Epidemiology & Community Health

Our Division of Epidemiology and Community Health focuses on disease and health in various populations. Our experts lead and collaborate with partners on research projects and academic programming that examine the distribution, cause and prevention of diseases, and how human behavior affects overall health.

Their specific areas of research build on our robust history of discoveries involving cancer, cardiovascular disease, global health, infectious disease, maternal and child health, healthy weight, social epidemiology, and substance abuse.

two faculty members
katherine arlinghaus
Katherine Hendel, PhD, MS, RD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Zinzi Bailey
Zinzi D. Bailey, ScD, MSPH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Substance Use
Raiza Beltrain
Raiza Beltran, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Assistant Professor School of Public Health Katie Berry University of Minnesota
Kaitlyn Berry, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Zobeida Bonilla
Zobeida Bonilla, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Ellen Demerath
Ellen W. Demerath, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Horacio Duarte
Horacio Duarte, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
kristine ensrud
Kristine Ensrud, MD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention
Darin Erickson
Darin Erickson, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Substance Use
Andrew Fenelon
Andrew Fenelon, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Simone French
Simone French, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Lisa Harnack
Lisa Harnack, DrPH, RD, MPH
Professor and Interim Division Head
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Food and Nutrition
David Jacobs
David Jacobs, PhD
Mayo Professor of Public Health
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health
Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Food and Nutrition
Rhonda Jones-Webb
Rhonda Jones-Webb, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Substance Use
Shalini Kulasingam
Shalini Kulasingam, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MBBS, PhD, MS
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention
Melissa Laska
Melissa Laska, PhD, RD
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Food and Nutrition
Jennifer Linde
Jennifer Linde, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Pamela Lutsey
Pamela Lutsey, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Richard MacLehose
Richard MacLehose, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition
Susan Mason
Susan Marshall Mason, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Toben Nelson
Toben Nelson, ScD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Substance Use
Heather Nelson
Heather Hammond Nelson, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Infectious Diseases
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH
Regents Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Ruby Nguyen
Ruby H.N. Nguyen, PhD
Morse-Alumni Distinguished University Teaching Professor and Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Faye Norby
Faye Norby, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Theresa Osypuk
Theresa L. Osypuk, SD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Jim Pankow
Jim Pankow, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Mark Pereira
Mark Pereira, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition
Tess Peterson
Tess Peterson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Ken Resnicow
Ken Resnicow, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Food and Nutrition
B.R. Simon Rosser
B.R. Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Substance Use
Pamela Schreiner
Pamela Schreiner, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Kelly Seaerle
Kelly Searle, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Sanaz Sedaghat
Sanaz Sedaghat, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention
Nancy Sherwood
Nancy Sherwood, PhD
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Kumi Smith
M. Kumi Smith, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Substance Use
Jamie Stang
Jamie Stang, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Lyn Steffen
Lyn Steffen, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Food and Nutrition
Weihong Tang
Weihong Tang, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods
Traci Toomey
Traci Toomey, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Substance Use
Drissa M. Toure
Drissa M. Toure, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Rachel Widome
Rachel Widome, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Substance Use
Ivan Wu
Ivan Wu, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures