Stacey Anderson, PhD
Public health policy and social cognition focusing on investigating marketing strategies that tap implicit constructs of self and perceptions of others, pair brand identities with personal identities, and encourage consumption of products detrimental to individual and public health.
Dorie Apollonio, PhD, MPP
Health policy and tobacco control, particularly the ways that clinical research is translated into policy interventions and public knowledge.
Mehrdad Arjomandi, MD
Physiologic and inflammatory mechanisms of airway remodeling in various exposure-response models such as ozone-induced oxidative injury, allergic airway inflammation, and wood or tobacco smoke-induced airway injury.
Neal Benowitz, MD
Human pharmacology of nicotine in relation to addiction and the pathogenesis of and individual differences in vulnerability to tobacco-related disease, and the use of pharmacologic data as a basis for public health policies to prevent and reduce such disease.
Stella Bialous, RN, DrPH, FAAN
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, tobacco industry monitoring and building nurses’ capacity for tobacco control nationally and internationally.
Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH
Toxic exposures and illness with focus on the role of environmental factors and disease prevention if factors were eliminated.
Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH
Identify and characterize genetic, environmental and social factors that predispose to asthma and modify drug response with special interest in how racially-specific genetic differences that modify disease and response to treatment.
Nicholas Butowski, MD
Amy Byers, PhD, MPH
Dr. Byers is an epidemiologist with a background in aging research, methods, and biostatistics. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of late-life mental health and employs advanced epidemiological and biostatistical techniques to determine the prevalence, risk factors, and outcomes of late-life mental health disorders with the objective of reducing the burden of these disorders by informing long-term clinical care. As a clinical epidemiologist studying geropsychiatry with an expertise in mathematical epidemiology, Dr. Byers has been heavily involved in research to determine nationally representative estimates of psychiatric disorders and health care utilization among older community-dwelling adults.
Carolyn Calfee, MD
Effects of active and passive smoking on susceptibility to acute lung injury, a major cause of respiratory failure in critically ill patients.