39 faculty and 21 courses in Public Health at New York University.
- Eliseo Guallar, Chair/Professor of Epidemiology h-index 118
Notable: “Meta-Analysis: High-Dosage Vitamin E Supplementation May Increase All-Cause Mortality” (2005) · 2,560 citations
- Mark Jit, Chair/Professor of Global and Environmental Health h-index 92
Es on epidemiological and economic modeling of vaccines to support evidence-based public health decision making. He has published papers covering a range of vaccine-preventable or potentially vaccine-preventable diseases including COVID-19
Notable: “Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns Relevant to the Spread of Infectious Diseases” (2008) · 3,232 citations
- Danielle C. Ompad, Professor of Epidemiology h-index 49
Notable: “Urban as a Determinant of Health” (2007) · 471 citations
- Jose Pagan, Chair/Professor of Public Health Policy and Management h-index 42
Notable: “Obesity, occupational attainment, and earnings : Consequences of obesity” (1997) · 236 citations
- Donna Shelley, Professor of Public Health Policy and Management h-index 40
Es on building the evidence for effective theory-driven strategies that target barriers to implementation and sustainability of evidence-based tobacco use treatment in primary care settings in the U.S. and Viet Nam. Her research is also add
Notable: “Evidence for Distinctive and Intrinsic Defects in Insulin Action in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome” (1992) · 517 citations
- Niyati Parekh, Professor of Public Health Nutrition h-index 34
Disease biology, nutritional biochemistry, epidemiology and biostatistics. She has developed a research program with three interconnected areas that are unified under the theme of investigating diet and non-communicable diseases in populat
Notable: “Mammographic Features and Breast Cancer Risk: Effects With Time, Age, and Menopause Status” (1995) · 868 citations
- Farzana Kapadia, Professor of Epidemiology h-index 34
Understanding the social and structural drivers of HIV/STIs as well as sexual and reproductive health outcomes in underserved and marginalized populations. Dr. Kapadia has over 20 years of experience in the design, development, and imple
Notable: “A peer-education intervention to reduce injection risk behaviors for HIV and hepatitis C virus infection in young injection drug users” (2007) · 167 citations
- Cheryl Healton, Founding Dean/Professor of Public Health Policy and Management h-index 26
Notable: “Getting to the Truth: Evaluating National Tobacco Countermarketing Campaigns” (2002) · 564 citations
- Jennifer Cantrell, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences h-index 26
Notable: “Recognition, use and perceptions of JUUL among youth and young adults” (2018) · 261 citations
- Yesim Tozan, Associate Professor of Global and Environmental Health h-index 25
Notable: “Trends and Predictors of COVID-19 Information Sources and Their Relationship With Knowledge and Beliefs Related to the Pandemic: Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study” (2020) · 268 citations
- David Abramson, Clinical Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences h-index 24
Political science, and an MPH, both from Columbia University. Education BA, English (High Honors), Queens College, New York, NY MPH, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY PhD, Sociomedical Sciences/Political Science, C
Notable: “The Resilience Activation Framework: a Conceptual Model of How Access to Social Resources Promotes Adaptation and Rapid Recovery in Post-disaster Settings” (2014) · 282 citations
- Corrina Moucheraud, Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management h-index 23
Notable: “Essential medicines for universal health coverage” (2016) · 622 citations
- Diana R Silver, Vice Dean/Professor of Public Health Policy and Management h-index 23
Notable: “Transportation to Clinic: Findings from a Pilot Clinic-Based Survey of Low-Income Suburbanites” (2010) · 114 citations
- Ralph DiClemente, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences h-index 19
Notable: “A Randomized Controlled Trial of an HIV Sexual Risk—Reduction Intervention for Young African-American Women” (1995) · 491 citations
- Mari Armstrong-Hough, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology h-index 19
On to better identify and address disparities related to race, ethnicity, and language? Study Design and Methods: A modified Delphi-based method was used to form a consensus about addressing racial disparities through future critical care r
Notable: “Saliva as a gold-standard sample for SARS-CoV-2 detection” (2021) · 120 citations
- Ji E Chang, Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management h-index 18
Notable: “Why public health framing matters: An experimental study of the effects of COVID-19 framing on prejudice and xenophobia in the United States” (2020) · 139 citations
- Prince Michael Amegbor, Assistant Professor of Global and Environmental Health h-index 17
Notable: “Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” (2024) · 4,455 citations
- Alexis A Merdjanoff, Director/Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences h-index 14
Ed on the immediate consequences—her research reveals how environmental stressors can lead to economic, emotional, and health burdens long after an event has passed. By focusing on the long-term effects of disasters, she has been able to de
Notable: “Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural America” (2020) · 400 citations
- Adolfo Cuevas, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Andrea L. Deierlein, Director/Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition
Es on examining how dietary, behavioral, and environmental factors contribute to reproductive health outcomes and chronic-disease development throughout the lifespan. Dr. Deierlein is trained as a nutritional epidemiologist. Much of her res
- David Abrams, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Notable: “OA10.03 A Randomized Trial of Telephone-Based Smoking Cessation Treatment in the Lung Cancer Screening Setting” (2022)
- Erez Hatna, Clinical Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Es on how the choice of urban boundaries influences the scaling relationships. At NYU, Dr. Hatna is part of the Agent-based Modeling Lab, which works with large-scale epidemic models and cognitively plausible agents in order to produce a tr
- Jennifer L Pomeranz, Associate Professor of Public Health Policy and Management
- Joshua Epstein, Professor of Epidemiology
Has been modeling complex social dynamics using mathematical and computational methods, notably the method of Agent-Based Modeling in which he is a recognized pioneer. For this transformative innovation, he was awarded the NIH Director’s Pi
- Linda Collins, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Focused on the development, dissemination, and application of the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), a framework for the optimization of behavioral, biobehavioral, and social-structural interventions. The objective of MOST is to i
- Melody Goodman, Dean/Professor of Biostatistics
. A nurse-led clinical practice model to increase healthcare reach among underserved families during public health emergencies: A randomized controlled trial Guilamo-Ramos, V., Benzekri, A., Williams, D., Thimm-Kaiser, M., Wizentier, M. M.
Notable: “Co-developing SHELTER (Safe, Healthy Environments and Local Transformation for Equity and Resilience) with families with lived experience of homelessness in the New York City shelter system: A community needs assessment and data collection protocol” (2026)
- Raymond S Niaura, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Rebecca Betensky, Chair/Professor of Biostatistics
Es on methods for the analysis of censored and truncated outcomes and covariates, which frequently arise from the subsampling of cohort studies. She has a long-time interest in clinical trials, and has written on the evaluation of biomarker
- Robyn Gershon, Clinical Professor of Epidemiology
- Rumi Chunara, Associate Professor of Biostatistics
1. Public and population health 2. Socio-environmental determinants 3. Machine learning/AI and technology in societal systems (social computing) 4. Algorithmic fairness 5. Inequity and technology Education MIT Ph.D., Harvard-MIT Division of
- S. Matthew Liao, Director/Professor of Bioethics
- Siyu Heng, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
In causal inference, health data science, observational studies, randomized trials, sensitivity analysis, instrumental variables, measurement error, and in survey data and their applications in public health. Dr. Heng’s research has bee
- Stephanie H Cook, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences/Biostatistics
Es on understanding the complex relationship between stress, health, and social determinants of health across the lifespan. Her work examines how both structural and individual-level stressors contribute to mental and physical health outcom
Notable: “A Daily Digital Mindfulness Meditation to Reduce Stress from Discrimination Among Racially Diverse Sexual and Gender Minorities: Preparation Phase of the Multi-Phase Optimization Strategy (MOST)” (2026)
- Thomas D'Aunno, Professor of Public Health
Institutional theory, organizational change, and the performance of healthcare organizations. D’Aunno was previously a faculty member at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and INSEAD, w
- Thomas Kirchner, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Virginia W Chang, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Wen Zhou, Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Es on developing theories and methods for network data analysis, high-dimensional statistics, multiple testing problems, machine learning, and causal inference. He is particularly interested in applications within genomics, genetics, bioinf
- Yajun Mei, Professor of Biostatistics
Statistics, machine learning, and data science, and their applications in biomedical science and public health, particularly, streaming data analysis, sequential decision/design, change-point problems, precision/personalized medicine, h
- Yang Feng, Professor of Biostatistics
Encompass the theoretical and methodological aspects of machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, social network models, and nonparametric statistics, leading to a wealth of practical applications, including Alzheimer's disease, cancer
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.