The Department of Population Health Sciences within the College of Medicine officially launched July 2, 2018.
The Department of Population Health Sciences brings together full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty, as well as additional faculty with secondary appointments, committed to conducting research on the individual, social, structural, and community factors that create health problems in the population and to design and implement interventions to promote health. Faculty research interests include all aspects of population health including adolescent health, cancer detection and outcomes, cardiovascular health, child and infant health, community-based participatory research, global health, health communication and messaging, health services research, HIV care and prevention, infection prevention and control, mental health, obesity, sexually transmitted diseases, substance use and cessation, including alcohol and tobacco use, suicidality, and violence among many others. Faculty expertise areas include anthropology, behavioral science, biostatistics, epidemiology, health communication, health education, implementation science, maternal and child health, public health law, and qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies.