Health Disparities Strategic Cluster Hire Steering Committee

Brian E. Vaughn, Ph.D.
Health Disparities Cluster Leader
Department of Human Development & Family Studies
Email: vaughbe@auburn.edu

Expertise: Social development and young children; sleep and social competence

Research Interests: Sleep and adaptation in preschool children

Chris Newland, Ph.D.
College of Liberal Arts
Department of Psychology
Email: newlamc@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Experimental models of developmental disability; etiology of developmental disability; behavior assessment in rodent models in early development, adolescence, and aging

Research Interests: Impact of environmental contaminants across the lifespan; Role of impoverished environments in susceptibility to harm; psychopharmacology

Jennifer Kerpelman, Ph.D.
(advocating ADR)
College of Human Sciences
Email:kerpejl@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Adolescent development, parent‐adolescent
relationships, relationship education

Research Interest: Relationship health in adolescence

Stephanie Ostrowski, Ph.D.
College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Pathobiology
Email: sro0002@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Public Health

Research Interests: Coordination of the DVM+MPH combined degree program options and of Auburn’s Undergraduate Minor in Public Health

Paul Brown
Alabama Cooperative Extension System
Email: pwb0001@auburn.edu
website

Expertise:

Bonnie Sanderson, Ph.D.
School of Nursing
Email: bks0010@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Doctorate in Public Health/Health Behavior; Postdoc training in Health Disparities Research (UAB) Interdisciplinary research

Research Interest: Gender and racial disparities in preventive/rehabilitativecardiology, clinical and community settings

Kathy Jo Ellison, Ph.D.
School of Nursing
Email: elliskj@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Geriatric & caregiver support Interdisciplinary research

Research Interest: Disparities in geriatric/elder care, care‐giver support; Clinical and community settings

Ashraf Uddin, Ph.D.
College of Sciences and Mathematics
Department of Geosciences
Email: uddinas@auburn.edu
website

Expertise:Sedimentary geology; basin analysis and provenance studies

Research Interest: Arsenic contamination and human health

Tom Fuller-Rowell, Ph.D.
College of Human Sciences
Department of Human Development & Family Studies
Email: tef0005@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Stress; discrimination; health disparities; psychosocial and structural mechanisms for racial and socioeconomic health disparities; biomarkers of chronic stress

Research Interest: The role of interpersonal and institutionalized discrimination in socioeconomic and racial disparities; Racial disparities in the health consequences of educational attainment

Danielle Wadsworth, Ph.D.
College of Education
School of Kinesiology
Email: wadswdd@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Exercise science/physiology; child development; intervention design, implementation and evaluation; rural populations

Research Interests: The role physical activity plays in children's learning and social environments, as well as, effective policies to promote school physical activity. Emphasis is on children from underrepresented groups

Richard Hansen, Ph.D.
Harrison School of Pharmacy
Department of Health Outcomes, Research and Policy
Email:rah0019@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Health outcomes research; drug safety; comparative effectiveness

Research Interests: Assessment of how outcomes of medical treatments vary by intervention and setting

Norbert Wilson, Ph.D.
College of Agriculture
Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Email: wilsonl@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Behavioral economics; psychology; poverty and stigma

Research Interest: Using behavioral economics to help clients at food pantries make better decisions

Ramesh Jeganathan, Ph.D.
College of Human Sciences
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics
Email:jeganrb@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Nutrition, obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, biochemistry, neuroscience, cell and molecular biology

Research Interests: Associations among obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer’s

Jerrod Windham, Ph.D.
College of Architecture, Design and Construction
School of Industrial Design
Email: windhjb@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Industrial design; sustainable design

Research Interests: Assistive technology: highlycustomized design solutions

Wayde Morse, Ph.D.
School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences
Email:wcm0005@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: West Nile virus; water quality

Research Interests: Impact of forest to urban conversion on human health

James Wright, Ph.D.
College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Pathobiology
Email:wrighj3@auburn.edu
website

Expertise: Public Health

Research Interest: Coordination of the DVM+MPH combined degree program options and of Auburn’s Undergraduate Minor in Public Health