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

Lorna E. Thorpe, PhD, MPH
Director, Division of Epidemiology
Professor, Department of Population Health
Research interests: chronic disease epidemiology; public health surveillance; evaluation of policy on health

Jiyoung Ahn, PhD
Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine

Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH, MPH
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

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