Research Associates

Vance Bauer, MA
Psychology, translational research

Tracy Beil, MS
Evidence-based medicine, systematic evidence reviews

Joanna Bulkley, PhD
Developmental psychology, maternal health, cultural influences on parent attitudes and behavior, cultural influences on child and adolescent mental health

Melissa Butler, PharmD, PhD, MPH (CHR-Southeast)
Comparative effectiveness, pharmacoepidemiology, health economics, health disparities, health policy

Yihe Daida, MS (CHR-Hawaii)
Nutritional Epidemiology, breastfeeding and obesity

John F. Dickerson, MS
Health economics, mental health

Joan P. Dubanoski, PhD, MPH
Psychology, aging, prevention, and health promotion

Kristine L. Funk, MS, RD
Health behavior change; nutrition, diet and weight loss; cardiovascular health

Rachel Gold, PhD, MPH
Maternal and child health, health disparities, social determinants of health

Craig Hansen, PhD (CHR-Southeast)
Perinatal epidemiology, fetal alcohol syndrome, environmental factors and maternal and child health, the quality of primary care within skin cancer clinics

Ginger C. Hanson, MS
Quantitative research methods, occupational health psychology, work-life integration, workplace violence

Michelle L. Henninger, PhD
Health psychology, behavioral medicine, women's health, vaccine safety

Rebecca S. Holmes, MD, MS
Evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews, cancer prevention

Joan Holup, MA
Research-related best practices guidelines, ethnicity

Shannon Janoff, MPH
Qualitative data analysis, mental health and addiction

Tanya Kapka, MD, MPH
Evidence-based medicine, systematic evidence reviews

Elizabeth O'Connor, PhD
Systematic evidence reviews, depression

Brandi E. Robinson, MPH (CHR-Southeast)
Chronic disease epidemiology (arthritis, diabetes), racial/ethnic health disparities, adolescent health, community-based participatory research

Maureen O'Keeffe-Rosetti, MS
Economics, gerontology, risk adjustment, cancer

Caryn E.S. Oshiro, MS, RD (CHR-Hawaii)
Pediatric and perinatal epidemiology, nutrition and early growth patterns in children, women's health, complementary and alternative medicine

Kathryn L. Pedula, MS
Diabetes, ophthalmology, osteoporosis, statistics, epidemiology

Leslie A. Perdue, MPH
Evidence-based medicine, systematic evidence reviews, built environment

Amanda F. Petrik, MS
Health and social science research, health disparities and inequalities

Mark A. Schmidt, PhD, MPH
Infectious disease epidemiology and surveillance, vaccine safety

Jennifer L. Schneider, MPH
Qualitative research methods (theory and development, data collection techniques, analysis, and report writing) in complementary and alternative medicine, patient/provider healing relationships, transformational experiences, and the "lived" experiences of illness

Caitlyn Senger, MPH
Evidence-based medicine, systematic evidence reviews

K. Sabina Smith, BS, CCRP (SoCRA)
Health behavior change, tobacco control, dietary change, clinical trials

Michele Solloway, PhD, RPP
Uninsured/underserved populations, children, mental health, complementary and alternative medicine

Tracy N. Thomas, MPH, MSc (CHR-Southeast)
Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, adolescent health, childhood obesity

Aileen R. Uchida, MPH
Health promotion, genomics, cancer, and complimentary and alternative medicine

Lisa Waiwaiole, MS
Oral health, smoking cessation, mental health, research translation, cultural differences

Amy Waterbury, MPH
Pulmonary disease

Beth Webber, MS
Evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews, genetic epidemiology

Bobbi Jo Yarborough, MA
Adolescent behavioral and mental health, depression, eating and weight disorders

Sarah P. Zuber, MSW
Systematic evidence reviews, mental and behavioral health, Hispanic populations

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