Research Portfolio Directory

Faculty research at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine can be divided into the following cross-disciplinary fields of study: biostatistics and bioinformatics, community health, disaster studies, environmental health and toxicology, epidemiology, health systems, infectious diseases, operations research, social science and tropical diseases.  These domains can be further divided into the categories and sub-categories below, where faculty from various departments are listed according to their research interests.

Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Research

• Genomics and Proteomics
  
• Statistical Interpretation of Data
  

Community Health

• Child/Adolescent Health
• • School-Based Health
• Health Promotion, Communication and Education
• Immigrant/Migrant Health
• Mental/Behavioral Health
• Nutrition
• Obesity
• Tobacco
• Women’s/Maternal Health
• • Pregnancy Outcomes/Perinatal Health
    

Disaster Studies  

• Disaster Management
  
• Post-Katrina Studies   
  

Environmental Health and Toxicology   

• Cancer
• Environmental Health Policy
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Lead Poisoning
• Occupational/Industrial Health
• Respiratory Diseases
• Toxicology
• Water Quality   
  

Epidemiology   

• Chronic Diseases
• • Asthma
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity
  • Osteoporosis
• Epidemiologic Methods
• Genetic Epidemiology
• Reproductive Health Epidemiology
  
• Infectious Diseases
• • HIV/AIDS/STI
  • Malaria   
    

Health Systems Research  

• Health Care/Health Outcomes Research
• Health Economics and Health Law   

Infectious Diseases   

• Diarrheal Disease
• Hemorrhagic Fevers
  
• HIV/AIDS/STI
• Immunology
• Tuberculosis
• Vaccines
• Vector-Borne Diseases
• • Chagas
  • Dengue
  • Helminthology
    
  • Malaria
  • Mosquito Biology and Disease Transmission
  • West Nile   
    

Operations Research

• Evaluation Research
• Formative Research for Program Design and Implementation
  

Social Science Research

• Health Disparities
• Population Studies
  
• Social Determinants of Health

Tropical Diseases

• HIV/AIDS/STI
• Tuberculosis
• Vector-Borne Diseases
• • Chagas
  • Dengue
  • Helminthology
    
  • Malaria
  • Mosquito Biology and Disease Transmission
  • West Nile 

Last edited: August 1, 2012