Public Health and Nutrition

Dr. Carolyn C. Johnson, PhD, FAAHB, NCC, LPA, FAAHB, is the endowed Usdin Family Professor in the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is currently the Director of the Tulane Prevention Research Center, Director of the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, and Chief of the Section of Maternal and Child Health within her department. Dr. Johnson earned an MS in Clinical Psychology from San Diego State and a PhD in Applied Biopsychology from the University of New Orleans. She has been in a faculty position at Tulane for 25 years. The main focus of her research is health education and health promotion for behaviors that are preventive against the development of chronic disease, specifically physical activity, nutrition, and smoking. She has been funded as PI and Co-PI by both federal and state agencies on multiple single and multisite studies. Dr. Johnson chairs the social and behavioral sciences extramural research program for the Division of Transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration, and formerly chaired grant review panels for the U. S. Army prostate and breast cancer programs. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Health Behavior, a nationally certified counselor and a Louisiana Professional Counselor.

Behavioral medicine

Sarah S. Knox, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health & WVU Cancer Institute, West Virginia University, received her PhD and MS degrees from Stockholm University (S.U.), Sweden; and began her career as a Principal Investigator at S.U. and the Karolinska Institute. She subsequently focused on cardiovascular research at the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. before assuming a leadership position to guide the implementation of the National Children’s Study. Her current research interests focus on a systems biology approach to carcinogenesis, integrating gene x environment interactions and biophysical signaling in cancer. She does graduate teaching in epidemiology and cancer cell biology. Dr. Knox has published widely and been the recipient of multiple honors and awards. In addition to being on the editorial board of multiple journals, she reviews for a broad range of other medical and scientific journals.

systems biology approach to carcinogenesis, integrating gene x environment interactions and biophysical signaling in cancer

Dr. Robert John has completed his Bachelor of Arts in History, Sociology, Political Science from Vanderbilt University, M.A.T. in History from University of Florida and Phd in Sociology from University of Kansas. He has worked as Biedenharn Endowed Chair in Gerontology in University of Louisiana at Monroe (1998-2000). Currently he is a Proffesor at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Health Promotion Sciences. He has published in several peer-reviewed Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Social Marketing Quarterly, American journal of health promotion: AJHP, Journal of Applied Gerontology.

Aging; Applied Sociology/Social Policy; Family; Health; Minorities; Political Economy/Social Stratification

Dr. Abdelghani completed his master and doctorate at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He then joined Tulane/ department of Global Environmental Health Sciences as a faculty member and he served as the department chair from 1999-2005 and director of Tulane university school of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Laboratories for 22 years. He has implemented and /or participated in many projects addressing environmental health problems in the United States and other countries. He was closely involved in the after math of Hurricane Katrina (2005) as well as the recent Gulf of Mexico oil Spill. One of the courses Dr. Abdelghani teaches is on Environmental Sampling and Monitoring following Disasters

Dr. Abdelghani’s current teaching, research and field work focus on global Environmental Health issues with interest in developing countries. These issues include , water quality and quantity, clean air, food safety, management of municipal and hazardous waste, exposure to toxic and hazardous substances with emphasis on the impact on aquatic organisms , control of vectors of health importance, and solid and liquid waste disposal.

Prof. John-Jules Ch. Meyer studied Mathematics with Computer Science and Digital Signal Processing at Leyden University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam on a subject in theoretical computer science. Since 1993 he has been a full professor of computer science, and artificial intelligence in particular, at Utrecht University. At the moment he is heading the Artificial Intelligence Division within the Department of Information and Computing Sciences and is program leader of the AI Master of the UU. Currently he is also the CSO of the Alan Turing Institute Almere, which specializes in multidisciplinary research for the health sciences, and the CEO of Companion Diagnostics ltd. as a part of Emotional Brain ltd. He has over 500 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conference proceedings. In 2005 he was appointed as a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Dr. Lu Qi has been Graduated from Tuft Univerisyt as PhD. Later on he obtained his post-graduation from Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and becaue Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. He is now Regents Distinguished Chiar and Professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Qi is a fellow of American Heart Association (FAHA), American College of Nutrition (FACN), and The Obesity Society (FOS).

Epidemiology, Nutrition, Gentics

Dr. Elida Mataj obtained her PhD degree in Public Health in 2012 and has been working as a Chief of Environmental Epidemiology Sector at the Department of Health and Environment, in Public Health Institute Tirana, Albania. Dr. Mataj is also a Lecturer of Statistics and Epidemiology at the ALBANI Medical University. Her primary areas of expertise are Environmental health and statistics.

Epidemiology, Statistics, Environmental Health

Dr. Pranab K Sen has completed his B.Sc. (1955), M.Sc. (1957) and Ph.D. (1962) from Calcutta University. Presently he is an Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at School of Public Health, The university of North Carolina, USA. He has worked at Calcutta University (1961-64) and University of California, Berkeley (1964-65) at different faculty positions. He has published in several peer-reviewed journals of Biostatistics, including Annals of Applied Probability, Demography, Journal of Applied Statistical Sciences, Sankhya, Annals of Statistics.

Nonparametrics with special emphasis on multivariate nonparametric methods and sequential nonparametrics; sequential estimation; decision theoretic problems in statistical inference. survival analysis; asymptotic methods; Statistical bioassays; resampling methods with special emphasis on jackknifing and bootstrapping; statistical considerations in arteriosclerosis problems, molecular genetics

Dr. Asha Seth Kapadia currently serves as Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics at School of Public Health, The University of Texas, Health Science Center, Houston, Texas. She is also a Professor of Biometry/Biostatistics and Management. She is a Visiting Professor at Delhi University and University of Hyderabad, India. She graduated with BA and the MA in Mathematical Statistics from Delhi University in 1957 and 1959, respectively. She obtained a Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University in 1969. She also worked as Professor of Preventive Dentistry at University of Texas Health Center during 1999-2005. She worked as an Associate professor of Biometry at School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, 1982-1984.

Statistics

Dr. Jia-Sheng Wang currently serves as University of Georgia (UGA) Athletic Association Endowed Professor in Public Health, Professor in Toxicology and Food Safety, and the Head of the Department of Environmental Health Science, College of Public Health, UGA. He is also a Chang Jiang Lecture Professor in Jiangnan University School of Food Science and Technology, China. He graduated with undergraduate diploma MB) and the Master of Medicine Degree from Shanghai First Medical College in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He worked as acting division leader and assistant dean for research in Nanjing Railway Medical College in 1982-1985.. Dr. Wang was the Georgia Distinguished Cancer Research Scholar in 2009-2015. He is an international recognized leader in food safety and food toxicology with focus on foodborne toxicants.

His research interests include development of molecular biomarkers for foodborne carcinogens, cancer chemoprevention with functional food components, and molecular epidemiology and toxicology.

Dr. Yu obtained her PhD degree in statistics in 2006 and have been working as an assistant and then associate professor in the Biostatistics program of the School of Public Health at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) ever since. Dr. Yu has been a PI for two NAACCR research awards, and co-investigator for the Louisiana Tumor Registry, NIH-funded Health Aging project, and Neighborhood Environment and Alcohol Health Disparities Studies project, as well as the LSU Principal Investigator for the Evaluation of Louisiana’s Fish Mercury Monitoring Program.

multi-level analysis, Bayesian modeling, causal effect analysis, statistical learning, gene analysis, spatial analysis, and survey research

Dr. Echu Liu graduated from University of Southern California, USA, as Doctor of Philosophy in 2006, with the specialties including Health Economics and Applied Econometrics. Presently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at Saint Louis University, USA. He has published in several peer-reviewed journals of economics or health services administration, including Applied Economics, Demography, International Journal of Applied Economics, International Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health Reviews, Journal of Public Health, Journal of Health Care Finance, and JSM Health Education and Primary Health Care.

Treatment Evaluation