Current Affiliates
John Pastor Ansah, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center for Community Health Integration, ÃÛÌÒAPP; Adjunct Faculty, Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Research Interests: health systems modeling and primary care reform; chronic disease modeling and risk pathways; aging; cognitive decline; long-term care; workforce planning and service redesign; participatory modeling and stakeholder engagement; population health; equity
Email: jxp992@case.edu
Ther W. Aung, PhD
Assistant Professor, Population Health Research Institute, The MetroHealth System; School of Medicine, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: energy transitions; environmental exposure impacts on chronic disease outcomes; climate change and human health
Email: twa21@case.edu
Jill Clark, PhD, MS
Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University
Research Interests: political, civic, and community engagement; food system policy and planning; food policy council and food system governance; food democracy; food security; agricultural economic development; healthy food access; small to mid-size farms
Email: clark.1099@osu.edu
Andrew Curtis, PhD
Professor of Spatial Epidemiology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: capturing and mapping contextualized aspects of environmental health; spatial patterns of lead exposure; health improvement through exercise; GIS; access to clean water; disease risk.
Email: ajc321@case.edu
Jacqueline Curtis, PhD, MA
Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: Geographic Information Science (GISc); environment-health relationships, particularly in women and children; exposure assessment; health services delivery; gene-environment interaction
Email: jxc1546@case.edu
Jarrod Dalton, PhD
Staff, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic; Associate Professor of Medicine, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: understanding and integrating into clinical practice social, behavioral, and environmental factors that affect health; cardiovascular risk across the age and socioeconomic spectrum; integration of regional electronic medical record data with location-based data
Email: daltonj@ccf.org
Robert L. Fischer, PhD
Grace Longwell Coyle Professor in Civil Society & Director, Center on Poverty & Community Development, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: examining the role of housing in child well-being and development related to kindergarten readiness, academic progress, and engagement with social systems that address risk; childhood lead exposure and its consequences for children
Email: fischer@case.edu
Bridget Hegarty, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: microbiology of engineered systems; air quality; drinking water and wastewater treatment; phage therapy and biocontrol; engineering microbiomes
Email: beh53@case.edu
Miranda Leppla, JD
Director, Environmental Law Clinic, School of Law, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: environmental and energy law; environmental and energy justice; air quality and pollution; energy democracy; climate change governance, legislation and litigation; energy regulatory policy and electricity markets; sustainable, accessible, and carbon-free transit; energy facility siting, laws and regulations
Email: miranda.leppla@case.edu
Allison Lukacsy-Love, MS, AIA, APA
Director, , College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University
Research Interests: environmental justice; climate adaptation in Great Lakes cities; housing and neighborhood stability; the integration of accessibility and universal design principles into public infrastructure
Email: alukacsy@kent.edu
Adam Perzynski, PhD, MA
Professor of Medicine and Sociology, Center for Healthcare Research and Policy, MetroHealth; Department of Sociology, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: novel strategies to eliminate health disparities; outcomes measurement over the life course; mixed methods research; implications of neighborhood conditions on health outcomes
Email: adam.perzynski@case.edu
Brandy Phipps, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Life Sciences, ; Chair, Inter-Institutional Network for Food, Agriculture, and Sustainability
Research Interests: holistic interactions of biomolecules in plant extracts and foods; mechanisms of biomolecules in the prevention/alleviation of disease; evaluation of wellness needs and development of strategies to mitigate chronic health conditions in underserved and historically disadvantaged populations.
Email: bphipps@centralstate.edu
Francisca GarcÃa-Cobián Richter, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Center on Poverty and Community Development, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Public Interest Technology CWRU Liaison, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: social processes and policies that influence the wellbeing of marginalized groups; housing stability; child welfare; integration of community knowledge into data analytics; discrimination bias
Email: fxr58@case.edu
Ashwini Sehgal, MD, MS
Professor, Population Health Research Institute, The MetroHealth System
Research Interests: climate change and health; social determinants of health; health disparities; public health; community-based research; identifying and overcoming barriers to quality of care; access to kidney transplant; nutrition in renal failure; adequacy of hemodialysis
Email: axs81@case.edu
Kurt Stange, MD, PhD
Professor, Center for Community Health Integration, Department of Population and Qualitative Health Sciences, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: complex environment interactions with human systems and equity; primary health care practice; community and population health; practice-based research; cancer prevention and early detection; multimethod research; health promotion; disability prevention; preventive service delivery in primary medical care
Email: kcs@case.edu
Colleen Walsh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Sciences and Human Performance, Cleveland State University
Research Interests: cultural anthropology; urban environments that affect physical and social health; social capital in community gardens; nutritious food access; social aspects of food habits; racial and health equity
Email: c.c.walsh@csuohio.edu
Peter Whitehouse, PhD, MA
Professor, Department of Neurology, ÃÛÌÒAPP; Transdisciplinarian
Research Interests: aging and cognition; attention; narrative analysis; bioethics; mixed methods; intergenerational learning; drug development; ecology; robotics; artificial intelligence; the metacrisis.
Email: peter.whitehouse@case.edu
Xiong (Bill) Yu, PhD
Chair and Frank H. Neff Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ÃÛÌÒAPP
Research Interests: infrastructure sustainability and resilience; environment friendly infrastructure; climatic adaptive infrastructure; a strong interdisciplinary emphasis that integrates innovative materials, smart structures, and smart technologies; environmental modulating materials for infrastructure life extension; building materials that autogenously improve the indoor environment; understanding the multiphysics phenomena in geoenvironment; data and machine learning based design and assessment of new materials
Email: xxy21@case.edu