Chronic Disease

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Azevedo, Renato Ferreira Leitao

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Gerontology
website | renato.azevedo@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Cognition, Communication, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Emotion, Exercise, Experimental Methods, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, Social Psychology, STEM, Survey Methods

Beach, Steven R.H.

Regents’ Professor, Psychology
Associate Director, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | srhbeach@uga.edu

Research Interests include preventive intervention, epigenetic processes, family health, and marriage

Bian, Jiahe (Jane)

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

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Carter, Sierra

Associate Professor, Psychology
Director, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | csierra@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Chronic Disease; Culture; Diversity; Geographic Information Systems; Identity; Infant and Child Development; Infant and Maternal Health; Maltreatment and Trauma; Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships; Neuroscience; Physical Health and Well-being; Psychophysiology; Violence and Injury

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Cooper, Jamie

Professor and Department Head, Kinesiology
website | jamie.cooper@uga.edu

Research Interests include human health and chronic disease risk reduction

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Ehrlich, Katie

Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | kehrlich@uga.edu

Research Interests include social determinants of health, inflammation, stress, and resilience

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Fazlul, Ishtiaque

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
website | ifazlul@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics

Han, Jeong-Yeob

Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
website | jeonghan@uga.edu

Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects

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Knight, Jessica

Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2021-23 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jessica.knight@uga.edu

Research Interests include child health, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease epidemiology, and birth defects

Lee, Hee

Associate Dean for Research & Thomas P. Holland Distinguished Professor, Social Work
website | heeyunlee@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Chronic Disease, Cognition, Mental Health, Substance Use and Addiction

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Lei, Man Kit (Karlo)

Associate Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | karlo@uga.edu

Research Interests include epigenetic aging, neighborhood studies, and cardiovascular disease risk

Lisee, Caroline

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | caroline.lisee@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Chronic Disease, Exercise, Physical Health and Well-being

Neuharth-Pritchett, Stacey

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Education
Professor, Educational Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sneuhart@uga.edu

Research Interests include young children, poverty, health, Head Start, and ACEs

Novak, Josh

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science
website | joshua.novak@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology; Assessment and Evaluation; Chronic Disease; Communication; Culture; Emotion; Exercise; Food & Nutrition; Group Processes and Intergroup Relations; Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships; Mental Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Obesity; Physical Health and Well-being; Prevention and Implementation Science; Psychophysiology; Sexuality and Sexual Identity; Social Psychology; Substance Use and Addiction

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Phillips, Bradley

Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | bgp@uga.edu

Research Interests include translational sciences, sleep apnea, cardiovascular, and obesity

Rawal, Smita

Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | sr54982@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Diversity, Geographic Information Systems, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Survey Methods

Richards, Dylan

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

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Sattler, Lilian

Associate Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | lilian@uga.edu

Research Interests include nutrition, cardiovascular diseases, heart failure, and preventive medicine

Song, Suhang

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
website | suhang.song@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Health disparities; Health policy; Health economics; Non-communicable diseases; Cognitive aging

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Tanner, Susan

Associate Professor, Anthropology
website | stanner1@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Chronic Disease, Culture, Ethnography, Exercise, Food & Nutrition, Infectious Disease, Physical Health and Well-being, Prevention and Implementation Science, Risk Behaviors, Survey Methods

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Tate, Allan

Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
website | allan.tate@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Computational Methods, Diversity, Environment and Ecosystems, Exercise, Food & Nutrition, Immigration, Infant and Child Development, Infant and Maternal Health, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Physical Health and Well-being, Prevention and Implementation Science, Risk Behaviors, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Villa Zapata, Lorenzo

Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
OIBR Grant Development Participant, 2025-2027
website | lorenzo.villazapata@uga.edu

Research Interests: Chronic Disease, Diversity, Substance Use and Addiction

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Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)

Associate Professor, Genetics
website | kaixiong@uga.edu

Research Interests include human genetics, direct to consumer genetic testing, and nutrition