Fall 2026
New & Notable
Recognizing new Rollins faculty and recent faculty promotions.
New Faculty
Zhuoer Lin, PhD
Assistant Professor (HPM)
Research Interests: Aging and health economics, cognitive aging and dementia, life-course social determinants of health, health and health care disparities, long-term care and caregiving, and public policy
Nicole Luisi, PhD
Research Assistant Professor (EPI)
Research Interests: Epidemiologic research methods, web-based survey methods, innovative data technologies, data analysis and visualization, substance use, sexual and reproductive health, and infectious diseases
Rob Merritt
Teaching Professor (HPM)
Research Interests: Improving how we collect, analyze, and translate big data into health policy and public health practice to impact population health
Khai Hoan Tram, MD
Assistant Professor (EPI)
Research Interests: Epidemiology of tuberculosis and HIV, geospatial analysis, infectious disease
modeling, precision public health, and mobility
Bradley Stein
Acting Professor (HPM)
Research Interests: Improving care and outcomes for individuals with mental health and substance
use disorders in community settings
Recent Faculty Promotions
W. Michael Caudle, PhD
Teaching Professor (EH)
Research Interests: Adolescent and child health, toxicology, neurologic conditions, neuroscience
Yue Guan, PhD
Grant of Tenure as Associate Professor (BSHES)
Research Interests: Promoting population health and eliminating health inequities through effective translation of evidence-based genomic-informed programs and policies
Candice Hargons, PhD
Grant of Tenure as Associate Professor (BSHES)
Research Interests: Sexual and behavioral health, mental health, community-based research, qualitative methodologies
Eric Nehl, PhD
Research Professor (BSHES)
Research Interests: Behavior and health, evaluation, clinical and translational science
Aaron Siegler, PhD
Professor (EPI and BSHES)
Research Interests: Disease surveillance, HIV/AIDS prevention, infectious disease, statistical modeling, health disparities
Allison Chamberlain, PhD
Professsor of Practice (EPI)
Research Interests: Public health preparedness, public health practice, vaccine promotion, vaccine-preventable diseases
Unjali Gujral, PhD
Research Associate Professor (GH)
Research Interests: Racial/ethnic disparities in diabetes with a focus on the pathophysiological mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and diabetes etiology in minority and immigrant populations
Max Lau, PhD
Associate Professor with Grant of Tenure (BIOS and EPI)
Research Interests: Building innovative models and novel algorithms that blend statistical inference, computational models, and ML/AI techniques to inform outbreak response, guide public health decisions, and drive scientific discovery
Whitney Rice, DrPH
Associate Professor with Grant of Tenure (BSHES)
Research Interests: Investigating social and structural factors that impede or
enable equity in maternal and reproductive health outcomes, care delivery, and scholarship
Lavanya Vasudevan, PhD
Grant of Tenure as Associate Professor (GH)
Research Interests: Optimizing the delivery of evidence-based preventive interventions for vulnerable populations, including vaccine uptake across the lifespan
Explore More Stories
Rollins Magazine is published twice a year by the Rollins School of Public Health, a component of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University, for alumni and friends of the school.