about the center
Affiliated Faculty
Steven M. Albert, PhD, MSPH, MA
Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
smalbert@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: Assessment of health outcomes in aging and chronic disease, including physical and cognitive function; health service use and the cost of care, quality of life, clinical decision making; mental health; clinical decisions at the end of life; modeling of vaccine refusal across the lifespan; attitudes toward health promotion in culturally insular communities; international aging; life-span approach to health in old age.
Thuy D. Bui, MD
Division of General Internal Medicine
School of Medicine
Faculty biography
buit@upmc.edu
Areas of specialization/ research interest: Attitude toward health; cultural diversity; curriculum development; health promotion; poverty; international health and HIV/AIDS.
Clareann H. Bunker, PhD
Department of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
bunkerc@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: Prostate cancer, molecular epidemiology, obesity, blood pressure, hypertension, and diabetes in the U.S. and abroad.
Donald S. Burke, MD
Dean, Graduate School of Public Health
Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health
Biography
donburke@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interests: Infectious and emerging infectious diseases of global importance; computational modeling; vaccines; global health.
Lesley M. Butler, MSPH, PhD
Department of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
butlerl3@upmc.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: epidemiology of hormone-related cancers, dietary factors, biomarkers of exposure and disease risk in US and Asian populations.
Adeel A. Butt, MD, MS
Division of Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine
Faculty biography
butta@dom.pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interests: HCV-HIV co-infection, HCV in patients with CKD; outcomes associated with HCV; HIV/AIDS training programs in Africa, Australia, Russia, Japan, Pakistan, and the U.S.
Patricia Documét, MD, PhD
Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
pdocumet@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: Research and evaluation projects using quantitative and qualitative methods in combination in the U.S. and internationally; cancer early detection and screening; Latino health; research with underserved populations; breastfeeding; racial and ethnic disparities; evaluation; global health.
Linda Frank, PhD, MSN
Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
Frankie@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: AIDS education of health care professionals; HIV early intervention; mental health issues and HIV; corrections and adherence; HIV/AIDS education and training in the Russian Ural region and the Russian Far East.
Phalguni Gupta, PhD
Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
pgupta1@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: Cellular and molecular basis of HIV pathogenesis; development of novel vaccine candidates against HIV and SIV; molecular mechanisms of sexual transmission of HIV; development of microbicides against HIV; non-lytic CD8+T cell mediated HIV suppression; international study of molecular epidemiology of HIV in India and China.
Lee H. Harrison, MD
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
lharriso@edc.pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: Epidemiology and molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens; epidemiology and prevention of HIV infection in Brazil, India, and Mozambique.
Wishwa N. Kapoor, MD, MPH
Division of General Internal Medicine
School of Medicine
Faculty biography
kapoorwn@upmc.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: Health services research; outcome and process assessment; syncope outcomes and management; community acquired pneumonia; primary health care.
Ronald E. LaPorte, PhD
Department of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
ronlaporte@aol.com
Areas of specialization/research interest: Application of internet technology to the prevention of disease.
Deborah K. McMahon, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine
Faculty biography
mcmahon@dom.pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interests: HIV; AIDS clinical trials; HIV/AIDS in Africa.
John W. Mellors, MD
Divison of Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine
Faculty biography
mellors@dom.pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interests: HIV drug resistance; Microbicide Trials Network (MTN).
Ravi K. Sharma, PhD
Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
rks1946@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: Spatial, computational, and simulation modeling to understand the community and environmental determinants of health focusing on the underlying socioeconomic and physical mechanisms in the U.S. and around the globe.
Ronald D. Stall, PhD, MPH
Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
rstall@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: HIV prevention and behavioral epidemiology, both in the U.S. and abroad; substance abuse epidemiology, smoking; aging; mental health; research with gay men and other populations at high risk of HIV infection.
Martha Ann Terry, BA, MA, PhD
Department of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health
Faculty biography
materry@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: Sociocultural aspects of human sexuality, reproductive decision-making, HIV/AIDS, women’s health; community-based participatory research; process evaluation; focus group facilitation and analysis; stage-based outreach training; and role model story development training.
Asher A. Tulsky, MD
Division of General Internal Medicine
School of Medicine
Faculty biography
tulskyaa@upmc.edu
Areas of specialization/research interests: Medical education; training international medical graduates for academic careers; quality improvement.
Peter J. Veldkamp, MD, MS
Division of Infectious Diseases
School of Medicine
Faculty biography
pjv4@pitt.edu
Areas of specialization/research interest: HIV/AIDS; tropical diseases; global health.