About MSHRC

About Us

Who We Are

At the core of the MSHRC lies a focus on applied research in sexual health. To this end, the collaborative has strong roots in the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and other similar participatory and emancipatory research philosophies. Through our research, we endeavor to create a more sexually literate world in which sexual health and well-being is experienced by all.

MSHRC is housed in the Department of Health Promotion, Social & Behavioral Health in the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. With strong collaborations with University of Nebraska at Omaha faculty already in place, the collaborative is open to faculty participation across the University of Nebraska system as well as other Universities and Colleges in the Midlands region.

The faculty and students of the MSHRC are diverse and growing in numbers. If you are interested in joining the collaborative, please contact the director. Faculty span the gamut of health behavior, human sexuality studies, sociology, medical anthropology, health education, adolescent and family development, systems research, political science and epidemiology.

People

Core Faculty 

 Christopher M. Fisher, PhD Director	 Jason D. Coleman, PhD, MSPH Associate Director	 Jay A. Irwin, PhD Associate Director
 Sofia Jawed-Wessel, PhD Assistant Director	 Lisa J Crockett, PhD	 Brian Wilcox, PhD 

Affiliated Faculty

 Jane Meza, PhD Chair Department of Biostatistics, UNMC	 Melissa Tibbits, PhD Health Promotion, Social,and Behavioral Health, UNMC	 Terry T-K Huang, PhD, MPH Health Promotion, Social,and Behavioral Health, UNMC
 Sergio Costa, PhD Director of Distance Learning, UNMC	 Ashish Joshi MD, MPH Assistant Professor	 Ruth Margalit, MD Associate Professor & Director of Service Learning Academy
 Renaisa S. Anthony, MD, MPH Deputy Director of CRHD	 Shireen Rajaram, PhD Associate Professor Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health, UNMC	 KM Monirul Islam, MD, PhD Epidemiology, UNMC

Research Coordinators

 Molly McCarthy (UNMC, MPH)

 Aja Kneip Pelster, MPH (UNMC, PhD Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research)

Student Researchers 

• Jessica Chavez (UNMC, MPH)
• Whitney Clausen (UNMC, MPH)
• Vincent Marasco (UNO, MA Community Counseling)
• Dylan Zaner (UNO, BA Public Health)
• Justin Holes (UNO, BA Public Health)
• Kayla Baumberger (UNO, MS Health Education)