Faculty

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

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

Associate Teaching Professor
Director, Health 1,2,3,4 Program

Dr. Logan Edwards is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Director of the Health 1,2,3,4 program within The Center for Study of Human Health. He is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES®) registered by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC), with special concentrations in human health, behavioral health, school health education, and public/community health education program design and implementation.

Full-Time Core Faculty

Assistant Teaching Professor of Health Equity

Dr. Andrea F. Fitzroy is a sociologist specializing in gerontology, gender, and sexuality whose research illustrates the influence of social relationships, intimacy, and caregiving on health in older adulthood.

Full-Time Core Faculty

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

Associate Professor

Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford is a medical anthropologist who applies social science approaches to global health research and implementation.

Full-Time Core Faculty

Director

Dr. Michelle Lampl studies human growth and development with expertise in mechanisms of growth and origins of health.

Full-Time Core Faculty

SENIOR FELLOW IN HEALTH NARRATIVE AND COMMUNICATION

Maryn McKenna is a journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health, and food policy. She is a contributing editor for Scientific American and writes for The New York Times Magazine, WIRED, National Geographic, Mother Jones, Newsweek, NPR, Smithsonian, Slate, The Atlantic, Nature, and The Guardian, among other publications.

Part-Time Core Faculty

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

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

VISITING PROFESSOR

Dr. Charles Raison is a Professor of Human Ecology and Psychiatry in the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Part-Time Core Faculty

Associate Professor

Dr. Welkley studies exercise, physical activity, stress, and mental health.

Full-Time Core Faculty

Assistant Teaching Professor

Dr. Myra Woodworth-Hobbs studies skeletal muscle biology, nutritional biochemistry, and sports nutrition.

Full-Time Core Faculty

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

Associate Teaching Professor
Director, Health 1,2,3,4 Program

Dr. Logan Edwards is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Director of the Health 1,2,3,4 program within The Center for Study of Human Health. He is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES®) registered by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC), with special concentrations in human health, behavioral health, school health education, and public/community health education program design and implementation.

Full-Time Core Faculty

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.

HEALTH EDUCATOR

For Madison, being part of the Health 1,2,3,4 program is an opportunity to bring all of this and more to support students when they are building their own evidence-based and personalized health, wellbeing, and capacity for thriving which they can carry through college and far beyond into countless communities and professions.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of French and Italian

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DIVISION OF PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE

School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

Course: HLTH 485-1 - Variable Topics Human Health

RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health

Course: HLTH 207 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Course: HLTH 485-1: Epidemiology in Action

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Course: HLTH 385 - Research Methods

INSTRUCTOR

Department of Theater and Dance

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Pharmacology and Chemical Biology

Course: HLTH 385-5 - Vaccines & Immunology Across Human Health

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department of Anthropology, Oxford College

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public Health

Course: HLTH 370 - Health Policy

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Department of Economics

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health

Course: HLTH 385 - Global Health: Players, Politics, & Powers

PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE AND DIRECTOR, EMORY-TIBET PARTNERSHIP; CO-DIRECTOR, EMORY-TIBET SCIENCE INITIATIVE; CO-DIRECTOR, EMORY COLLABORATIVE FOR CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES

Department of Religion

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public Health

Course: HLTH 385-6 - Delivering Health

DIVISION CHIEF, EMORY PAIN DIVISION, DIRECTOR OF CANCER PAIN, CO-DIRECTOR OF PAIN RESEARCH

School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology

Course: HLTH 485-1 - Variable Topics Human Health

ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing

PROFESSOR

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE EMORY GLOBAL HEALTH INSTITUTE

Rollins School of Public Health; School of Medicine

PROFESSOR OF PEDAGOGY

Program in Linguistics

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health

Course: HLTH 207 - Fundamentals of Epidemiology

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Laney Graduate School: Neuroscience Graduate Program/Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Course: HLTH 320 - Nutrition & Chronic Disease

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE VICE CHAIR OF RESEARCH FOR ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PAIN MANAGEMENT

Emory School of Medicine, Anesthesiology Department

Course: HLTH 385 - Pain: Treatment & Impacts

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

Center for Ethics

Course: HLTH 230 - Health and Humanities

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.

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Tessa Roseboom is a professor of Early Development and Health at the University of Amsterdam, who works as a Future Generations Commissioner at Amsterdam University Medical Centers in 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.

Adjunct Associate 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.

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.