Faculty
Core Faculty
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Carolyn Accardi, PhD, RD
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Dr. Carolyn Accardi leads research integrating metabolomic platforms for studies focused on human health, disease, nutrition, physical activity, pediatric medicine and environmental exposures. Her collaborative research explores the metabolic underpinnings of health, human development and disease pathophysiology.
Part-Time Core Faculty

Dan Benardot, PhD, RD, FACSM
PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE
Dr. Benardot received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist, and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.
Part-Time Core Faculty

Chris Eagle, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
Dr. Chris Eagle studies speech pathology and language loss, cultural ideas about illness and the body, and the history of neuroscience and neurolinguistics.
Full-Time Core Faculty

Amanda Freeman, PhD
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Teaching Professor
Dr. Amanda Freeman, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, studies neurological and genetic mechanisms with a focus on how the brain regulates sleep.
Full-Time Core Faculty

Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc
Assistant Professor
Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford is a medical anthropologist who applies social science approaches to global health research and implementation.
Full-Time Core Faculty

Michelle Lampl, MD, PhD
Director
Dr. Michelle Lampl studies human growth and development with expertise in mechanisms of growth and origins of health.
Full-Time Core Faculty

Maryn McKenna, MS
SENIOR FELLOW IN HEALTH NARRATIVE AND COMMUNICATION
Maryn McKenna is a journalist who specializes in public health, global health, and food policy. She is a columnist for Wired’s Ideas section and writes for The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Mother Jones, Newsweek, NPR, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Slate, The Atlantic, Nature, and The Guardian, among other publications.
Part-Time Core Faculty

Don Noble, PhD
INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Noble studies the physiology of slow, deep breathing - a core component of meditation - using rodent models that allow for robust control over experimental variables.
Part-Time Core Faculty

Helena Pachón, PhD, MPH
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Dr. Pachón’s research interest lies in food-based approaches to address malnutrition and specifically to fortification: adding vitamins and minerals to staple foods as they are processed for human consumption.
Part-Time Core Faculty

Cassandra Quave, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF DERMATOLOGY AND HUMAN HEALTH
Dr. Cassandra Quave leads antibiotic drug discovery research initiatives. Trained as a medical ethnobotanist, her research is focused on the documentation and biochemical analysis of botanical remedies used in the traditional treatment of infectious and inflammatory skin disease.
Part-Time Core Faculty

Charles Raison, MD
VISITING PROFESSOR
Dr. Charles Raison is the Mary Sue and Mike Shannon Chair for Healthy Minds, Children & Families and Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human Ecology, and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Part-Time Core Faculty

Jill Welkley, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Welkley studies exercise, physical activity, stress, and mental health.
Full-Time Core Faculty

Myra Woodworth-Hobbs, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professor
Dr. Myra Woodworth-Hobbs studies skeletal muscle biology, nutritional biochemistry, and sports nutrition.
Full-Time Core Faculty

Howard Kushner, PhD
EMERITUS
Dr. Howard I. Kushner is the Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professor of Science & Society Emeritus at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and the John R. Adams Professor of History Emeritus at San Diego State University. A historian of medicine and neuroscience, Kushner is author of five books and numerous articles on the history of suicide and of addiction.
Part-Time Core Faculty
Health 1,2,3,4 Team
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Lisa DuPree, MS, NBC-HWC, ACSM-EP®
DIRECTOR, HEALTH 1,2,3,4 PROGRAM
Lisa DuPree has over 20 years of experience in the health and wellness field as a health and fitness specialist, master trainer, health educator and health and wellness coach.

Sarah Flood, MS, RDN, LD
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS
Sarah Flood joined the Health 1,2,3,4 team in 2019. She has experience providing nutrition education to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from university athletes to patients with multiple chronic diseases, and welcomes the opportunity to teach Emory University students the benefits of nutrition as a component of a holistic wellness approach.

Noni Keyton, M.Ed.
HEALTH EDUCATOR
As a member of the Health 1,2,3,4 team, Noni understands the importance of practicing good health maintenance, and her overall goal is to educate and empower learners to not just live but thrive in health and wellness.

Fatima Waseem, MPH
HEALTH EDUCATOR
Fatima Waseem joined the Health 1,2,3,4 team as a Health Educator in the fall of 2021. She has a strong belief in educating and empowering students with the tools that Health 1,2,3,4 provides and hopes to expand the program.
Cross-University Faculty
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Lauren Christiansen-Lindquist, PhD, MPH
RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
Course: HLTH 207 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

John Cranmer, DNP, MPH, CPH, EBP-C, ANP-BC
ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Course: HLTH 485-1: Epidemiology in Action

Ghada Farhat, PhD, MPH
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health
Course: HLTH 385 - Research Methods


Christina Gavegnano, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Pharmacology and Chemical Biology
Course: HLTH 385-5 - Vaccines & Immunology Across Human Health


David Howard, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public Health
Course: HLTH 370 - Health Policy



Deborah McFarland, PhD, MPH
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health
Course: HLTH 385 - Global Health: Players, Politics, & Powers

Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, PhD
PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE AND DIRECTOR, EMORY-TIBET PARTNERSHIP; CO-DIRECTOR, EMORY-TIBET SCIENCE INITIATIVE; CO-DIRECTOR, EMORY COLLABORATIVE FOR CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES
Department of Religion

Victoria Phillips, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public Health
Course: HLTH 385-6 - Delivering Health

Sydney Spangler, PhD, MSN
ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing


Parmi Suchdev, MD, MPH
PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE EMORY GLOBAL HEALTH INSTITUTE
Rollins School of Public Health; School of Medicine


Kristin Wall, PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
Course: HLTH 207 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Jean Welsh, PhD, MPH
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Laney Graduate School: Neuroscience Graduate Program/Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Course: HLTH 320 - Nutrition & Chronic Disease
Adjunct Faculty
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George E. Luber, PhD
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Since receiving his PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of Georgia, and joining CDC in 2002, Dr. Luber has served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer and staff epidemiologist at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most recently, his work has focused on the epidemiology and prevention of heat-related illness and death, the application of remote sensing techniques to modeling vulnerability to heat stress in urban environments, and Climate Change adaptation planning.

Tessa Roseboom, PhD
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Tessa Roseboom is a professor of Early Development and Health at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Fascinated by the wonder of life, she studied biology with a particular focus on reproduction. Her work focuses on generating knowledge and awareness about how the early-life environment affects human growth, development and health throughout life.

Christine Whelan, PhD
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Dr. Christine B. Whelan is an author, professor and speaker. She is the author of Living on Purpose, a bestselling Audible Original lecture series from The Great Courses, and four other books on purpose and meaning formation, changing dating and marriage patterns and the self-help industry. Dr. Whelan is a clinical professor in the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and director of the Money, Relationships and Equality Initiative. She has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, among other national outlets.

Philip Wilson, MBA
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Philip Wilson is the founder and CEO of Ecofiltro, a social enterprise dedicated to providing clean water to the rural poor of Mexico and Central America. He has over twenty-five years of experience as an entrepreneur in the United States and Guatemala, and firmly believes that the world’s most pressing problems can be solved by applying business practices to social challenges.