Faculty
Susan Mayne
Department Chair
C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Susan T. Mayne is C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology with tenure and Chair, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Mayne is also Associate Director of the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, being responsible for Population Sciences. She also...
Michael Bracken
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Professor of Neurology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Dr. Michael Bracken is the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Science and Neurology, a former Head of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Yale University and former Vice Chairman (Deputy Dean) of the Yale School of Public Health...
Donna Chapman
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Donna J. Chapman, Ph.D., R.D. is an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale School of Public Health and she serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Lactation. Her research interests include evaluating breastfeeding interventions targeting Latinas, understanding...
Mayur Desai
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Mayur M. Desai, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, where he directs the one-year Advanced Professional MPH Program and teaches courses on epidemiologic research methods and data analysis. Professor Desai received both his MPH in health policy...
Andrew DeWan
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Andrew DeWan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health where in 2012 he was selected for the Distinguished Student Mentor Award by the student body. He earned his B.S. from Brandeis University, MPH from the...
Robert Dubrow
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Dubrow has been heavily involved in the educational mission of Yale School of Public Health, as well as in research. He taught Principles of Epidemiology I nine times, and currently teaches Principles of Epidemiology II. Dr. Dubrow was chosen by the Classes of 2002, 2007, and 2012 to be...
Adrienne Ettinger
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Ettinger’s research focuses on the effects of environmental exposures on reproductive, perinatal, and children's health. The objective of her work is to understand how common genetic variants, epigenetic events, and dietary nutrients may modify susceptibility to environmental exposures in the...
Jhumka Gupta
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Jhumka Gupta is an assistant professor in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Schooled at the University of Maryland (BS), Drexel University School of Public Health (MPH) and Harvard School of Public Health (Sc.D), she is a social epidemiologist...
Amber Hromi-Fiedler
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Hromi-Fiedler obtained her B.A. in Psychobiology from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, in 1994. In 2002, she obtained her M.P.H. from the University of Connecticut and in 2007 she obtained her Ph.D. from the same university. Dr. Hromi-Fiedler specializes in community nutrition with...
Jeannette Ickovics
Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Psychology
Jeannette R. Ickovics is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and of Psychology at Yale University. She was the Founding Director of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health (2000-2012). Dr. Ickovics is Director of CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement --...
Melinda Irwin
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Melinda L. Irwin, PhD, MPH is an associate professor (with tenure) at the Yale School of Public Health and co-program leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Yale Cancer Center. Dr. Irwin's research focuses on how lifestyle/behavioral factors influence cancer risk and...
Beth Jones
Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Jones is a cancer epidemiologist who works on health disparities. Her research is focused on racial/ethnic differences in cancer screening and cancer outcomes, particularly breast cancer. Using a multidisciplinary approach, she is evaluating the role(s) of tumor characteristics, selected...
Trace Kershaw
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Trace Kershaw, PhD, specializes in the integration of sexual, reproductive, and maternal-child health. He is an expert in the role of interpersonal relationships on health and is currently studying the role of cell phones and social networks on health. He lectures internationally on these topics.
Becca Levy
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Psychology
Becca Levy is Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division and an associate professor (with tenure) at the Yale School of Public Health. She has a joint appointment with the Department of Psychology.
Judith Lichtman
Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Judith H. Lichtman, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, CT. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, and received her Master of Public Health degree...
Alice Miller
Associate Research Scientist in Law and Lecturer in Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Assistant Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Joan Monin
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Professor Monin’s research examines how emotional processes affect health in older adult relationships. Her research combines survey methods and laboratory experiments to understand the mechanisms (e.g. emotional contagion, cardiovascular reactivity) and moderators (gender, individual differences...
Rafael Perez-Escamilla
Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Rafael Pérez-Escamilla is Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health and Director, Office of Community Health, Yale School of Public Health. He is also Director and PI of the Connecticut NIH EXPORT Center of Excellence for Eliminating Health Disparities among Latinos (CEHDL). His public...
Harvey Risch
Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Harvey Risch is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Risch received his MD degree from the University of California San Diego and PhD from the University of Chicago. After serving as...
Ananya Roy
Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
B.Sc. Human Biology, AIIMS, India
Fatma Shebl
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Shebl graduated from the School of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt in 1994. She earned a PhD in Epidemiology from University of Maryland, Baltimore in 2008. Dr. Shebl Joined the National Cancer Institute as a research fellow in 2008. Dr. Shebl is interested in studying hepatitis C...
Shiyi Wang
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Professor Wang’s primary interests focus on outcomes research and decision science. He is currently working on evaluation of preoperative breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for women with newly diagnosed early breast cancer. He is interested in combining systematic literature reviews,...
Secondary
Kelly Brownell
Professor of Psychology, of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Forestry And Environmental Studies
Vincent DeVita, Jr
Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
Dr. DeVita, the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at the Yale Cancer Center and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, was the Director of the Yale Cancer Center from 1993 to 2003. He spent the early part of his career at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and in 1980, the...
Thomas Gill
Humana Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Investigative Medicine
Dr. Thomas Gill is Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Investigative Medicine and the Humana Foundation Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Yale University. He received his research training in clinical epidemiology as a Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Clinical Scholar at Yale, and he joined...
Bonnie Gould Rothberg
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology), of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Pathology
Dr. Gould Rothberg completed her MD (1994), MPH (2005) and PhD in Molecular Cancer Epidemiology (2009) all at Yale University. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Dr. David Rimm where she researched novel protein-based prognostic markers in early-stage primary melanoma, Dr. Gould...
Elena Grigorenko
Emily Fraser Beede Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Psychology
Dr. Elena L. Grigorenko received her Ph.D. in general psychology from Moscow State University, Russia, in 1990, and her Ph.D. in developmental psychology and genetics from Yale University, United States, in 1996. Dr. Grigorenko has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and...
Ruth McCorkle
Florence Schorske Wald Professor of Nursing and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
A pioneer in oncology nursing, Ruth McCorkle has been named the first Florence Schorske Wald Professor at the Yale School of Nursing (YSN). McCorkle is currently professor of Nursing, former director of the Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care, and she was chair of the Doctor of Nursing...
Marcella Nunez-Smith
Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)
Dr. Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine, Core Faculty in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, and Research Faculty at Yale’s Global Health Leadership Institute. Dr. Nunez-Smith’s research focuses on promoting...
Peter Salovey
Chris Argyris Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Professor of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of Management, of Sociology and of Psychology
Peter Salovey, Provost, is the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology. He joined the Yale faculty in 1986 after receiving an A.B. and M.A. from Stanford University in 1980, with departmental honors and university distinction, and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1986. He holds secondary faculty appointments in...
Marlene Schwartz
Senior Research Scientist in Psychology and in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Schwartz serves as Deputy Director for the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. She received her PhD in Psychology from Yale University in 1996. Prior to joining the Rudd Center, she served as Co-Director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders from 1996...
David Snow
Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
David L. Snow, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry and Epidemiology&Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Snow is a clinical/community psychologist who has extensive experience in the design and evaluation of preventive interventions in community...
Jacob Tebes
Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
I received my B.S. in Psychology from Georgetown University and my Ph.D. in Clinical/Community Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. After completing a predoctoral fellowship at Yale, I joined the faculty of the Psychology Section in the Department of Psychiatry and am...
Mary Tinetti
Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Investigative Medicine
Voluntary & Adjunct
Herbert Yu
Professor (Adjunct) of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Yu is associate professor at Yale School of Public Health, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, and a molecular epidemiologist with training in medicine, epidemiology, and clinical biochemistry. Dr. Yu has been involved in cancer research for over 20 years, and has had extensive experience...Lecturers
Julia Rozanova
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Jonathan Smith
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Jonathan is a lecturer in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and Global Health at Yale University School of Public Health, where he researches TB and HIV in the context of mining and migrancy in sub-Saharan Africa. He is an affiliate of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute and founding...
Megan Smith
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Denise Stevens
Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Denise Stevens is President and founder of MATRIX Public Health Solutions (www.matrixphs.com), a small New Haven, Connecticut based public health “think and do organization” that provides technical assistance to governments (local, state, federal), industry, non-governmental...
Peter Van Ness
Research Scientist in Medicine (Geriatrics) and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Dr. Van Ness is a senior biostatistician at the Program on Aging in the Geriatrics Section of the Department of Internal Medicine of the Yale University School of Medicine. He is also the Co-Director of the Biostatistics Core of the Yale Program on Aging. He specializes in the analysis of...
Marney White
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and Research Scientist in and Associate Research Scientist in Psychology
Marney A. White, PhD, MS, is a clinical psychologist, specializing in eating and weight disorders. In addition to her appointment as Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, she has a secondary appointment in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and is the Associate Director of the Yale Center for Anxiety and...
Kimberly Yonkers
Professor of Psychiatry and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
The work of my research group includes investigations into the clinical course, etiopathology and treatment of psychiatric disorders as they occur in women. A major component of this work includes investigations into the occurrence and treatment of illnesses in pregnancy and the postpartum...
