Faculty Research Interests

Research Topics: Sexual and gender minority (i.e., commonly known as LGBTQ+) reproductive health access and experiences, sexual health among young adults, and sexuality education

Research Topics: Alcohol and marijuana use, especially in emerging and young adults; psychosocial factors (gender, ethnicity) in substance use; use of technology for assessment and intervention.

Research Topics: Tobacco use behaviors and product characteristics; electronic cigarettes and alternative tobacco products; nicotine exposure and dependence; tobacco regulatory science; physiological and subjective response to tobacco products

Research Topics: Population research on patterns, determinants and control of tobacco use in adolescents and adults using state, national and international surveys; suboptimal nutrition as a risk factor for the development and maintenance of nicotine addiction; adverse childhood experiences, and nicotine dependence and smoking cessation; lifestyle and environmental factors in health and disease.

Research Topics: Enthusiasm in teaching, BIPOC pipeline programming

Research Topics: Alcohol and cannabis use and misuse; substance use consequences; affect; sociocultural influences on mental health; ambulatory assessment; quantitative methods in daily life research; mobile health interventions.

Research Topics: Substance use and misuse; opioid overdose, suicide, mental health; harm reduction; social network influences.

Research Topics: Substance use and misuse; social network influences on changes in substance use; impact of substance use on family functioning and health; emergency preparedness, preparation, coordination and training of rural disaster response teams; and mitigation of the impact of disaster response on the health of first responders.

Research Topics: Alcohol use; substance use disorder recovery; ecological momentary assessment; intensive longitudinal data; affect/emotion dynamics; psychological well-being; quantitative methods.

Research Topics: Behavioral and policy aspects of tobacco use.

Research Topics: Consumption and addictive behaviors; health behavior decision-making; pedagogy in Public Health.

Research Topics: Substance use and misuse; nicotine and cannabis use; substance use and vulnerable populations; tobacco regulatory science

Research Topics: Environmental, community, organizational and behavioral interventions to improve nutrition, increase physical activity and encourage appropriate cancer screening; health disparities; food access and local food systems; obesity and cancer prevention.

Research Topics: Dietary and behavioral interventions to improve nutritional status and health; disparities among food-insecure populations; impact of policy intervention and nutrition education; dietary assessment and dietary pattern; community-based participatory research.

Research Topics: Illness risk perception, including uncertainty about risk perception and its implication for health behavior and risk perception measurement; determinants and consequences of health information avoidance and reducing health information avoidance; health equity, with a focus on health care equity.

Research Topics: Primary and secondary prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; impact of substance use on sexual risk behavior and medication adherence; nonmedical prescription drug use; patient-provider communication; and community-based participatory research.

Research Topics: Caffeine use among adolescents; exercise and nutrition interactions; factors that influence ingestive behavior and the development of obesity in humans.