Faculty
Faculty in the Public Health Sciences department are experts in the fields of epidemiology, biostatistics, behavioral sciences, health services and policy research, global health, and clinical research including outcome assessment and clinical trials design. In addition to teaching courses, faculty serve as capstone project mentors.
Habibul Ahsan
Professor, BSD Academic Admin
habib@uchicago.edu
Interests: risk assessment, early diagnosis of cancer, disease prevention, precision medicine, global health
Kavi Bhalla
Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences
kavibhalla@uchicago.edu
Interests: injury prevention, traffic accident, injury, burden of illness, public health surveillance
Lin Chen
Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences
lchen@health.bsd.uchicago.edu
Interests: big data, integrative genomics, statistical methods, software development
Brian Chiu
Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences
bchiu@health.bsd.uchicago.edu
Interests: non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, health disparities, molecular epidemiology, outcome research, epigenetics, liquid biopsy, translational population research
James J. Dignam
Professor, Public Health Sciences
jdignam@health.bsd.uchicago.edu
Interests: survival analysis, clinical trials, competing risks, modeling, health disparities in cancer
Robert Gibbons
Associate Professor, Medicine – Hospital Medicine
rdg@uchicago.edu
Interests: statistics, biostatistics, drug safety, suicide, item response theory, environmental statistics, longitudinal data analysis, mental health statistics
Donald Hedeker
Professor, Public Health Sciences
DHedeker@health.bsd.uchicago.edu
Interests: longitudinal data analysis, ecological momentary assessment, ordinal data, mixed-effects models
Elbert Huang
Professor, Medicine
ehuang@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Interests: aging, diabetes mellitus, adult onset, health services research
Dezheng Huo
Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences
dhuo@uchicago.edu
Interests: breast cancer, genetics, population, genetic epidemiology, health disparity, outcomes research, risk prediction
R. Tamara Konetzka
Professor, Public Health Sciences
konetzka@uchicago.edu
Interests: health economics, long-term care, post-acute care, Medicaid, Medicare
Benjamin Lahey
Irving B. Harris Professor, Public Health Sciences
blahey@health.bsd.uchicago.edu
Interests: causal taxonomy of psychopathology across the life span, population neuroscience of psychopathology in children and adolescents, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder
Diane Lauderdale
Chair, Public Health Sciences
dlauderd@uchicago.edu
Interests: aging, demographic, disparities, health status, epidemiology, sleep
Aresha Martinez-Cardoso
Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences
areshamc@uchicago.edu
Interests: racial health inequities, migration, race, health status, Latinos, immigration and emigration, social discrimination, racism, aging, demographics, demographic and health surveys
David Moskowitz
Senior Instructional Professor, Public Health Sciences
moskowitz@uchicago.edu
Interests: HIV/STI prevention, sexual and psychological health of sexual minorities, relationship between social identity and risk-taking behaviors
Jonathan Ozik
Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Interests: agent-based modeling and large-scale computation
Brandon Pierce
Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences
brandonpierce@uchicago.edu
Interests: genetic epidemiology, telomeres, gene-environment interaction, arsenic, cancer, aging, epigenetics, gene regulation
Harold A. Pollack
Helen Ross Professor, School of Social Service Administration
haroldp@uchicago.edu
Eric Polley
Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences
epolley@uchicago.edu
Interests: assay development, cancer genomics, causal inference, data science, precision medicine, prognostic risk models, risk assessment
Mei-Yin Polley
Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences
mcpolley@uchicago.edu
Interests: conduct and methodology of cancer clinical trials
Prachi Sanghavi
Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences
psanghavi@uchicago.edu
Interests: pre-hospital care, trauma, fracking, long term care, healthcare quality measurement, burn injuries, low-value services, Medicare, Medicaid
Loren Saulsberry
Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences
lsaulsberry@uchicago.edu
Interests: health policy, health services research, cancer prevention and control, health disparities
John A. Schneider
Professor, Medicine-Infectious Diseases
jschnei1@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
Interests: HIV infection, social network, epidemiology, sex behavior, modeling, decision, mathematical model, sexually transmitted disease, syphilis, substance use, program implementation
Marcia Tan
Assistant Professor, Public Health Sciences
mmtan@uchicago.edu
Interests: health disparities, minority health, tobacco cessation, weight management, behavioral sciences