Research

Working with the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium provides a unique opportunity to translate classroom learning into public health practice. I am building my program evaluation expertise, augmenting my data analysis abilities, and developing better oral and written communication skills.   Lauren Gase, Research Assistant

RSPH has an active research program that spans from community-based to international opportunities, from wet laboratories to classrooms to clinical care units to households.

We hire over 400 students each year to work with our faculty and conduct hands-on research.

We have a broad portfolio of research that includes AIDS, Bioinformatics, Cancer, Diabetes and Nutrition, Environmental Exposure, Health Disparities, Health Policy, Infectious Diseases, Safe Water - to name a few.

Woodruff Health Sciences Research Strategic Plan (2011-2016)


Sampling of our Faculty Research

Michael Windle: addiction/drug abuse prevention, adolescent health, mental health

Michelle Kegler: cancer prevention, obesity prevention, community-based research

Claire Sterk: addiction, smoking, behavior and HIV

Gina Wingood: faith-based HIV prevention programs, gender and HIV

Frank Wong: global health, sexual behavior, infectious disease

Kimberly Jacob Arriola:  behavior and health, community-based research, HIV/AIDS

Biostatistics

Lance Waller:  disease surveillance, statistical modeling, infectious disease

Paul Weiss: statistical concepts and methods

F. Dubois Bowman: mental health, addiction/drug abuse prevention, statistical modeling

Environmental Health

Paige Tolbert: environmental epidemiology, reproductive health

Dana Boyd Barr: maternal/child health

Michael Caudle: toxicology, role of the environmental contaminants in neurological disorders

Karen Levy: rural health, safe water

Justin Remais: global health, infectious disease, community-based research

Matthew Strickland: health effects of urban pollutants with a particular focus on Georgia

Epidemiology

Viola Vaccarino: cardiovascular disease, women’s health, social/behavioral/emotional determinants of cardiovascular risk

Patrick Sullivan: disease surveillance, HIV/AIDS, sexual behavior

Kevin Ward: cancer prevention

Roberd Bostic: nutrition, cancer prevention, risk assessment

Carol Hogue: maternal and child health

Anne Spaulding: infectious disease

Hubert Department Global Health

Carlos del Rio: infectious disease, HIV/AIDS

Mohammed K. Ali: diabetes, cardiovascular disease

Saad Omer: pediatrics

Reynaldo Martorell: obesity, nutrition

Usha Ramakrishnan: maternal and child health, nutrition

Dabney Evans: health and human rights

Keith Klugman: infectious disease, vaccines, developing countries

Health Policy and Management

Ken Thorpe: health care costs, chronic disease, prevention, health care reform, entitlement reform

Kathleen Adams: health care system financing, health care access, Medicaid

Benjamin Druss: mental health, health care quality

David Howard: health care quality, patient choice

Ron Goetzel: health promotion, disease prevention, disease management, worksite health promotion

Richard Saltman: U.S. and international health policy, health expenditures