Faculty

Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD

Professor
Public Mental Health Concentration Lead
waldelaimy@ucsd.edu 

Research Interests: Global mental health, Environmental health and climate change; Community Engagement, refugee and native health; Science and Research Ethics

Angela Bazzi, PhD, MPH

Professor
abazzi@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: HIV prevention; Substance use; Qualitative and mixed methods research

Cinnamon Bloss, PhD

Professor
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Technology & Precision Health Concentration Lead
cbloss@ucsd.edu

Annick Bórquez, PhD

Associate Professor 
aborquez@health.ucsd.edu

Ryan Bradley, ND, MPH

Associate Professor
rybradley@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Complementary and integrative health; Nutrition; Dietary supplements

Kimberly Brouwer, PhD

Professor
Associate Dean for Education and Student Affairs
kbrouwer@ucsd.edu 

Research Interests: Substance use in economically and socially marginalized populations; Prevention and control of infectious diseases; Access to care

William Bruno, MD, MPH

Associate Physician
wibruno@health.ucsd.edu

Michelle Bulterys, PhD, MPH

Chadwick Campbell, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor
ckc003@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: HIV prevention; Sociology of health and illness; Intersectionality; Stigma; Social and structural factors in the HIV epidemic; Qualitative Methods

Kristen Duarte, PhD

Associate Clinical Professor
klduarte@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Student mental health; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Anxiety disorders; Antisocial behavior; Transitional age youth; Mental health equity

Richard Garfein, PhD, MPH

Professor
Chair, MPH Admissions Committee
Epidemiology Concentration Lead
rgarfein@ucsd.edu

Research Interests: mHealth and medication adherence; Infectious disease consequences of substance use; Diagnostic test development studies

Todd Gilmer, PhD

Professor
tgilmer@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Health economics/Health finance; Risk adjustment; Mental health

Carlos Gould, PhD

Assistant Professor
cagould@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Environmental health; Climate and health; Air pollution; Clean energy; Environmental epidemiology; Exposure science; Wildfires

Alexandra Heaney, PhD

Assistant Professor
MPH Program Associate Director
aheaney@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Climate-sensitive diseases; Health impacts of climate change; Environmental epidemiology; Disease forecasting

Eric Hekler, PhD

Professor
ehekler@ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Behavioral health research methods; Community-driven design/collective action; Helping people help themselves/self-experimentation/N-of-1

Suzi Hong, PhD

Professor
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Mentoring
Health Behavior Concentration Lead
s1hong@ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Immune and inflammation biomarker research; Chronic stress and mental health outcomes; Cardiometabolic health and interventions

Samantha Hurst, PhD, MA

Professor
shurst@health.ucsd.edu 

Research Interests: Culture and Community Health, Health Equity and Social Justice, Qualitative and Mixed Methods, Cancer Disparities, Cancer Prevention, Public Health Advocacy

Eric Leas, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor
ecleas@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Cannabis; Tobacco; Data science

Natasha Martin, DPhil

Sara McMenamin, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor
MPH Program Director
Health Policy Concentration Lead
smcmenamin@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Health insurance; Tobacco dependence treatment; Public policy

France Nguyen-Grozavu, PhD, MPH

Victoria D. Ojeda, PhD, MPH

Professor
vojeda@ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Community-engaged research; Racial/ethnic disparities in access to physical and mental health services; Service design for justice involved individuals

Michael Pratt, MD, MSPE, MPH

Professor
mipratt@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Physical activity surveillance and measurement; Physical activity policy; Global health research capacity building

Borsika Rabin, PhD, PharmD, MPH

Professor
barabin@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Dissemination and implementation science; Adapting evidence-based interventions, theories, models, frameworks for dissemination and implementation science; Pragmatic measures; Underserved communities; Cancer prevention and control; COVID-19

Brinda Rana, PhD

Teaching Professor
bkrana@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Transcriptomic, metabolomic, epigenomic, genome and proteomic adaptations to the environment/behavior; Research design and the health sciences; NASA Twins Study; NCI/NIH funded Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer

Deepa Sannidhi, MD

Associate Professor
General Public Health Concentration Lead
dsannidhi@health.ucsd.edu 

Yuyan Shi, PhD

Professor
yus001@health.ucsd.edu

Jose Ricardo Suarez, MD, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor 
jrsuarez@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Environmental chemical exposures; Life course research (children-adults); Mitigation of adverse health environments

Anne E. C. White, PhD

Assistant Professor
aecwhite@health.ucsd.edu

Research Interests: Doctor-patient Communication; Medical Sociology; Qualitative Methodologies; Conversation Analysis; Rural Health; Opioid Negotiations