YSPH Media Guide
Faculty Specialties and Areas of Expertise
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| ACA (Affordable Care Act) | Susan Busch
Zack Cooper Amy Davidoff |
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| African sleeping sickness (trypanosoma) |
Serap Aksoy
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| Ageism | Becca Levy | ||
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Aging |
Becca Levy Joan Monin
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| Alcohol and cancer | Vasilis Vasiliou | ||
| Antibiotic resistance | Ted Cohen
Melinda Pettigrew |
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| Artificial turf | Vasilis Vasiliou | ||
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Asthma |
Andrew DeWan
Janneane Gent |
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Babesiosis |
Peter Krause |
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| Big data | Michael Kane | ||
| Brain tumors | Elizabeth Claus | ||
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Cancer and exercise |
Melinda Irwin |
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Cancer and nutrition |
Brenda Cartmel Haiqun Lin |
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Cancer epidemiology |
Elizabeth Claus Robert Dubrow Melinda Irwin Beth Jones Shiyi Wang Daniel Zelterman Yawei Zhang |
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Cancer etiology |
Harvey Risch |
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Cancer prevention |
Brenda Cartmel Harvey Risch |
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| Cardiovascular disease | Judith Lichtman | ||
| Chikungunya | Durland Fish | ||
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Child health |
Sten Vermund Heping Zhang |
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Circadian rhythms and health |
Yong Zhu |
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| Climate change | Robert Dubrow | ||
| Cost-effective analysis | Reza Yaesoubi | ||
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Diabetes (Type 2) |
Anita Wang Catherine Yeckel |
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Diet and nutrition |
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla Debbie Humphries |
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Diet and physical activity |
Catherine Yeckel |
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Disease outbreaks |
Robert Heimer |
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Disease mapping |
Durland Fish
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Disease modeling |
Ted Cohen
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| Drug regulation | Jason Schwartz | ||
| Ebola |
Alison Galvani |
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| Enteric diseases | rotavirus, typhoid | Virginia Pitzer | |
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Environmental exposure and health |
asthma, chronic disease, lead, pollution, UV radiation, cancer |
Andrew DeWan
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Environmental and industrial toxicology |
Gary Ginsberg
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| Fracking | Nicole Deziel | ||
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Gene expression |
Haiqun Lin |
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Genes and the environment |
Elizabeth Claus Josephine Hoh Xiaomei Ma Yawei Zhang Yong Zhu |
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Genomics |
Serap Aksoy Elizabeth Claus Andrew DeWan Josephine Hoh Ning Sun Anita Wang Heping Zhang Hongyu Zhao Yong Zhu |
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Global health |
Leslie Curry Robert Dubrow Kaveh Khoshnood Rafael Pérez-Escamilla
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Health and economics |
poverty, disparities, China, tobacco |
Xi Chen
Jacob Wallace |
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Health and government regulations |
pharmaceutical industry |
Robert Makuch |
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Health and human rights |
Kaveh Khoshnood |
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Health care financing |
Susan Busch |
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Health care quality |
Paul Cleary
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Health care management and quality improvement |
Howard Forman
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Health disparities |
Medicaid, nutrition, outcomes |
Jeannette Ickovics
Chima Ndumele
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Health insurance |
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Zack Cooper
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Health psychology |
Lauretta Grau Becca Levy
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Health services and policy |
Leslie Curry |
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Heart disease |
Judith Lichtman |
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| Heroin, opioids and overdose prevention | Lauretta Grau
Robert Heimer |
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| Hepatitis C | Robert Heimer
Fatma Shebl |
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HIV/AIDS |
Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Yale
See Hepatitis and Tuberculosis |
Paul Cleary
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HIV prevention |
Robert Dubrow Trace Kershaw
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| Housing and neighborhoods | Danya Keene | ||
| Human Papillomavirus (HPV) | Linda Niccolai | ||
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Indoor air quality |
Brian Leaderer |
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Infectious disease epidemiology |
Kaveh Khoshnood
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Infectious diseases and infants, children and adolescents |
Melinda Pettigrew Dan Weinberger |
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Influenza |
vaccination |
Alison Galvani Dan Weinberger |
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Injection drug use |
Robert Heimer Kaveh Khoshnood Linda Niccolai |
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Insect symbiosis |
Serap Aksoy |
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| IVF | Heping Zhang | ||
| Leptospirosis | Albert Ko | ||
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Leukemia |
Xiaomei Ma |
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| Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) health | John Pachankis
Katie Wang |
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Lyme disease |
ticks |
Durland Fish
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Malaria |
mosquitoes |
Sunil Parikh |
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| Marijuana | Vasilis Vasiliou | ||
| Maternal and child health | nutrition, breastfeeding |
Nicola Hawley
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| Medicaid | Chima Ndumele
Jacob Wallace |
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Meningiomas |
brain tumors |
Elizabeth Claus |
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Mental health issues (addiction, eating disorders, access to treatment) |
Susan Busch Mayur Desai Marney White |
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| Metabolomics | Caroline Johnson
Vasilis Vasiliou |
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Nutritional epidemiology |
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla |
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Nutrition and disease |
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla
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Obesity |
Nicola Hawley
Melinda Irwin Rafael Pérez-Escamilla Catherine Yeckel |
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| Pneumococcus | Dan Weinberger | ||
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Psychosocial epidemiology |
Becca Levy Joan Monin |
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Public opinion and health |
Mark Schlesinger |
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Refugee health |
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Kaveh Khoshnood | |
| Reproductive health |
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SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome) |
Alison Galvani |
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Sexually transmitted diseases and prevention |
STDs |
Jeannette Ickovics
Trace Kershaw Linda Niccolai Melinda Pettigrew |
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Smoking and e-cigarettes |
cessation, taxes |
Abigail Friedman
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| Social justice | Gregg Gonsalves | ||
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Social networking effects |
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Trace Kershaw | |
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Stroke |
Judith Lichtman |
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Substance abuse |
Robert Heimer
Heping Zhang |
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Survival analysis |
Alison Galvani Steven Ma Daniel Zelterman |
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Syringe exchange |
needle exchange |
Lauretta Grau Robert Heimer Kaveh Khoshnood |
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| Tanning | Brenda Cartmel
Leah Ferrucci |
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Toxic exposure |
Caroline Johnson Vasilis Vasiliou Yawei Zhang |
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| Tuberculosis | Ted Cohen
Luke Davis Reza Yaesoubi |
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| Urban diseases | cholera, leptospirosis, dengue, | Albert Ko | |
| Urban violence | Kaveh Khoshnood | ||
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Water pollution |
Vasilis Vasiliou |
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West Nile Virus |
mosquitoes |
Durland Fish |
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Women’s behavioral health |
Ralitza Gueorguieva Melinda Irwin |
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Women’s reproductive health |
Jeannette Ickovics
Trace Kershaw
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| Vaccines | Linda Niccolai
Jason Schwartz Dan Weinberger |
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| Value in health care | Reza Yaesoubi | ||
| Zika | Albert Ko | ||
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Zoonotic diseases |
Serap Aksoy Albert Ko Durland Fish Leonard Munstermann Christian Tschudi |
