Faculty
As part of the Institute for Medicine and Public Health at Vanderbilt, the MPH program and its faculty members represent an extensive portfolio of effectiveness research and special expertise in medicine and public health.
Vanderbilt MPH students benefit from faculty instructors and mentors from large number of cooperative research programs, interdepartmental seminars, and core facilities, including:
Center for Addiction Research
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Center for Child Development
Center for Child Health Policy
Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research
Center for Health Services Research
Center for Healthcare Market Innovation
Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Center for Medicine, Health and Society
Center for Quality Aging
Center for Quantitative Sciences
Center for Research on Inequality and Health
Center for Research and Innovation in Systems Safety
Community Engagement Research Core
Diabetes Research and Training Center
Frist Center for Autism and Innovation
Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR)
Institute for Energy and the Environment (VIEE)
Institute for Global Health (VIGH)
Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation
Tennessee Center for AIDS Research
Turner Family Center for Social Ventures
Vanderbilt Data Science Institute
Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Vanderbilt Tuberculosis Center
Vanderbilt Vaccine Center
Women’s Health Research
Wond’ry
Click here for a list of all interdisciplinary centers and institutes.
Core Faculty
Margaret Adgent, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
Aima Ahonkhai, M.D., M.P.H.
Muktar Aliyu, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Dr.P.H.
Carolyn Audet, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Whitney Barrett, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Adriana Bialostozky, M.D.
Lisa H. Buckley, M.D., M.S.
Ryan J. Buckley, M.D.
Sharon Davis, Ph.D.
William Dupont, Ph.D.
Ayush Giri, Ph.D.
John A. Graves, Ph.D.
Carlos Grijalva, M.D., M.P.H.
William Heerman, M.D., M.P.H.
Brian Heuser, Ed.D., M.T.S.
Leigh Howard, M.D., M.P.H.
Laura Keohane, Ph.D.
Tatsuki Koyama, Ph.D.
Ashley Leech, Ph.D., M.S.
Marie H. Martin, Ph.D., M.Ed.
Velma McBride Murry, Ph.D.
Jacquelyn Pennings, Ph.D.
Wayne Ray, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Rose, Ed.D., M.P.H.
Christianne Roumie, M.D., M.P.H.
David Stevenson, Ph.D.
Martin Were, M.D., M.S.
Andrew Wiese, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Fe Yei, Ph.D.
Yuwei Zhu, M.D., M.S.
A selection of faculty publications may be found here.
Faculty Handbook
The Vanderbilt MPH Faculty Handbook provides MPH course instructors with information on Brightspace, academic term dates, online grading, the inclement weather policy, and other program policies.