Dr. Londoño is currently the lead scientist of the Arbovirology and Immunology Laboratory. Her research is focused on the characterization of mosquito salivary proteins as markers for disease risk and transmission dynamics. She is also looking at the interactions between immunodominant salivary proteins and vertebrate skin cells (Fibroblast, mast cells, and dendritic cells) to characterize their role in disease progression and pathogenesis. Dr.
W. Susan Cheng is a trained infectious disease epidemiologist, with a diverse background in STI research, pandemic preparedness, mental health, health disparities, and maternal and child health. Her current research has focused on the effects of social determinants of health on anxiety and depression, maternal mortality, and childhood wellness, including nutrition and dietary allergies.
Dr. Christine Arcari is the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Her role is to provide leadership and vision in academic affairs for the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She received her PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and an MPH in Community and Family Health from the University of South Florida, College of Public Health. Arcari has an extensive record of teaching, mentoring and promoting student success in public health.
Dr. Chelsea Singleton is a nutritional epidemiologist whose research examines the impact healthy food access has on food purchasing behavior, dietary intake, and chronic disease risk. The overarching goal of her research is to document and dismantle nutritional inequities affecting low-income populations and people of color in the U.S. Her recent work has primarily focused on describing the mechanisms by which structural racism and structural violence impede healthy eating in underserved communities.
Dr. Fuster’s work examines the contextual factors influencing food practices and the policies and interventions implemented to improve them, with a focus on Latin American communities, as presented in her book, Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City. Expanding on this work, she is currently focused on food environment policy implementation research and evaluation.
Dr. Lindsey Ho is an Assistant Professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science. Dr. Ho is dedicated to ensuring academic success for Public Health professionals in training at the graduate level as teaching faculty (Biostatistics for Public Health), as an online technology expert, and a mentor in Biostatistics and Data Analytics education.
Shokufeh Mojgani Ramirez is the Associate Director of the Tulane Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (CEMCH), a training grant funded by the HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). In this role, she mentors and provides leadership development experiences for maternal and child health graduate students, helping them prepare to enter the public health workforce. She has been affiliated with the training grant for fifteen years, in various staff roles.
Yoriko Heianza, PhD, RD, is a public health epidemiology researcher with a diverse training background, including Epidemiology, Nutrition, Endocrinology and Metabolism. Her research interests lie at the intersection of diet and lifestyles, multi-omics, genetics, and cardiometabolic health. Her current research program focuses on gene-diet interactions and the identification of novel biochemical risk factors in relation to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Dovile Vilda is an interdisciplinary social scientist and public health researcher with advanced training and experience in mixed methods and policy research.
Keelia O’Malley is the Associate Director for Tulane’s HRSA funded MCH Nutrition Leadership Training Program in which she mentors and provides leadership development experiences for public health nutrition graduate students. Prior to this, Keelia worked as the Assistant Director of the Tulane Prevention Research Center, where she managed community-based research, policy advocacy, evaluation, and training activities related to food access in New Orleans.
