Faculty
Our faculty are dedicated to research and training that advance scientific understanding of behaviors related to health and how to influence them and improve health outcomes.
The Department of Health, Behavior and Society is also fortunate to have distinguished part-time faculty, including leaders in behavioral and social sciences and public health. These faculty teach courses, serve as preceptors, and guide students seeking career counseling.
Name | Title Sort ascending | Overview |
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Ronnie Goetzel | Senior Scientist | Ron Goetzel, PhD, MA, studies the relationship between employee health and well-being, medical costs, and workplace productivity. |
Enid Roemer | Senior Scientist | Enid Chung Roemer, PhD, studies workplace health promotion programs, examining their impact on health and well-being, healthcare utilization and costs, and productivity. |
Jeffrey Drope | Research Professor | |
Melissa Davey-Rothwell | Research Professor | Melissa Davey-Rothwell, PhD '07, MPH, is a behavioral scientist who studies the implementation of evidence-based interventions in community-based settings. |
Krystal Lee | Research Associate | Krystal Lee, EdD, MPA, supports educators in building safe, equitable, and just learning communities so that all students can experience the joys and rigors of learning. |
Kate Wright | Research Associate | Kate Wright, MPH '17, strives to promote equity, justice, and wellness through research and program development focusing on gender, human rights, and maternal and child health. |
Vidhi Maniar | Research Associate | Vidhi Maniar, MS ’11, MPH ’19 strives to promote equity and wellness through program development and research focusing on gender equity, non- communicable diseases, digital health and nutrition. |
Janice Bowie | Professor - Emeritus | Janice Bowie, PhD '97, MPH, is Chair of the Doctor of Public Health program and an expert in health disparities and community-based research methods. |
Andrea Gielen | Professor - Emeritus | Andrea Gielen, ScD, applies behavior change methods to help create injury-free lives for women and children. |
Carl Latkin | Professor | Carl Latkin, PhD, conducts biobehavioral interventions for disadvantaged communities, with a focus on social networks, substance use, infectious diseases, and mental health. |
Debra Roter | Professor - Emeritus | Debra Roter, DrPH '77, MPH '75, is an expert on patient-provider communication and author of the widely used Roter Interaction Analysis System (RIAS). |
Susan Sherman | Professor | Susan Sherman, PhD '00, MPH, brings harm reduction evidence to inform drug policy and programming in order to reduce overdose deaths and other harms to people who use drugs. |
Rajiv Rimal | Professor | Rajiv N. Rimal, PhD, MA, works globally on social and behavior change interventions with a focus on women and children’s nutrition and well-being. He adopts a social norms-based approach to address health inequities in low- and middle-income countries. |
Amy Knowlton | Professor | Amy Knowlton, ScD ’97, MPH '92, researches how marginalized African Americans’ relationships and support networks affect their community’s health and well-being. |
Katherine Smith | Professor | Katherine Clegg Smith, PhD, MA, is a sociologist who examines health experiences and health communication, with a research focus on cancer and chronic disease. |
Lisa Cooper | Professor | Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH '93, works to advance health equity with scholarship on racial disparities in patient-physician communication and community-informed interventions. |
Stella Babalola | Professor | Stella Babalola, PhD, uses research to support the design and evaluation of social and behavior change interventions. |
Roland Thorpe, Jr. | Professor | Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD, MS, is a gerontologist and social epidemiologist with nationally-recognized expertise in minority aging, men’s health, and place-based disparities. |
Joanna Cohen | Professor | Joanna Cohen, PhD, MHSc, is Chair of the Department of Health, Behavior & Society. She conducts research and capacity building to inform and advance interventions to eliminate tobacco-caused death and disease. |
Sara Benjamin Neelon | Professor | Sara Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, JD, MPH, is an attorney and child nutritionist who examines early life predictors of obesity and other chronic diseases with a health equity lens. |