Aileen J. Anderson, PhD
Director, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center
Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine
Research interests: stem cell biology, spinal cord injury, glioblastoma, inflammatory mechanisms in degeneration & regeneration in the injured central nervous system, informed consent and the ethics of translational research
Bruce Albala, PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Program in Public Health
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Research interests: Alzheimer’s disease, dementias, cognitive impairment, cognitive testing, clinical research, trial design, ethics of translational research
Sean Arayasirikul, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Gender & Health Justice, UC Global Health Institute
Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Research interests: social etiology & root causes of health among sexual and gender minoritized communities, community-engaged research, health disparities and inequity among sexual and gender minoritized communities with a particular focus on trans women, BIPOC communities, and persons with intersectional identifies, development and implementation science of systems-level digital health interventions, liberatory applications of participatory approaches to surveillance, data democratization, and health justice
Miriam Bender, PhD, MSN
Founding Director, Center for Nursing Philosophy, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Associate Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Research interests: nursing philosophy, nursing care models, clinical leadership, health processes and outcomes
Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH
Director and Founding Dean, Program in Public Health
Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine
Research interests: social epidemiology, social determinants of disease, health disparities, global health, social support, social networks, stroke and cardiovascular disease prevention and mortality
Sven Bernecker, PhD
Professor, Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities
Co-Director, Minor in Medical Humanities
Research interests: epistemology, philosophy of mind, informed consent, epistemic authority, placebo, evidence hierarchies, vaccine hesitancy
Felicia G. Cohn, PhD
Clinical Professor, School of Medicine
Bioethics Director, Kaiser Permanente Orange County
Research interests: bioethics, clinical ethics, proactive ethics intervention in the intensive care unit, patient safety
Brian J. Cummings, PhD
Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine
Associate Dean for Faculty Development, School of Medicine
Research interests: stem cell biology traumatic brain injury, concussion, spinal cord injury, neurotrauma, Alzheimer’s disease, ethics of translational research
Cyrus Dastur, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Director, Neurocritical Care
Research interests: intracerebral hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, clinical ethics, ethics of neurocritical care
Brianne Donaldson, PhD
Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies
Shri Parshvanath Presidential Chair in Jain Studies, School of Humanities
Research interests: South Asian Religions and Philosophy, Jain tradition and Jain studies, bioethics, critical animal studies, Whitehead’s process-relational philosophy, non-anthropocentric ontologies
Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition
Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation
Peter Donovan, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences
Research interests: molecular genetics of germ cell and stem cell development, regulation of developmental potency within the mammalian germline and within pluripotent stem cells derived from germ cells, factors controlling the survival of human embryonic stem cells, stem cell ethics
Karen Edwards, MS, PhD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program in Public Health
Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health
Research interests: genetic epidemiology and the use of multivariate approaches to define phenotypes for complex diseases, interactions between environmental factors (particularly diet) and genetic susceptibility, ethical, legal and social implications of genomics and their applications to clinical and public health practice
Glenda M. Flores, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, School of Social Sciences
Associate Professor (Courtesy Appointment), Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences
UCI Faculty Profile, Google Scholar
Latina Teachers: Creating Careers and Guarding Culture
Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Today’s Teachers: Educators at Intersections
Michael (Mike) Fortun, PhD
Professor, Department of Anthropology
School of Social Sciences
Research interests: anthropology of life sciences, air pollution science, data science, genetics, history of science, anthropology and political economy of genomics, experimental collaborative ethnography
UCI Faculty Profile, Google Scholar
Genomics with Care: Minding the Double Binds of Science
Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation
Theodore (Ted) Gideonse, MFA, PhD
Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Director of Undergraduate Affairs, Program in Public Health
Research interests: HIV/AIDs, substance use, incarceration, public health communication, health provider education, qualitative methods, ethnography
Sidney H. Golub, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine
Director Emeritus, Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center
Research interests: science policy, stem cell policy and ethics, federal and state level laws and policies related to stem cells, research ethics, NK lymphocytes, cancer immunotherapy
Sheldon Greenfield, MD
Executive Co-Director, UCI Health Policy Research Institute
Donald Bren Professor & Distinguished Professor, School of Medicine
Research interests: prostate cancer, diabetes, disparities in healthcare research, use and misuse of clinical practice guidelines
Joshua D. Grill, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, School of Biological Sciences
Director, Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND)
Research interests: Alzheimer’s disease, recruitment & retention of research participants, translational research ethics, identifying ways to improve the design of clinical trials testing investigational products for persons with Alzheimer’s disease, diversity in Alzheimer’s disease studies, disclosing Alzheimer’s disease biomarker results to research participants
Sherine Hamdy, PhD
Professor, Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences
Research interests: medical anthropology, bioethics, comics, Arab world, Egypt, Islam, Middle East, SWANA diaspora in North America, narrative, ethno-fiction, science, technology, and society
UCI Faculty Profile, Google Scholar, PubMed
Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution
Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt
Alein Y. Haro-Ramos, PhD, MPH
University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Public Health
Research interests: health and social inequities across the life course among radicalized communities in the United States, focusing on the intersection between race, ethnicity, and citizenship status, policies and institutional forces contributing to health disparities, development of social and health interventions that promote health equity
Andrew R. Highsmith, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of History, School of Humanities
Faculty Affiliate, UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture
Research interests: 20th Century United States history, urban/metropolitan development, public health, race and class, public policy, racial and economic inequalities
Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis
E. Alison Holman, Ph.D., B.S. (Nursing)
Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Professor, Department of Psychological Science, School of Social Ecology
Research interests: acute stress, individual and collective trauma, media exposure, genetic susceptibility to trauma-related health problems, time perception, temporal disintegration
Suellen Hopfer, MS, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UCI School of Medicine
Research interests: health communication, quantitative & qualitative approaches to the study of communication related to public health, health disparities, vaccine hesitancy & vaccine confidence, climate change, big data, COVID-19 social media risk perceptions & risk communication
Michael A. Hoyt, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health
Director, UCI Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research
Research interests: coping, adjustments to chronic illness, psychoneuroimmunology, stress, biobehavioral processes related to psychological adjustment and coping in the context of chronic disease and health-related adversity across the lifespan, cancer survivorship
Adria L. Imada, PhD
Professor, Department of History, School of Humanities
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, UCI Graduate Division
Research interests: race, indigeneity, disability, gender, and health; U.S. and Pacific histories, visual studies, popular culture
An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration
Nicole Iturriaga, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, School of Social Ecology
Research interests: science & technology studies, social movements, collective memory, gender, human rights, how human rights activists use forensic investigations to contest state-based claims over historical memory, how social movement actors navigate post-authoritarian societies, governmental uses of digital technologies & the shifting legal landscape surrounding abortion access, how white nationalists are using genomic science to advance their agendas
Faculty Website, Google Scholar, PubMed
Exhuming Violent Histories: Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past
Angela Jenks, PhD
Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences
Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Office of Inclusive Excellence
Research interests: medical anthropology, science and technology studies, race and medicine, health equity
Cynthia Lakon, PhD
Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Research interests: social networks and health, social support, social influence, adolescent social networks, ecological models of health, injection drug user networks, systems science
Mark Lazenby, PhD, APRN, FAAN
Dean, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Research interests: philosophy of nursing, spiritual significance of nursing, ethical and social significance of nursing, health equity, nursing as a driver of social transformation, palliative care interventions, humanities in nursing
UCI Faculty Biography, Google Scholar, PubMed
Toward a Better World: The Social Significance of Nursing
Caring Matters Most: The Ethical Significance of Nursing
Safe Passage: A Global Spiritual Sourcebook for Care at the End of Life
James Kyung-Jin Lee, PhD
Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, School of Humanities
Professor (affiliated faculty), Department of English, School of Humanities
Research interests: disability studies, health and medical humanities, illness, memoir, mental illness
Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority
Solomon Liao, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
Director of the Palliative Care Service, School of Medicine
Research interests: hospice and palliative care, ethical dimensions of end-of-life care, pain management
Kenneth G. Linden, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine
Chair, UCI Institutional Review Board B, Co-Director, UCI Pigmented Lesion Clinic, Co-Director, UCI Melanoma Center
Research interests: melanoma, Mycosis Fungoides, skin cancer, cutaneous lymphoma, chemoprevention, skin imaging, research ethics
Brandy Lipton, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Research interests: connections between health care policies and health and economic outcomes, state-level Medicaid policies and their effects on population health and well-being, state health policies and their impacts on access to health services, health care reform related to Medicaid
Juliet McMullin, PhD
Professor, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine
Director and Endowed Chair, Medical Humanities and Arts, School of Medicine
Research interests: health & medical humanities, graphic medicine, health equity, community engaged & indigenist research methods, cancer, community engagement practices
UCI Faculty Profile, Google Scholar, PubMed
The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health
Joel Milam, PhD
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Program in Public Health
Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
Co-Leader, Cancer Control Program, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center & Co-Director & Co-Founder, Center for Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research
Research interests: young adult cancer survivorship, positive psychology, HIV prevention/control, experiences of adolescent and young adult childhood cancer survivors as they transition to adult care
Brittany N. Morey, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Research interests: health inequities and health equity, how structural racism shapes racial and ethnic health inequities, how U.S. immigration policies and anti-immigrant sentiments contribute to health disparities among populations of color, the relationship of social and physical environments to health inequities experienced by Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians, and Asian Americans, how societies generate health inequities along the lines of race, ethnicity, nativity, and immigration status
Tan Nguyen, MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine
Director of Family Medicine Medical Education, School of Medicine
Research interests: COVID-19, physician experiences and responses, medical student career choices, medical humanities, medicine and the arts
Andrew Noymer, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health
Research interests: COVID-19, demography, epidemiology, public health, pandemic infectious disease
Daniel Parker, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health
Director, Global Health Research, Education, and Translation (GHREAT)
Research interests: infectious disease epidemiology, GIS, global health, disease ecology, anthropology
Denise Diaz Payán, PhD, M.P.P.
Associate Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Faculty Director, California Initiative for Health Equity and Action (Cal-IHEA)
Principal Investigator, Community Health & Innovative Policy (CHIP) Lab
Research interests: health policy, obesity, nutrition, food security, state policy, advocacy coalitions, evaluation, implementation, global health
Keramet Reiter, PhD, JD
Professor, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, UCI School of Social Ecology
Professor (Courtesy Appointment), School of Law
Director, UCI LIFTED (Leveraging Inspiring Futures Through Educational Degrees)
Research interests: prisons, prisoners’ rights, legal history, criminal justice policy, criminal and civil rights law, law and society, history and impact of criminal justice policies, medical experimentation on prisoners, use of long-term solitary confinement in the U.S. and elsewhere
David Richardson, PhD, MS
Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Associate Dean for Research, Program in Public Health
Research interests: cancer and the environment, injury prevention, occupational health, health effects of occupational and environmental exposures, cancer among nuclear works at U.S. Department of Energy facilities, cancer among the Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Anamara Ritt-Olson, PhD
Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Health, Society & Behavior
Director of Academic Program Development and Accreditation, Program in Public Health
Research interests: using social media platforms to address unmet needs by providing resources to users, factors promoting mental health, resiliency, and well-being among culturally diverse adolescents and young adults, design and evaluation of health promotion programs, empowerment of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors, health behaviors among emerging adult survivors of childhood cancers
Dylan Roby, PhD
Department Chair and Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Research interests: health reform, insurance markets, passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, modeling proposed health policy changes to anticipate their effects on different populations, impact of state-based reforms to expand subsidies, expansion of eligibility for medical coverage for undocumented young adults
Sanghyuk Shin, PhD
Associate Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
Director, UCI Infectious Diseases Initiative
Research interests: infectious disease epidemiology, COVID-19, tuberculosis, TB/HIV co-infection, genomic epidemiology, molecular diagnostics, community-based intervention trials, social determinants of health, global health
Sora Park Tanjasiri, MPH, DrPH
Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Associate Director, Cancer Health Equity and Community Engagement, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Research interests: cancer health disparities, cancer prevention, breast and cervical early detection, community-based participatory research, ethical dimensions of community-based participatory research, research and student training in cancer health equity
David S. Timberlake, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health
Director, PhD in Public Health Degree Program
Research interests: Epidemiology, marketing, and policy issues relevant to tobacco, cannabis, and other substances
Leigh Turner, PhD
Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Director, UCI Center for Health Ethics
Research interests: ethics of stem cell research & regenerative medicine, public health ethics, research ethics, health humanities
UCI Faculty Profile, Google Scholar, PubMed
Risks and Challenges in Medical Tourism: Understanding the Global Market for Health Services
Kristina Uban, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health
Principal Investigator, Developing Brain Lab
Research interests: neuroscience and brain health, neuroendocrine function, neuroimaging, salivary biosciences, brain-hormone relationships, behavioral neuroscience, prenatal alcohol exposure and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Jonathan H. Watanabe, PhD, MS, Pharm.D.
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Associate Dean of Pharmacy Assessment and Quality
Director, Center for Data-Driven Drugs Research and Policy
Research interests: health policy, underserved populations, health economics, outcomes research, medications, Opioid use disorder, older adult care, real-world data, long-term care, pharmacy, pharmacist-directed care, affordability and access to care