Public Health

Professor
Associate Dean
Phone: (801) 422-3327
Room: 5011 LSB
michael_barnes@byu.edu

Emphasis: Application of computational health science algorithms to mine social media and complex databases to monitor attitudes, interactions and behaviors of people to promote positive changes in health behavior; Impact of family health and familial factors on public health problems

Pre-requisites: None listed

Assistant Professor
Phone: (801) 422-7491
Room: 2046 LSB
john_beard@byu.edu

Emphasis: Environmental and occupational risk factors for neurological (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease) and mental health diseases; Health Effects of Temperature Inversions

Pre-requisites: None Listed

Assistant Professor
Phone: (801) 422-0658
Room: 2047 LSB
rchaney@byu.edu

Emphasis: Health Geography; Active Transportation; Urban Health; Built Environment

Pre-requisites: >1 public health course; college writing course completed and/or intro to statistics/epidemiology/data collection

Assistant Professor
Phone: (801) 422-6163
Room: 2049 LSB
ali_crandall@byu.edu

Emphasis: Family Health; Mental Health; Executive Function; Social Determinants of Health; Child and Adolescent Health

Pre-requisites: 1 credit Family Intro to Research class (Hlth 403R)

Associate Professor
MPH Director
Phone: (801) 422-3143
Room: 2138 LSB
benjamin_crookston@byu.edu

Emphasis: Undernutrition; Child Growth and Development; Maternal Health in Developing Countries

Pre-requisites: None listed

Assistant Professor
Phone: (801) 422-9754
Room: 2032 LSB
jeff_glenn@byu.edu

Emphasis: Health Systems and Policy

Pre-requisites: None Listed.

Associate Professor
Phone: (801) 422-5656
Room: 2140 LSB
cougar_hall@byu.edu

Emphasis: Implementing Effective Health Education Practices; Sexualization of Girls and Women; Social Norms Approaches in Health Education

Pre-requisites: None Listed

Professor
Department Chair
Phone: (801) 422-9103
Room: 4103B LSB
carl_hanson@byu.edu

Emphasis: Computational Health Science; New Media and Social Media; Family Health; Adolescent Health

Pre-requisites: None Listed

Associate Professor
Room: 2045 LSB
Phone: (801) 422-4226
james_johnston@byu.edu

Emphasis: Indoor Environmental Quality; Occupational Health and Safety

Pre-requisites: None Listed

Associate Professor
Phone: (801) 422-3083
Room: 2050 LSB
Brianna_Magnusson@byu.edu

Emphasis: Sexual and Reproductive Health; Breastfeeding; Infertility; Maternal Health; Maternal Mental Health; Gender Issues; Family Health; Executive Function

Pre-requisites: Hlth 313 or equivalent

Professor
Phone: (801) 422-9788
Room: 2063 LSB
Ray_Merrill@byu.edu
Emphasis: Cancer Epidemiology; Evaluation of Health Interventions

Pre-requisites: None Listed

Professor
Associate Academic Vice President
Phone: (801)-422-4331
Room: D-380 ASB
Brad_Neiger@byu.edu

Emphasis: Evaluation of Social Marketing and Social Media Interventions in Public Health Settings

Pre-requisites: None Listed

Associate Professor
Phone: (801) 422-9356
Room: 2064 LSB
len_novilla@byu.edu

Emphasis: Family and Public Health; Social Determinants of Health; Health Inequities; Health Disparities; Health in all Policies and Their Impact on Individual, Family and Community Health

Pre-requisites: None listed

Global Health Internship Coordinator
Phone: (801) 422-1131
Room: 2030 LSB
randy_page@byu.edu

Emphasis: Adolescent Health in International Contexts; Tobacco Use; Global Health; Multicultural Health

Pre-requisites: None listed

Assistant Professor
Phone: (801) 422-6442
Room: 2136 LSB
alisha_redelfs@byu.edu

Emphasis: Translational science, fruit & vegetable intake, physical activity, obesity, diabetes prevention, Latino health, school health, innovative evaluation methods, health communication, data visualization

Pre-requisites: HLTH 210 or HLTH 100 (if public health major), HLTH 313 or equivalent introduction to research

Assistant Professor
Phone: (801) 422-3959
Room: 2048 LSB
chantel.sloan@byu.edu

Emphasis: Spatial Epidemiology; Respiratory Health; Influenza; Pneumonia; RSV; Temporal Analysis; Asthma; Air Pollution; Geographic Information Systems; Social Determinants of Health

Pre-requisites: It is preferred students have taken a class either in SAS, R, or HLTH 482 (Medical Geography)

Assistant Professor
Phone: (801) 422-0281
Room: 2149 LSB
lori.andersen@byu.edu

Emphasis: Childhood Obesity Prevention through examining and evaluating nutrition programs, such as the National School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Program

Pre-requisites: CITI training preferred

Assistant Professor
Phone: (801) 422-2214
Room: 2051 LSB
elt@byu.edu

Emphasis: Cardiovascular Epidemiology; Neuroepidemiology; Connections of Cardiovascular Health with Cognitive Decline

Pre-requisites: HLTH 345, 440, 447

Assistant to the President
Phone: (801) 422-1704
Room: C327 ASB
rosemary_thackeray@byu.edu

Emphasis: Social Marketing; Social Media; Audience Analysis; Cytomegalovirus

Pre-requisites: None Listed

Associate Professor
Phone: (801) 422-1891
Room: 2031 LSB
steven.thygerson@byu.edu

Emphasis: International Occupational Safety and Health; Injury Prevention; Motor Vehicle Crashes

Pre-requisites: None Listed

Associate Professor
Phone: (801) 422-3444
Room: 2139 LSB
josh.west@byu.edu

Emphasis: Health Behavior Theory; Social Norms; Technology

Pre-requisites: None Listed