Chronic Diseases
These faculty focus on heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes...
Professor and Interim Division Head
Division of Health Policy and Management
Private health insurance, including employer-based coverage and the individual market; Impact of the Affordable Care Act; employer wellness programs; digital health for chronic disease management
Associate Professor
Division of Health Policy and Management
Health services research, evidence-based practice, health behaviors in alternative health
Assistant Professor
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Epidemiological research methods; health disparities; tobacco prevention and control; tobacco regulatory science; biomarkers of tobacco use and cancer risk; community cancer prevention and control
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Chronic diseases, genetics, mother & children, obesity, genetic epidemiology, child health, breastfeeding, epigenetics, nutrition, child development
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
School of Public Health
Aging, chronic diseases, equity, mental health, methods, medical imaging, neuroscience, neurology, endocrinology, psychiatry, statistics education, clinical trials, clinical research
Associate Professor
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Dr. Frizzell has been honored to be a tribal technical advisor for health care and services policy for over 29 years. She has extensive experience in working with countless tribes across the nation to enhance their infrastructures and assist in their quest for self-determination. She was chosen to be in the first class of Rural Health Fellows, a program initiated by the Office of Rural Health Policy and served as technical adviser and writer for the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (P.L. 94-437 as amended).
She currently serves on the national Office of Minority Heath’s Advisory Committee, Governing Board of the Minneapolis Indian Health Board; Global Health Faculty Associate; and an Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.
She developed six classes in American Indian Health and Wellness; and an American Indian Graduate Minor and a Regents Certificate for American Indian Public Health and Wellness. She also teaches and provides presentations on tribal public health and wellness.
Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Chronic diseases, genetics, methods, statistical genetics, genomics, genome-wide association, DNA methylation
Vernon E. Weckwerth Professor in Healthcare Administration Leadership
Division of Health Policy and Management
Aging, chronic diseases, post-acute care, Medicare, health insurance, consumer directed health plans, diabetes, health economics, health care provider organization and payment
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Aging, chronic disease, environment & exposures, equity, food & nutrition, genetics, infectious disease, injuries, methods, chronic disease epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition, physical activity, smoking, biomarkers, subclinical disease
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Chronic diseases, infectious disease, management & economics, mother & children, cancer, screening, vaccination, HPV, decision modeling, sexually transmitted infections
Professor
Division of Health Policy and Management
Chronic diseases, methods, decision analysis, simulation modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis, cancer screening
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Stroke, primary prevention, secondary prevention, chronic disease, mobile health technology
Distinguished Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Chronic diseases, environment & exposures, tobacco, smoking, cessation, health care policy, global health
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Aging, chronic diseases, equity, cardiovascular disease, sleep, pharamcoepidemiology, dementia
Assistant Professor and Medtronic Faculty Fellow
Division of Biostatistics
Bayesian modeling, Clinical trial design, Dynamic treatment regimes, Evidence synthesis, Time-to-event analysis, Competing risks, Pairwise comparison
Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Chronic diseases, infectious disease, methods, international research, clinical trials, clinical research, HIV/AIDS
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Cancer, genetics, epigenetics, environment, immunity
Assistant Professor
Division of Health Policy and Management
Health economics, health policy, quasi-experimental methods, public insurance programs, physician behavior, payment and delivery system reform
Associate Professor and Morse-Alumni Distinguished University Teaching Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Epidemiology; Women's Health; Chronic Conditions; Environmental Exposures; Undergraduate Public Health Education
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Aging, chronic diseases, genetics, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, biomarkers, epigenetics
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Chronic diseases, food & nutrition, genetics, exercise, nutrition, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, physical activity, epidemiology
Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Chronic diseases, genetics, infectious disease, Bayesian analysis, high throughput assays, clinical trials, data management systems, HIV/AIDS, Ebola virus disease, COPD
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Aging, chronic diseases, infectious disease, mental health, HIV/AIDS prevention, sexual health, prostate cancer, LGBT health, sexual functioning, online interventions, e-public health
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Chronic diseases, methods, cardiovascular disease, subclinical disease, cohort, observational studies, menopause, anthrozoology, brain
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Obesity prevention and treatment, maternal and child health, food & nutrition, chronic diseases, intervention design
Associate Professor
Division of Health Policy and Management
Patient complexity; chronic disease management; mental health; disparities and barriers to care; diabetes; depression; quality of care; practice-based studies/real-world evaluation; publicly insured and low-income (Medicare and Medicaid) populations
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Aging, nutrition epidemiology, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, diet assessment, diet patterns, nutrition in older adults, dietary intake and health, fatty acids & CVD.
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Mayo Professor in Public Health
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Aging, chronic diseases, environment & exposures, genetics, mother & children, tobacco, biomarkers, DNA adducts, analytical biochemistry, mass-spectrometry, cancer, inflammation, regulatory science
Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Policy, alcohol, tobacco
Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Chronic diseases, methods, causal inference, clinical trials, adaptive interventions, dynamic treatment regimes, semiparametric theory, machine learning, electronic health data, transplantation
Associate Dean of Education and Student Engagement
School of Public Health
Chronic diseases, environment & exposures, cancer, toxicity
Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Chronic diseases, food & nutrition, infectious disease, methods, causal inference, machine learning, variable selection, risk prediction, HIV/AIDS