Bartholomew, L. Kay, EdD
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Educational Programs
Research interests: Self-management of pediatric chronic disease; health education/promotion intervention
Campus: Houston — Office: RAS W238
Email: leona.k.bartholomew@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9080 |
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Baumler, Elizabeth G., PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Research interests: Multilevel modeling; youth risk behavior; population health
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2632
Email: elizabeth.r.baumler@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9684 |
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Byrd, Theresa L., DrPH
Associate Professor
Research interests: Health promotion and behavior change; maternal and child health; community organization and development; border health; cancer prevention/early detection
Campus: El Paso — Office: 097 110J
Email: theresa.l.byrd@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (915) 747-8504 |
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Caughy, Margaret O., ScD
Associate Professor
Research interests: Child development; parenting; poverty; maternal and child health; program evaluation
Campus: Dallas — Office: 00V V8.112A
Email: margaret.o.caughy@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (214) 648-1052 |
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Chen, Chin-Hsing, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Evaluation of health promotion/education programs; etiology of obesity, smoking, and other health behaviors and its associated risk/protective factors; longitudinal methods; multi-level analysis and hierarchical linear modeling; growth curve/growth mixture modeling; Bayesian methods, intervention time series analysis; spatial statistical analysis
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2514
Email: chin-hsing.chen@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9766 |
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Diamond, Pamela M., PhD
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Interface between criminal justice and mental health policy, psychiatric epidemiology, community reintegration for female offenders, and the use of latent variable models in public health research
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2614
Email: pamela.m.diamond@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9979 |
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Escobar-Chaves, Soledad Liliana, PhD
Assistant Professor of Hlth Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Research interests: Development, implementation/evaluation of school-based/family/community- based health promotion related to media; violence; sexual risk behavior; obesity
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2657
Email: soledad.l.escobar-chaves@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9637 |
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Fernandez, Maria E., PhD
Associate Professor and Director of Diversity Programs
Research interests: Cancer control, Hispanic populations, informed decision-making health promotion planning and evaluation, health informatics, health communications
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2558
Email: maria.e.fernandez@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9626 |
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Fernandez-Esquer, Maria E., PhD
Associate Professor
Research interests: AIDS and cancer prevention; perception of risk; ethnic differences in health beliefs and behaviors
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2518
Email: maria.e.fernandez-esquer@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9657 |
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Franzini, Luisa , PhD
Associate Professor
Research interests: Health economics and econometrics; economic and social determinants of health; racial/ethnic health disparities and minority health; income inequality; cost effectiveness and cost-utility analysis; cost of medical education
Campus: Houston — Office: RAS E923
Email: luisa.franzini@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9487 |
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Markham, Christine , PhD
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Adolescent and child health, including HIV, STD and pregnancy prevention, substance use prevention, chronic disease management, influence of parental factors, qualitative research, outcome and process evaluation
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2616
Email: christine.markham@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9646 |
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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 | 
Phone: (512) 482-6163 |
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McCurdy, Sheryl A., PhD
Associate Professor
Research interests: STDs; HIV/AIDS; substance abuse, women’s health, violence, underserved populations, health disparities, qualitative research, global health studies
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2520
Email: sheryl.a.mccurdy@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9633 |
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Mullen, Patricia Dolan, DrPH
Professor
Research interests: Health promotion for disadvantaged or incarcerated women; transtheoretical model of behavior change; contraception and STD/HIV risk reduction; informed decision making for cancer and other screening tests; patient education; evaluation methods; systematic review and meta-analysis
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2522
Email: patricia.d.mullen@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9658 |
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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 | 
Phone: (512) 482-6164 |
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Peskin, Melissa Fleschler, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Research interests: Child and adolescent health, specifically in HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention, violence, bullying, cyberbullying; intervention development and program evaluation
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2658
Email: melissa.f.peskin@uth.tmc.edu |
Phone: (713) 500-9759 |
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Peters, Ronald J., DrPH
Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Research interests: Sexual risk-taking behavior; design and analysis of drug use studies among youth and incarcerated populations; and cultural and economic aspects of health behaviors in
underserved communities
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2618
Email: ronald.j.peters@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9642 |
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Reininger, Belinda M., DrPH
Associate Professor
Research interests: Evaluation research; community based health promotion; health disparities
Campus: Brownsville — Office: RAC N1.202E
Email: belinda.m.reininger@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (956) 882-5161 |
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Ross, Michael W., PhD
Professor
Research interests: STDs; HIV/AIDS; drug abuse; community level and correctional STD/HIV prevention cross-cultural aspects of public health; internet sexuality
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2622
Email: michael.w.ross@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9652 |
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Shegog, Ross , PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences
Research interests: Application of instructional and/or decision-support technology in health promotion and disease prevention including pediatric asthma management; prevention and cessation of adolescent and young adult tobacco use; prevention of HIV, STD, and pregnancy in middle school children
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2668
Email: ross.shegog@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9677 |
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Taylor, Wendell , PhD
Associate Professor
Research interests: Health promotion; CVD risk factors in children; Physical activity in children; Cancer prevention in underserved populations
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2670
Email: wendell.c.taylor@uth.tmc.edu |
Phone: (713) 500-9635 |
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Tortolero, Susan R., PhD
Associate Professorand Director CHPPR
Research interests: Adolescence; children; sexual risk taking, STDs, pregnancy, substance use, violence mental health; depression; Hispanics; prevention research
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2080
Email: susan.tortolero@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9634 |
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Vernon, Sally W., PhD
Blair Justice, PhD Prof. in Mind-Body Medicine and Pub Hlth and Dir, Div of Hlth Promo and Beh Sci
Research interests: Cancer prevention and control for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers; informed decision making for prostate cancer testing; psychosocial issues in cancer genetic testing; measurement of psychosocial constructs; reliability and validity of self-report cancer screening behaviors
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2560
Email: sally.w.vernon@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9760 |
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Walters, Scott T., PhD
Associate Professor
Research interests: College student health and substance abuse prevention, motivational theories of change, mailed and computerized interventions for substance abuse, brief negotiation in medical settings, religious and spiritual aspects of psychology
Campus: Dallas — Office: 00V V8.112N
Email: scott.t.walters@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (214) 648-1519 |
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Williams, Mark L., PhD
Professor
Research interests: HIV/AIDS prevention; STD prevention; antiretroviral medication compliance; drug abuse; minority health
Campus: Houston — Office: UCT 2516
Email: mark.l.williams@uth.tmc.edu | 
Phone: (713) 500-9674 |
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