Browsing by: Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Deborah Bell-Pedersen
Terry Thomas University Professor of Biology and Associate Head for Operations
Bell-Pedersen’s primary research focus is circadian rhythms in the development of spores in the fungus Neurospora crassa, a simple model organism.
Jessica Bernard
Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Bernard’s work seeks to understand how the cerebellum contributes to both motor and cognitive behavior and how it changes with age.
Ray Browning
Associate Training Specialist
Ray Browning is an expert on logistical and medical countermeasures used in response to pandemics and acts of terrorism.
Timothy Callaghan
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Tim Callaghan’s research interests are health politics, the Affordable Care Act, autism policy, opioid policy, rural health policy, state politics, and public opinion about health topics.
Vee Ann Carter
Associate Training Specialist
Vee Ann Carter is an expert on public health and nursing protocols in response to pandemics and acts of terrorism.
Angela Clendenin
Instructional Assistant Professor in Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Angela Clendenin is an expert on risk communication, decision analysis, cultural and social influences on communications and decision-making and emergency management.
Kate Creevy
Associate Professor of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
Kate Creevy is a board-certified small animal internal medicine specialist and her research interests include long-term longitudinal studies of canine aging, and small animal infectious diseases.
Christine Crudo Blackburn
Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program Deputy Director
Christine Crudo Blackburn conducts research on various aspects of pandemic disease policy and control.
Ceyhun Eksin
Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Ceyhun Eksin focuses on understanding and designing networked interactions of agents in social and technological complex systems.
Rebecca Fischer
Assistant Professor
Rebecca Fischer is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health.
Shawn Gibbs
Dean of the School of Public Health
Shawn Gibbs is an industrial hygienist whose expertise is in the disruption of highly infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 and Ebola virus disease.
Richard Gomer
Professor of Biology and Professor of Science
Gomer’s primary research focuses on tissue size regulation, tissue cell composition and fibrosing (scarring) diseases.
Charles Hall
Professor of Horticulture Sciences
Hall is an economics expert who specializes in the green industry, including innovative management and marketing strategies, financial analysis, and the situation/outlook for nursery and greenhouse crops.
Arum Han
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Han’s research interests include systems that accelerating drug/vaccine development against emerging infectious diseases.
Eleftherios Iakovou
Professor of Industrial Distribution
Iakovou's areas of expertise include supply chain and inventory management, maritime logistics, emergency response management and innovation, and policy-making, among others.
Wenshe Liu
Professor of Chemistry
Liu’s primary research focus is to develop chemical biology techniques for basic epigenetic research, cancer drug discovery, and biotechnological applications.
Annmarie MacNamara
Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Annmarie MacNamara's work aims to characterize the parameters of emotional response and the cognitive factors that can affect this in healthy individuals.
Jason McKnight
Clinical Assistant Professor, Primary Care and Population Health
Jason McKnight earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and completed his family medicine residency at Texas A&M Family Medicine Residency Program.
Lisako Mckyer
Professor & Associate Dean
McKyer earned an undergraduate degree in psychology (with emphasis on developmental and pediatric psychology); Indiana University, PhD, Clinical science (clinical psychology); Indiana University, MPH, Community Health.
Robin Murphy
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Murphy’s primary research is in artificial intelligence for mobile robots as applied to disaster robotics.
Andrew Natsios
Executive Professor of International Affairs
Andrew Natsios is an executive professor at the Bush School and director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs.
Gerald Parker
Associate Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Prior to joining the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Gerald Parker served as the interim director of the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases and associate vice president for public health preparedness and response at the Texas A&M Health Science Center.
Raymond Robertson
Professor Of Economics
Robertson is an expert in the fields of labor economics and international economics.
Taehyun Roh
Assistant Professor
Taehyun Roh’s research interests are environmental epidemiology, water quality, public health interventions, global health, chronic disease, children’s health and toxicology.
Matthew Sachs
Professor of Biology
Sachs’ research focuses on control mechanisms important in regulating gene expression.
Jonathan Sczepanski
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
One of Sczepanski’s research areas is the development of new technologies for the treatment of diseases, including viral infections and cancer.
Venkatesh Shankar
Professor of Marketing
Venkatesh “Venky” Shankar has been recognized as one among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds by Thomson Reuters and as a Top 10 scholar worldwide on innovation.
Krystal Simmons
Clinical Associate Professor of Educational Psychology
Krystal Simmons is an education expert who researches crisis prevention and intervention, education of minority populations, parent involvement in education, and school interventions for disruptive behavior disorders.
Miquela Smith
Healthy Texas Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Miquela Smith leads the chronic disease prevention program development and health education outreach in the Panhandle for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.
Lu Tang
Associate Professor of Health Communication
Lu Tang conducts research on culture and health communication, how stigma is constructed and how culture affects different health communication processes such as social support and physician-patient communication; and social media and health communication: how illness, health, and medicine is discussed on social media and its effects on health knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors.
Kathy Wall
Training Coordinator
Kathy Wall is an expert on first responder personnel needs, protective gear, and protocols used in response to pandemics and acts of terrorism.
Cynthia Weston
Assistant Professor & Associate Dean of Nursing
Weston's research interests include cardiovascular disease, health promotion and wellness, innovative pedagogy in family nurse practitioner curriculum, improving access to health care in vulnerable populations, patient safety and interprofessional education.
Debra Zoran
Professor of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
Debra Zoran specializes in emergency preparedness and response, and the use of simulations in the teaching of disaster.