At the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center, leadership, staff, and affiliated faculty from NYU Langone, the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and other NYU and CUNY institutions research community- and clinic-based linkages to preventive care and chronic disease prevention and management.

Our group’s broad expertise spans the fields of epidemiology, public health and health policy, health analytics, community health, environmental and occupational health, biostatistics, medicine, dentistry, nursing, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and health disparities research, among others.

Our Center Leadership

Lorna E. Thorpe, PhD, MPH
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone

Nadia S. Islam, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone

Terry T.-K. Huang, PhD, MPH, MBA
Co-Principal Investigator
Professor and Chair, Health Policy and Management, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Maria R. Khan, PhD, MPH
Core Research Project Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone

Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH
Co-Investigator
Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine, NYU Langone

Our Staff

Smiti Nadkarni, MPH
Program Manager

Natalia Irvine, MPH
Senior Research Coordinator

Stefanie Bendik, MPH
Research Coordinator

NYU Affiliated Faculty

John Billings, JD
Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone
Professor of Health Policy and Public Service, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Scott Braithwaite, MD
Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine, NYU Langone

Brian D. Elbel, PhD, MPH
Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine, NYU Langone
Associate Professor of Population Health and Healthy Policy, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Amy Freeman, PhD, MPH
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone

Stephen B. Johnson, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone

Sue A. Kaplan, JD
Research Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine, NYU Langone

Simona C. Kwon, DrPH, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone

Charles J. Neighbors, PhD, MBA
Director, Health Evaluation and Analytics Lab, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone

Victoria Raveis, PhD, MPhil, MA
Research Professor, NYU College of Dentistry

Joseph E. Ravenell, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine, NYU Langone

Erin Rogers, DrPH, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone

Donna Shelley, MD, MPH
Adjunct Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone
Professor of Public Health Policy and Management, NYU School of Global Public Health

Tanya M. Spruill, PhD, MS
Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health and Medicine, NYU Langone

Nancy L. Van Devanter, DrPH, MPH, EdM
Professor, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing

CUNY Affiliated Faculty

Sherry Baron, MD, MPH
Professor of Urban Studies, Queens College, CUNY
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Teresa Chahine, ScD, MSc
Non-Resident Faculty Fellow, Center for Systems and Community Design, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Nevin Cohen, PhD, MCRP
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Sergio Costa, PhD, MSEd, MA
Lecturer in Community Health and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Victoria Frye, DrPH, MPH
Associate Medical Professor, CUNY School of Medicine at the City College of New York

Christian Grov, PhD, MPhil, MPH, MA
Chair and Professor, Department of Community Health and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Heidi Jones, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Bruce Lee, MD, MBA
Professor of Health Policy and Management, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Sheng Li, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Systems Science and Epidemiology, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Denis Nash, PhD, MPH
Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Victoria Ngo, PhD
Associate Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Chris Palmedo, PhD, MBA
Associate Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Nasim Sabounchi, PhD
Research Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Emma Tsui, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Community Health and Social Sciences, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Katarzyna Wyka, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy