At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, more than 200 professors and research scientists teach tomorrow’s public health leaders and perform cutting-edge research that helps advance the field of public health. Many faculty members are leading experts in their fields who consult with governments, communities, and nongovernmental organizations.
Meet Our Faculty
Health Behavior and Health Equity Faculty
Department Chair
- Professor and Department Chair, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Mental Health
Department Associate Chair
- Associate Chair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Health Communication, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health
- Associate Chair and Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Racism, Substance Use
Core Faculty
- Associate Chair and Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Global Public Health, Health Communication, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Reproductive Health, Women’s Health
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Paula Allen-Meares Collegiate Professor of Social Work
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Racism
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Mental Health
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Faculty Lead, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice, Racism
- Associate Chair and Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Equity, Infectious Disease, LGBT Health, Mental Health, Racism, Substance Use
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Equity, Maternal Health, Racism, Reproductive Health, Urban Health
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Associate Professor, Combined Program in Education and Psychology
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Mental Health, Substance Use
- Professor and Department Chair, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Health Equity, Mental Health
- Research Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Health Equity
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Associate Professor of Global Public Health
- Director of the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19, Global Public Health, Health Equity, Health Policy, Reproductive Health, Substance Use, Women’s Health
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Senior Advisor, Poverty Solutions
- Faculty Associate, Latina/o Studies Program
Areas of Expertise
Health Communication, Health Equity, Racism
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Environmental Health, Health Equity, Racism, Urban Health
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Maternal Health, Mental Health, Nutrition
- Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Associate Professor of Global Public Health
Areas of Expertise
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- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Director, Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Mental Health, Racism
- Research Investigator, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Mental Health
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Equity
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Professor, Global Public Health
- Director, UM Center for Managing Chronic Disease
- VA Senior Career Scientist
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Communication, Health Informatics, Mental Health, Opioids, Precision Health
- Irwin Rosenstock Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity at University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine
- Associate Director for Community Engagement and Health Disparities Research at the Unive
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Director, ELSI Research Training Program
- Co-Director, Dual Degree Program in Public Health and Genetic Counseling
Areas of Expertise
Aging, Genetics, Health Communication, Mental Health, Precision Health
- University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Equity, Racism
- Research Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Maternal Health, Women’s Health
- Director, Undergraduate Education
- Clinical Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
LGBT Health
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Research Professor, Internal Medicine
- Interim Co-Director, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Communication
- Marshall H. Becker Collegiate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Professor, Psychology
- Professor, Combined Program in Education and Psychology
- Co-Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Firearm Injury Prevention, Mental Health
Faculty with Joint Appointments
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Carol J. and F. Edward Lake Term Clinical Professor
- Professor at the Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences
- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Biological Sciences
- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Community-Based Participatory Research, Health Equity
- Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Cancer, Chronic Disease, Racism
- Research Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
- Research Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine
- Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Policy
- Professor, Internal Medicine
- Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Research Scientist, Center for Clinical Management Research
- Staff Physician
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Care, Health Equity, Urban Health
- Research Associate Professor, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
- Research Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Equity
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Biologiocal Sciences, School of Nursing
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Reproductive Health
- Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, School of Nursing
- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Associate Professor, Learning Health Sciences
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Co-Director, Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research
Areas of Expertise
Chronic Disease, Health Care, Health Equity
- Associate Professor, Neurology
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
- Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Firearm Injury Prevention
- Associate Professor, Nursing
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Co-Director, Training and Education Core, University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center
- Director, Certificate in Injury Science
Areas of Expertise
Child Health, Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Equity, Mental Health, Substance Use, Urban Health
- Assistant Research Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, University of Michigan
Areas of Expertise
Firearm Injury Prevention, Global Public Health, Mental Health
- Associate Professor, School of Information
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Michigan Medicine
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Associate Director, Program for Equity in Adolescent and Child Health, Department of Pediatrics, Michigan Medicine
- Associate Director, Michigan Child Health Equity Collaborative, Department of Pediatrics, Michigan Medicine
Areas of Expertise
Health Care, Health Communication, Occupational Health, Public Health Practice
Adjunct Faculty
- Vice President of Social Impact, Duly Health and Care, Downers Grove, IL
- Clinical Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Mental Health, Occupational Health, Substance Use
- Associate Professor, College of Education, Health and Human Services, University of Michigan Dearborn
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Environmental Health, Health Communication, Health Equity, Health Policy, Public Health Practice
Emeritus Faculty
- Professor Emeritus, Health Behavior and Health Equity
Areas of Expertise
Health Equity, Public Health Practice, Racism
- Professor Emerita, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Director of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center
- Professor Emeritus, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Marshall H. Becker Collegiate Professor of Public Health
- Associate Research Scientist, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Evaluation Director, Center for Managing Chronic Disease
- Professor Emeritus, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Associate Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
- Director, Program for Research on Black Americans