Faculty & Staff

Department of Health Promotion, Social & Behavioral Health

Faculty 

 

Virginia Aita, PhD  

Health care humanities and ethics; arts and humanities with clinical care; history of nursing care
Rebecca Anderson, JD MS  

Legal and ethical issues in clinical genetics; religious traditions and medical care; medical jurisprudence curricula
Ozgur Araz, PhD   Systems modeling and simulation, operations management in health care, modeling infectious and chronic diseases, decision and cost-effectiveness analysis, Bayesian statistics and stochastic modeling
Daniel Blanke, Ph.D.  

Director of the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) in the College of Education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Denise H Britigan, MA, PhD, CHES   Social marketing, health communication, health literacy, health promotion, community health education, health disparities
Christopher Fisher, PhD  

Community-based participatory research; sexual health and wellness; sexuality education
Jaime Gofin MD, MPH  

Evaluation of Community Health and Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Programs. Development of COPC Programs, Quality of Teaching Programs, Teachers Training Programs
Rosa Gofin, MD, MPH   Mother and child health; evaluation of health services and intervention programs, focusing on inequalities among population groups; unintentional injuries and violence in children and adolescents.
Terry T-K Huang, PhD, MPH,
Department Chair		   Ecological and multilevel research; applications of health promotion and disease prevention; pediatric obesity; systems science and public health; science policy translation;
Andrew Jameton, PhD  

Philosophy and ethics of environmental health; global ethical issues in health care and public health
Ruth Margalit, MD  

Physician-patient relationship and communication strategies for health education and health promotion; professionalism and inter-professional education
Sharon Medcalf, M.Ed.   Disaster/emergency preparedness
Magda G. Peck ScD   Improving the health and well-being of women, children and families in communities; promoting organizational and community readiness for change.
Lea Pounds, MBA   Social Marketing, crisis and emergency risk communication.
Mohammad Siahpush, PhD  

Socioeconomic position and smoking
Asia Sikora, PhD  

Health Economics and Health Outcomes, Aging, Social Engagement, Intergenerational Care
Melissa Tibbits, Ph.D.  

Adolescent health and development; prevention of substance abuse and risky sexual behaviors in adolescence
Shireen Rajaram, Ph.D   Center Director for Reducing Health Disparities and Associate Professor

 

Affiliated Faculty

Jo Ann Carrigan, PhD
David Corbin, PhD
Jennifer Huberty, Phd
Jim Medder, MD, MPH
Richard Stacy, Ed.D, MPH
Olivia M. Thompson, PhD, MPH
Amy Yaroch, PhD 
Courtney A. Pinard, Ph.D

Department Staff

Debra Baer, Office Associate

Contact us
Department of Health Promotion, Social & Behavioral Health

UNMC College of Public Health
984365 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-4365

Debra Baer, Office Associate
Phone: 402-559-4325
Fax: 402-559-3773
Email: dbaer@unmc.edu