Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
The University of Georgia
Assistant Professor, Health Promotion & Behavior
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2025-2027
website | wly1115@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Technology-enabled interventions, Health disparities, Youth behavior, and Early development
Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | jtthomas@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Conflict; Crime and Corrections; Policy, Regulation, and Compliance; Violence and Injury
Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | gillian.slee@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Conflict; Crime and Corrections; Policy, Regulation, and Compliance; Violence and Injury
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2025-2027
website | eunhae.shin@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Health economics, Health policy, Healthcare delivery, and Health services research
Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | dkrichards@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Chronic Disease; Diversity; Emotion; Exercise; Experimental Methods; Food & Nutrition; Group Processes and Intergroup Relations; Identity; Mental Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Obesity; Personality; Physical Health and Well-being; Prevention and Implementation Science; Risk Behaviors; Social Psychology; Substance Use and Addiction; Survey Methods
Associate Professor, SPIA/History
website | linn.normand@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Conflict, Diversity, Education and Learning, Higher Education, Identity, Immigration, Networks
Associate Professor, Social Work
website | Karen.Johnson1@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Crime and Corrections; Gender; Infectious Disease; Maltreatment and Trauma; Prevention and Implementation Science; Risk Behaviors; Sexuality and Sexual Identity
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
website | angieyeon.im@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Communication, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Emotion, Identity, Organizations, Personality, Social Psychology, Work and Occupations
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
website | sarah.haight@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Infant and Maternal Health, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders
Assistant Professor, College of Environment + Design
website | jbian@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Environment and Ecosystems, Geographic Information Systems, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Social Psychology
