Scholarly Interests
- Infant Feeding (Breastfeeding) and Child Health
- Culture and Immigrant Families' Health
- The Role of the Family in the Development of the Child Especially Children with Health Problems
- Pre-School Children's Health
- Culture, Care, and Child Health
Scholarly Interests
- Electronic Health Records
- Population Health
- Substance Use and Addiction
- Racial Disparities and Health
- Maternal and Child Health
Scholarly Interests
- Mental health and well-being
- Lifespan development
- Motivational development
Scholarly Interests
- Sociology
- Quantitative methods
Scholarly Interests
- Environmental justice
- Interdisciplinary health sciences
- Health impact assessments
- Children's environmental health
- Childhood lead poisoning prevention
Heather Eastman-Mueller
Clinical Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-4851
Email: heastman@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4376-0977
Scholarly Interests
- Sex education and curriculum development
- College students knowledge, attitudes, behaviors
- Gender identity and expression
- Sexual and reproductive health promotion
Scholarly Interests
- Reducing health disparities
- Early child care settings
- Obesity
- Physical activity
- Rural
- Under-served populations
Scholarly Interests
- Leadership development
- Curriculum design
- Diversity education
Nana Gletsu Miller
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-7643
Email: ngletsum@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4400-4428
Scholarly Interests
- Nutritional interventions targeting obesity-related disease
- Nutrition after bariatric surgery
- Nutrient bioavailability
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes in adolescent
Scholarly Interests
- Latino/Hispanic Health
- Global Health
- Implementation science
- Child growth and development
- Cardiovascular disease and mental health comorbidities
- Life-course nutrition
Scholarly Interests
- Health education for youth
- Sexual health education
- Sexual health
- Substance use disorders
- Adolescent substance abuse treatment
- Juvenile drug courts
- Mental health
- System-level change
- Process evaluation
- Cost analysis
- Technology utilization in treatment
- Evidence-based treatment
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-7663
Email: luguerra@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3300-0720
Scholarly Interests
- Reproductive health
- Reproductive decision-making
- Latin America
- Health disparities
- Indigenous groups
- Culturally responsive frameworks
Jon Macy
Assistant Dean for Academic ProgramsProfessor
Phone: 812-856-0704
Email: jtmacy@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-2925-8585
Scholarly Interests
- Gun violence prevention
- Youth sports safety and promotion
- Tobacco control
- Smoking cessation
- Tobacco prevention
- Public health policy
Laura McCloskey
Professor EmeritusEmail: lmcclosk@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Violence against women
- Child abuse
- Disparities in mental health
- Adolescent socio-sexual health
- Families and health
Scholarly Interests
- Muscle Health
- Obesity
- Cardiometabolic Health
- Aging Nutrition
- Gestational Diabetes
- Maternal Nutrition
- Controlled-feeding diet interventions
Scholarly Interests
- Opioid and other substance use Chronic pain Mental health Pharmacoepidemiology Behavioral genetics
Kelli Ryckman
Associate Dean for ResearchProfessor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Phone: 812-855-3029
Email: kryckman@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-9496-4147
Scholarly Interests
- Newborn screening
- Genetic epidemiology
- Neonatal morbidity and mortality
- Maternal mental health
- Perinatal epidemiology
Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin
Clinical ProfessorAssociate Chair
Phone: 812-855-2673
Email: csherwoo@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Professional Development and Training
- Sexuality Education in School and Community-Based Settings
- Intervention Design and Implementation
- Community Health Needs and Assets Assessments
- Community-Based Participatory Research
Patricia Silveyra
Anthony D. Pantaleoni Eminent ScholarDepartment Chair
Professor
Phone: 812-855-3979
Email: psilveyr@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-7083-8915
Scholarly Interests
- Molecular effects of vaping
- Animal models of environmental exposures
- Sex differences in asthma
- Air pollution and lung disease
Scholarly Interests
- Unintentional injury prevention
- Biological occupational and environmental hazards
- Industrial hygiene
- Ergonomics
Scholarly Interests
- Explainable machine learning for causal inference
- Health geography and disparity
- Life course approach to the environmental exposures
- High- and multi-dimensional data integration
- Molecular epidemiology
Eric Walsh-Buhi
Department ChairProfessor
Phone: 812-855-4867
Email: erwals@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-1690-5352
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent health
- Sexual health promotion
- Health communication
- Digital health/social media
Scholarly Interests
- Parent-Child Relations
- Child Development
- Maternal Child Health
- Professional Preparation