Environment and Public Health Division

Primary Faculty

John C Beier

John C Beier

Professor

(305) 243-2977
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Field of Interest: Vector Biology & Control John C. Beier, Sc.D., is Professor and Director of the Division of Environment and Public Health in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Beier’s research is committed to the ecology and control of vector-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue, Zika, other arboviruses, and...
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Scott C. Brown

Scott C. Brown

Research Associate Professor

(305) 243-4410
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Field of Interest: Built Environment, Behavior & Health Scott C. Brown, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He has a secondary appointment at the University of Miami School of Architecture. Previously, he completed postdoctoral fellowships in cognitive aging...
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Alberto Caban-Martinez

Alberto Caban-Martinez

Professor

(305) 243-7565
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Dr. Alberto Caban-Martinez is a board-certified physician-scientist, Professor (tenured) of Public Health Sciences, Deputy Director of the MD-MPH Program, and Associate Provost for Regulatory Affairs, Assessment and Research Integrity at the University of Miami. He has over 10 years of domestic and international research expertise in...
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Naresh Kumar

Naresh Kumar

Professor

(305) 243-4854
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Field of Interest: Environmental Health Risk Surveillance Naresh Kumar, Ph.D., is Professor of Environmental Health in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, and Department of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Miami. Dr. Kumar’s research and teaching are dedicated to...
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Secondary Faculty

Joanna L. Lombard

Joanna L. Lombard

Professor

(305) 284-3731
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Joanna Lombard, AIA, LEED AP, is a registered architect (Florida) and ACSA Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture with a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine and an Abess Faculty Scholar in the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem...
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Frank Martinez

Frank Martinez

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-4957
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Frank Martinez is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami, School of Architecture, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Miller School of Medicine. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Miami and a graduate degree from Princeton University. He teaches design, drawing and...
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Imelda K Moise

Imelda K Moise

Associate Professor
DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL HEALTH STUDIES
Director of Graduate Studies

(305) 284-2360
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Imelda K. Moise is an Associate Professor of Geography and Public Health Sciences and is the Director of Global Health Studies Program at the University of Miami (UM), Florida. She is Principal Investigator of the Geography and Inequalities Lab (GaIL) based within the College of Arts & Sciences at UM. She holds a secondary appointment in the...
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Elizabeth M. Plater-Zyberk

Elizabeth M. Plater-Zyberk

Professor

(305) 284-3731
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Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, FAIA, LEED AP, is Malcolm Matheson Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master of Urban Design Program. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine.  She was dean of the School of Architecture 1995-2013.  She teaches...
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Kim Popendorf

Kim Popendorf

Assoc. Professor

(305) 421-4328
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I am a chemical oceanographer, interested in the role marine microbes play in global biogeochemical cycles, with an emphasis on linking the rates of chemical processes with the activity of microbes. Marine microbes are diverse, abundant, and dynamic. Their activity is instrumental in determining the magnitude and rate of fluxes of oxygen,...
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Natasha Solle

Natasha Solle

Research Assoc. Professor

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Justin B Stoler

Justin B Stoler

Professor

(305) 284-6692
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Dr. Stoler's research explores urban health disparities using social, environmental, and spatial epidemiological methods. He is also affiliated with the Department of Public Health Sciences and the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science & Policy. Dr. Stoler enjoys field work and has worked in several countries—including a decade...
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Voluntary Faculty

Lauren Murphy, PhD

Lauren Murphy, PhD

Voluntary Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences

Dr. Lauren A. Murphy is a voluntary assistant professor of public health sciences in the Division of Environment and Public Health at the UM Department of Public Health Sciences and an industrial/organizational psychologist whose research focuses on occupational health psychology topic areas, including safety climate and work-life integration. Her work has examined employees in high-risk blue-collar occupations such as long-haul trucking and commercial construction. Dr. Murphy uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to conduct research, with an emphasis on mixed methods study designs. Her postdoctoral fellowship at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health extended Dr. Murphy’s expertise to macroergonomics and sociotechnical systems theory. She also serves as a preceptor for UM MD-MPH and traditional graduate public health students.

Karen Polson-Edwards

Karen Polson-Edwards

Voluntary Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences

Rui-De Xue, PhD

Rui-De Xue, PhD

Voluntary Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences

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