Faculty Research
Public health research has been a key element in the establishment and ongoing success of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Through the department’s exceptional programs of research, our faculty and students investigate a broad range of biological, behavioral, physical and social determinants of health. Our faculty’s research programs cover the spectrum of public health, including environmental and occupational health, infectious disease epidemiology, identification and control.
Research programs range from malaria to HIV/AIDS; cancer prevention and health promotion, epidemiology and control as well as molecular epidemiology; promotion of healthy adolescent development and adolescent problem behavior prevention and justice system reform, disaster preparedness and response, and a variety of other urgent and emergent public health issues. Our faculty work on research projects in countries throughout South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa. These programs provide new understanding and effective dissemination strategies that result in important and timely impacts on the health of populations, both locally and globally.
Our distinguished programs of research include:
- Built Environment and Human Health
- Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse
- Environmental and Occupational Exposures and Human Health
- Tobacco Control
- Prevention of adolescent tobacco and drug use, and HIV sexual risk behaviors
- Family-based interventions and intervention science
- Global Health & Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases
- Malaria and Dengue Control
- Health Economics
- HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Research
- Mathematical models of epidemics
- Genetics and genomics
- Cultural and social process in risk and protection
|
