Public Health Research | Program in Public Health

Research Director's Welcome

Sean Clouston

Director of Research, Program in Public Health

Welcome to the Program in Public Health's Research website. This site serves as a central point for our research, principal investigators, and resources.

Our program emphasizes a collaborative, preventative, and multidisciplinary approach to the root causes of public health problems, while instilling the skills necessary to develop innovative and practical solutions for positive impact. Students and faculty implement a systems health approach in research, providing an innovative culture to inform practice.

Current areas of research include World Trade Center Health; Health Disparities in Healthcare Access; Sleep Health; Cognitive Functioning and Aging; Environmental Epidemiology; Climate Change; Community Health; Intimate Partner Violence, and more. Click here to view a full listing of our research areas.

The Program in Public Health proudly affiliates with a number of institutions, including the Alzheimer's Association, NYS Department of Health, World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program, and more. Click here to view more affiliations.

Links & Resources for Researchers

Stony Brook University Research

Office of the Vice President for Research: Researcher Resources

Office of Sponsored Programs and Grants Management: Seminars, Workshops, Training, Conferences, and Newsletters

Faculty

Core Research Faculty

Lisa Benz Scott Cardiac Rehabilitation, Community Health	Sean Clouston Cognitive Functioning and Aging	Mahdieh Danesh Yazdi Environmental Epidemiology
Alina Denham Health Policy	Andrew Flescher Medical & Bioethics, Transplantation Ethics, Health Policy	Lauren Hale Sleep and Health
Amy Hammock Intimate Partner Violence Prevention	Guanyu Huang Air Quality, Climate Change, Environmental Change, Remote Sensing, & Environmental Justice	Rachel Kidman Global Health, Child & Adolescent Adversity
Jaymie Meliker Environmental Epidemiology	Benny Ren Longitudinal Data Analysis & Nonparametric Statistics	Laura Sampson Psychiatric Epidemiology
Marie Aline Sillice Health Disparities, Cultural Relevant Health Communication, Technology-Based Approaches	Dylan Smith Resilience & Adaptation in the Context of Disability & Illness

Research Scientists

Douglas Hanes Aging, Cognition, Social Inequalities
Minos Kritikos Neuroscience & Neuroimaging	Frank Mann Differential Psychology, Quantitative Genetics

Post Doctoral Associates

Tesleem Babalola Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social Inequalities and Health Disparities	Shamim Sarkar Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Food Safety Epidemiology, Environmental Epidemiology, & One Health
Elizabeth Inman Intimate Partner Violence, Stigma, Health Behaviors	Lissa Soares Environmental Health, Climate Change
Gina Mathew Sleep and Health	Joseph Kawuki Exposome, Social Inequalities and Health Disparities, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Environmental Epidemiology

Current PhD Students

Gabriella Pandolfelli, MPH
Community-Based Participatory Research, Inter-professional Education, Hypertension Prevention, Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring, Health Equity

Connect with Gabriella on ORCID

Isaac Rodriguez, LMSW
Neurodevelopmental Disability, Sleep Health, Mental Health, Public Health Social Work

Connect with Isaac on ORCID

Yuan Yang
World Trade Center Exposure, Particulate Matter, Occupation Health, Multilevel Model, Structural Equation Model, Cognition, Aging, Genetics Risk Factors, Psychosis, Alzheimer's Disease

Connect with Yuan on ORCID

Lokesh Patil, MPH
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Precision Medicine Strategies in Gynecologic Oncology

Connect with Lokesh on ORCID

Christiane El Khoury, PharmD, MS
Social Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, Healthcare Access, Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer, Screening

Connect with C hristiane on ORCID

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