Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-2164

Dr. Barbara Albert is the Medical Director in the Center for Health Behavior Research. She received her medical degree from Pennsylvania State University and began her residency training in Internal Medicine and Primary Care Medicine at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. She completed her residency training and a fellowship in Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine in Baltimore, where she also earned an M.S. in Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology. Dr. Albert has been affiliated with the University of Maryland, School of Public Health for more than 14 years, where she has been a medical advisor for the Wellness Research Lab as well as a medical consultant for numerous studies.

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Barbara Alving, M.D, is a research professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She received her M.D. cum laude from the Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine and a research fellowship in hematology at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital.

In 2012, Dr. Alving joined the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore to help facilitate initiatives related to MPowering the State, which focus on strategic collaborations that engage expertise from both campuses. Before that, Dr. Alving was the acting director and then director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Research Resources from 2005-2011. She has also held positions as a research investigator at the Food and Drug Administration, the director of the Medical Oncology/Hematology Section at the Washington Hospital Center, and the acting institute director at the NIH-National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Her current interests include translating biomedical research into treatments and prevention strategies for improving health, both nationally and internationally, in a cost-effective, efficient manner, and in developing a team-based interdisciplinary biomedical research work force.

Family Science

Family Science

(301) 405-9778

Kimberly M. Caldeira, M.S. is Project Director of the College Life Study and a Faculty Research Associate. Her research interests encompass many aspects of health promotion in young adulthood, with a special focus on understanding problems related to substance use, mental health, and sexual risk behaviors.

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Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-8624

Dr. Clark's research interests include youth risk behaviors, particularly tobacco initiation, maintenance, and cessation, and evaluation of potentially reduced exposure tobacco products. She is currently studying physiologic responses to variation in smoke particle pH, as well as the smoke chemistry and smoking topography of hookah (waterpipe). Other research interests are system modeling in public health and developing indicators for environmental determinants of health risk behaviors.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-4081

Dr. Michael Grantham completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Pekosz lab. His recent work on the molecular determinants of influenza A virus assembly focused on the M2 ion channel protein resulted in two first author papers in J. Virology (the top ranked journal devoted specifically to virology); He is also a coauthor of paper in press at PNAS. He earned a Ph.D. in virology at Louisiana State for work on glycoprotein B from herpes simples virus type 2 and received B.S. degrees in Biology and Chemistry from Emporia State University. Michael is working on influenza virus aerosol generation from humans.

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(301) 405-2438

Muhiuddin Haider is a skilled public health professional who has managed and led diverse public health projects and research studies in more than a dozen countries worldwide over thirty years, on behalf of several international agencies and universities. He has developed expertise in the areas of health communications, health promotion, health education, and social marketing, health policy and assessment. His research into strategies of behavior change, application of social marketing tools and communications capacity building has led to several acclaimed publications. He has led major public health projects in several countries in Africa and Asia, for which he utilized technical skills to stimulate innovative and culturally sensitive approaches grounded in organizational and technical soundness.

Dr. Haider teaches several courses on Global Health. His recent research and programmatic work has focused on avian and pandemic influenza.

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

(301) 405-6589

Dr. Chun Hao is trained in the field of epidemiology, biostatistics and health psychology. She recieved a Ph.D. in Public Health in 2011 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Since 2004, she has been involved in over ten China National CDC and CUHK research projects for studies with drug users, men who have sex with men, migrants, blood donors and sex workers in China.

Her research has focused on the epidemiology of HIV; social-ecological determinants of HIV risks; quantitative assessment development; mixed-methods; community-based participatory interventions among vulnerable, hidden, and high-risk populations; sexual identity/cultures, and social inequality in health.

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(301) 405-9797

Dr. Horowitz' research focuses on health and literacy. More specifically, she is interested in the impact of health literacy on health outcomes. In 2010, Dr. Horowitz was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oral Health Initiative. Formerly, Dr. Horowitz was at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where she served as a Senior Scientist in the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She also held an appointment in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS, Office of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention where she contributed to a department level health literacy initiative and to the Healthy People 2010 objectives progress review process.

Kinesiology

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(301) 405-2574

My research focuses on multisensory integration and characterizing dynamic human postural control by multiple input stimuli. This research can provide the most effective methods to discern the integration of sensory information by the central nervous system.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

Dr Jiang has experience in GIS, spatial statistics, spatial sampling design, data analysis, data mining, air pollution exposure assessment, GPS application in environment health, human behavior classification, large data sets, spatial database and software design and implementation. His current research focus on environmental justice, relation between adverse health effect (eg. cancer risk) and social economic status and environmental health.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

(301) 405-0389

BSA from the University of Florida, Gainesville in bacteriology and chemistry; MS and PhD from St. John's University in microbiology. Former Professor and Chair, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics (Microbiology), University of Maryland; Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, UMB; and Former Director, Infectious Diseases Program, Naval Medical Research and Development Command, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. More than 120 refereed publications currently in press with six additional in preparation; and 15 books and chapters. Member of Sigma Xi; Elected Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Extensive contract and grant work with FDA, Naval Medical Research and Development Command; Agency for International Development; Agricultural Experiment Station; USDA; Maryland Department of the Environment.

Kinesiology

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(301) 405-2488

My research focuses on the neural control of movement. The behaviors I study include walking and the postural control of standing in humans and swimming in lampreys. My emphasis is on system-level models that illuminate key aspects of neural control and the use of empirical data to develop and test such models.

Behavioral and Community Health

(410) 787-4069

Joyce Kregelka is a Faculty Research Assistant in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health.

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health

Dr. Fengjie Liu received her Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from Medical College of Wisconsin and studied molecular mechanisms underlying a pediatric cancer, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. She earned her B.S. degree with honors in biochemical engineering at Beijing Technology and Business University, China. She also has experience in gene therapy using adeno-associated viral vectors and microarray detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) viruses. She earned the first prize for technology achievement award for the work of SARS microarray development. Dr. Liu is currently a research associate at the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health, studying influenza virus transmission in humans. She is also involved in the research on exhaled breath analysis using immuno-PCR to detect biomarkers for lung inflammation.

Behavioral and Community Health

(410) 787-4014

Ms. Marowski has been working in the field of highway safety for 15 years. She joined the Maryland Highway Safety Office (MHSO) as an employee of the Department of Public and Community Health in 1998, after having been a grantee of the MHSO for six years. As Deputy Chief, she is the operations manager for the MHSO, overseeing the grants and resource management aspects of the office. Ms. Marowski works closely with state, regional, and local partners from education, enforcement, engineering and EMS to reduce the incidence and severity of traffic crashes. Ms. Marowski has a Bachelors in Mathematics from Mount St. Mary's University, and a Masters in Business Administration from Salisbury State University, with concentrations in Marketing and Spanish.

Kinesiology

(410) 563-6200 ext. 201

Berenice Rushovich is a health educator and interventionist at the Center for Health Behavior Research. She received her Bachelors in Social Work from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and her Masters in Social Work from Loyola University of Chicago. She has worked on other studies in the School of Health and Human Performance focusing on physical activity and the influence of the environment. Her interests are in promoting health and preventing disease and how environments contribute to health and disease.

Behavioral and Community Health

Health Services Administration

(301) 405-2469

Linda is the Field Director for the Legacy Corps for Health and Independent Living grant with the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Health Services Administration

(301) 405-2469

Sharon P. Simson, PhD, MHSA is Research Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and Center on Aging, Associate Director of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UMD, Director of the Gliner Center on Humor Communication and Health, Co-Director of the Center on Civic Literacy and coordinator of the Graduate Gerontology Certificate Program. Her research and practice interests are health and mental health administration, aging, professional education, lifelong learning, civic engagement, horticulture as therapy and humor practices.

Health Services Administration

(301) 405-2469

Jack is the Project Director for the Legacy Corps for Health and Independent Living grant with the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Behavioral and Community Health

(301) 405-6597

Linda is a UMD alumnus and Terp fan who works with researchers in the Stress, Health and Addiction Research Program, AKA SHARP. Her main duties include administrative management of grants, office organization and maintenance of the SHARP web site.

Family Science

(301) 405-9768

Kathryn B. Vincent Carr, M.A. is a Faculty Research Associate. She has worked on the College Life Study since 2004.

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Kinesiology

(301) 405-0380

Katie Voss is a Faculty Research Assistant in the Department of Kinesiology.

Behavioral and Community Health

(410) 582-5735

Arthur retired from the Maryland State Police in July 2000 with the rank of Lieutenant and had 28 years of creditable service. His last assignment was as the Assistant Commander of the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division. Prior to that, he had served as the Barrack Commander for Berlin Barrack in Worcester County. Except for the last three years of his career, a majority of his time was spent assigned to field installations under the Field Operations Bureau at various Barracks throughout the state. He is a graduate of the Northwestern University Traffic Institutes School of Police Staff and Command and was certified as an instructor through the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission in police traffic RADAR, VASCAR+ and Motor Vehicle Law.

Mr. Walker is currently employed with the University of Maryland as a Research Assistant. For the past several years, this position has been on loan to the Maryland State Highway Administration where he currently works in the Motor Carrier Division in the position of Motor Carrier Special Projects Manager.