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 Aging
![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
![F. DuBois Bowman](/faculty-profiles/images/fdbowman.jpg)
- Dean, School of Public Health
- Roderick J. Little Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Brain Disorders, Mental Health, Substance Use
![Dave Bridges](/faculty-profiles/images/davebrid.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Air Quality, Chronic Disease, Diabetes, Genetics, Maternal Health, Nutrition, Precision Health, Reproductive 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
![Cathleen Connell](/faculty-profiles/images/cathleen.jpg)
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Mental Health
![Michael Elliott](/faculty-profiles/images/mrelliot.jpg)
- Professor, Biostatistics
- Research Professor, Survey Methodology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Child Health, Clinical Trials, COVID-19, Health Policy, Maternal Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![Scott Greer](/faculty-profiles/images/slgreer.jpg)
- Professor Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Professor (by courtesy), Political Science
Areas of Expertise
Aging, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Policy
![Mary Janevic](/faculty-profiles/images/mjanevic.jpg)
- Research Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Health Equity
![Jian Kang](/faculty-profiles/images/jiankang.jpg)
- Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Child Health, COVID-19, Health Informatics, Infectious Disease, Mental Health, Precision Health, 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
![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
![Aleda (Allie) Leis](/faculty-profiles/images/aledat.jpg)
- Research Investigator, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Diabetes, Health Informatics, Precision Health, Respiratory Viruses, Social Epidemiology, Vaccines, Women’s Health
![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
![Belinda Needham](/faculty-profiles/images/needhamb.jpg)
- Chair, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Racism, Social Epidemiology
![Edward Norton](/faculty-profiles/images/ecnorton.jpg)
- UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Economics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Care, Health Economics
![Sung Kyun Park](/faculty-profiles/images/sungkyun.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Associate Chair, Epidemiology
- Director of Masters Studies, Epidemiology
- Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Affiliated Faculty, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Medical School
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Environmental Health, Women’s Health
![John Piette](/faculty-profiles/images/jpiette.jpg)
- Professor, Health Behavior Health Education
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Director, UM Center for Managing Chronic Disease
- VA Senior Career Scientist
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Informatics, Mental Health, Opioids, Precision Health
![Scott Roberts](/faculty-profiles/images/jscottr.jpg)
- Interim Chair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
- Director, ELSI Research Training Program
- Co-Director, Dual Degree Program in Public Health and Genetic Counseling
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Genetics, Health Communication, Mental Health, Precision Health
![Edward Ruiz-Narvaez](/faculty-profiles/images/eruiznar.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Genetics, Nutrition
![Young Ah Seo](/faculty-profiles/images/youngseo.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Child Health, Environmental Health, Genetics, Nutrition, Precision Health
![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
![Peter Song](/faculty-profiles/images/pxsong.jpg)
- Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Chronic Disease, Child Health, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Infectious Disease, Nutrition
![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
![Zhenke Wu](/faculty-profiles/images/zhenkewu.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics, Child Health, Clinical Trials, COVID-19, Health Informatics, Infectious Disease, Mental Health, Precision Health, Substance Use
![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
![Mark Bicket](/faculty-profiles/images/mbicket.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Care, Health Policy, Opioids, Substance Use, Women’s Health
![HwaJung Choi](/faculty-profiles/images/hwajungc.jpg)
- Research Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
- Research Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Brain Disorders, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy
![Philippa Clarke](/faculty-profiles/images/pjclarke.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Urban Health
![Andrzej Galecki](/faculty-profiles/images/agalecki.jpg)
- Research Professor, Internal Medicine, Geriatric and Palliative Medicine
- Research Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Biostatistics
![Carina Gronlund](/faculty-profiles/images/gronlund.jpg)
- Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Air Quality, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Health Economics
![Lona Mody](/faculty-profiles/images/lonamody.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Amanda Sanford Hickey Professor of Internal Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Aging
![Michael Thompson](/faculty-profiles/images/mthompsnew.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Assistant Professor, Cardiac Surgery
- Director of Analytic Strategy, Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy
- Co-Director, Michigan Value Collaborative
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy
![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
![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
![Marianne Udow-Phillips](/faculty-profiles/images/mudow.jpg)
- Lecturer, Health Policy and Management
- Senior Advisor, Center for Health and Research Transformation
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Care, Health Policy, Substance Use
![Lawrence Bielak](/faculty-profiles/images/lfbielak.jpg)
- Associate Research Scientist Emeritus, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Genetics, Women’s Health
![Brant Fries](/faculty-profiles/images/bfries.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy
- Research Professor Emeritus, Institute of Gerontology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Child Health, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Policy, Mental Health
![Siobán D. Harlow](/faculty-profiles/images/harlow.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Professor Emeritus, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Professor Emeritus, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health
![Rudy Richardson](/faculty-profiles/images/rjrich.jpg)
- Dow Professor Emeritus, Toxicology
- Associate Professor Emeritus, Neurology
Areas of Expertise
Aging, COVID-19, Environmental Health, Infectious Disease, Modeling, Toxicology