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 |