ITDI Staff and Membership Directory
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Felipe Aros-Vera, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Stocker Center 277
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Assistant Clinical Professor
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Primary Care
Athens
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Gender-affirming healthcare, Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Infections
Benjamin Bates, PhD
Barbara Geralds Schoonover Professor of Health Communication, School of Communication Studies
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Schoonover Center
Bekka Brodie, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Biological Sciences and Honors Tutorial College
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
35 Park Place, 203
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Ronan Carroll, PhD
Associate Director, ITDI; Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Science Building 211
Director, Education and Research; Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Primary Care
Rural and Underserved Programs
Athens
Heritage Hall, Athens Campus
Expertise: Education, Educational research, Health literacy, Asset-based community development, Place-based learning, Qualitative r
Ilana Chertok, PhD, MSN
Professor, Associate Director of Nursing Research and Scholarship, Nursing
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Grover Center
Rebekah Crawford, PhD
Visiting Professor, Department of Social and Public Health
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Grover Center W344
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Associate Professor, Lifestyle Medicine
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Specialty Medicine
Athens
Parks 151, Athens Campus
Expertise: Lifestyle medicine
Janet Duerr, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Sciences Building 221
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Director, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute; Professor, Microbiology
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Irvine 333, Athens Campus
Expertise: Tropical Diseases, Parasitology, Blood Bank Safety, International Research, Research Capacity Development
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Zelalem Haile, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Social Medicine
Dublin
MEB1-450, Dublin Campus
Tarig B. Higazi, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Zanesville Campus
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Zanesville
Elson 249, Zanesville Campus
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Professor, Social Medicine; Director, Global Health; Interim Associate Provost of Global Affairs
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Medical Education Office
Social Medicine
Athens
Heritage Hall 367K, Athens Campus
Expertise: Aging, global health, public health, stress, nutrition
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Kelly Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Wilson 101
Brad D. Jokisch, PhD
Associate Professor, Geography Department
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Clippinger 114
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Laeeq Khan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Studies
Scripps College of Communication
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Schoonover Center 307
Caroline Kingori, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Public Health
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Grover Center W347
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Graciela Muniz-Terrera, PhD
Professor, Social Medicine; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor in Health and Aging
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Social Medicine
Athens
Irvine 128F, Athens Campus
Expertise: Aging, brain health, epidemiology, biostatistics
Chair, Biomedical Sciences; Professor of Bacteriology
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
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
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Schoonover Center
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Michael Reece, PhD, MPH
Lecturer in Community and Public Health, Department of Social and Public Health
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Grover Center W324
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Professor, Functional Morphology & Vertebrate Paleontology
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
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
Assistant Professor of Medical Microbiology
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Science Building 229, Athens Campus
Nathan Weyand, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Science Building 109
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Todd Young, PhD
Professor, Mathematics
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Morton 547