ITDI Staff and Membership Directory
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Maryam Ahmed, PhD
Professor, Chair, College of Arts & Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Expertise: Oncolytic Viruses, Virus-Host Interactions, Natural Products

Felipe Aros-Vera, PhD
Associate Professor, Graduate Chair, Russ College of Engineering & Technology
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Stocker Center
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Assistant Clinical Professor
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Primary Care
Athens
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Gender-affirming healthcare, Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Infections
Barbara Geralds Schoonover Professor of Health Communication, School of Communication Studies
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Schoonover Center
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Professor & Graduate Chair
College of Arts & Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Science Building
Director, Education and Research; Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Primary Care
Rural and Underserved Programs
Athens
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Education, Educational research, Health literacy, Asset-based community development, Place-based learning, Qualitative r

Ilana Chertok, PhD, MSN
Professor, Associate Director of Nursing Research and Scholarship, Nursing
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Grover Center

Rebekah Crawford, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Public Health
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Grover Center
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Janet Duerr, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Sciences Building
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Director, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute; Professor, Microbiology
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Medical Education Center
Expertise: Tropical Diseases, Parasitology, Blood Bank Safety, International Research, Research Capacity Development
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Zelalem Haile, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Social Medicine
Dublin
Medical Education Building 1

Tarig B. Higazi, PhD
Professor of Biology
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Zanesville
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Professor, Social Medicine; Director, Global Health; Interim Associate Provost of Global Affairs
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Medical Education Office
Social Medicine
Athens
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Aging, global health, public health, stress, nutrition
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Kelly Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Wilson Hall

Brad D. Jokisch, PhD
Professor, Undergraduate Chair, Geography
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Clippinger Hall
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Laeeq Khan, PhD
Associate Professor, Media Arts and Studies
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Schoonover Center

Caroline Kingori, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Social and Public Health
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Grover Center
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Kat Marriott, PhD
Interim Director of Operations
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Medical Education Center, Athens Campus

Graciela Muniz-Terrera, PhD
Professor, Social Medicine; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor in Health and Aging
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Social Medicine
Athens
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Aging, brain health, epidemiology, biostatistics
Chair, Biomedical Sciences; Professor of Bacteriology
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Sciences Building
Expertise: Bacteriology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Bacterial Infection, Gene Regulation, RNA
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Saumya Pant, PhD
Director, Communication and Development Studies & Associate Professor, Scripps
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
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Michael Reece, PhD, MPH
Lecturer in Community and Public Health, Department of Social and Public Health
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Grover Center W324
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Professor, Functional Morphology & Vertebrate Paleontology
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Sciences Building
Expertise: Functional Morphology, Paleobiology, Environmental Change, Extinction, Conservation, One Health
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Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Science Building
Associate Professor & Director of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Life Science Building
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Todd Young, PhD
Professor, Mathematics & Undergraduate Chair
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Athens
Morton Hall