Current Affiliates
John Pastor Ansah, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center for Community Health Integration, Case Western Reserve University; Adjunct Faculty, Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Research Interests: health systems modeling and primary care reform; chronic disease modeling and risk pathways; aging; cognitive decline; long-term care; workforce planning and service redesign; participatory modeling and stakeholder engagement; population health; equity
Email: jxp992@case.edu
Ther W. Aung, PhD
Assistant Professor, Population Health Research Institute, The MetroHealth System; School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: energy transitions; environmental exposure impacts on chronic disease outcomes; climate change and human health
Email: twa21@case.edu
Jill Clark, PhD, MS
Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University
Research Interests: political, civic, and community engagement; food system policy and planning; food policy council and food system governance; food democracy; food security; agricultural economic development; healthy food access; small to mid-size farms
Email: clark.1099@osu.edu
Andrew Curtis, PhD
Professor of Spatial Epidemiology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: capturing and mapping contextualized aspects of environmental health; spatial patterns of lead exposure; health improvement through exercise; GIS; access to clean water; disease risk
Email: ajc321@case.edu
Jacqueline Curtis, PhD, MA
Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: Geographic Information Science (GISc); environment-health relationships, particularly in women and children; exposure assessment; health services delivery; gene-environment interaction
Email: jxc1546@case.edu
Jarrod Dalton, PhD
Staff, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic; Associate Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: understanding and integrating into clinical practice social, behavioral, and environmental factors that affect health; cardiovascular risk across the age and socioeconomic spectrum; integration of regional electronic medical record data with location-based data
Email: daltonj@ccf.org
Robert L. Fischer, PhD
Grace Longwell Coyle Professor in Civil Society & Director, Center on Poverty & Community Development, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: examining the role of housing in child well-being and development related to kindergarten readiness, academic progress, and engagement with social systems that address risk; childhood lead exposure and its consequences for children
Email: fischer@case.edu
Bridget Hegarty, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: microbiology of engineered systems; air quality; drinking water and wastewater treatment; phage therapy and biocontrol; engineering microbiomes
Email: beh53@case.edu
Miranda Leppla, JD
Director, Environmental Law Clinic, School of Law, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: environmental and energy law; environmental and energy justice; air quality and pollution; energy democracy; climate change governance, legislation and litigation; energy regulatory policy and electricity markets; sustainable, accessible, and carbon-free transit; energy facility siting, laws and regulations
Email: miranda.leppla@case.edu
Adam Perzynski, PhD, MA
Professor of Medicine and Sociology, Center for Healthcare Research and Policy, MetroHealth; Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: novel strategies to eliminate health disparities; outcomes measurement over the life course; mixed methods research; implications of neighborhood conditions on health outcomes
Email: adam.perzynski@case.edu
Brandy Phipps, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Central State University; Chair, Inter-Institutional Network for Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability
Research Interests: holistic interactions of biomolecules in
plant extracts and foods; mechanisms of biomolecules in the prevention/alleviation of disease; evaluation of wellness needs and development of strategies to mitigate chronic health conditions in underserved and historically disadvantaged populations.
Email: bphipps@centralstate.edu
Francisca García-Cobián Richter, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Center on Poverty and Community Development, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Public Interest Technology CWRU Liaison, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: social processes and policies that influence the wellbeing of marginalized groups; housing stability; child welfare; integration of community knowledge into data analytics; discrimination bias
Email: fxr58@case.edu
Ashwini Sehgal, MD, MS
Professor, Population Health Research Institute, The MetroHealth System
Research Interests: climate change and health; social determinants of health; health disparities; public health; community-based research; identifying and overcoming barriers to quality of care; access to kidney transplant; nutrition in renal failure; adequacy of hemodialysis
Email: axs81@case.edu
Kurt Stange, MD, PhD
Professor, Center for Community Health Integration, Department of Population and Qualitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: complex environment interactions with human systems and equity; primary health care practice; community and population health; practice-based research; cancer prevention and early detection; multimethod research; health promotion; disability prevention; preventive service delivery in primary medical care
Email: kcs@case.edu
Colleen Walsh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences and Human Performance, Cleveland State University
Research Interests: cultural anthropology; urban environments that affect physical and social health; social capital in community gardens; nutritious food access; social aspects of food habits; racial and health equity
Email: c.c.walsh@csuohio.edu
Peter Whitehouse, PhD, MA
Professor, Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University; Transdisciplinarian
Research Interests: aging and cognition; attention; narrative analysis; bioethics; mixed methods; intergenerational learning; drug development; ecology; robotics; artificial intelligence; the metacrisis.
Email: peter.whitehouse@case.edu
Xiong (Bill) Yu, PhD
Chair and Frank H. Neff Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Research Interests: infrastructure sustainability and resilience; environment friendly infrastructure; climatic adaptive infrastructure; a strong interdisciplinary emphasis that integrates innovative materials, smart structures, and smart technologies; environmental modulating materials for infrastructure life extension; building materials that autogenously improve the indoor environment; understanding the multiphysics phenomena in geoenvironment; data and machine learning based design and assessment of new materials
Email: xxy21@case.edu