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 Center Faculty & Staff

Elizabeth Crouch, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Crouch, PhD

Co-Director/Research Interests: Health Policy; Health Economics; Access to Care in Rural and Underserved Populations

Pei-Yin Hung, Ph.D.

Peiyin Hung, PhD

Co-Director/Research Interests: Health Disparity; Health Care Quality; Maternal and Child Health; Access to Care; Consumer Choice

Abshire

Demetrius Abshire, PhD, RN

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Obesity Prevention and Treatment; Men’s Health; Rural Health Disparities; Social Determinants of Health

Andrews

Christina Andrews, PhD

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Impact of the Organization and Financing of Addiction Treatment on Service Access; Gender, Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Treatment Service Access; Adoption of Medications to Treat Opioid Use Disorder

Gabe Benavidez

Gabriel Benavidez, PhD

Outside Investigator/Research Interests: Healthcare Quality, Access,Utilization; Cancer Screening/Health Outcomes; Chronic Disease Prevention; Causal Inference Methods

Kevin J. Bennett, Ph.D.

Kevin Bennett, PhD

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Care Delivery for Vulnerable Populations; Quality Improvement Research  

jennifer browder

Jennifer Browder, LMSW

Maternal and Child Health Projects Coordinator/Research Interests: Maternal and Child Health; Community Health; Mental Health

Monique J. Brown-Smith, Ph.D., MPH

Monique J. Brown-Smith, PhD, MPH

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: HIV Intervention and Prevention; Childhood Trauma; Social, Behavioral and Mental Health; Aging 

Pam Gillam

Pam Gillam

Affiliated Investigator/Director, Core for Applied Research and Evaluation, Office of Research

janie godbold

Janie Godbold

Business Operations Specialist/Expertise: Business Manager; Pre- and Post-Award; Graduate Student Liaison; HR contact

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Sayward Harrison, PhD

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Improving the health and wellbeing of youth who are impacted by acute and chronic health conditions

Liu

Jihong Liu, Sc.D.

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Perinatal Epidemiology; Obesity and Physical Activity in Mothers and Children; Health Disparities; Reproductive Health; International Health

Amy Martin

Amy Martin DrPH, MSPH

 Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Safety Net Populations, Access to Care, Oral Health with an Emphasis on Rural Healthcare and Public Health Systems.

Dr. McNatt

Mary-Katherine McNatt, Dr.PH, MPH

Outside Investigator/Research Interests: Rural and Border Health; American Indian Health Inequities; Public Health Preparedness; Online Transformational and Applied Education

Alexander McLain

Alexander C. McLain, PhD

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Problems that Arise in Biomedical Studies with Longitudinal Biomarkers 

Melinda Merrell

Melinda A. Merrell, PhD, MPH

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Rural Health Care Delivery; Rural Hospital Closures; Emergency Medicine; Community Health Development; Social Determinants of Health

Dr. Nabil

Nabil Natafgi, PhD, MPH, CPH

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Quality of Care and Patient Safety; Performance Measurement and Reporting; Telehealth Effectiveness and Evaluation; Patient-Centered Outcomes

Joni Nelson

Joni Nelson, PhD

 Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Interprofessional Oral Health and Improving Health Access to the Rural Safetynet, Social Determinants of Health and Community Health Equity, Qualitative Evaluation and Publc Health Policy

Cassie Odahowski

Cassie Odahowski, PhD, MPH

Research Assistant Professor/Research Interests: Rural and Racial Health Disparities; Access to Care; Social Epidemiology

Bankole Olatosi, Ph.D.

Bankole Olatosi, PhD

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Managing Teams and Conducting Quantitative Analyses; Building System Capacity; Working with Different Stakeholders in Healthcare

Dr. Self

Stella Self, PhD, MS

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Modeling; Spatial Clustering Analysis; Disease Forecasting; Random Effects Models; and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods

Michele Stanek

Michele Stanek, MHS

 Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Strategic Planning, Innovative Projects, and Practice Improvement for rural health clinics and practices.

myriam torres

Myriam E. Torres, PhD, MSPH

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Hispanic/Latino Health; International Health; HIV/AIDS

Sharon Weissman

Sharon Beth Weissman, M.D.

 Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Infectious Disease

Dr. Wirth

Michael Wirth, PhD, MSPH

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Effects of circadian rhythm disruption on the human body and various health outcomes; dietary sources of inflammation; physical activity; stress on health  

lauren workman

Lauren Workman, PhD, MPH

Affiliated Investigator/Research Interests: Community Health Development; Maternal and Child Health; Access to Healthcare; Qualitative Methods

Nick Yell

Nicholas Yell, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Interests:  Lung Cancer Screening and Nursing Vacancies

Whitney Zahnd

Whitney Zahnd, PhD

Outside Investigator/Research Interests:  Rural Health; Cancer Disparities; Access to Care; Spatial Epidemiology; Social Epidemiology

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