Faculty

The Global Health and Development program draws core and affiliated faculty from across Rollins and Emory University. The core faculty have primary appointments in several departments and programs at Emory and are actively engaged in teaching, service and research activities in global health. These include 24 tenured or tenure- track faculty from Rollins especially in the Hubert Department of Global Health and represent a variety of disciplines namely anthropology, business, demography, ethics, epidemiology, health economics, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, nutrition and sociology. Other core faculty who are involved in GHD research are based in the School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson School of Nursing, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Goizueta School of Business and Emory Law School and also have joint appointments in RSPH.

GHD Core and Affiliated Faculty

CORE AND ADJUNCT FACULTY
Name & Position	Area of Expertise
David Addiss Adjunct Professor Director, Children without Worms, Taskforce for Global Health	Global Infectious Diseases
Mohammed K. Ali* William H. Foege Distinguished Professor of Global Health; Co-Director, Emory Global Diabetes Research Center; Vice Chair (Research), Dept of Family and Preventive Medicine	Diabetes, Global Health, Cardiovascular Diseases, Implementation Research
Susan Allen Professor of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine	HIV/AIDS Prevention, Sexual Health Behavior, Global Health
Mark Anderson Adjunct Assistant Professor Branch Chief, Emergency Response and Recovery Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Epidemiology, Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health and Epidemiology, RSPH and Department of Sociology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences	Demography, Migration and health, Child Health and Mortality, Obesity and Diabetes, Quantitative Data Collection and Survey Methodology
Sara Auld Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Allergy Emory University, School of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health	Epidemiology, TB, and TB & HIV Coinfection
Robert Bednarczyk Assistant Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Vaccination, Evidence-based Decision-making, Adolescent health
John Blevins Research Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH; Affiliate faculty, Graduate Division of Religion, Laney Graduate School; Director, Interfaith Health Program, RSPH; Director, Social-Behavioral Sciences of the CHAMPS Program, Emory Global Health Institute Director, Social-Behavioral Sciences of the CHAMPS Program, Emory School of Medicine	Behavior and Health, Community Based Research, Faith Based Health, Global Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Sexual Health/Behavior
Henry M. Blumberg* Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory School of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health, RSPH - Director, Clinical and Translational Research Training Programs, Georgia CTSA/Emory University	Global Health, Infectious Diseases (TB)
Robert F. Breiman* Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health, Health Systems Research, Infectious Diseases
Peter Brown Professor of the Department of Anthropology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences and Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Medical Anthropology, Obesity Malaria, Disease Prevention, and Development
Bethany Caruso Assistant Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, and Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, RSPH	Behavioral Science, Evaluation, Global Health, Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, Maternal and Child Health
Kenneth Castro Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases (TB, HIV), Public Health Practice
Cari Jo Clark Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health, Violence Prevention and Implementation Science
Thomas Clasen Interim Chair, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Rose Salamone Gangarosa Chair Professor, RSPH	Evaluation, Global Health, Safe Water and Sanitation, Infectious Disease
Gari Clifford Chair and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, and Biomedical Engineering, Emory School of Medicine	Edge Computing, Machine Learning, mHealth, Brain Health, Cardiovascular Disease, Perinatal Health
David Davis III Associate Professor of Department of Political Science, Emory College of Arts and Sciences	Political Violence and Ethnic Conflict, Defense Economics and Political Economy of Development
Carlos del Rio* Distinguished Professor for Emory Clinical and Academic Affairs at Grady, Professor of Medicine, Executive Associate Dean for Emory at Grady, Emory School of Medicine, Professor of Global Health & Epidemiology, RSPH Co-Director, Emory CFAR, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine	HIV/AIDS prevention, STI’s, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis
Dabney Page Evans Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health, Public Health Preparedness and Response, Violence and Injury Prevention
Rafael Flores Adjunct Professor Team Leader, International Micronutrient Malnutrition Prevention and Control Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Program Evaluation, Micronutrient Programs
Matthew Freeman* Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Environmental Health, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health	Impact Evaluation, Implementation Science, Global Health, Safe Water and Sanitation, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Infectious Disease
Neel Gandhi Associate Professor of Department of Epidemiology, RSPH	TB Epidemiology, Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment; Infectious Disease (TB/HIV), Public Health Practice
Amy Webb Girard Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Community Based Research, Maternal and Child Health, Food and Nutrition Security
Rachel Hall-Clifford Assistant Professor of Human Health and Sociology Department of Sociology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Information systems, organizational management
Monique Hennink Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Behavior and Global Health, Qualitative Methods, Community Based Research
Alan Hinman Adjunct Professor Director, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health	Maternal and Child Health, Development
Sophia Hussen Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Adolescent Health/Child Health, Behavior and Health, Health Disparities, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Infectious Disease, Mental Health
Ram Jagannathan Associate Research Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes, Diabetes heterogeneity, Alzheimer's Diseases (AD) and Related Dementias (ADRD), identification of novel biomarkers for AD/ADRD, chronic kidney diseases (CKD)
Joshua Jeong Rollins Distinguished Assistant Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Early Child Development, Gender, Implementation Science, Mixed-Methods
Hilary B. King Associate Director, Master’s in Development Practice; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Anthropology and Department of Environmental Sciences	Economic anthropology, sustainable development, alternative food networks, political economy, critical development studies, applied research methods, social movements
James V. Lavery** Hilton Chair and Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health, Global Development, Ethics
Benjamin Lopman Professor of Department of Epidemiology and Department of Environmental Health, RSPH	Epidemiology, Global Health, Infectious Disease, Modeling, Surveillance, Vaccines
Juan Leon Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology, RSPH	Diarrhea, Underserved Populations in the Americas Enteric Viruses (norovirus, rotaviruses), Vaccines, Health Systems, Food Safety, Parasites, Water & Sanitation, Fresh Produce/Agriculture
Peter Little Professor of Samuel Candler Dobbs Department of Anthropology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences - Director of Emory Program in Global Development Studies	Development and economic Anthropology, Pastoralism
Rebecca Martin Adjunct Professor Director of the Center for Global Health (CGH), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD)	Global Health, Implementation Sciences, Infectious Diseases
Reynaldo Martorell Robert W. Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition, Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Evaluation, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition
Colleen McBride Grace Crum Rollins Chair of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education and Professor of the Department of Global Health, RSPH	Behavioral Health, Cancer Prevention, Health Promotion
Matthew McGee Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Diabetes, Global Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Infectious Disease
Deborah McFarland* Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health, Health Economics, Healthcare Systems, Public Health Policy
Scott J. McNabb Research Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Disease Surveillance, Health Economics, Public Health Leadership
Christine Lorraine Moe* Gangarosa Professor of the Hubert Department of Global Health and Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health Sciences, RSPH	Global Health, Infectious Diseases, Safe Water and Sanitation
Kabayam M. Venkat Narayan Ruth and O.C. Hubert Professor of Global Health, Epidemiology, RSPH and School of Medicine	Non-Communicable Diseases, Diabetes Prevention
Walter Orenstein Professor of Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine	Vaccines, Epidemiology, Pediatrics
Shivani Patel Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health, Cardiovascular Diseases, Social Epidemiology
Dorairaj Prabhakaran Adjunct Professor Vice President (Research and Policy) and Director, Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions, Public Health Foundation of India	Public Health, Chronic Diseases, Prevention
Polly Price Professor of Emory University School of Law & Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health Law, Antibiotic Resistance
Michael Prietula Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management, Goizueta Business School	mHealth Design, Computational Modeling, Behavioral Modeling, Emergency Preparedness
Usha Ramakrishnan* Distinguished Richard N. Hubert Professor and Chair, Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition
Juan Rivera Adjunct Professor Director General of the National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico	Nutrition, Program Evaluation, Chronic Diseases
Roger W. Rochat Research Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health and Epidemiology, RSPH	Reproductive Health, Program Management, Maternal and Child Health
Martha Rogers Director of Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing and Research Professor of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing	HIV, Global Health, Pediatrics
Carla Roncoli* Director, Master's in Development Practice (MDP), Associated Faculty; Department of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences	Global Development, Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation, Indigenous Knowledge, Rural Livelihoods, Africa
Mona Saraiya Adjunct Associate Professor Medical Officer and Team Lead, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control's (DCPC's) Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Global Health, Cancer
Holli Semetko* Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Media & International Affairs, Professor of Political Science, Emory College of Arts and Sciences	Public Policy, Communication
Sarita Shah* Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health and Department of Epidemiology, RSPH	Epidemiology, Global Health, Infectious Disease (TB/HIV), Public Health Practice
Dean Sienko Adjunct Professor VP, Health Programs (TCC), The Carter Center	Global Health, Infectious Diseases
Sheela Sinharoy Research Assistant Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Community Health & Development, Global Health, Maternal and Child Health - Nutrition, Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Aryeh D. Stein Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health and Epidemiology, RSPH	Chronic Disease prevention, Epidemiology, Adolescent and Child Health, Maternal and Child Health
Parminder Suchdev Professor of Emory Global Health Institute, Director of Global Health Office of Pediatrics Professor of Pediatrics and Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Nutrition, Global Health, Infectious Diseases, Maternal and Child Health
Lisa Thompson Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health Sciences, RSPH	Environmental Health, Maternal and Child Health
Lavanya Vasudevan Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Adolescent Health/Child Health, Global Health, Immunizations/Vaccines, Implementation Science, Information Technology, Maternal and Child Health
Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec Associate Professor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Sciences, RSPH; Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Environmental Sciences, Emory College of Arts and Sciences; Faculty Fellow for the Emory Global Health Institute	Disease Ecology, Medical Entomology and Global Health
Mary Beth Weber Assistant Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Behavior and Health, Diabetes, Global Health, Nutrition, Obesity Prevention
Cynthia Whitney Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Epidemiology, Global Health, Immunizations/Vaccines, Infectious Disease, Maternal and Child Health
Kate Winskell Associate Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Social Behavior Change Communication, HIV/AIDS, mHealth, Qualitative Research
Melissa Young Assistant Professor of Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH	Global Health, Maternal and Child Health, Epidemiology, Nutrition
Kathryn Mary Yount* Asa Griggs Candler Chair of Global Health and Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, RSPH and Department of Sociology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences	Behavior and Health, Global Health, Maternal and Child Health

* Executive Committee Member
** DGS and Executive Committee Member