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Felipe Aros-Vera, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
aros@ohio.edu
740-593-0415
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Stocker Center 277

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Jane Balbo
Jane Balbo, DO
Assistant Professor
balbo@ohio.edu
740.597.9068
Primary Care
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Heritage Hall 348C, Athens Campus
Expertise: Gender-affirming healthcare, Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Infections
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Benjamin Bates, PhD
Barbara Geralds Schoonover Professor of Health Communication, School of Communication Studies
batesb@ohio.edu
740-593-9163
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Schoonover Center
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Bekka Brodie, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Biological Sciences and Honors Tutorial College
brodieb@ohio.edu
740-593-0875
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
35 Park Place, 203

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Ronan Carroll, PhD
Associate Director, ITDI; Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
carrolr3@ohio.edu
740-593-2201
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Life Science Building 211
Sharon Casapulla 2022
Sharon Casapulla, EdD, MPH
Director, Education and Research; Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
casapull@ohio.edu
740.593.2257
Rural and Underserved Programs
Primary Care
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Diabetes Institute
Heritage Hall 283G, Athens Campus
Expertise: Education, Educational research, Health literacy, Asset-based community development, Place-based learning, Qualitative r
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Ilana Chertok, PhD, MSN
Professor, Associate Director of Nursing Research and Scholarship, Nursing
chertok@ohio.edu
740-593-4492
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Grover Center
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Rebekah Crawford, PhD
Visiting Professor, Department of Social and Public Health
rc378112@ohio.edu
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Grover Center W344

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David Drozek 2022
David Drozek, DO
Assistant Professor, Surgery
drozek@ohio.edu
678.447.2509
Specialty Medicine
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Diabetes Institute
Parks 151, Athens Campus
Expertise: Dr. Drozek is Investigator in Diabetes Institute and Collaborator in Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute.
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Janet Duerr, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
duerr@ohio.edu
740-597-1921
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Life Sciences Building 221

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Mario Grijalva
Mario Grijalva, PhD
Director, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute; Professor, Microbiology
grijalva@ohio.edu
740.593.2192
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Irvine 333, Athens Campus
Expertise: Tropical Diseases, Parasitology, Blood Bank Safety, International Research, Research Capacity Development

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Zelalem Haile 2022
Zelalem Haile, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
haile@ohio.edu
614.793.5591
Social Medicine
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Dublin
MEB1-450, Dublin Campus
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Tarig B. Higazi, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Zanesville Campus
higazi@ohio.edu
740-588-1533
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Elson 249, Zanesville Campus

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Gillian Ice
Gillian Ice, PhD, MPH
Professor, Social Medicine; Director, Global Health
iceg@ohio.edu
740.593.2128
Social Medicine
Medical Education
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Biomedical Sciences
Heritage Hall 367K, Athens Campus
Expertise: Aging, global health, public health, stress, nutrition

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Kelly Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
johnsonk3@ohio.edu
740-593-0276
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Wilson 101
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Brad D. Jokisch, PhD
Associate Professor, Geography Department
jokisch@ohio.edu
740-593-1143
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Clippinger 114

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Laeeq Khan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Studies Scripps College of Communication
khanm1@ohio.edu
740-593-4803
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Schoonover Center 307
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Caroline Kingori, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Public Health
kingori@ohio.edu
740-593-4680
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Grover Center W347
Katherine (Katy) Kropf
Katherine (Katy) Kropf, DO
Assistant Clinical Professor
kropf@ohio.edu
740. 597.9086
Primary Care
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Rural and Underserved Programs
Heritage Hall 348A, Athens Campus
Expertise: Transgender medicine, Lifestyle medicine, Narrative medicine, Contraception

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Graciela Muniz-Terrera 2022
Graciela Muniz-Terrera, PhD
Professor, Social Medicine; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor in Health and Aging
muniz@ohio.edu
Social Medicine
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Irvine 128F, Athens Campus
Expertise: Aging, brain health, epidemiology, biostatistics
Erin Murphy
Erin Murphy, PhD
Chair, Biomedical Sciences; Professor of Bacteriology
murphye@ohio.edu
740.597.3061
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Life Sciences Building 235, Athens Campus
Expertise: Bacteriology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Bacterial Infection, Gene Regulation, RNA

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Saumya Pant, PhD
Professor of Instruction, Media Arts and Studies Scripps College of Communication
pant@ohio.edu
740-597-9009
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Schoonover Center

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Michael Reece, PhD, MPH
Lecturer in Community and Public Health, Department of Social and Public Health
mr554119@ohio.edu
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Grover Center W324

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Nancy Stevens, PhD
Professor, Functional Morphology & Vertebrate Paleontology
stevensn@ohio.edu
740.597.2785
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Life Sciences Building 115, Athens Campus
Expertise: Functional Morphology, Paleobiology, Environmental Change, Extinction, Conservation, One Health

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Joyce Wamoyi, PhD
Instructor, Glidden Visiting Professor
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Mwanza, Tanzania/ National Institute for Medical Research, P.O Box 1462
Shaohua Wang 2022
Shaohua Wang Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology
wangs4@ohio.edu
740.593.2355
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Life Science Building 229, Athens Campus
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Nathan Weyand, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
weyand@ohio.edu
740-593-0191
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Life Science Building 109

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Todd Young, PhD
Professor, Mathematics
youngt@ohio.edu
740-593-1277
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Morton 547