Public Health

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

Emphasis: Application of computational health science algorithms to monitor population indicators of mental health; Impact of family health and familial factors on public health problems and policies.

Pre-requisites: None listed

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

Emphasis: Environmental and occupational epidemiology: (1) environmental and occupational risk factors for neurological (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease) and mental health diseases; (2) health effects of temperature inversions and air pollution.

Pre-requisites: Completion of at least one of the following courses is required: HLTH 322, 324, 345, 440, or 447, STAT 124 or 330; willingness to learn SAS and statistical analyses is required.

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

Emphasis: Active Transportation; Urban Health; Built Environment.

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

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

Emphasis: family health; adverse and positive childhood experiences (ACEs and PCEs); mental health

Pre-requisites: None

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; Mental Health; 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

Associate Professor
Phone: 801-422-1705
Room: 2148 LSB
erik_nelson@byu.edu

Emphasis: Health Disparities; Social Determinants of Health; Environmental Lead Exposure; Substance Abuse Disorders; Spatial Statistics & Disease Mapping.

Pre-requisites: Introductory Statistics knowledge (recommend STAT 121, HLTH 313, or HLTH 447) and Introductory Epidemiology
knowledge (recommend HLTH 345).

Preferred: Experience with statistical and/or GIS software

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

Emphasis: Social Determinants of Health, Families and Public Health; Integrating Public Health and Primary Care; Health Inequities; Health Disparities; Health in all Policies and their Impact on Individual, Family, and Community Health; Burnout for the COVID-19 Healthcare Frontliners and Vaccine Hesitancy.

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: Health disparities, systems, and structural changes to address social determinants of health, community-focused research and evaluation, healthy eating and active living, objective measurement of fruit/vegetable intake (reflectance spectroscopy), and health communication.
Initiatives: Mentorship & belonging at BYU.
Populations: Latinx, refugee & immigrant, LGBTQ

Pre-requisites: HLTH 210 and CITI (Social & Behavioral) training preferred; HLTH 313 suggested

Associate 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: Preferred students take either a class in SAS, R, or HLTH 482

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

Emphasis: Food Insecurity and Food Access among Children and Adolescents

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: At least one of the following — HLTH 345, 440, or 447

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

Emphasis: International Occupational Safety and Health; Injury Prevention

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