Biostatistics and Epidemiology Faculty

Ayana April-Sanders, RBHS Instructor of Epidemiology; Ph.D., M.P.H., Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
Health inequities; cardiovascular and cardiometabolic disease in minority and immigrant populations

Emily Barrett, Professor of Epidemiology; Ph.D., M.A., Harvard
Perinatal, reproductive environmental epidemiology

Greta Bushnell, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Ph.D., M.S.P.H., UNC Gillings School of Public Health (Chapel Hill)
Pharmacoepidemiology; psychotropics, mental health; substance use disorders; pediatrics; adolescents; health services research

Ellen Francis, Assistant Professor Epidemiology; Ph.D., Clemson
Perinatal epidemiology; lifecourse frameworks; pregnancy risk-stratification; gestational diabetes; metabolomics; precision medicine

Judith Graber, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Concentration Director of Epidemiology; Ph.D., Illinois
Environmental and occupational epidemiology

Perry Halkitis, Dean, Hunterdon Professor of Public Health & Health Equity; Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., M.P.H., CUNY
Infectious diseases epidemiology; HIV; applied statistics; public health psychology; substance use and dependence; mental health; health behavior; behavioral medicine; LGBTQ

Elizabeth Handorf, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Observational studies; cost-effectiveness analysis; biostatistics for cancer research

Ubydul Haque, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Ph.D., Nagasaki (Japan);
Infectious diseases; climate change; global public health

Liangyuan Hu, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Brown
Causal inference; missing data; machine learning

Farzin Khosrow-Khavar; RBHS Instructor of Epidemiology; Ph.D., McGill (Canada)
Pharmacoepidemiology; health disparities; health services research

Anita Kinney, Professor of Epidemiology; Director, Center of Cancer Health Disparities and Associate Director, Cancer Health Equity and Engagement at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; Ph.D., Texas; M.S.N., Pennsylvania
Cancer prevention and public health; cancer epidemiology

Gwenyth Lee, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Ph.D., M.H.S., Johns Hopkins
Global health; enteric health; global nutrition; child health

Yong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Mixture hypotheses and models; cancer phase-I/II clinical trial designs; bootstrap and statistical computing

Hao Liu, Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Washington (Seattle)
Clinical trial design and analysis; precision oncology; statistical deep learning of real-word patient data; survival analysis; statistical methods for cancer research

Shou-En Lu, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins
Cohort case-control design and analysis; clustered failure time data; multivariate failure time data

Lan Luo, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Michigan
Streaming data; online statistical inference; mobile health; epigenetic clocks

Michelle Bover Manderski, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Ph.D, M.P.H., Rutgers School of Public Health
Survey methodology; measurement of risk behaviors; tobacco control; epidemiology methods; cancer epidemiology

Dirk Moore, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., Washington (Seattle)
Correlated binary and count data; statistical methods in genetics and epidemiology

Pamela Ohman Strickland, Associate Professor of Biostatistics; Ph.D., M.S., Cornell
Analysis with small samples; categorical data; random effect models; clustered failure time data

Stefania Papatheodorou, Associate Professor of Epidemiology; M.D., Ph.D., University of Ioannina (Greece); M.Sc., Cyprus University of Technology, (Cyprus)
Air pollution; climate change; pregnancy; children's Health

Henry F. Raymond, Associate Professor of Epidemiology; Dr.P.H., California (Berkeley); M.P.H., San Jose State
Sampling hard to reach populations; LGBTQ; HIV; STD's

Zorimar Rivera-Nunez, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Ph.D., Michigan
Environmental epidemiology; biomarkers; measurement error; endocrine disruptors; pregnancy, placenta, drinking water contaminants; big data

Jason Roy, Chair, Professor, and Director of Rutgers University Biostatistics and Epidemiology Services (RUBIES); Ph.D., Michigan
Causal inference; Bayesian nonparametrics; digital health

Jaya Satagopan,Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs; , Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Gene-environment interactions; case-control design; selective sampling designs; bayesian methods; ensemble learning methods

Stephanie Shiau, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology; Ph.D., M.P.H., Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
HIV; infectious disease; epigenetics; lifecourse epidemiology; perinatal epidemiology; pediatric epidemiology; maternal and child health

Antoinette Stroup, Professor of Epidemiology, Director of Cancer Epidemiology Services, and New Jersey State Cancer Registry at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; Ph.D., Utah (Salt Lake City)
Cancer surveillance research, disparities in cancer risk and survival; long-term survival; quality of life and late effects life course approach and geographic disparities in cancer risk and outcomes

Elizabeth Suarez, RBHS Instructor of Epidemiology; Ph.D., UNC (Chapel Hill); MPH, Boston
Pharmacoepidemology; perinatal epidemiology; birth defects; pregnancy, mental health; substance use disorders