Public Health Research | Program in Public Health

Research Director's Welcome

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

Frank Mann
Differential Psychology, Quantitative Genetics

Post Doctoral Associates

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

Lyanne A. Delgado Coka
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Biomarkers

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

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Temiloluwa Fagbemi
Child and Adolescent Health, Maternal Health, Family Health, and Public Health in Low-and-Middle-Income Settings

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Mayi Gnofam, MD, MPH

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Meroona Gopang, Msc, M.Phil Psych
Environmental Health, Environmental Epidemiology, Casual Inference, Climate Exposures and Health, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Cognitive Function and Aging, Mental Health, Exposure Modeling and Assessment, Health Policy and Population Health

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Chunxi Guo
Social Determinants of Health, Biostatistics, Modeling, and Insurance Claims

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Khadeja Kausar
Racial Disparities in Treatment, Utilization, and Health Outcomes; Age-Friendly Care and Outcomes Evaluation in Older Adults; Caregiver Identification, Support, and Burden in Healthcare Settings

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

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

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

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Marissa Sogluizzo
Epidemiology, Disaster Resilience, Natural Disasters, and Community Health

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Yuxiao Song
Mental Health, PTSD, Aging, Cognitive Disorders, ADRD, World Trade Center Exposure, Occupation Health, Geriatrics

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

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