Faculty & Staff

Department of Epidemiology faculty, staff and their research interest:

Faculty

Erin Biggs, PhD, MPH - Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Clinical Epidemiology | Health Services Research | Social Vulnerability | Hereditary Cancer | Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, COVID-19)

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Julie Casani, MD, MPH - Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Public Health and Disaster Preparedness | Disaster Epidemiology | Health Disparities and Community Health Resilience | Leadership during Crisis

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Brittney L. Dickey, PhD, MPH - Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Oncogenic Viruses | Cancer Epidemiology | Screening & Biomarkers | Molecular Epidemiology | HPV | Cancer, Aging, & HIV

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Joseph R. Fauver, PhD - Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Pathogen Genomics & Bioinformatics | Genomic Epidemiology | SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Dynamics | Genomics of Infectious Disease Control Programs | Mosquito-borne Pathogens

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Keith Hansen, MBA - Director, Center for Preparedness and Emergency Response Solutions; Co-Director, Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals; Instructor

Interest & Focus Areas: Preparedness and Disaster Planning | Public Health & Healthcare Readiness | Crisis Leadership & Management | UNMC Incident Command

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Ishrat Kamal-Ahmed, PhD - Instructor

Interest & Focus Areas: Antimicrobial Resistant Organisms and Emerging Trends | Social Determinants of Health in Healthcare Epidemiology | Vaccinations, Implementations and Breakthroughs | Surveillance Mechanisms in Infectious Diseases | Role of Social Media in Public Health

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Madhav KC, PhD, MPH - Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Causal Inference | Cancer Outcomes | Real World Evidence (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) | Health Services Research | Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR)

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Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, MBA - Dean and Richard Holland Presidential Chair of the College of Public Health

Interest & Focus Areas: Pandemic Preparedness | Emerging Infectious Diseases | Bio-terrorism | Global Health Security

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Nicole Kolm-Valdivia, PhD, CHES, MPH - Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Intersection of Infectious Disease and Substance Use | Harm Reduction | Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting | Health Equity | Program Evaluation

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Emily Kraus, PhD, MPH - Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Intersection Between Public Health Practice and Healthcare Delivery | Novel Methods to Link Clinical Data with Auxiliary Data Sources | Practice-Based Research on the Topic of Data Governance

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Deborah Levy, PhD, MPH - Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Preparedness & Disaster PlanningPublic Health & Healthcare Readiness | Emerging Infectious Diseases

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David Brett-Major, MD MPH - Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Infectious Diseases | Health Emergency Risk Management | Internal Medicine | Medical Research | Tropical Medicine & Public Health

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Patrick Maloney, PhD MPH - Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Global Health, Humanitarian Health, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Health Disparities

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Sharon Medcalf, PhD - Associate Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Disaster and Emergency Preparedness | Public Health & Healthcare Readiness

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Abraham D Mengist, PhD - Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Epidemiology of Malaria and Helminth | Diagnosis of Malaria and Helminth | Antimalarial and Antihelminthic Drug Efficacy | HPV Vaccination & Cervical Cancer Prevention | HIV Disease Progression

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Edward S. Peters, DMD, SM, ScD, FACE - Professor and Chair

Interest & Focus Areas: Cancer Research | Social Determinants of Disease Outcomes | Environmental Impact on Chronic Disease | Situational Health Disparities

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Kendra L. Ratnapradipa, PhD - Assistant Professor

Interest & Focus Areas: Geospatial Influences on Health Disparities | Transportation as a Social Determinant Impacting the Cancer Care Continuum

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Ariane Rung, PhD, MPH - Associate Professor and Vice Chair

Interest & Focus Areas: Social Epidemiology | Social and Built Environments |  Survey Design and Methods | Disasters | Mental Health | Parks | Physical Activity

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Leslie Scofield, MPH - Director of First Responder Education, Instructor

Interest & Focus Areas: Mass Casualty Incidents | Public Health & Healthcare Readiness | Crisis Leadership

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Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, PhD - Professor, Dr. Tim Hawks Chair in Cancer Prevention and Population Science, and Associate Director for Buffett Cancer Center Community Outreach & Engagement

Interest & Focus Areas: Rural Cancer Care Access | Pediatric Cancer | Colorectal Cancer Screening | Financial Toxicity | Social Isolation | Behavioral Workforce Research

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Staff

Meghan Brashear, MPH, BS Mathematics - Biostatistician II for the Department of Epidemiology

Interest & Focus Areas: Electronic Data Capture |Survey Design and Administration | Data Analysis and Data Visualization

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Chelsea Cowher, BS - Financial Administrator I for the Department of Epidemiology

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Sierra Garth, MPH - Research Project Coordinator

Interest & Focus Areas: Social Epidemiology | Chronic and Infectious Disease Epidemiology | Emergency Preparedness | Health Disparities

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Shelly Lewis - Office Associate II for the Department of Epidemiology

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EPI / DHHS Staff

Alexis McClung, MPH - DHHS NE Drug Overdose Surveillance Epidemiologist

Interest & Focus Areas: Infectious Disease Epidemiology | Drug Overdose Surveillance | Hepatitis C and STI Prevention

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Yi Du, PhD, MSPH, MS - DHHS NE Hospitalization Epidemiologist

Interest & Focus Areas: Surveillance Of Infectious Diseases  | Data Warehouse | COVID-19 Surveillance | Injury Surveillance | Cross-Sectional Study | Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

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Sai Paritala, MPH, Pharm D. - DHHS NE COVID-19 Epidemiologist

Interest & Focus Areas: Machine Learning to Understand Data and Predict Trends | Applying Principles for Actionable Information | COVID-19 Data Surveillance | Time Series Forecasting | Longitudinal Data Analysis

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Zijian "Egg" Qin, PhD, MPH, MBBS - DHHS NE Injury Surveillance Epidemiologist

Interest & Focus Areas: Injury Epidemiology | Environmental Health | Occupational Health and Safety | Child Health

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Affiliated Faculty

Adjunct Faculty

  • Theodore Cieslak, MPH
  • Matthew Donahue, MD, State Epidemiologist - Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services
  • Macarena Garcia, DrPH, MPS, MIS, Senior Health Scientist - Epidemiologist at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Lara Lamprecht, DrPH, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Office Of The Assistant Secretary For Preparedness And Response (ASPR), Washington, DC, Branch Chief, Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) 
  • J. Todd Weber, MD, FACP, FIDSA, Captain (Retired), US Public Health Service

Courtesy Faculty

Emeritus Faculty



Contact

Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
984395 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-4395
Phone: 402-559-4248