Dr. Nelson Arboleda is an Associate Professor of Global Health spearheading courses in our Department of Public Health Sciences that provide students insights into global public health challenges faced primarily in developing countries. Through his subject matter expertise, he introduces and mentors...
Taghrid Asfar is a Professor at the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, and a Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center member. Dr. Asfar has extensive experience in tobacco control research nationally and internationally, including epidemiological studies of tobacco use, randomized clinical...
Raymond Balise, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami (UM). Prior to joining UM, he worked at Stanford University School of Medicine for 17 years as a Biostatistician and Senior Lecturer, as well as serving as the...
Yuguang (James) Ban, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has collaborated with many cancer genomic researchers at Sylvester since he joined the University of Miami in 2015, and...
Tyler Bartholomew, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Services Research & Policy at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences. He is the co-Principal Investigator of the UM IDEA Lab whose mission is to implement, disseminate, educate, and advocate for the health...
John C. Beier, Sc.D., is Professor and Director of the Division of Environment and Public Health in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Beier’s research is committed to the ecology and control of vector-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue, Zika, other arboviruses, and leishmaniasis. With a strong network of...
Farren Briggs, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Division of Epidemiology within the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Briggs will continue to lead and engage in ongoing research, as well as build new collaborations to advance scientific endeavors in the department and in the Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Briggs is a...
Field of Interest: Community-Based & International Prevention Science
Dr. Eric C. Brown, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor with the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Prevention Science and Community Health where he directs the Implementation Science track for the...
Scott C. Brown, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He has a secondary appointment at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Previously, he completed postdoctoral fellowships in cognitive aging and behavioral health at the University of...
Dr. Alberto Caban-Martinez is a board-certified physician-scientist, Professor (tenured) of Public Health Sciences, Deputy Director of the MD-MPH Program, and Associate Provost for Regulatory Affairs, Assessment and Research Integrity at the University of Miami. He has over 10 years of domestic and international research expertise in...
Dr. Ceccarelli is a Professor of Computational Oncology in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. His group made key contributions to the field of cancer systems biology and had a leading role in international cancer big data analysis consortia, including the ATLAS-TCGA and others, both in...
Dr. Xi Steven Chen is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He leads the Translational Statistical Bioinformatics Lab, which combines data science and statistics with genomic research to advance our understanding of cancer and other complex conditions. Dr....
Daniel Díaz is Research Assistant Professor at the Division of Biostatistics of the University of Miami. He has a PhD in Probability from Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil; a BS in Statistics (with minors in Mathematics and Biostatistics) at Universidad Nacional, Colombia; a BA in Theology from Facultad de Teología y...
Daniel J. Feaster is a tenured Professor of Biostatistics within the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine with over 30 years of experience in design, implementation, and analysis of substance abuse and HIV-related studies. He is or has been the statistician on over 30 federally funded...
Luciano Garofano is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences. He brings his expertise to advance research on Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM), an incurable brain tumor. His impactful research centers on pioneering and...
Dr. Yan Guo is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami and the Director of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BBSR) at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also serves as the Chief of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Research Innovation at the center. Dr. Guo holds a PhD in...
Dr. WayWay M. Hlaing's education background consists an MBBS (a US Medical Degree equivalent based on the Scottish system of a 6-year medical curriculum), an MS degree in Health Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology. She joined the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) at University of Miami (UM) in 2010 and she currently serves as a...
Viviana E. Horigian, MD, MHA, is a Professor, Educator, in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is currently serving as the Director of Public Health Education and as a director of the Americas Initiative for Public Health Innovation.
Dr. Horigian is also an Executive Director of the...
Dr. Hu is a Professor in the Departments of Public Health Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Human Genetics and Genomics. She is the Director of the Epidemiology and Population Health Sciences Division in the Department of Public Health Sciences. As a trans-disciplinary cancer researcher, she has training in basic sciences (Ph.D....
Hemant Ishwaran, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) and is the Director of Statistical Methodology and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Division of Biostatistics. Dr. Ishwaran is also affiliated with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (SCCC) and the Center for Computational Sciences...
Limin Jiang, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Her primary focus in the department will be dedicated to research endeavors with research based on multi-omics big data and AI technologies – she is at the forefront of harnessing artificial intelligence to advance cancer recognition,...
Adriana Jimenez is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the Epidemiology and Population Health Sciences Division at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences. She is also an Infection Prevention Manager for the University of Miami Health System.
Before joining the University of Miami,...
Ariana Johnson, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Johnson is an epidemiologist with a passion for disease prevention. Her research focuses on how the intersection of implementation science, social networks, and machine learning impacts health disparities particularly as it relates to HIV...
Dr. Mariano Kanamori is an epidemiologist dedicated to improving health outcomes in varying communities. He has over twenty-six years’ experience applying qualitative and quantitative methodologies to global health issues. Dr. Kanamori’s community based participatory research (CBPR) studies using advanced social network...
Dr. Tulay Koru-Sengul is a Research Professor and the graduate program director of Master of Science (MS) in Biostatistics in the Division of Biostatistics and the lead faculty member overseeing the Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) program in the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) at the University of Miami Miller School of...
Naresh Kumar, Ph.D., is Professor of Environmental Health in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, and Department of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Miami. Dr. Kumar’s research and teaching are dedicated to prevent and manage environmental disease burden. A novel...
Field of Interest: Occupational & Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Accreditation & Program Governance
David Lee, Ph.D., has been a faculty member in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine since 1990. He serves as Department Chair and oversees all graduate programs on the...
Wendy Lichtenthal, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Lichtenthal's impactful research is centered around pioneering and assessing innovative psychosocial interventions tailored for cancer patients and their families. Her work particularly zeroes in on the challenging aspects of bereavement and cancer...
Field of Interest: Adolescent Substance Abuse
Howard Liddle, EdD, ABPP (Family Psychology) is Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, and Director of the Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. A psychologist, Dr. Liddle's research focus is on the...
Min Lu, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She received her Doctoral degree in Biostatistics from the University of Miami in 2018. Her current work is centered around developing and integrating machine learning approaches to...
Dr. McCollister is a Professor and Health Economist in the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. McCollister’s primary research focuses on economic evaluation (cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analyses) of treatment interventions for individuals with substance use...
Dr. Shari Messinger Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of the Division of Biostatistics, as well as Director of the Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core, in the Department of Public Health Sciences. She has been a member of the Biostatistics Faculty at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine since 2002, after earning her...
Patricia I. Moreno, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Lead of Evidence-Based Survivorship Supportive Care at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Moreno received a BA in Psychology & Spanish-Hispanic Studies from the University of...
Dr. Elahe ("Ellie") Nezami is a Professor on the Educator Track in the Division of Health Services Research & Policy and Director of Online Programs in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Elahe Nezami served as the director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies...
Teresa Maria Rosaria Noviello is joining the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences as a Research Assistant Professor-Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. She has experience as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ceccarelli Lab within the Sylvester Cancer Center.
Noviello holds a Ph.D. in...
Dr. Ana M. Palacio is a clinician researcher and epidemiologist who completed the Internal Medicine residency at the University of Miami and a General Medicine Fellowship and Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She joined the University of Miami as faculty in 2004. Since then her work has focused on the improvement of clinical...
Yue Pan, Ph.D., is an Research Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami (UM). He has expertise and experience in both clinical biostatistics and social/behavioral statistics including clinical trial designs, randomization, measurement...
Mariya Petrova, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy in the Department of Public Health Sciences. She brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role. With a remarkable career trajectory, Dr. Petrova stands as a licensed mental health clinician in both Florida...
Dr. Jie Ping is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami and the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BBSR) at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. With a strong background in bioinformatics and genetic epidemiology, his research emphasizes the biological mechanisms,...
Paulo S. Pinheiro is a Research Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, with over 15 years of experience in population-based cancer epidemiology. He trained as a resident physician in Portugal where he specialized in Public Health, then completed his MS and Ph.D. in Epidemiology in the...
Dr. Isildinha Reis, DrPH, is a Research Professor in the Division of Biostatistics of the Department of Public Health Science (DPHS) and in the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core Shared Resource at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Reis is a member of the Sylvester’s Data and Safety Monitoring Committee (DSMC) and an...
Edda Rodriguez is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences. She is a Latina prevention scientist passionate about addressing her community's health needs.
Dr. Rodriguez applies implementation science, social network, and qualitative approaches to address health...
Dr. Victor D. Rosenthal is a Research Associate Professor at the Division of Epidemiology and Population Health Sciences, in the Department of Public Health Sciences, at Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, at University of Miami, where he continues his groundbreaking work in infection prevention. He is a...
Dr. Rowe is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Associate Professor within the UMMSM DPHS, where she has been a faculty member since 2000. She is also Associate Director of MDFT International and serves in the role of Director of Training, as well as a member of the Board of Directors. Her career has focused on refining, testing, and...
Dr. James M. Shultz received his MS in Health Behavior Research in 1986 and his PhD in Behavioral Epidemiology in 1988 from the University of Minnesota. He joined the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami, in 1989 as an assistant professor and became a tenured associate professor in 1995. After leaving Miami...
Dr. St. George is a behavioral scientist and licensed psychologist trained in clinical-community psychology, health psychology, behavioral medicine, prevention science, and public health. She directs the Health eLifestyles Lab, which is dedicated to promoting health, preventing chronic disease, and fostering positive relationships among...
José Szapocznik, Ph.D., has received over $120 million in NIH funding. With over 270 scholarly publications, he is Chair Emeritus of the Department of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Center for Family Studies, and Honorary Founding Director of the University of Miami-based Miami Clinical Translational Science...
Leonardo Tamariz, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Public Health Sciences with an array of knowledge and competence. Dr. Tamariz has been in practice for more than 20 years, specializing in internal medicine and nephrology. He received his M.D. from Universidad Católica Santiago de...
Dr. Wang is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. She is affiliated with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG). She is also the Co-Director of the HIHG Statistical and Bioinformatics Consulting Core in...
Fei Ye, PhD, MSPH, is a professor of Public Health Sciences, the Executive Director for Clinical Trials and Quantitative Sciences, and the Assistant Director of Statistics for the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Health System, Miami, FL. She earned both her MSPH...
Dr. Lin Zhu is a public health decision scientist who develops mathematical and computational models to evaluate the population-level health and economic impacts of prevention and treatment programs. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Prior to...