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T'shura Ali, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
tshura.ali@louisville.edu
Her research interests include infectious diseases particularly respiratory illnesses and COVID19, reproductive and maternal child health, and gene-environment interactions.
Richard N. Baumgartner, PhD
Chair, Professor & Distinguished Scholar
rnbaum01@louisville.edu
Nutritional and molecular epidemiology. Current research interests include body composition (obesity, sarcopenia and osteopenia) in relation to aging, chronic disease and disability, and nutritional, hormonal and inflammatory biomarkers in the molecular epidemiology of breast cancer.
Kathy Baumgartner, PhD
Associate Dean, Associate Professor
kbbaum01@louisville.edu
Breast cancer and gaining a better understanding of the relationship of risk and prognosis with ethnicity, obesity, diet, physical activity, genetic susceptibility and admixture, and quality of life
Stephanie Boone, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
stephanie.boone@louisville.edu
As a Cancer Epidemiologist, her broad research interests include determinants of health disparities along the cancer continuum (screening, early detection, risk, survival, and survivorship).
Natalie C. DuPré, ScD, MS
Assistant Professor
natalie.dupre@louisville.edu
The role of environmental factors and their biological mechanisms that influence carcinogenesis and cancer progression in humans by combining expertise across cancer, environmental and molecular epidemiology
Brian Guinn, PhD, MPH, BSN (RN)
Assistant Professor, Director, MPH Program
brian.guinn@louisville.edu
His research interests include the associations between environmental lead exposure and human health and behavior.”
Nicholas C. Peiper, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
nicholas.peiper@louisville.edu
His current work investigates risk factors and health outcomes associated with the drug overdose epidemic and injection drug use, as well as eating disorders.
Kira Taylor, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
kctayl04@louisville.edu
Genetic and environmental influences & their interaction on cardiovascular disease and reproductive traits, gene-environment interactions, women's health, examination of genetic influences across populations
Anne B. Wallis, PhD, MHS
Assistant Professor
anne.wallis@louisville.edu
Maternal and infant health, maternal death, neonatal death, the social position and health of women, societal-level influences on health, how we can use policy and science to remedy health disparities
Qunwei, Zhang, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor
qunwei.zhang@louisville.edu
Health effects of environmental/occupational agents; Toxicity and genotoxicity of nanoparticles
