Rutgers School of Public Health - Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Faculty & Staff

Chair
Jason Roy, PhD
Chair & Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Emily Barrett, PhD Associate Professor.
Pregnancy; hormones; environmental chemicals; endocrine disruptors; stress; developmental origins of health and disease; perinatal epidemiology; sex differences; fertility.
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Michelle Bover Manderski, PhD, MPH RBHS Lecturer.
Survey methodology; measurement of risk behaviors; tobacco control; epidemiology methods; cancer epidemiology.
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Bernadette Callahan Hohl, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor.
Youth violence; community based participatory research urban health; social epidemiology; injury prevention.
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Amy Davidow, PhD Associate Professor.
Tuberculosis epidemiology; time series analysis of disease rates; longitudinal data analysis.
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Judith Graber, PhD, MS Director, Epidemiology Concentration, Associate Professor.
Occupational cancer; dust exposure; World Trade Center; total worker health.
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Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH Dean and Professor.
LGBTQ; HIV; HPV; HCV; STIs; sexual health; drug abuse; mental health; syndemic; health care; health disparities; social determinants; behavioral medicine; applied statistics; psychometrics.
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William Halperin, MD, MPH, DrPH Professor.
Public health surveillance; injury and occupational epidemiology.

Sinae Kim, PhD Assistant Professor.
Bayesian nonparametric methods; variable selection and clustering in high-dimensional data; statistical analyses in genomics and proteomics data; and clinical trial design and analysis.
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Anita Kinney, PhD Director, Center of Cancer Health Disparities Associate Director, Cancer Health Equity and Engagement, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Professor.
Cancer genomic risk communication Genetic testing for cancer risk; cancer survivorship; cancer health disparities in genetic care delivery for inherited cancers and cancer survivorship.

Yong Lin, PhD Professor.
Mixture hypotheses and models; cancer phase-I/II clinical trial designs; bootstrap and statistical computing.

Adana Llanos, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor.
Molecular epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; genetics; epigenetics; biomarkers; disparities; health equity; population health; sociobiological mechanisms; breast cancer; adipokines; energy balance; Cancer in populations of African ancestry; Caribbean.
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Shou-en Lu, PhD Associate Professor.
Cohort case-control design and analysis; clustered failure time data; multivariate failure time data.

Elizabeth G. Marshall, PhD Associate Professor.
Environmental and occupational epidemiology, especially reproductive outcomes; immigrant occupational injury and occupational health surveillance

Dirk Moore, PhD Associate Professor.
Biostatistics; epidemiology; mass spectrometry; clinical trials.
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Pamela Ohman Strickland, PhD Associate Professor.
Categorical Data Analysis; small samples; group randomized trials; environmental exposure and health; cancer-related behavioral interventions.
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Marian Passannante, PhD Associate Dean for Educational Program Development, Professor.
Tuberculosis epidemiology; injury epidemiology; epidemiology education.
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Jesse Plascak, PhD Instructor.
Social Epidemiology; spatial epidemiology; cancer disparities.
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Henry Raymond, DrPH, MPH Associate Professor.
HIV; LGBT; surveillance; sampling methods.
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George Rhoads, MD, MPH Professor.
coronary disease; HDL cholesterol; Lp(a); chorionic villus sampling; preterm birth; childhood lead exposure; cancer; diabetes; epidemiological methods
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Jason Roy, PhD Chair & Professor.
Causal inference; Bayesian nonparametrics; missing data; digital health.
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Weichung (Joe) Shih, PhD Professor.
Adaptive designs in clinical trials; sample size re-estimation; missing data; sequential trials; Multi-regional clinical trials (MRCT); cancer studies; precision medicine with biomarkers; data and safety monitoring board.
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Antoinette Stroup, PhD Associate Professor.
Cancer surveillance research; disparities in cancer risk and survival; long-term survival, quality of life and late effects life course approach and geographic disparities in cancer risk and outcomes
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Yaqun Wang, PhD Assistant Professor.
Precision medicine; Dynamic gene expression and gene-environment interaction analysis; gene network modeling; longitudinal data analysis; QTL mapping and statistical genetics; big data.
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Amy E. Abruzzi, Assistant Professor; primary at Rutgers Bloustein School; Ph.D., Rutgers School of Public Health; M.P.H., Rutgers School of Public Health.
Research Interests: Cancer and Society; Epidemiology; Urban Health

Cande Ananth, PhD, MPH, Professor; Primary at RWJMS
Research Interests: Perinatal and reproductive epidemiology

Elisa V. Bandera, Professor; primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; M.D., Malaga (Spain); Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo).
Research Interests: Nutritional epidemiology of cancer; cancer prevention

Jerry Q. Cheng, Assistant Professor; Primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., Rutgers; M.S., North Carolina State
Research Interests: Research studies in statistics

Benjamin F. Crabtree, Professor; primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., Connecticut; M.A., South Florida.
Research Interests: Organizational change; prevention; primary care practice; qualitative methods

Nina H. Fefferman, Assistant Professor; primary at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Tufts; M.S., Rutgers.
Research Interests: Origins and epidemiology of infectious disease; the evolution of pathogens and the changes in social structures arising from infectious disease

Sunanda Gaur, Professor; primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; M.B.B.S., King George Medical College (India).
Research Interests: Infectious disease epidemiology

Michael Greenberg, Professor; primary at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy; Ph.D., Columbia.
Research Interests: Molecular and cancer epidemiology; breast cancer epidemiology

Daniel J. Hoffman, Associate Professor; primary at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; Ph.D., Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Research Interests: Global nutrition, nutritional biochemistry, epidemiology

Cheryl Holly, Associate Professor; primary at Rutgers School of Nursing; EdD, Columbia University
Research Interests: Meta Analysis

Yuri T. Jadotte, Assistant Professor; primary at Rutgers School of Nursing; M.D., Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University.
Research Interests: Systematic review; meta-analysis; health economic evaluation; cancer prevention and control; health equity; interprofessionalism

Grace Lu-Yao, Professor; primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., M.P.H., Yale School of Medicine.
Research Interests: Prostate cancer research

Jane Miller, Professor; primary at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research; and Edward J. Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy; Ph.D., M.A., Pennsylvania.
Research Interests: Poverty and child health and access to health care; chronic childhood illness; statistical literacy; quantitative communication.
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James Scott Parrott, Associate Professor; primary at Rutgers School of Health Related Professions; Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Research Interests: Statistics

Lee Reichman, Professor; primary at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School; M.D., New York University; MPH, Johns Hopkins.
Research Interest: Tuberculosis; HIV infection

Nancy E. Reichman, Professor; primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., CUNY.
Research Interests: Health economics; demography and maternal and child health issues

Vinod Rustgi, Professor; primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; M.D., Johns Hopkins.
Research Interests: Health care disparities in liver disease

Dona Schneider, Professor; primary at Rutgers Edward J. Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy; Ph.D., M.A., Rutgers; M.P.H., UMDNJ/Rutgers.
Research Interests: Geographic distribution of mortality, disease, and high-risk behaviors among children and minority groups

Xiang Lin Tan, Assistant Professor; primary at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Ph.D., Heidelberg (Germany); M.D., Tongji Medical College (China).
Research Interests: Molecular epidemiology; cancer research

Pauline Thomas, Associate Professor; primary at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School; M.D., Yale University School of Medicine
Research Interests: Epidemiology of reproductive health; interventions to reduce health disparities; improvements in outpatient health care delivery; HIV epidemiology

Stanley Weiss, Professor; primary at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School; M.D., Harvard School of Medicine
Research Interests: Public health and prevention of cancer and infectious diseases

Mark Wolman, Instructor; primary at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School; M.P.H., Hunter College
Research Interests: Tuberculosis control

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Biostatistics & Epidemiology

Faculty & Staff