Partnership for Urban Health Research
Affiliated Faculty
Page Anderson
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Anxiety disorders, virtual reality, culturally informed treatment
Brenda Sims Blackwell
Department: Criminal Justice
Research Interests: Women and Crime, criminal justice responses to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation.
Jeremy Crampton
Department: Geosciences
Research Interests: GIS, mapping, new spatial media, & surveillance
Marci Culley
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Individual, community, & regulation/agency responses to environmental disputes/hazards and Environmental justice
Dean Dabney
Department: Criminal Justice
Research Interests: Criminal offending & crime control in an organizational context, drug markets, & qualitative methods
Sarita Davis
Department: African American Studies
Research Interests: HIV prevention education & sexual health in the African American community
Daniel Deocampo
Department: Geosciences
Research Interests: Environmental mineralogy , geochemistry, water and soil resources, geology & human health
Sedimentology, mineralogy, & archaeological geology
Jim Emshoff
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Program evaluation, prevention, community coalitions, substance abuse, violence, & dissemination/implementation research
Frank Floyd
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Families & developmental disabilities
Gay, lesbian, bisexual youth
African American couples
Yuki Fujioka
Department: Communication
Research Interests: Audience responses to health & race-related information (HIV/AIDS & mental illness)
eHealth, underserved populations, and health literacy
Amy Glass
Department: School of Social Work
Research Interests: Children’s mental health systems of care
Child Welfare
Cynthia Hoffner
Department: Communication
Research Interests: Psychology of media (uses & effects) and emotional responses to media
-Media & health (specifically mental health)
Susan Kelley
Department: Dean, College of Health and Human Services
Heather Kleider
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Episodic memory, with an emphasis on face recognition and eyewitness accuracy
Gabriel Kuperminc
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Adolescent/youth development & immigrant families
Prevention of school violence, teen pregnancy, & substance abuse
Kelly Lewis
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Empowerment Implementation Research with under-represented populations
Program planning, implementation, & evaluation
Education & health disparities
Africa & Afro-Diaspora
Jim Marton
Department: Economics
Research Interests: Health insurance financing, Medicaid, SCHIP, & child health
Deirdre Oakley
Department: Sociology
Research Interests: Housing inequality & urban disadvantage
GIS & spatial analysis
Mary Ohmer
Department: Social Work
Research Interests: Youth violence prevention.
Brian Payne
Department: Criminal Justice
Jeff Quin
Department: Mathematics & Statistics/A&S
Research Interests: Developing statistical methods for health services research and diagnostic medicine
Inas Rashad
Department: Economics
Research Interests: Physical activity, nutrition, urban sprawl, food & gas prices, metropolitan area, & minorities
Lesley Reid
Department: Sociology/A&S
Research Interests: Urban inequality with an emphasis on violence and substance abuse.
Parama Roy
Department: Geosciences/A&S
Research Interests: Socio-environmental injustice, How the various communities of differential class/race background living along the planned BeltLine are affected by the changing green landscape, Social and ecological benefits/effects of community gardens on Atlanta communities.
Charity Scott
Department: College of Law
Shannon Self-Brown
Department: Center for Healthy Development/Public Health
Research Interests: Child maltreatment prevention
Trauma exposure in children & adolescents
Wendy Simonds
Department: Sociology
Research Interests: Medicalization, women’s health, & health care work
Tracie Stewart
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Stereotyping and Prejudice; Inequality; Coping Responses to Racism and Implications for Mental Health; Stigma of Neurological Disorders
Rusty Tchernis
Department: Economics
Research Interests: Economics of childhood obesity.
Brent Teasdale
Department: Criminal Justice
Research Interests: Mental health, crime, & criminal justice
Substance abuse prevention & community contexts of crime
Griff Tester
Department: Sociology
Research Interests: Housing inequalities, health disparities, place attachment, & the meaning of home
Walter Thompson
Department: Kinesiology & Health/A&S
Research Interests: The improvement of our citizens who live in the inner city of Atlanta.
Volkan Topalli
Department: Criminal Justice
Research Interests: Urban violence, drug markets, offender decision-making, and the psychology of crime
Roderick Watts
Department: Psychology/A&S
Daniel Whitaker
Department: Center for Healthy Development /Public Health
Research Interests: Child maltreatment prevention & partner violence prevention
Cassandra White
Department: Anthropology
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, Hansen’s disease (leprosy), stigma, Brazilian culture, Latin America, immigration, racial identity, gender, & social stratification
Rihana Williams
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Acquisition of vocabulary through reading in children & adults
Interventions to increase reading comprehension & vocabulary knowledge
Alex Zelikovsky
Department: Computer Science
Research Interests: Genetics, genetic disease, predisposition, data analysis, prediction, clustering, & Giotech
Xu Zhang
Department: Mathematics & Statistics/A&S
Research Interests: Racial and economic disparities.
Yanqing Zhang
Department: Computer Science
Research Interests: Hybrid intelligent systems
Applications: bioinformatics, medical informatics and chemical informatics
Computational web intelligence
Yichuan Zhao
Department: Mathematics & Statistics/A&S
Research Interests: Transmission dynamics of HIV and STDs, general epidemiology, cancer prevention and control etc.