulane School of Public Health
Expertise: Public health practice, policy administration school health, coalition and partnership building
Research: alternative organization structures Patricia Kissinger, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Expertise: HIV/STI and women's health
Research: Association between STIs and HIV, behavioral research in HIV/STIs, also working in malaria and pregnancy and West Nile virus and pregnancy Myra Kleinpeter,MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Tulane School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor in CHS
Expertise:Internal medicine, Nephrology, Women's Health, Health Literacy
Research: Health Literacy, Clinical Nephrology, Tobacco Cessation Program Initiatives, Shared Medical Visits
Francis Mather, PhD
Associate Professor and Assistant Dean Academic Information Systems, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Expertise:Biostatistics, Data Management, GIS
Research: MCH epidemiology with Office of Public Health in collaborations with Researchers in areas of Depression, Low-Birth Weight, Pre-term birth and Infant Mortality Gabriella Pridjian, MD
Professor and Chairman, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Geneticist
Expertise: High-risk pregnancy, preeclampsia, genetic disorders
Research: Preeclampsia, volume expansion in a rat model and in human disease, West Nile and pregnancy effects Donald (Diego) Rose, PhD
Associate Professor and Head of the Nutrition Section, Dept of Community Health Sciences
Expertise: Nutrition Assessment, food and nutrition policy, international nutrition
Research: Determinants of overweight in young school children, meal preparation time, food security, and diet quality among low-income women, work-site obesity prevention program
Karis Schoellmann, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor in Department if Community Health Sciences, Director Partner for Healthy Babies
Expertise: Health Communication, Social Marketing
Research: Formative and evaluative Health Communication research
Mark VanLandingham, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept of International Health and Development, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Expertise: Demography: survey methodology,
Research: Impacts of AIDS, sexual behavior, Migration and health
Larry Webber, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatictics, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Expertise: research design, evaluation, school and community intervention programs
Research: Cardiovascular risk Factors in Childhood, School-based Health Promotion Programs
Joan Wightkin, DrPH
Director, Maternal and Child Health Section, Louisiana Office of Public Health, Adjunct Assistant Professor, MCH Section
Expertise: Public Health Practice, Policy and Administration
Research: Failure to thrive
Xu Xiong, MD, DrPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Expertise: Perinatal/reproductive epidemiology
Research: Perinatal health
Paula Zeanah, PhD, MSN, RN
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Neurology and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Expertise: Pediatric psychology, infant mental health
Research: Prevention/early intervention; sexual self-esteem
Aubrey Spriggs, PhD
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Social epidemiology, demography
Research: Adolescent health and development, partner violence, social and contextual determinants of health outcomes, social theory, sexual and reproductive health, demography and population health |
