Faculty and Staff

The department consists of 23 full- and part-time faculty, 16 faculty with joint appointments, 30 adjunct faculty with clinical or teaching appointments, and over 25 dedicated research, administrative, and professional staff members.

Department Administration

Chair Person
Douglas M. Brugge, Ph.D., M.S.

Vice Chair
Howard Tennen, Ph.D.

Director of Program in Applied Public Health Sciences
David I. Gregorio, Ph.D., M.S.

Administrative Officer
Denise L. Parris

Faculty Members and Their Area of Interest

Thomas F. Babor, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor
babor@uchc.edu
Alcohol and drug problems & related cultural factors

Angela Bermúdez-Millán, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
bermudez-millan@uchc.edu
Nutrition and health policy

Stacey Brown, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
stbrown@uchc.edu
Health sociology

Mary Beth Bruder, Ph.D.
Professor
bruder@uchc.edu
Developmental disabilities and early intervention

Douglas M. Brugge, Ph.D., M.S.
Professor and Chair
brugge@uchc.edu
Occupational & environmental health

Jennifer Cavallari, Sc.D.
Associate Professor
cavallari@uchc.edu
Occupational & environmental epidemiology

Audrey Chapman, Ph.D., M.Div., S.T.M.
Professor
achapman@uchc.edu
Humanities and bioethics

Shayna Cunningham, Ph.D., MHS
Assistant Professor
scunningham@uchc.edu
Maternal and Child Health, Community-Based Participatory Research

James Grady, Dr.P.H.
Professor
jgrady@uchc.edu
Statistical methods

David I. Gregorio, Ph.D., M.S.
Professor
gregorio@uchc.edu
Disease surveillance; Cancer epidemiology

Amy A. Hunter, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
amhunter@uchc.edu
Injury epidemiology; child maltreatment prevention

 

Sharon M. Gordon, DDS, MPH, PhD
Professor
sgordon@uchc.edu
Public health dentistry

Susan Killmeyer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
killmeyer@uchc.edu
Early intervention, early childhood disability

Chia-Ling Kuo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
kuo@uchc.edu
Statistical methods

Zita Lazzarini, J.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
lazzarini@uchc.edu
Public health law

Tara Lutz, Ph.D., M.P.H., CHES
Assistant Professor
lutz@uchc.edu
Developmental disabilities & early intervention

Megan A. O'Grady, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
ogrady@uchc.edu
Addiction health services research, implementation science

T. Greg Rhee, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Assistant Professor
rhee@uchc.edu
Population-based clinical outcomes research and health care policy

Stephen L. Schensul, Ph.D.
Professor
schensul@uchc.edu
AIDS risk (international), applied health research

Bonnie McRee, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
mcree@uchc.edu
Substance abuse prevention

Helen Swede, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
swede@uchc.edu
Cancer chemoprevention, cancer disparities

Howard Tennen, Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chair
tennen@uchc.edu
Stress, coping & adaptation to chronic illness

Jane A. Ungemack, Dr.P.H.
Assistant Professor
ungemack@uchc.edu
Health services research/substance abuse

Kerry-Ann V. Stewart, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
kestewart@uchc.edu
Biomedical sciences; Diversity

Scott L. Wetstone, M.D.
Associate Professor
wetstone@uchc.edu
Clinical epidemiology

Bingbing Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
bzhang@uchc.edu
Developmental disabilities; Child development and health

Professors Retired

• Glenn Affleck* , Ph.D.
• Joseph A. Burleson, Ph.D.
• Holger Hansen, M.D., Dr.P.H.
• Judy Lewis*, M.Phil.
• Timothy Morse*, Ph.D.
• Richard G. Stevens, Ph.D.  (deceased)

* emeritus

 

Faculty with Joint Appointments and Their Area of Interest

A. Karim Ahmed, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Medicine
ahmed@ncseglobal.org
Environmental health

Thomas Buckley, M.P.H., R.Ph.
Associate Clinical Professor, Pharmacy
thomas.e.buckley@uconn.edu
Health disparities, medication adherence

Martin G. Cherniack, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Medicine
cherniack@uchc.edu
Occupational health, environmental epidemiology

Alicia G. Dugan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Medicine
adugan@uchc.edu
Organizational psychology

Richard Fortinsky, Ph.D.
Professor, Medicine
fortinsky@uchc.edu
Aging and health care

Garry Lapidus, PA-C, M.P.H.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
glapidu@connecticutchildrens.org
Injury prevention

Grael M. O'Brien, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
gobrien@uchc.edu
Epidemiology and child health

Julie Robison, Ph.D.
Professor, Medicine
jrobison@uchc.edu
Aging and health care

William S. Shaw, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Medicine
wshaw@uchc.edu
Program evaluation

Karen L. Steinberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
ksteinberg@uchc.edu
Motivational interviewing

Thomas J. Van Hoof, M.D., Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Nursing
thomas.van_hoof@uconn.edu
Educational interventions

Zhao Helen Wu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
zwu@uchc.edu
Substance abuse; Health disparities

Linda K. Barry, MD, MPH, FACS
Associate Professor, Surgery
lbarry@uchc.edu

Lindsay DiStefano, PhD, ATC, FNATA
Department Head at UConn, Storrs, Kinesiology
lindsay.distefano@uconn.edu

Adjunct Faculty

The Program in Applied Public Health Sciences, in particular, and other centers, units, and divisions within the department utilize the services of 30 adjunct faculty and clinical community-based faculty from outside the department and/or UConn Health to teach or serve as preceptors to students. For information on contacting these individuals contact the particular area of the department who utilizes their services. If you know the individual works at UConn Health, try searching the UConn Health Employee Directory or if the individual's primary office is on the UConn Storrs campus try using the UConn phone book.

Staff

The department employs more than 25 dedicated professional research assistants, associates and administrative staff to support its research, teaching and service mission. For a search of full- or part-time staff members, use the UConn Health directory.