Departments
Public Health
Current PhD Students
Ross Chafetz, MS (Columbia U, 96), MPH (U Texas, 96)
Ross is a clinical research assistant at Shriners Hospital for Children and his research focuses on orthopedic surgical outcomes and quality of life in children with spinal cord injuries. Advisor: Lepore
Stacey Davis, MPH (UMDNJ, 02)
Stacy’s research incorporates culture, socioeconomics, and lifestyle to create interventions that target the healthcare behavior of minority communities. Her experiences in public health have primarily addressed racial disparities in cancer, with the goal of promoting cancer screening and an overall healthy lifestyle. Advisor: Lepore
Linda G. Fleisher, MPH (Temple U, 84)
Linda’s research bridges the fields of health communication and public health, with an emphasis on public health planning and evaluation, consumer informatics, health disparities, health education/communication interventions, and community-participatory and dissemination research. Advisor: Ruzek
Elaine M. Hatala MA (NYU, 91)
Elaine is interested in clinical recreation therapy in mental health and drug and alcohol rehabilitation settings. Advisor: Brown.
Bernadette Hohl, MPH (Temple U, 07)
Bernadette’s research focuses on sexual violence prevention. Advisor: Hausman
Catherine Holdsworth, MSN (LaSalle U, 98)
Catherine’s research interests are in health disparities of vulnerable populations. She is currently concentrating on pediatric obesity and racial/ethnic differences in patient perception. Advisor: Collins
Katie Isselmann, MPH (Temple U, 06)
Katie’s research focuses on maternal and child epidemiology in the topic areas of pregnancy health, breastfeeding, and child health and obesity outcomes. Advisor: Collins
Övgü Kaynak, M.S.Ed. (U-Penn, 05)
Övgü’s research interests include: community-level prevention and intervention for violence and substance abuse, risk and protective factors for vulnerable populations, psychosocial and cultural factors related to addiction treatment and the interaction of substance abuse and violence in urban populations. Advisor: Lepore
Tamar Klaiman, MPH (Temple U, 06)
Tamar’s research focuses on public health preparedness for all types of disasters included natural disasters, man-made disasters, and infectious diseases. Currently, Tamar is looking at state policy and pandemic flu preparedness. Advisor: Ibrahim
Sue Krug-Gourley, MS (Georgetown U, 80)
Sue’s current public health research interests focus on understanding how exposure to air pollution is interrelated with other risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Advisor: Nelson
Renee Liberoni
Advisor: Hanlon
Heather N. Leininger-Digan
Advisor: Siegel
Walter A. Mateja Jr., MPH (Temple U, 05)
Walt’s research focuses on behavioral risk factors affecting birth outcomes and anomalies. Advisor: Nelson
Emily Messina MSRS (U of Florida, 04)
Emily’s research interests include substance abuse as it relates to mental illness, community health services for individuals with HIV/AIDS, and community health services for homeless populations. Advisor: Iwasaki
Mary Ellen T. Miller, MSN (LaSalle U, 96)
Mary Ellen’s research focuses on parenting style and the relationship of parenting style to adolescent sexual health communication with fathers. Advisor: Ruzek
Abi Oluyomi, MS (U of Iowa, 04, 05)
Abi is researching the role of water supply and handling practices on the prevalence of trachoma disease in The Gambia, West Africa. Advisor: Lepore/Marquez
Alex O. Otieno, MPH (Temple U, 02)
Alex’s research interests are on global-local dynamics in human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS public policies and housing and homeless policies. Advisor: Ibrahim
Heather R. Porter, MS (Chestnut Hill College, 98)
Heather’s interests lie in prevention of secondary complications within all health domains, promotion and expression of a healthy leisure lifestyle, and quality of life for the well and disabled population. Advisor: Iwasaki
Christen Rexing, MPH (Temple U, 07)
Christen is interested in health policy related to violence prevention, access to care, vulnerable populations, and best practices. Advisor: Ibrahim
Michael J. Rovito, MA (Temple U, 06)
Michael’s academic interests range from health communications and media influence upon public perception of mortality/morbidity to medical geography and spatial analysis of death and disease in society. Advisor: Gordon
Laura Taylor, MS (St. Joseph’s U, 95)
Laura is interested in communicable and infectious diseases. Advisor: Hausman
Marta van Zanten, EdM (Temple U)
Current interests include developing curriculum for acculturation of international physicians, maintaining a database of accreditation processes of international medical schools, and assessing doctor-patient relationships and cross-cultural communication skills. Advisor: Maselko
Curt Wittman, MS (Temple U, 97)
Curt’s research focuses on reducing anxiety caused by vivid images through the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Advisor: Gordon
Jin Xu, MS (Columbia U, 98)
Jin is interested in promoting health education for minority populations. Thesis topic: increasing knowledge level of osteoporosis and improving self-efficacy and intention to adopt preventative behaviors in Chinese-American women. Advisor: Ma
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