ITDI Staff and Membership Directory

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Maryam Ahmed, PhD

Professor, Chair, College of Arts & Sciences

ahmedm@ohio.edu

740.593.2401

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Expertise: Oncolytic Viruses, Virus-Host Interactions, Natural Products

Felipe Aros-Vera, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

aros@ohio.edu

740-593-0415

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Stocker Center 277

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Jane Balbo, DO

Assistant Clinical Professor

balbo@ohio.edu

740.597.9068

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

batesb@ohio.edu

740-593-9163

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Schoonover Center

Bekka Brodie, PhD

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Biological Sciences and Honors Tutorial College

brodieb@ohio.edu

740-593-0875

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

35 Park Place, 203

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Ronan Carroll, PhD

Associate Director, ITDI; Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

carrolr3@ohio.edu

740-593-2201

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Life Science Building 211

Sharon Casapulla, EdD, MPH

Director, Education and Research; Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, Family Medicine

casapull@ohio.edu

740.593.2257

Diabetes Institute

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Primary Care

Rural and Underserved Programs

Athens

Heritage Hall

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

chertok@ohio.edu

740-593-4492

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Grover Center

Rebekah Crawford, PhD

Visiting Professor, Department of Social and Public Health

rc378112@ohio.edu

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Grover Center W344

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David Drozek, DO

Associate Professor, Lifestyle Medicine

drozek@ohio.edu

678.447.2509

Diabetes Institute

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Specialty Medicine

Athens

Expertise: Lifestyle medicine

Janet Duerr, PhD

Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

duerr@ohio.edu

740-597-1921

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Life Sciences Building 221

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Mario Grijalva, PhD

Director, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute; Professor, Microbiology

grijalva@ohio.edu

740.593.2192

Biomedical Sciences

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Irvine Hall

Expertise: Tropical Diseases, Parasitology, Blood Bank Safety, International Research, Research Capacity Development

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Zelalem Haile, PhD

Associate Professor, Epidemiology

haile@ohio.edu

614.793.5591

Diabetes Institute

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Social Medicine

Dublin

Medical Education Building 1

Tarig B. Higazi, PhD

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Zanesville Campus

higazi@ohio.edu

740-588-1533

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Zanesville

Elson 249, Zanesville Campus

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Gillian Ice, PhD, MPH

Professor, Social Medicine; Director, Global Health; Interim Associate Provost of Global Affairs

iceg@ohio.edu

740.593.2128

Biomedical Sciences

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Medical Education Office

Social Medicine

Athens

Heritage Hall

Expertise: Aging, global health, public health, stress, nutrition

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Kelly Johnson, PhD

Associate Professor, Biological Sciences

johnsonk3@ohio.edu

740-593-0276

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Wilson 101

Brad D. Jokisch, PhD

Associate Professor, Geography Department

jokisch@ohio.edu

740-593-1143

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

khanm1@ohio.edu

740-593-4803

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Schoonover Center 307

Caroline Kingori, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Public Health

kingori@ohio.edu

740-593-4680

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Grover Center W347

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Kat Marriott, PhD

Interim Director of Operations

marriott@ohio.edu

740.837.0533

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Medical Education Center, Athens Campus

Graciela Muniz-Terrera, PhD

Professor, Social Medicine; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor in Health and Aging

muniz@ohio.edu

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute

Social Medicine

Athens

Irvine Hall

Expertise: Aging, brain health, epidemiology, biostatistics

Erin Murphy, PhD

Chair, Biomedical Sciences; Professor of Bacteriology

murphye@ohio.edu

740.597.3061

Biomedical Sciences

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Life Sciences Building

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

pant@ohio.edu

740-597-9009

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

mr554119@ohio.edu

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Grover Center W324

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Nancy Stevens, PhD

Professor, Functional Morphology & Vertebrate Paleontology

stevensn@ohio.edu

740.597.2785

Biomedical Sciences

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Life Sciences Building

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

Shaohua Wang Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology

wangs4@ohio.edu

740.593.2355

Biomedical Sciences

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Life Science Building

Nathan Weyand, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences

weyand@ohio.edu

740-593-0191

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Life Science Building 109

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Todd Young, PhD

Professor, Mathematics

youngt@ohio.edu

740-593-1277

Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute

Athens

Morton 547