Faculty

Jaclyn Albin, M.D.

Associate Professor*

Adult health outcomes of adverse childhood experiences (toxic stress and trauma exposure), Culinary medicine, Undergraduate and graduate medical education

Miguel A. Cano, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Social Epidemiology, Alcohol, Mental Health

Alejandra Fernandez, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Minority Health, Health Behavior, Family-Based Interventions

Jenny Francis, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor*

Adolescent Health care, Provider-Parent-Adolescent Communication, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination

Nora Gimpel, M.D.

Professor*

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Population Health, Health Disparities

Robin T. Higashi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Digital Health Technologies, Health Disparities, Qualitative Research

Laiba Husain, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Assistant Instructor

Lynn Ibekwe-Agunanna, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Cancer Health Disparities, Structural Racism and Health, Implementation Science For Health Equity

Katherine Kitchens, Ph.D.

Assistant Instructor

Rural Health, Cognitive Health, Mixed Methods

Heather E. Kitzman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Community-Engaged Research, Chronic Disease, Lower-Income Populations

Sukh Makhnoon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Public Health Genetics, Cancer Genetics, Genomic Medicine

Fauzia Malik, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Disease Prevalence, Infectious Diseases, Medical Anthropology

Sadia Malik, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor

Pediatric Cardiovascular Genetics, Congenital Heart Disease, Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship

Ank Nijhawan, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor*

Infectious Diseases, HIV Care, Correctional Health

Meera Patel, Ph.D.

Instructor

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Sandi Pruitt, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Professor

Epidemiology, Health Equity, Cancer Outcomes

Anna Rivara, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Medical Anthropology, Diabetes, Cardiometabolic Risks

Amit Singal, M.D.

Professor*

Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Liver Cancer, Transplant Hepatology

Celette S. Skinner, Ph.D.

Professor

Health Care Delivery Research, Behavior-Change Interventions, Cancer Screening Research

Carolyn Smith-Morris, Ph.D.

Professor

Medical Anthropology, Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Health Equity

Victoria Udezi, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor*

Health Disparities, Global Health, Behavioral Health

Puja Umaretiya, M.D.

Assistant Professor*

Pediatrics, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center,Public Health

Song Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor

Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Clinical Trial Design

Marlyn Allicock, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Bijal Balasubramanian, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor

• Professor and Rockwell Distinguished Chair in Society and Health
• Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences
• Co‑Director ‑ UTHealth Houston Institute for Implementation Science

John Brennan, M.D., M.P.H.

Adjunct Professor

Patrick Dunn, M.B.A., M.S., PH.D.

Adjunct Instructor

Heidi Hamann, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Kelseanna Hollis-Hansen, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Food Retail Interventions, Food Insecurity, Public Health Nutrition

Phillip Huang, M.D., M.P.H

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Katelyn Jetelina, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Kandice Kapinos, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Gary Kesling, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Eco Systems Policy

Simon Lee, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor

Andrew Masica, M.D., M.S.C.I.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Erline Miller, Ph.D.

Adjunct Instructor

Aniruddha Rathod, Ph.D., M.P.H., MBBS

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Rutu Rathod, Ph.D., M.P.H., MBBS

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Serena Rodriguez, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Tao Wang, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Bioinformatics, Computational Immunology, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence