At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, more than 200 professors and research scientists teach tomorrow’s public health leaders and perform cutting-edge research that helps advance the field of public health. Many faculty members are leading experts in their fields who consult with governments, communities, and nongovernmental organizations.
Meet Our Faculty
Faculty who have expertise in Health Equity
![Sara Adar](/faculty-profiles/images/sadar.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Chair, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Air Quality, Brain Disorders, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Modeling
![Kelly Bakulski](/faculty-profiles/images/bakulski.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Data Management and Statistical Core Leader, Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Brain Disorders, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Epigenetics, Genetics, Genomics, Health Equity, Mental Health, Precision Health, Reproductive Health, Toxicology
![Kate Bauer](/faculty-profiles/images/kwbauer.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Equity, Nutrition
![James Buszkiewicz](/faculty-profiles/images/buszkiew.jpg)
- Research Investigator, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy, Mental Health, Nutrition, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use, Tobacco
![Miatta Buxton](/faculty-profiles/images/mabuxton.jpg)
- Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemiology
- Adjunct Lecturer, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Air Quality, Child Health, Environmental Health, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Maternal Health
![Linda Chatters](/faculty-profiles/images/chatters.jpg)
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Paula Allen-Meares Collegiate Professor of Social Work
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Racism
![Melissa Creary](/faculty-profiles/images/mcreary.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Racism
![Ifeolu David](/faculty-profiles/images/ifedavid.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Mental Health
![Marisa Eisenberg](/faculty-profiles/images/marisae.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Co-Director, Michigan Public Health Integrated Center for Outbreak Analytics and Modeling (MICOM)
- Associate Professor, Complex Systems
- Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems
- Associate Professor, Mathematics
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Modeling, Public Health Practice, Vaccines, Water Quality
![Nancy Fleischer](/faculty-profiles/images/nancyfl.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Co-Director, Certificate in Social Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Equity, LGBT Health, Racism, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use
![Paul Fleming](/faculty-profiles/images/pauljf.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Faculty Lead, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice, Racism
![Kristi Gamarel](/faculty-profiles/images/kgamarel.jpg)
- Associate Chair and Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Racism, Substance Use
![Arline Geronimus](/faculty-profiles/images/arline.jpg)
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Equity, Maternal Health, Racism, Reproductive Health, Urban Health
![Kyle Grazier](/faculty-profiles/images/kgrazier.jpg)
- Richard Carl Jelinek Professor of Health Services Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Mental Health
![Alexis Handal](/faculty-profiles/images/ahandal.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Brain Disorders, Child Health, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Maternal Health, Nutrition, Occupational Health, Racism, Reproductive Health, Social Epidemiology, Women’s Health
![Kevin He](/faculty-profiles/images/kevinhe.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Genetics, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Precision Health
![Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos](/faculty-profiles/images/lisgle.jpg)
- Research Investigator
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Equity, Mental Health, Occupational Health
![Mary Janevic](/faculty-profiles/images/mjanevic.jpg)
- Research Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Health Equity
![Spruha Joshi](/faculty-profiles/images/Spruha.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Opioids, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use
![Carrie Karvonen-Gutierrez](/faculty-profiles/images/ckarvone.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Diabetes, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Reproductive Health, Sleep, Women’s Health
![Elizabeth King](/faculty-profiles/images/eking.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Associate Professor of Global Public Health
- Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![Lindsay Kobayashi](/faculty-profiles/images/lkob.jpg)
- John G. Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
- Faculty Affiliate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
- Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
- Co-Director, Certificate in Social Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Brain Disorders, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Social Epidemiology
![Yi Li](/faculty-profiles/images/yili.jpg)
- M. Anthony Schork Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Firearm Injury Prevention, Genetics, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Substance Use
![Lynda Lisabeth](/faculty-profiles/images/llisabet.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Research Professor, Neurology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Equity, Women’s Health
![William Lopez](/faculty-profiles/images/wdlopez.jpg)
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Senior Advisor, Poverty Solutions
- Faculty Associate, Latina/o Studies Program
Areas of Expertise
Health Communication, Health Equity, Racism
![Roshanak Mehdipanah](/faculty-profiles/images/rmehdipa.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Racism, Urban Health
![Briana Mezuk](/faculty-profiles/images/bmezuk.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Director, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Mental Health, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use
![Lewis Morgenstern](/faculty-profiles/images/lmorgens.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Neurology Emergency Medicine and Neurosurgery
- Director, Stroke Program
Areas of Expertise
Brain Disorders, Health Care, Health Equity, Social Epidemiology
![Enrique Neblett](/faculty-profiles/images/eneblett.jpg)
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Associate Director, Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Mental Health, Racism
![Belinda Needham](/faculty-profiles/images/needhamb.jpg)
- Chair, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Racism, Social Epidemiology
![Thuy Nguyen](/faculty-profiles/images/thuydn.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy, Opioids, Substance Use
![Minal Patel](/faculty-profiles/images/minalrp.jpg)
- Associate Chair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity
![Sari Reisner](/faculty-profiles/images/sreisner.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Faculty Affiliate, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
- Faculty Affiliate, Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and Family Depression Center
Areas of Expertise
Clinical Trials, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Racism, Reproductive Health, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use, Urban Health, Women’s Health
![Michael Rubyan](/faculty-profiles/images/mrubyan.jpg)
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Communication, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Urban Health
![Amy Schulz](/faculty-profiles/images/ajschulz.jpg)
- University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Equity, Racism
![Jennifer Smith](/faculty-profiles/images/smjenn.jpg)
- Associate Professor of Epidemiology
- Research Associate Professor, Survey Research
- Director, Certificate in Public Health Genetics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Brain Disorders, Chronic Disease, Diabetes, Epigenetics, Genetics, Genomics, Health Equity, Precision Health, Social Epidemiology
![Abram Wagner](/faculty-profiles/images/awag.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Assistant Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Respiratory Viruses, Vaccines
![Xin Wang](/faculty-profiles/images/xwangsph.jpg)
- Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Diabetes, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Mental Health, Nutrition, Precision Health, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health
![Ashly Westrick](/faculty-profiles/images/acwestr.jpeg)
- Research Investigator
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Health Equity, Social Epidemiology
![Jon Zelner](/faculty-profiles/images/jzelner.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, COVID-19, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Modeling
![Donglin Zeng](/faculty-profiles/images/dzeng.jpg)
- Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Brain Disorders, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Clinical Trials, COVID-19, Diabetes, Environmental Health, Genetics, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Informatics, Mental Health, Modeling, Nutrition, Precision Health, Substance Use, Vaccines, Women’s Health
![John Ayanian](/faculty-profiles/images/ayanian.jpg)
- Alice Hamilton Distinguished University Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Policy
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Insurance, Health Policy
![Tom Buchmueller](/faculty-profiles/images/tbuch.jpg)
- Waldo O. Hildebrand Professor of Risk Management and Insurance
- Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Insurance, Health Policy, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Substance Use
![Sarah Burgard](/faculty-profiles/images/burgards.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Sociology
- Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity
![Philippa Clarke](/faculty-profiles/images/pjclarke.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Urban Health
![Gary Freed](/faculty-profiles/images/gfreed.jpg)
- Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of PediatricsProfessor, Health Management and Policy
- Director of Faculty Programs, Office of Health Equity and Inclusion
- Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Government Relations
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice
![Susan Goold](/faculty-profiles/images/sgoold.jpg)
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Health Policy
![Rebecca Hasson](/faculty-profiles/images/hassonr.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Kinesiology
- Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Health Equity
![Michele Heisler](/faculty-profiles/images/mheisler.jpg)
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Research Scientist, Center for Clinical Management Research
- Staff Physician
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Urban Health
![Joseph Kolars](/faculty-profiles/images/jckolars.jpg)
- Director, University of Michigan Center for Global Health Equity
- Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Medicine
- Josiah Macy, Jr., Professor of Health Professions Education
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity
![Gretchen Piatt](/faculty-profiles/images/piattg.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Learning Health Sciences
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Co-Director, Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Equity
![Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin](/faculty-profiles/images/noPicture_person.jpg)
- Research Professor, Family Medicine in Michigan Medicine
- Research Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, New York Physicians Against Cancer (NYPAC), New York, New York
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity
![Sarah Stoddard](/faculty-profiles/images/sastodda.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Nursing
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Co-Director, Training and Education Core, University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center
- Director, Certificate in Injury Science
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Equity, Mental Health, Substance Use, Urban Health
![Lauren Wallner](/faculty-profiles/images/lwallner.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine
- Co-lead, Cancer Control and Population Sciences Program, Rogel Cancer Center
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Cancer, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity
![Wei Zhao](/faculty-profiles/images/zhaowei.png)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Child Health, Epigenetics, Genetics, Health Equity, Mental Health, Precision Health, Reproductive Health, Social Epidemiology, Substance Use
![Natasha Bagdasarian](/faculty-profiles/images/nghazi.jpg)
- Adjunct Faculty, Department of Epidemiology
- Chief Medical Executive
- Chief Medical Executive, State of Michigan, Department of Health and Human Services
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Opioids, Respiratory Viruses
![Victoria Convertino](/faculty-profiles/images/vlconv.jpg)
- Lecturer, Public Health Law
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Maternal Health, Public Health Practice, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![Khaldun](/faculty-profiles/images/jkhaldun.jpg)
- Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer, CVS Health
- Appointee, Biden-Harris Administration COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Child Health, COVID-19, Health Equity, Health Policy
![Natalie Sampson](/faculty-profiles/images/nsampson.jpg)
- Associate Professor, College of Education, Health and Human Services, University of Michigan Dearborn
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Communication, Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice
![Christine Stead](/faculty-profiles/images/scheible.jpg)
- CEO, Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
- Adjunct Faculty, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Nutrition, Public Health Practice, Women’s Health
![Cleopatra Caldwell](/faculty-profiles/images/cleoc.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
- Co-Associate Director, Program for Research on Black Americans
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Public Health Practice, Racism
![Kathleen Ford](/faculty-profiles/images/kford.jpg)
- Research Scientist Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Faculty Associate, Southeast Asian Studies
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Social Epidemiology
![George Kaplan](/faculty-profiles/images/gkaplan.jpg)
- Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Public Health
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Founder, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH)
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Modeling, Social Epidemiology
![Richard Lichtenstein](/faculty-profiles/images/lichto.jpg)
- Associate Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Equity, Health Policy, Urban Health
![Hal Morgenstern](/faculty-profiles/images/halm.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Professor Emeritus, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor Emeritus, Urology, Medical School
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Racism, Social Epidemiology