Research Areas

Ruth L. Carrico, PhD, RN, CIC
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Healthcare associated infection preventive and control, healthcare worker safety, modes of infectious disease transmission, school health, emergency preparedness and response

Richard D. Clover, MD
Dean
Research Interests: Immunizations and infectious disease

Muriel J. Harris, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health program evaluation, socio-cultural factors that influence health, community based participatory research, disease prevention, culturally appropriate interventions, qualitative research 

A. Scott LaJoie, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:  Psychological issues in public health, understanding determinents of health-related quality-of-life, chronic and infectious disease prevention and control

W. Paul McKinney, MD
Associate Dean
Research Interests: Emergency preparedness and response, immunizations, epidemiology with a particular focus in infectious disease, travel medicine

Richard W. Wilson, DHSc, MPH
Professor and Chair
Research Interests: Communications and education to prevent the abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, related public policy development and advocacy

Peter L. Walton, MD
Associate Dean
Research Interests: Repurposing clinical data for research and health event surveillance; intuition, learning and deciding in health; network science applications in health; acausal detection of health events