Browsing by: human health
Mark Benden
Associate Professor, Department Head and Director
Mark Benden’s research interests are office worker obesity, classroom ergonomics and childhood obesity.
Robert Alaniz
Research Assistant Professor and Director
Robert Alaniz focuses his research on understanding important host and microbial mechanisms that instruct the development of pathogen-specific effector, memory, and protective T-cell immunity after infection with intracellular bacteria.
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.
Jane Bolin
Professor & Associate Dean
Jane Bolin’s research focuses on law, ethics, compliance & regulation; chronic disease management; and rural and underserved populations.
Craig Borchardt
Instructional Assistant Professor
Borchardt conducts research and teaches courses on palliative and end-of-life care, spirituality and faith in medicine, and medical ethics.
Timothy Callaghan
Assistant Professor
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.
Nancy Dickey
Professor & Head
Nancy Dickey, MD, currently serves as a professor in the Department of Primary Care Medicine and the Department of Medical Humanities in the College of Medicine and as a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center.
Dr. David Earnest
Professor
David Earnest’s research interests are focused on neuroscience and biological clocks that regulate circadian rhythms in sleep and other body processes.
Alva Ferdinand
Assistant Professor
Alva Ferdinand’s research interests are health laws and ethics, disparities in health outcomes, research integrity, state and federal regulation in health care delivery and effectiveness at laws aimed at improving public health.
Richard Gomer
University Distinguished Professor of Biology and Thomas Powell ’62 Professor of Science
Gomer’s primary research focuses on tissue size regulation, tissue cell composition and fibrosing (scarring) diseases.
Sarah Hamer
Associate Professor
Sarah Hamer is a veterinary ecologist specializing in wildlife and zoonotic disease ecology and epidemiology.
Arum Han
Professor
Arum Han’s research interests are microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip systems, high-throughput systems approach to enabling microbial bioenergy and cell-based biomanufacturing, high-throughput systems accelerating drug/vaccine development against emerging infectious diseases, organ-on-a-chip & microphysiological systems (e.
Brian Holland
Professor
Brian Holland’s scholarship focuses on technology, constitutional theory (especially privacy and the First Amendment) and intellectual property, as well as issues of national security.
Bita Kash
Professor
Bita Kash’s research interests include organizational capacity for change and transformation, nursing home staffing and cost, and healthcare strategic planning and marketing.
Richard Kreider
Professor
Richard Kreider conducts research on nutrition and exercise, specifically the role of exercise and nutrition on health, disease, rehabilitation, performance, and/or health disparities/equity.
Mark Lawley
Professor and Deputy Director
Mark Lawley’s research focuses on supervisory control and optimal decision making in large, man-made systems, with applications to automated manufacturing, condition monitoring, networked infrastructure, and health care delivery.
Chanam Lee
Professor
Chanam Lee’s research focuses on the following: • urban design and physical planning • urban form and non-motorized transportation • physical activity and public health • sedentary lifestyle • automobile dependency • smart growth • social equity She has been involved in building empirical knowledge bases and agendas on several challenging issues related to the designers and planners the built environment.
Wenshe Liu
Professor of Chemistry, Gradipore Chair in Chemistry and Presidential Impact Fellow
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.
Lisa Mallonee
Professor & Director
Lisa Mallonee presents continuing education courses to a variety of professional groups both nationally and internationally.
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.
Rajesh Miranda
Professor
Rajesh Miranda conducts research on fetal brain development, stem cells, microRNAs, and teratology, the study of physiological abnormalities during development.
Nora Montalvo-Liendo
Assistant Professor
Nora Montalvo-Liendo works on developing, testing, and evaluating interventions to empower survivors of abuse, and addressing the health-related social needs and future well-being of low-income children who have a history of adverse childhood experiences.
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.
Ray Pentecost
Professor of the Practice
Ray Pentecost is one of the nation’s foremost advocates and practitioners of healthcare facility evidence-based design.
Alison Pittman
Clinical Assistant Professor
Alison Pittman conducts research in the areas of pediatric obesity, sibling visitation in pediatric critical care, innovative teaching strategies in nursing LGBTQ health in youth and young adults, diversity in nursing education and the nursing workforce, ACES (adverse childhood experiences) and their effect on health, and nursing student health.
Samba Reddy
Professor
Samba Reddy studies the cellular and molecular pathophysiology and neurotherapeutics of epilepsy and brain disorders.
Ivan Rusyn
Professor and Director
Ivan Rusyn’s laboratory, the Laboratory for Environmental Genomics, has an active research portfolio funded by the National Institutes of Health and the US EPA with a focus on the mechanisms of action of environmental toxicants and the genetic determinants of the susceptibility to toxicant-induced injury.
Matthew Sachs
Professor of Biology
Sachs’ research focuses on control mechanisms important in regulating gene expression.
Jonathan Sczepanski
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
One of Sczepanski’s research areas is the development of novel technologies for targeting ribonucleic (RNA) structural motifs for the purpose of treating RNA-mediated diseases, including viral infections and cancer.
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.
Farida Sohrabji
Professor, Associate Head & Director
Farida Sohrabji’s research program focuses on brain-immune interactions regulated by estrogen and its implications for neuro-inflammatory diseases such as stroke in women.
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.
David Threadgill
Professor and Director
David Threadgill’s laboratory uses the mouse as an experimental genetic model to investigate factors that contribute to inter-individual differences in health and disease.
Victor Ugaz
Assistant Director, Agency
Victor Ugaz's research involves manipulating fluid flow in tiny channels the size of a human hair.
Cynthia Weston
Assistant Professor & Associate Dean, College of Nursing
Cynthia 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.
Shelley White-Corey
Clinical Assistant Professor
Shelley White-Corey’s research interests include perinatal depression, maternal mortality and interprofessional practice.
Yubin Zhou
Associate Professor
Yubin Zhou’s lab is exploring the frontiers of calcium signaling, optogenetics, immunoengineering and molecular therapy research by combining biophysics, immunology, chemical biology, drug screening, computational biology and mouse genetics.