Chronic Disease

Beach, Steven R.H.
Co-Director, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | srhbeach@uga.edu

Brody, Gene
Regents’ Professor Emeritus, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | gbrody@uga.edu
Research Interests include origins and prevention of chronic diseases

Cooper, Jamie
Professor and Department Head, Kinesiology
website | jamie.cooper@uga.edu
Research Interests include human health and chronic disease risk reduction

Ehrlich, Katie
Associate Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | kehrlich@uga.edu
Research Interests include social determinants of health, inflammation, stress, and resilience

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
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | jeonghan@uga.edu
Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects

Knight, Jessica
Assistant 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

Lei, Man Kit (Karlo)
Associate Professor, Sociology
website | karlo@uga.edu
Research Interests include epigenetic aging, neighborhood studies, and cardiovascular disease risk

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

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

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

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
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
Villa Zapata, Lorenzo
Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | lorenzo.villazapata@uga.edu
Research Interests: Chronic Disease, Diversity, Substance Use and Addiction

Ye, Kaixiong (Calvin)
Associate Professor, Genetics
website | kaixiong@uga.edu
Research Interests include human genetics, direct to consumer genetic testing, and nutrition