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Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
Social determinants of health

Hortensia Amaro
Substance abuse; mental health; violence; HIV prevention; health disparities; women’s health; mindfulness-based interventions; service utilization

George Atkinson
Community health education

William J. Gillespie
Clinical exercise physiology; therapeutic aspects of exercise for individuals with cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, and immunologic chronic diseases

Matthew Goodwin
Personal health informatics; ambulatory autonomic monitoring; wireless physical activity detection; wearable computing; ubiquitous computing; single-case experimental designs; intensive longitudinal data analysis; autism spectrum disorders.

Stephen Intille
Sensor-driven human-computer interactive systems and technologies for preventive medicine and personal, behavior informatics; persuasive user interfaces for motivating behavior change; mobile health technologies; context-aware ecological momentary assessment, ubiquitous computing for health, games for health

Rui Li
Exercise and nutritional strategy on metabolic diseases prevention/control, health fitness and sport performance

Alisa K. Lincoln
Public health; mental health; substance abuse; homelessness; health and social disparities; literacy; community-based participatory action research

Kristin Madison
Health care quality regulation, quality reporting, health incentives, health policy innovation

Justin Manjourides
Biostatistics; disease surveillance; spatial statistics; cluster detection

Jean Flatley McGuire
Health Policy

Shan Mohammed
Public health workforce preparedness and training

Theresa L. Osypuk
Social epidemiology; racial/ethnic health disparities; racial residential segregation; racial discrimination; social policy and housing policy; neighborhood effects on health; research methods

Patrick F. Plunkett
Impact of workplace factors upon health-professional education

Carmen C. Sceppa
Health behavior promotion (nutrition and physical activity/exercise); chronic disease prevention; healthy aging; health promotion in the lifecycle; health disparities

Annemarie C. Sullivan
Development and assessment of professional skills of clinical exercise physiologists

Irina Todorova
Psychosocial aspects of health and well-being; gender and health; health disparities; social change in Eastern Europe and implications for health; narratives of health and illness

Katherine L. Tucker
Nutritional epidemiology; diet and health; health disparities; nutritional status of populations

Mary E. Watson
Health-promotion program planning; counseling strategies for health professionals; exercise compliance for healthy and at-risk populations

Gary Young
Healthcare services

 

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