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 Infectious Disease
![K Rivet Amico](/faculty-profiles/images/ramico.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Health Communication, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health
![Matthew Boulton](/faculty-profiles/images/mboulton.jpg)
- Professor of Epidemiology
- Senior Associate Dean for Global Public Health
- Associate Director, U-M Center for Global Health Equity
- Pearl L. Kendrick Collegiate Professor of Global Public Health
- Professor of Preventive Medicine
- Director, Minority Health & Health Disparities International Research Training Program
- Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- Professor of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease Division, Michigan Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice, Vaccines
![Andrew Brouwer](/faculty-profiles/images/brouweaf.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Cancer, COVID-19, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Modeling, Respiratory Viruses, Substance Use, Tobacco
![Fan Bu](/faculty-profiles/images/fbu.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, COVID-19, Diabetes, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Informatics, Health Policy, Infectious Disease, Modeling, Social Epidemiology, Vaccines
![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
![Joseph Eisenberg](/faculty-profiles/images/jnse.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Infectious Disease, Modeling, Water Quality
![Betsy Foxman](/faculty-profiles/images/bfoxman.jpg)
- Hunein F. and Hilda Maassab Professor of Epidemiology
- Director, Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
- Director, Integrated Training in Microbial Systems
- Director, Certificate in Healthcare Infection Prevention & Control (CHIP)
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Genomics, Infectious Disease, Maternal Health, Respiratory Viruses, Women’s Health
![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
![Aubree Gordon](/faculty-profiles/images/gordonal.jpg)
- Professor, Epidemiology
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Director, Michigan Center for Infectious Disease Threats and Pandemic Preparedness
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease
![Jennifer Head](/faculty-profiles/images/jrhead.jpg)
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Infectious Disease, Modeling
![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
![Elizabeth Levin-Sparenberg](/faculty-profiles/images/lizlevin.jpg)
- Lecturer III, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice
![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
![Peter Mancuso](/faculty-profiles/images/pmancuso.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
- Faculty member, Graduate Program in Immunology
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Diabetes, Infectious Disease, Nutrition
![Emily Martin](/faculty-profiles/images/etmartin.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Co-Director, Michigan Center for Respiratory Virus Research and Response
- Co-Director, Michigan Public Health Integrated Center for Outbreak Analytics and Modeling
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Respiratory Viruses, Vaccines
![Laura Power](/faculty-profiles/images/lejohns.jpg)
- Director, Office of Public Health Practice
- Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Clinical Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice
![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
![Alexander Rickard](/faculty-profiles/images/alexhr.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease
![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
![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
![Bingkai Wang](/faculty-profiles/images/bingkai.jpg)
- Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, Infectious Disease
![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
![Chuanwu Xi](/faculty-profiles/images/cxi.jpg)
- Professor, Environmental Health Sciences
- Professor, Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Environmental Health, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease, Water Quality
![Zhenhua Yang](/faculty-profiles/images/zhenhua.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Global Public Health, Infectious Disease, Vaccines
![Jon Zelner](/faculty-profiles/images/jzelner.jpg)
- Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
Biostatistics, COVID-19, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, Modeling
![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
![William Gruber](/faculty-profiles/images/wgruber.png)
- Adjunct Clinical Professor of Epidemiology
- Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Michigan
Areas of Expertise
Clinical Trials, COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Respiratory Viruses, Vaccines
- Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Infectious Disease
![Anurag Malani](/faculty-profiles/images/malanian.jpg)
- Adjunct Clinical Professor, Epidemiology
- Adjunct Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School
- Medical Director, Hospital Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Special Pathogens at Trinity Health St. Joseph Mercy
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Respiratory Viruses
![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
![Janet Gilsdorf](/faculty-profiles/images/gilsdorf.jpg)
- Professor Emerita, Epidemiology
- Robert Kelch Research Professor Emerita, Pediatrics
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease
![James Koopman](/faculty-profiles/images/jkoopman.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice
![Arnold Monto](/faculty-profiles/images/asmonto.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Professor Emeritus, Global Public Health
- Thomas Francis, Jr. Collegiate Professor Emeritus of Public Health
- Co-Director, Michigan Center for Respiratory Virus Research and Response
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease, Public Health Practice, Respiratory Viruses, Vaccines
![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
![Mark Wilson](/faculty-profiles/images/wilsonml.jpg)
- Professor Emeritus, Epidemiology
- Professor Emeritus, Global Public Health
- Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Areas of Expertise
Infectious Disease