Division of Epidemiology Faculty, Fellows & Staff
Faculty and postdoctoral fellows in NYU Langone’s Division of Epidemiology conduct research at the forefront of the discipline. Our research interests include cancer epidemiology and biomarkers, opioid use disorder, social determinants of health, environmental exposure and disease, the human microbiome, population health surveillance, occupational health, and causal inference methods. Our staff supports our research and educational programs.
Core Faculty
Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH, MPH
Director, Division of Epidemiology
Professor, Department of Population Health
Research interests: opioid use disorder; violence prevention; firearms; prescription drugs; heroin; drug overdose; social determinants of injury; marijuana; homicide; suicide
Jiyoung Ahn, PhD
Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine
Yu Chen, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Population Health
George Friedman-Jimenez, MD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine
Richard B. Hayes, DDS, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Population Health
Tomas Kirchhoff, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Karen L. Koenig, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Noa Krawczyk, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Research interests: barriers to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorders; and improving quality and effectiveness of care
Ellicott C. Matthay, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Research interests: alcohol and drug control policies; substance use; violence; causal inference methods
Audrey Renson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Research interests: social policies and health inequities; causal inference methods
Andrea Titus, PhD, MPP
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Population Health
Research interests: social and environmental determinants of disparities in chronic disease outcomes; tobacco control; climate change
Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, MD, MS
Professor, Department of Population Health
Affiliated Faculty
Alan A. Arslan, MD
Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Population Health
Sunjae Bae, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Departments of Surgery and Population Health
Whitney Cowell, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health
Corey Davis, JD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Andrea Deierlein, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Charles J. DiMaggio, PhD
Professor, Departments of Surgery and Population Health
Sommer E. Gentry, PhD
Member of the Faculty, Departments of Surgery and Population Health
Akhgar Ghassabian, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health
Linda G. Kahn, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health
Bonnie Kerker, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Maria R. Khan, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Madison N. LeCroy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
Macey L. Levan, JD, PhD
Member of the Faculty, Departments of Surgery and Population Health
Allan B. Massie, PhD
Member of the Faculty, Departments of Surgery and Population Health
Mara A. McAdams DeMarco, PhD
Member of the Faculty, Departments of Surgery and Population Health
Niyati Parekh, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health
Pasquale E. Rummo, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health
Dorry L. Segev, MD, PhD
Member of the Faculty, Departments of Surgery and Population Health
Roy E. Shore
Adjunct Professor, Department of Population Health
Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP
The Jim G. Hendrick, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics
Professor, Department of Population Health
Postdoctoral Fellows
Spruha Joshi, PhD, MPH
Research interests: public health effects of cannabis legalization; racial and ethnic health disparities; evaluation of state and local opioid laws
spruha.joshi@nyulangone.org
Soyoung Kwak, PhD
Research interests: nutrition; obesity; the human microbiome; health disparities; head and neck cancer
soyoung.kwak@nyulangone.org
Yixuan Meng, PhD
Research interests: the microbiome; tumor microenvironment; genomics; health disparities; pancreas cancer
yixuan.meng@nyulangone.org
Julian Santaella-Tenorio, DVM, DrPH, MSc
Research interests: substance use and related harms; injury and violence prevention; policy research
julian.santaella-tenorio@nyulangone.org
Program Staff
Elizabeth Clancy, MS
Division Administrator
elizabeth.clancy@nyulangone.org
Rodrigo Arce Cardozo, MD, MPH
Project Manager
rodrigo.arcecardozo@nyulangone.org
Gabriella Macias
Administrative Coordinator
gabriella.macias@nyulangone.org