Rollins Experts
Browse our list of experts by topic. Rollins experts are available to speak with journalists, public officials, and others.
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Topics
Artificial Intelligence + Public Health
Cancer
Child and Adolescent Health
Diabetes
Environmental Health
Health and Human Rights
Health Ethics
Health Inequities
Heart Disease
Infectious Disease
Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights
Mental Health
Public Health Policy
Smoking
Substance Use Disorders
Vaccines
Women’s Empowerment
Artificial Intelligence + Public Health
Lance Waller
Professor
Expertise: Geospatial data on infectious disease and environmental health, data sharing, rigor in research, data science
Cancer
Cam Escoffery
Professor
Expertise: Cancer prevention, community prevention
Lauren McCullough
Associate Professor
Expertise: Disparities in cancer outcomes, contributions of obesity and social environment to tumor growth, cancer risk factors, policy intervention, racism in cancer
Child and Adolescent Health
Kelli Komro
Professor
Expertise: Social determinants of health, health disparities
Diabetes
Shivani Patel
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Global diabetes; global heart disease; role of ethnicity, under nutrition, and urbanization on diabetes and metabolic outcomes in India; health equity in Georgia
Environmental Health
Matthew Freeman
Professor
Expertise: Global impacts of COVID from a water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) perspective; impact of WASH on neglected tropical diseases; foodborne illness; access to WASH in low-income global settings.
Donghai Liang
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Air pollution, PFAS (forever chemicals), metabolic responses
Yang Liu
Chair and Gangarosa Distinguished Professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environment Health
Expertise: Wildfires, climate change and extreme weather, satellite data and air pollution exposure
Carmen Marsit
Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Research Strategy
Expertise: Impact of environmental exposures on human health, particularly as it relates to cancer, pregnancies, and childhood obesity, growth, and behavioral disorders
Jeremy Sarnat
Associate Professor
Expertise: Air Pollution
Noah Scovronick
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Climate change, impacts of climate policy on various downstream health and economic outcomes, climate epidemiology
Health Ethics
Jim Lavery
Professor
Expertise: Research ethics, public health ethics, ethics of vaccines and quarantine
Health and Human Rights
Dabney Evans
Associate Professor
Expertise: Reproductive health, femicide, abortion, gender-based violence
Health Inequities
Chandra Ford
Professor
Expertise: Impacts of racism on HIV care, tools to study racism-related health disparities
Don Operario
Grace Crum Rollins Professor and Chair
Expertise: Health equity, stigma and social disadvantage, community health, mental health, HIV, structural violence
Heart Disease
Dayna Johnson
Assistant Professor
Role of racism and health disparities in sleep health and impacts on cardiovascular health
Tené Lewis
Professor
Expertise: Heart disease in Black women; health disparities in heart disease; stress, resilience, and ambulatory blood pressure in Black women; inflammation and atherosclerosis in Black women with Lupus.
Infectious Disease
Allison Chamberlain
Research Associate Professor
Expertise: COVID response, contact tracing, vaccination, public health preparedness and practice, implementation science
James Curran
Professor, Dean Emeritus
Expertise: History of HIV/AIDS, infectious disease response, public health leadership
Natalie Dean
Assistant Professor
Expertise: HIV, Ebola, Zika, chikungunya, dengue, COVID-19
Neel Gandhi
Professor
Expertise: Tuberculosis transmission and prevention
Jodie Guest
Professor
Expertise: COVID response, testing, and transmission; vaccines; rural health; health disparities; HIV/AIDS
Ben Lopman
Professor
Expertise: Vaccines, epidemiological modeling, the epidemiology of COVID, disease surveillance, genetic epidemiology, diarrheal disease, food-borne disease
Sarita Shah
Professor
Expertise: Tuberculosis epidemiology, TB antibiotic resistance
Patrick Sullivan
Professor
Expertise: HIV/AIDS prevention using novel tools like apps, increasing PReP uptake
Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights
Sarah Blake
Associate Professor
Expertise: Delivery and financing of reproductive and maternal health services for low-income and uninsured women, health disparities in women's health, public health policy, cancer prevention
Lauren Christiansen-Lindquist
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Stillbirth
Subasri Narasimhan
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Maternal and child health, intimate partner violence, policy restrictions on abortion and contraceptives, minors' access to abortion, crisis pregnancy centers
Whitney Rice
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Determinants of access to sexual and reproductive health services
Mental Health
Ben Druss
Professor
Expertise: Improving access, quality, and outcomes of care for populations with serious mental illnesses and medical comorbidity
M. Daniele Fallin
James W. Curran Dean of Public Health
Expertise: Public mental health, Autism, child health, environmental health connected to child health, genomics, epigenomics
Briana Woods-Jaeger
Associate Professor
Expertise: Mental health, community engagement, childhood trauma, violence prevention
Public Health Policy
David Howard
Professor
Expertise: Physician and health system responses to recommendations
Smoking
Michelle Kegler
Professor
Expertise: Tobacco cessation and smoking policy, rural Georgia health
Substance Use Disorders
Natalie Crawford
Professor
Expertise: Racial disparities in HIV/AIDS, addiction, and substance abuse
Hannah Cooper
Professor
Expertise: Opioid epidemic, police violence, addiction, health disparities
Vaccines
Bob Bednarczyk
Assistant Professor
Expertise: HPV vaccine, COVID vaccines, vaccine hesitancy
Women's Empowerment
Kathryn Yount
Professor
Expertise: Women's empowerment, gender-based violence (and prevention)
