Anastasia Gage’s current research focuses on adolescent health, gender-based violence, and maternal and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti. She teaches Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Programs, Monitoring and Evaluation of Maternal and Child Health Programs in Developing Countries, and Adolescent Health Policies and Programs. Dr. Gage has extensive experience with the evaluation of population and health programs in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Ethiopia, Haiti, Jamaica, Niger, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia. Prior to joining Tulane, Dr.

Dr. Paul Whelton's research interests include cardiovascular and renal disease epidemiology, prevention, clinical trials, health policy, and global health. He has led many of the major NIH-funded blood pressure intervention trials, including the Trials of Hypertension Prevention (TOHP, Phases I and II), the Trial of Nonpharmacologic Intervention in the Elderly (TONE), the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT), and the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT).

Dr. Felicia Rabito is an epidemiologist. Her primary research interest is children’s health and the environment, specifically hazards associated with housing conditions.

Dr. Qi earned his medical degree in China and doctor of philosophy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dr. Qi’s research focuses on the genetic, nutrition, and biochemical risk factors and gene-environment interactions in relation to obesity, type-2 diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. He is now HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and Professor at Tulane University and adjunct professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has published more than 470 scientific publications and edited a textbook. Dr.

Dr. Patricia Kissinger is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development. She has worked both nationally and internationally for over three decades in the field of HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, and women’s reproductive health in Africa, Haiti, and the US. Dr. Kissinger focuses on the dynamics of STI/HIV transmission, particularly among vulnerable populations, examining issues of HIV/STI partner notification, expedited partner treatment, sexual networks, substance abuse, pregnancy prevention, repeat STIs, and more recently COVID-19.

Dr. Hua He is a Professor of Biostatistics with research interests in the fields of mixture population modeling, causal inference, longitudinal data analysis, semi-parametric and nonparametric inference, ROC analysis, social network analysis, and applications of statistical methods to a wide range of disciplines in medical and health research.

Dr. Emily Harville is a perinatal epidemiologist with interests in how pregnancy and reproduction relate to health throughout the life course, including the mechanisms by which health disparities are created. She is the co-director of the Southern Center for Maternal Health Equity, one of the IMPROVE initiative's Centers of Excellence.

Prescott Deininger is a molecular geneticist with a focus on genetic instability of the human genome in cancer. His work focuses primarily on mobile elements in the human genome and how they serve as risk factors for increased genetic instability. Dr. Deininger has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the NIEHS National Toxicology Program and the National Academies Committee for Disaster Resilience in the Biomedical Research Enterprise. He is an executive editor for Analytical Biochemistry and serves on numerous journal editorial boards. Dr.

Dr. Wei Chen is a genetic epidemiologist of cardiovascular disease and has been working with the Bogalusa Heart Study as a senior investigator for 20 years. He has a broad background and experience in epidemiology, genetics and epigenetics of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and hypertension, fetal and childhood origins of chronic diseases, epidemiologic methodology, and longitudinal analysis models. As principal investigator, he has been awarded 12 NIH and American Heart Association-funded research projects in the above research areas. Dr.

As a clinician-investigator trained in epidemiology and internal medicine, Dr. Lydia Bazzano has expertise in a broad range of clinical research with a focus on cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, with an emphasis on the role of cardio-metabolic factors, including diet, obesity, lipids and glucose, in the development of vascular disease and its consequences over the life course.