Faculty Profiles

EPI includes more than 150 faculty who self-identify as members of our multi-disciplinary organization. (For a full list, please visit our Find an Expert database.) As EPI grows, we are adding in-depth profiles of key faculty members. This list is continually updated and is not meant to be comprehensive at this point in time.

  • Afsar Ali: Research Associate Professor of Environmental and Global Health
  • Donald Behringer: Assistant Professor, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Jason Blackburn: Assistant Professor of Geography
  • Jeff Bloomquist: Professor of Entomology
  • Robert Cook: Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
  • Michael Dark: Assistant Professor of Veterinary Medicine
  • Kevin Fennelly: Director of the Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease Program and Associate Professor of Medicine, Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center
  • Dana A. Focks: Research Professor of Environmental and Global Health
  • Jorge Girón: Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Erica Goss: Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
  • Gregory C. Gray: Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Global Health
  • Paul A. Gulig: Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Education
  • Tracy Irani: Professor of agricultural communication in the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication
  • Kwang Cheol Jeong: Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Food Safety
  • Judy Johnson: Professor of Pathology and director of EPI Core Lab Services
  • Andrew Kane: Associate Professor of Environmental and Global Health and director of the Aquatics Pathobiology Laboratory
  • Stephanie Karst: Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Eben Kenah: Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
  • John Lednicky: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Global Health
  • Song Liang: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Global Health
  • Ira Longini,Jr.: Professor of Biostatistics, Co-director of the Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases at EPI
  • Volker Mai: Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Cell Science
  • Mansour Mohamadzadeh: Professor of Immunology
  • J. Glenn Morris, Jr.: Director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute and Professor of Medicine
  • Bernard Okech: Research Assistant Professor of Environmental and Global Health
  • David Pascual: Professor of Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
  • Charles Peloquin: Professor of Pharmacy and director of the Infectious Disease Pharmacokinetics Laboratory
  • Juliet Pulliam: Assistant Professor of Biology
  • Youliang Qiu: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
  • Chythanya Rajanna: Research Assistant Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Tara Sabo-Attwood: Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Global Health
  • Marco Salemi: Assistant Professor of Pathology
  • Burton H. Singer: Courtesy Professor and National Academy of Sciences member
  • Alexander Sulakvelidze: Research Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Andy Tatem: Assistant Professor of Geography
  • Ariena H.C. van Bruggen: Professor of Plant Pathology and EPI plant disease epidemiologist
  • Thomas B. Waltzek: Assistant Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology
  • Anita Wright: Associate Professor of Food Microbiology and EPI Seminar Committee Chair
  • Yang Yang: Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics
  • Özlem Yilmaz: Associate Professor of Periodontology & Oral Biology