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Faculty & Staff

David W. Wetter, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Health Disparities Research

Projects:

  • Quit and Win
  • Project HEALTH
  • Cuidate
  • Por Nuestra Salud

Jennifer Irvin Vidrine, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Disparities Research

Project:

  • Project INFORM (RO1) (Literacy and Smoking Risk Communications) 
  • Ask-Advise-Connect (R18) (Dissemination of a Smoking Quitline to the Underserved)

Lorna Haughton McNeill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Disparities Research

Project:

  • African American Cancer Prevention Project: Establishing a Cohort to Investigate Health Disparities
  • Peer-Support Motivational Interviewing PA Intervention for African American Women
  • Perceptions of School, Recreation, and Transportation Environments Among African American Families in Public Housing  - II
  • Social, Contextual and Environmental Determinants of Physical Activity in Sedentary Minority Adults

Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Disparities Research

Projects:

  • Trends over time in thyroid and head and neck cancer incidence by socioeconomic status
  • Relations of menthol cigarette use with tobacco dependence and quitting motives and behaviors
  • The effects of neighborhood factors on patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
  • Social and contextual determinants of smoking cessation

Larkin L. Strong, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Health Disparities Research

Christopher P. Fagundes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Disparities Research

Marcel A. de Dios, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Disparities Research

Cho Y. Lam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Health Disparities Research

Carlos A. Mazas, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Health Disparities Research

Project:

Claire E. Adams, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Health Disparities Research


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