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Austin Regional Campus

Faculty

Brown III, Henry S, PhD
Associate Professor

Research interests: Effects of and demand for health insurance; immigrants and minority groups; economic evaluation of public health interventions; productivity costs of chronic illnesses

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 206
Email: henry.s.brown@uth.tmc.edu
Henry S Brown III, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6174

Evans, Alexandra, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences

Research interests: Child and adolescent health promotion through interventions with parents and schools; obesity prevention

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 208
Email: alexandra.e.evans@uth.tmc.edu
Alexandra Evans, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6172

Hoelscher, Deanna M., PhD
Professor and Director, Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living

Research interests: Design, implementation and evaluation of nutrition and physical activity programs for children, school foodservice personnel, and minority populations, prevention of chronic diseases; evaluation of legislative policies; development and evaluation of dietary and physical activity assessment methods; epidemiologic studies of child nutrition, physical activity and behavioral risk factors; diet-gene interactions

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 211
Email: deanna.m.hoelscher@uth.tmc.edu
Deanna M. Hoelscher, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6168

Kelder, Steven H., PhD
Beth Toby Grossman Professor

Research interests: Epidemiology of child and adolescent health, design and evaluation of school health promotion programs, particular emphasis on obesity, diet, physical activity, and substance use

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 212
Email: steven.h.kelder@uth.tmc.edu
Steven H. Kelder, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6169

Kohl III, Harold, PhD
Professor

Research interests: Epidemiology of physical activity, development of physical activity national guidelines; physical activity for chronic disease prevention

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 209
Email: harold.w.kohl@uth.tmc.edu
Harold Kohl III, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6167

McAlister, Alfred L., PhD
Professor

Research interests: Tobacco policy, violence prevention, peace and conflict, health disparities, advocacy and mass communication, international health

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 220G
Email: alfred.l.mcalister@uth.tmc.edu
Alfred L. McAlister, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6163

Nichols, Donna,
Community Health Specialist

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 220H
Email: donna.c.nichols@uth.tmc.edu
Donna Nichols,
Phone: (512) 482-6181

Parcel, Guy S., PhD
John P. McGovern Professor in Health Promotion

Research interests: School health promotion; child and adolescent health; health behaviors

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 207
Email: guy.s.parcel@uth.tmc.edu
Guy S. Parcel, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6164

Perez, Adriana , PhD
Associate Professor

Research interests: Statistical methods for handling missing data, statistical methods for epidemiological research (including modeling), sampling and sample size issues in health studies and statistical methods to account for the uncertainty due to measurement error.

Campus: Austin — Office:
Email: adriana.perez@uth.tmc.edu
Adriana  Perez, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6183

Perry, Cheryl, PhD
Prof. and Regional Dean, Austin Regional Campus and Rockwell Distinguished Chair

Research interests: Design, development, implementation and evaluation of health promotion programs for children and adolescents. In particular, smoking and alcohol use prevention, healthy eating and physical activity; school-based, peer, family, and community programs

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 210
Email: cheryl.l.perry@uth.tmc.edu
Cheryl Perry, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6166

Ranjit, Nalini, PhD
Faculty Associate

Research interests: Faculty Associate, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Austin Regional Campus (part-time)

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 220I
Email: nalini.ranjit@uth.tmc.edu
Nalini Ranjit, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6186

Springer, Andrew E., DrPH
Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences

Research interests: Adolescent health promotion, physical activity, childhood obesity prevention, socio-ecological influences of health behavior, epidemiology of child and adolescent health behaviors in Latin America

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 213
Email: andrew.e.springer@uth.tmc.edu
Andrew E. Springer, DrPH
Phone: (512) 482-6165

Stigler, Melissa, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research interests: Child and adolescent health, global/international health, with special emphasis on India; tobacco prevention and cessation; obesity prevention; behavioral epidemiology

Campus: Austin — Office: TCB 214
Email: melissa.h.stigler@uth.tmc.edu
Melissa Stigler, PhD
Phone: (512) 482-6173

Warner, David C., PhD
Professor

Research interests: Health finances; health economics; health policy; diabetes policy; border health; cross border utilization; mental health finance; health planning; national health insurance

Campus: Austin — Office:
Email: david.c.warner@uth.tmc.edu
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Phone: (512) 471-4962