Michael Bader, Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology, American University
Health related Expertise: Health consequences of racial and economic segregation; Neighborhood influences on health, particularly obesity and nutrition-related disease; Influence of residential mobility on spatial health inequality
Geographical focus: US cities, including Chicago, New York and Washington, DC
Methodological expertise: Hierarchical linear modeling; longitudinal data analysis; geostatistical methods and neighborhood measurement.
http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/bader.cfm

 

Bette Dickerson, Associate Professor,
Department of Sociology, American University
http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/bdicker.cfm

 

Daniel Esser, Assistant Professor,
School of International Service, American University
Health-related expertise: Global health policy, particularly emergence of priorities and the extent to which priorities are driven by scientific evidence as opposed to inter- and intra-organizational dynamics; National aging policy discourses
Geographical focus: Low- and lowest-income countries
Methodological expertise: Mixed methods
http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/esser.cfm

Sonya A. Grier, Associate Professor,
American University Kogod School of Business, Marketing Department
Health-related expertise: Food marketing and obesity, Social marketing, Target marketing and public health
Geographical focus: US, South Africa
Methodological expertise: Multi-method, but primarily experimental and qualitative

Tamara Hafner, Assistant Professor,
Department of Public Administration and Policy, American University
Health-related expertise: Access to medicines; Health systems performance; Health policy implementation
Geographical focus: Low-and middle-income countries
Methodological expertise: Mixed methods
http://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/hafner.cfm

 

Maria deJesus, Assistant Professor,
School of International Service, American University
Health-related expertise: Cross-cultural health communication and health promotion; Health disparities; Health and migration; Social factors affecting health
Geographical Focus: Diasporic communities in the US; Cape Verde; Latin America
Methodological expertise: Qualitative methods; Mixed methods
http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/dejesus.cfm

 

Robin Lumsdaine, Professor,
Kogod School of Business, American University
Health-related expertise: Risk Management, Decisions Under Uncertainty, and the Role of Perception; Economics of Aging; International Comparisons of Aging, Health, and Well-being; Econometrics
Geographical focus: Currently US and Europe
Methodological expertise: Econometric techniques to analyze longitudinal survey data, including linear and nonlinear regression, multinomial and ordered logit/probit, proportional hazard, dynamic programming, Monte Carlo simulation
http://www.american.edu/kogod/faculty/lumsdain.cfm

 

Taryn Morrissey, Assistant Professor,
Department of Public Administration and Policy, American University
Health-related expertise: Relationships between public policy and child health and development; Social determinants of child obesity, including family factors such as parental employment characteristics
Geographical focus: US
Methodological expertise:  Primarily quantitative analyses with longitudinal datasets using hierarchal growth models, random effects models, and fixed effects models.
http://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/morrisse.cfm

 

Michelle Newton-Francis, Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology, American University
Health-related expertise: Stigma/Disclosure of Disease Status; popular culture representations; gender and work, including body image
Geographical focus: US
Methodological expertise: Mixed methods
http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/mnewtonf.cfm

 

Elizabeth Reed, Assistant Professor,
Department of Prevention and Community Health, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Health-related expertise: Gender-based violence prevention; HIV risk; Social/environmental factors affecting health
Geographical focus: US and India
Methodological expertise: Mixed methods
http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/institutescenters/gwuhivaids/about/faculty/reed.cfm

 

Rachel Robinson, Assistant Professor,
School of International Service, American University
Health-related expertise:  Reproductive health; HIV/AIDS; Family planning; Nongovernmental organizations; Social policy
Geographical focus: Sub-Saharan Africa (esp. Malawi, Nigeria, and Senegal) + United States
Methodological expertise: Mixed methods, demographic methods, statistics
http://www.american.edu/profiles/faculty/robinson.cfm

 

Cristel Antonia Russell, Assistant Professor,
American University Kogod School of Business, Marketing Department
Health related expertise: Alcohol use and abuse, especially amongst adolescents
Geographical focus: US
Methodological expertise: Experimental design, Survey research, Qualitative interviews, Narrative analysis, Content analysis

Larry Sawers, Professor,
Department of Economics, American University
Health-related expertise: Drivers of HIV epidemics in developing countries; Health and development
Geographical focus: Especially sub-Saharan Africa, but poor and low-income countries in general
Methodological expertise: Econometrics, agent-based stochastic simulation modeling
http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/lsawers.cfm

 

Cathy Schneider, Associate Professor,
School of International Service, American University
Health-related expertise: Police violence (and other forms of state organized violence) and urban social movements; Neighborhood efforts to reduce HIV transmission among IV drug users and the impact of drug wars; Racial profiling and police violence on the concentration of HIV and AIDS in poor minority neighborhoods
Geographical focus: US, Europe and Latin America
Methodological expertise: Ethnography, especially ethnography of poor neighborhoods; Process tracing, paired comparisons, and policy analysis
http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/cschnei.cfm

 

Jeremy Shiffman, Associate Professor,
Department of Public Administration and Policy, American University
Health-related expertise:  Political dynamics of health and population policy and administration in low-income countries; Global health policy; Agenda-setting in health policy
Geographical focus: Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Latin America and Africa
Methodological expertise: Multi-methods, with a focus on process-tracing and comparative case analysis
http://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/jshiffma.cfm

 

Elanah Uretsky, Assistant Professor,
Global Health and Anthropology, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Health-related expertise: HIV/AIDS, Male sexuality Masculinity, Sex work, Informal governance, Non-governmental organizations, Chronic disease
Geographical focus: China
Methodological expertise: Ethnographic
http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/institutescenters/gwuhivaids/about/faculty/Uretsky.cfm

 

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology, American University
Health-related expertise: HIV/AIDS, gender, sexuality, and socio-cultural studies; vulnerability and HIV risk; "risk" categories in critical public health
Geographical focus: experience in the US and Puerto Rico, interest in HIV/AIDS in Latin America
Methodological expertise: qualitative, ethnographic, interview-based
http://www.american.edu/profiles/faculty/vidalort.cfm

 

Linsday Wiley, Assistant Professor,
Washington College of Law, American University
Health-related expertise: Legal issues surrounding access to health care and healthy living and working conditions; Health and human rights; Law as a determinant of health and law as a tool for addressing other social determinants of health; Global health law and governance
Geographical focus: US; Africa; Latin America
Methodological expertise: Legal analysis, social epidemiology
http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/wiley/

 

Nina Yamanis, Assistant Professor,
School of International Service, American University
Health-related expertise: Community-based health promotion interventions; social and sexual networks as they relate to HIV risk behavior; highly vulnerable populations; relationship violence; social determinants of health; adolescent health
Geographical focus: Sub-Saharan Africa (with a particular focus on Tanzania), Mexico, United States
Methodological expertise: Study design and primary data collection using mixed methods; intervention design and implementation; social network analysis and multi-level modeling
http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/yamanis.cfm

Gay Young, Associate Professor,
Department of Sociology, American University
Health-related expertise: Gender and International Development with specific focus on women and work and on international data / statistics on gender inequality, the former includes women's work place health/risks and the latter includes health disparities based on gender. More recently I have turned attention to issues of gender, conflict and security in which violence against women figures importantly as it bears on their health and well being.
Geographical focus: Mexico-US border; Levant (Lebanon, Palestine, Syria)
Methodological expertise: Mixed methods
http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/gyoung.cfm