Affiliated Faculty
Nancy Fleischer, Co-Director
Chronic Disease, COVID-19, Health Equity, LGBT Health, Racism, Social Epidemiology,
Substance Use
Lindsay Kobayashi, Co-Director
Aging, Brain Disorders, Cancer, Chronic Disease, Global Public Health, Health Equity,
Social Epidemiology
Belinda Needham
Health Disparities; Aging and the Life Course; Biodemography.
Philippa Clarke
Aging, disability, built environment, quantitative methods.
Nancy Fleischer
Social epidemiology, health disparities, social determinants of health, non-communicable
disease risk, global health, immigration, and health.
Lindsay Kobayashi
Aging; global health; epidemiology; social epidemiology; cognitive aging; health disparities.
Lynda Lisabeth
Stroke health disparities with a focus on understanding the excess burden in special
populations, including Mexican Americans and women.
Lewis Morgenstern
Race/ethnic and gender disparities in stroke, access to health care and acculturation
of Hispanic Americans, community and professional education for acute stroke treatment
and stroke prevention, social epidemiology.
Jennifer Smith
Genetic epidemiology and social epigenomics of age-related chronic diseases and their
risk factors, including cardiovascular disease, ischemic brain injury, and cognition.
Jon Zelner
Infectious diseases, social epidemiology, spatial epidemiology, mathematical modeling,
network analysis, tuberculosis, diarrheal disease.