Huguette Albrecht
	Assistant Professional Researcher, PhD 916-734-7421
	Rina Alcalay	Design of effective communication strategies to prevent depression among populations in transition, such as people who have changed cultures, who have been diagnosed with a chronic disease, or who are aging.
	Emeritus Professor, PhD 510-527-0551
	Laurel Beckett	Statistical methods for longitudinal data, population-based studies, and translational research between basic science and clinical medicine. Collaborative research using these methods for studies of chronic diseases, especially the relationship between biology, etiology, and treatment. Current and recent research includes work on Alzheimer's, cancer, and musculoskeletal disorders.
	Professor, PhD, Biostat Division Chief, Vice Chair - Public Health Sciences http://biostats.ucdavis.edu/homepage/Beckett.php 530-754-7161
	Robert Bell	Health communication, with special interest in doctor-patient communication, direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs, and media influences on health behavior.
	Professor, PhD
	Deborah Bennett	Fate, transport, and exposure to chemicals in a multimedia environment within the context of environmental exposure and risk assessment. My work currently focuses on organic compounds in the indoor environment, including partitioning to the various surfaces in the home. Research techniques include both modeling approaches and measurement studies. Volatile organic compounds, pesticides, and flame retardants are emphasized.
	Associate Professor, PhD Exposure Science Web Page 530-754-8282
	Alan R. Buckpitt	Reactive metabolic formation, detoxication of reactive metabolites, glutathione as a protective nucleophile, interaction of reactive metabolites with proteins.
	Professor, PhD 530-752-7674
	Diana Cassady	Primary prevention of chronic disease, diet and physical activity, social marketing, reducing disparities in health status, and environmental and policy strategies to promote health.
	Associate Professor, DrPH 530-754-5550
	Rosemary Cress	Cancer epidemiology, ovarian and colorectal cancer, quality of cancer care, and health disparities.
	Assistant Professor, DrPH 916-779-2610
	Kathryn DeRiemer	Infectious disease epidemiology, including outbreaks; global health; transmission of airborne pathogens; Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Dr. DeRiemer’s research focuses on: 1) host-microbe interactions, particularly the mechanisms of latency and chronic persistence in host populations; 2) coinfections; 3) transmission dynamics and rapid detection of airborne pathogens; and 4) antimicrobial resistance. She is using a NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to discover and apply biomarkers of different stages of infection and disease with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and is the PI of a NIH/FIC training grant with collaborators in China.
	Assistant Professor, PhD, MPH 530-754-5989
	Lorena Garcia	Health disparities, in particular obesity and diabetes (metabolic and nutritional disorders), intimate partner violence (injuries), immigrant health and acculturation in the Latino community.
	Assistant Professor, DrPH, MPH 530-752-2875
	David Ross Gibson	Epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, community interventions, social epidemiology.
	Emeritus Professor, PhD
	Ellen B. Gold	Reproductive and cancer epidemiology, epidemiology of reproductive function and disorders — especially menopause, secondary amenorrhea, anovulation, abnormalities of ovarian function, and spontaneous abortion.
	Department Chair, Epidemiology Division Chief, Professor, PhD 530-752-2446
	Danielle Harvey	Survival analysis, correlated event times, informative censoring, repeated measures, computational methods, and high-dimensional data as in MRI or PET scans. Collaborative research includes work on Alzheimer's, cancer, end-of-life care, dosing errors, and health services and public health issues.
	Assistant Professor, PhD 530-752-8036
	Irva Hertz-Picciotto	Dr. Hertz-Picciotto is an environmental epidemiologist with over 150 scientific publications addressing effects of environmental exposures on pregnancy and child development. She conceived and directs the CHARGE Study, the first large, comprehensive population-based study of environmental factors in autism, and MARBLES (Markers of Autism Risk in Babies – Learning Early Signs), to search for early biologic markers that will predict autism. She is Director of the Northern California Collaborative Center for the National Children’s Study. Dr. Hertz-Picciotto has served as an Advisor to numerous federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Toxicology Program, and NIH Interagency Coordinating Committee on Autism Research. She chaired the Expert Panel on CDC’s Vaccine Safety Database for Studies of Autism and Thimerosal.
	Environmental and Occupational Health Division Chief, Professor, PhD 530-752-3025
	Calvin H. Hirsch	Dr. Hirsch’s epidemiologic research has largely focused on the benefits of exercise for older persons, the determination of factors associated with healthy aging free of significant functional or cognitive impairment, as well as factors associated with development of frailty and the diseases of aging. He is also interested in the organization and delivery of health care to the elderly, in particular whether the emerging technology of telemedicine can be applied to the care of homebound seniors.
	Professor of Clinical Medicine, MD 916-734-7004
	Ana-Maria Iosif	Methods for longitudinal and clustered data, including longitudinal random length data. Applications of statistics to psychiatry and biomedical sciences.
	Assistant Professor, PhD 530-754-8303
	Philip H. Kass	Non-experimental inference, epidemiologic methodology and analysis epidemiology of environmental hazards of animals and humans, companion animal epidemiology.
	Professor, DVM, MPVM, PhD 530-752-8631
	Kyoungmi Kim	Statistical methodologies to locate complex disease genes in quantitative genetic analysis, bioinformatics tools to understand molecular functions combining different types of -omics data such as genomics (gene expression), metabolomic and proteomic data, and biomarker discovery.
	Assistant Professor, PhD 530-752-3422
	J. Paul Leigh	Econometrics, Health and Labor Economics.
	Professor, PhD 530-754-8605 916-734-8542 CHSR/PC
	Bruce N. Leistikow	Community health interventions, rural health, quantifying overlooked causes of injuries and other burdens; tobacco control/smoking prevention and cessation; healthcare worker diseases; and diseases of animal confinement workers.
	Associate Professor, MD 530-752-1409
	Chin-Shang Li	Lack-of-fit tests, cure models (including survival analysis), semiparametric and nonparametric regression, generalized linear models, longitudinal data analysis, statistical methodology for genetic data, large sample theory.
	Associate Professor, PhD http://phs.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/Cssli.php 916-703-9172 CRISP 530-754-9036 MS1c
	Stephen A. McCurdy	Epidemiology, occupational hazards for farm workers, occupational hazards for semiconductor workers, general occupational and environmental medicine, toxicology, pesticides, heavy metals.
	Professor, MD, MPH 530-752-8051
	Danh Nguyen	Bioinformatics, molecular cancer classification, microarray gene expression data, partial least squares, dimension reduction, statistical applications in molecular biology.
	Associate Professor, PhD http://dnguyen.ucdavis.edu/ 530-754-6510
	LiHong Qi	Design and analysis of genetic association studies, survival analysis, modeling missing data and measurement error problems.
	Assistant Professor, PhD 530-754-9234
	David Rocke	Bioinformatics, design and analysis of gene expression, proteomics, and metabolomics data, analysis of mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy data, robust statistical methods.
	Distinguished Professor, PhD http://www.cipic.ucdavis.edu/~dmrocke 530-752-6999
	Marc B. Schenker	Environmental and occupational risk factors for respiratory disease and lung cancer, occupational and other health issues of migrant populations, health hazards of agricultural exposures especially respiratory and pesticide risks, occupational reproductive hazards, health hazards in the semiconductor industry, international issues in occupational and environmental health.
	Professor, MD, MPH 530-752-5676
	Rebecca J. Schmidt
	Assistant Professor, PhD 530-752-3226
	Xiaowei Yang	Bayesian model selection strategies for generalized linear models, especially those with missing covariates. Longitudinal data analysis using selection, pattern-mixture, and shared-parameter models for repeated measures with ignorable or nonignorable missing values. Functional regression modeling of data with large dimensionality (e.g., curves or images). Statistical computation and software development focusing on MCMC methods. Clinical trials and epidemiological studies on drug dependence, mental disorder, and general public health problems. PDF CV
	Assistant Professor, PhD 530-752-2143

Volunteer Faculty

• Faith Boucher
• Michael M. Bronshvag, Physician
• Thomas J. Ferguson, Medical Director, Cowell Student Health Center, UC Davis
• Erin Griffin, Research Program Specialist, CA Dept of Motor Vehicles
• Bette G. Hinton, Health Officer/Director, Yolo County Health Department
• Frederick B. Hodges, Chief, Program Development Section, Chronic Disease Control Branch, CDPH
• Patrick Marius Koga, President & CEO, Veteran, Immigrant & Refugee Trauma Institute of Sacramento (VIRTIS)
• Stephanie Lake, ADAPT Coordinator/Health Education, Cowell Student Health Center, UC Davis
• Liana Lianov
• Donald O. Lyman, Chief, Chronic Diseases and Injury Control, CDPH
• Suzanne Nash, Physician, University of California, Davis Employee Health Services
• Jessica Núñez de Ybarra, Public Health Medical Officer, Division of Communicable Disease Control, CDPH
• Michael A. O'Malley, Director, UCD Employee Health Services
• Arti Parikh-Patel, Research Scientist, California Cancer Registry
• Polly Paulson, Health Educator, Cowell Student Health Center, UC Davis
• Maria Lucia de Campos Pecoraro, Associate Director/Director Clinical Development - Dynavax Technology
• Alonzo L Plough, III
• Kurt P. Snipes, Chief, Cancer Surveillance and Research Branch, CDPH
• Richard Sun, MD, MPH, FACPM, Medical Consultant, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)
• Glennah Trochet, Sacramento County Public Health Officer
• Patricia Wiggins