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PhD Faculty

Students in the PhD in Public Health Sciences program have the opportunity to work with faculty participating in locally, nationally, and globally recognized research and studies on both the Danforth and Medical School campuses. Their areas of interest range from data analysis to community outreach to AI modeling for positive health outcomes. Learn more about our faculty community and how you can be a part of building a better present and future.

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Mathew Kreuter

Matthew Kreuter

Kahn Family Professor of Public Health

  • 314-935-3701
  • mkreuter@wustl.edu

Matthew Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications. He currently serves as a member of the Faculty Advisory Council of the Institute for Public Health at Washington University, and he holds a secondary appointment at Washington University's School of Medicine. As founder and senior scientist of the Health Communication Research Laboratory, Kreuter has developed and evaluated a wide range of health communications programs to promote health, modify behavior, and prevent and manage disease.
Jessica Levy

Jessica Levy

Associate Professor of Practice

  • 314-935-2789
  • jessicaklevy@wustl.edu

Jessica Levy’s research focuses on the intersection between gender, poverty, and global maternal and child health. She aims to identify culturally appropriate interventions that promote gender equality and improve reproductive health and development outcomes. Levy is also a faculty scholar at the Institute for Public Health and a member of the School’s Global Advisory Committee.
Erin-Linnenbringer

Erin Linnenbringer

Assistant Professor of Surgery

  • 314-747-1966
  • elinnen@wustl.edu

Dr. Linnenbringer is a social demographer and board-certified genetic counselor. Broadly defined, her research explores the complex interplay among social, behavioral, and genetic factors, and their subsequent implications for population health and health disparities. Dr. Linnenbringer is also developing new lines of research that will examine the impact of emerging precision medicine approaches on the health and well-being of medically underserved populations.
Ying-Liu

Ying Liu

Associate Professor of Surgery

  • 314-747-5601
  • ylui3@wustl.edu

Dr. Lui’s research work identifies and addresses the determinants of disparities along the cancer care continuum from a multilevel perspective, including health policies, neighborhood contexts, healthcare providers, individual health behaviors, and biological responses and pathways. She also has extensive expertise in the impacts of lifestyle exposures across the life course on breast cancer risk.
Douglas Luke

Douglas Luke

Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy

  • 314-935-3704
  • dluke@wustl.edu

Douglas Luke is a leading researcher in the areas of public health policy, systems science and tobacco control. Luke directs work focused primarily on the evaluation, dissemination and implementation of evidence-based public health policies. He has written books on multilevel modeling and network analysis. Under Luke's leadership, the Center for Public Health Systems Science has used network analysis to study diffusion of scientific innovations, to model the formation of organizational collaborations, and to study the relationship of mentoring to future scientific collaboration.
Chongliang Jason Luo

Chongliang (Jason) Luo

Assistant Professor of Surgery

  • chongliang@wustl.edu

Dr. Luo’s research interests focus on statistical methodology on data integration, including multi-view data integration, meta-analysis and privacy-preserving distributed learning. The developed methodologies have found applications in analyses using large-scale EHR databases and clinical research networks such as OHDSI and PCORnet. He is also interested in collaborative researches related to cancer, vaccine and pharmacovigilance, and mental health.