Mentor Database | School of Public Health

Faculty by primary department	Secondary appointment	Primary mentoring area(s)	Research focus keywords
Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Steven M. Albert, PhD, MA, MS professor smalbert@pitt.edu	Clinical and Translational Science Institute	research	aging digital health chronic disease health behavior cognition behavioral interventions clinical trials
Biostatistics
Jeanine M. Buchanich, PhD, MPH, MEd associate professor and vice chair for practice jeanine@pitt.edu		research	epidemiology environmental health overdose cohort
Yan Ma, PhD, MA, MS professor and chair yanma@pitt.edu		research and education	biostat methods health disparities orthopedics anethesiology
Gong Tang, PhD professor got1@pitt.edu		research, education and practice	clinical trials epidemiology causal inference
George C. Tseng, ScD professor and vice chair for research ctseng@pitt.edu	human genetics, computational and systems biology	research	bioinformatics genomics statistical learning machine learning
Environmental and Occupational Health
Patricia L. Opresko, PhD professor plo4@pitt.edu	chemical biology, pharmacology (SOM)	research	genome instability cancer DNA damage DNA repair aging telomere biology genotoxic stress
Epidemiology
Lisa M. Bodnar, PhD, MPH, RD professor lbodnar@pitt.edu	obstetrics & gynecology	research	nutrition obesity pregnancy children postpartum
Samar R. El Khoudary, PhD, MPH, BPharm, FAHA professor and vice chair for education sae25@pitt.edu	Clinical and Translational Science Institute	research and education	women's health cardiovascular lipids fat depots menopause methods
Anthony Fabio, PhD, MPH associate professor afabio@pitt.edu	Clinical and Translational Science Institute	research and education	social epidemiology health equity violence firearms
Tiffany Gary-Webb, PhD, MHS professor and associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion tgary@pitt.edu		research and practice	epidemiology social determinants health equity health disparities chronic disease diabetes cardiometabolic
Nancy W. Glynn, PhD associate professor		research and education	aging physical activity fatigue physical function
Balasubramani K. Goundappa, PhD research associate professor balagk@edc.pitt.edu	Clinical and Translational Science Institute	research and education	clinical trials influenza vaccine effectiveness maternal influenza immunization and VE
Catherine L. Haggerty, PhD, MPH professor and vice chair for practice haggerty@pitt.edu		research and practice	epidemiology infectious disease sexually transmitted infection infertility pregnancy children's health global health
Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH professor and vice chair for research car2530@pitt.edu		research	population neuroscience gerontology mobility neurocognitive assessment
Sonja Swanson, PhD associate professor sas766@pitt.edu		research and education	causal inference epidemiologic methods suicide prevention mental health
Health Policy and Management
Kevin D. Broom, PhD, MBA associate professor, vice chair for education and MHA program director kevinbroom@pitt.edu		education	finance competency CBE
Julie M. Donohue, PhD professor and chair jdonohue@pitt.edu		research	substance use disorders mental health pharmaceutical policy Medicaid Medicare administrative data
Human Genetics
Eleanor Feingold, PhD professor feingold@pitt.edu	biostatistics	research and education	biostatistics genetics genetic epidemiology
Lisa S. Parker, PhD professor, Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics and director, Center for Bioethics and Health Law (philosopher-bioethicist) lisap@pitt.edu	Center for Bioethics and Health Law, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies	research and education	ethics policy gender/feminist theory genomic research return of research results informed consent
Beth L. Roman, PhD associate professor and vice chair for research romanb@pitt.edu		research and education	vascular biology BMP signaling genetic vascular disease arteriovenous malformations hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia zebrafish
Daniel E. Weeks, PhD professor weeks@pitt.edu	biostatistics	research and education	statistical genetics genetic epidemiology statistical methodology human genetics biostatistics epigenetics The R programming language statistics genetics of complex human disease
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Phalguni Gupta, PhD professor emeritus pgupta1@pitt.edu		research	virology molecular biology biochemistry epidemiology of infectious diseases
School of Medicine
Mohamed H. Yassin, MD, PhD associate professor mhy8@pitt.edu SOM profile	infectious diseases and microbiology	research	infection prevention health care epi device disinfection

Faculty by primary department	Research focus keywords
Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Steven M. Albert, PhD, MA, MS professor smalbert@pitt.edu secondary appointment in clinical and translational science Primary mentoring area(s): research	aging digital health chronic disease health behavior cognition behavioral interventions clinical trials
Biostatistics
Jeanine M. Buchanich, PhD, MPH, MEd associate professor and vice chair for practice jeanine@pitt.edu Primary mentoring area(s): research	epidemiology environmental health overdose cohort