Fall 2025
New & Notable
Compiled by Sarah Timbie
Photography by Erik Meadows
Recognizing new Rollins faculty and recent faculty promotions.
New Faculty
Rodrigo Carrillo-Larco, MD
Assistant Professor (GH)
Research Interests: Integrating innovative data sources to develop tools and generate evidence that address everyday global health challenges and inform policy in the field of cardiometabolic diseases.
Dae-Hee Han, PhD
Assistant Professor (BSHES)
Research Interests: Human laboratory experimentation and epidemiologic approaches to examine nicotine product use behaviors among young populations, with the goal of informing tobacco prevention and regulatory strategies.
Chang Liu, PhD
Assistant Research Professor (EPI)
Research Interests: Integrating traditional epidemiology with multi-omic approaches to investigate cardiometabolic diseases, emphasizing diverse populations and large-scale biobank data.
Scott Montgomery
Professor (GH)
Research Interests: Implementation and evaluation of large-scale food fortification programs to prevent micronutrient deficiencies.
Rebecca Myerson, PhD
Associate Professor (HPM)
Research Interests: Examining the impacts of public policies and information interventions on take-up of insurance coverage, health care access, and health outcomes.
William Pearson, PhD
Professor (HPM)
Research Interests: Ensuring quality education for future health care leaders.
Robert Roeser, PhD
Professor (BSHES)
Research Interests: Exploring mindfulness and compassion programs in schools as universal approaches to reducing educator and student ill-being and stress, and to cultivating health, well-being teaching, and learning.
Jithin Varghese, PhD
Assistant Professor (GH)
Research Interests: Integrating precision medicine and public health surveillance technology solutions for cardiometabolic disease management among medically underserved populations in the U.S. and globally.
Danielle Wallace, PhD
Assistant Professor (EH)
Research Interests: Investigating how environmental exposures, such as light and temperature, affect the biological timing system and sleep using wearable devices to measure environmental exposures and physiological outcomes.
Hefei Wen, PhD
Associate Professor (HPM)
Research Interests: Leveraging rigorous quantitative methods to inform health and social policies surrounding the behavioral health issues in the U.S., including implications of opioid regulation, marijuana liberalization, Medicaid expansion, and criminal justice reform for the ongoing opioid crisis.
Recent Faculty Promotions
Angela Bengtson, PhD
Associate Professor (EPI)
Research Interests: Understanding and addressing how cardiometabolic comorbidities influence perinatal, pediatric, and women’s health outcomes, with a particular focus on HIV and comorbidities.
Xiangqin Cui, PhD
Research Professor (BIOS)
Research Interests: Epidemiological and clinical studies using electronic medical records and intervention trials.
Ilana Graetz, PhD
Professor (HPM)
Research Interests: Digital health and remote monitoring to improve behavioral and clinical outcomes and reduce disparities in cancer and diabetes care.
Sophia Hussen, MD
Associate Professor (GH)
Research Interests: Community engagement to address HIV, mental health, and substance use among Black sexual minority men and other marginalized communities.
Jeb Jones, PhD
Associate Professor (EPI)
Research Interests: Increasing uptake of HIV prevention strategies, including pre-exposure prophylaxis among gay and bisexual men with a focus on the rural southern U.S.
Donghai Liang, PhD
Associate Professor (EH)
Research Interests: Application of exposomics and multi-omics approaches to uncover the biological mechanisms linking environmental exposures to cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and maternal and child health outcomes.
Robin McGee, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor (BSHES)
Research Interests: Contributing to pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning with a focus on inclusive excellence and community engagement.
Joanne McGriff, MD
Associate Professor of Practice (GH)
Research Interests: Inclusive excellence and equity in Rollins School of Public Health educational and service initiatives.
Stephen Patrick, MD
Professor (HPM)
Research Interests: Improving outcomes for pregnant women and infants affected by the opioid crisis.
Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade, PhD
Associate Professor (EPI)
Research Interests: Development and evaluation of vaccine and antibiotic treatment interventions for enteric diseases among children in low-resource settings.
Anna Rubtsova, PhD
Associate Research Professor (BSHES)
Research Interests: Examining the impact of social determinants of health and psychosocial factors on aging-related outcomes in people living with HIV.
Noah Scovronick, PhD
Associate Professor (EH)
Research Interests: Understanding the links between climate change and human health, including policies to limit future warming.
Regina Shih, PhD
Professor (EPI)
Research Interests: Advancing the epidemiology of dementia, healthy aging, and caregiving to support providers and inform policy change.
Lisa Staimez, PhD
Associate Research Professor (GH)
Research Interests: Developing clinical and epidemiologic studies to interrogate drivers of dysregulated beta cell biology and identify markers of susceptibility to type 2 diabetes.
Joshua Wallach, PhD
Associate Professor (EPI)
Research Interests: Leveraging a wide range of methodologies and data sources to evaluate the role of evidence in policy decision-making and the development, regulation, and utilization of medical products.
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