
Helen Chu
Areas of Interest:
- Maternal immunization- Influenza , RSV
- Virologic and immunologic correlates of protection
- Clinical trials of vaccine candidates in both domestic and international sites, including Nepal and Bangladesh

Sara Curran
Associate Professor, International Studies & Public Affairs, Jackson School Intl. Studies
scurran@uw.edu
scurran@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Sociology
- Demography

Burcu Darst
Areas of Interest:
- Genetic and multi-omic risk factors of prostate cancer in diverse populations
- Genetic Epidemiology

Daniel Enquobahrie
Areas of Interest:
- Perinatal Epidemiology
- Cardiovascular/ Metabolic Epidemiology
- Epigenetics

Carey Farquhar
Areas of Interest:
- HIV, Maternal child health
- Bioethics, Epidemiology
- Implementation Science

Alison Fohner
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Associate Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics
afohner@uw.edu
Associate Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics
afohner@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Clinical Epidemiology
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health
- Pharmacoepidemiology

Mandy Fretts
Areas of Interest:
- Cardio-metabolic disease prevention
- Social epidemiology
- American Indian health
- Health disparities

Malia Fullerton
Professor, Bioethics and Humanities
Associate Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics
smfllrtn@uw.edu
Associate Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics
smfllrtn@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- ELSI of Genomics Research, Research Ethics, Population Genetics
Whitney Harrington
Associate Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Principal Investigator, Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Affiliate Investigator Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Infectious Disease Physician, Seattle Children’s Hospital
whitney.harrington@seattlechildrens.org
Principal Investigator, Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Affiliate Investigator Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Infectious Disease Physician, Seattle Children’s Hospital
whitney.harrington@seattlechildrens.org
Areas of Interest:
- maternal-fetal immunology
- infection during pregnancy and infancy
- malaria
- HIV

Kelley Harris
Areas of Interest:
- Evolution of mutagenesis
- Evolutionary history of humans and other species
- Developing new statistical models

Vida Henderson
Assistant Professor, Cancer Prevention Program Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch
vahender@fredhutch.org
vahender@fredhutch.org
Areas of Interest:
- Cancer disparities & health equity
- Qualitative and mixed methods research
- Community-engaged research

Nora Henrikson
Affiliate Associate Professor, Health Systems and Population Health
Assistant Investigator Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
nhenriks@uw.edu
Assistant Investigator Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
nhenriks@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Social and behavioral science
- Behavioral epidemiology
- Cancer prevention and control

Gail Jarvik
Areas of Interest:
- Genomic and Precision Medicine
- Biomedical Ethics
- Complex Disease and Statistical Genetics

Grace John-Stewart
Areas of Interest:
- HIV Transmission Genetic Epidemiology
- HIV Progression Genetic Epidemiology
- Transmission of Sexually Treated Infections

Tanya Karwaki
Areas of Interest:
- the intersection of health law, bioethics, and health policy
- the impact of law and regulation on health care access and delivery

Edward Kelly
Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Director, Pharmaceutical Bioengineering Program
edkelly@uw.edu
Director, Pharmaceutical Bioengineering Program
edkelly@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Drug and Xenobiotic-induced Toxicity
- 3D Microphysiological Systems aka Tissue Chips
- Ex vivo modeling of human physiology response to drugs

Sarah Knerr
Areas of Interest:
- Cancer prevention and control
- Translational genomics
- Stakeholder engagement
- Health and health care disparities

Su-In Lee
Areas of Interest:
- Computational biology approaches using AI and ML
- Precision medicine, systems biology, & genetics
- Explainable AI, interpretability, feature selection, & probabilistic graphical models

Kate MacDuffie
Areas of Interest:
- Newborn sequencing
- Qualitative research
- Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI)

Harmit Malik
Areas of Interest:
- Evolutionary studies of genetic conflict
- Selective pressures drive the adaptive evolution

John T. (JT) McCrone
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology Program Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch
jmccrone@fredhutch.org
jmccrone@fredhutch.org
Areas of Interest:
- Virus evolution
- Epidemiology
- Phylogenetics
- Bayesian statistics

Danny Miller
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetic Medicine, University of Washington
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington
Attending Physician, Seattle Children’s Hospital
dm1@uw.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington
Attending Physician, Seattle Children’s Hospital
dm1@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Long-read genome sequencing
- Unsolved genetic disorders
- Clinical genetic testing

Ulrike (Riki) Peters
Areas of Interest:
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
- Diverse Populations/Minority Research
- Complex Disease

Kenneth Rice
Areas of Interest:
- Statistical methods for complex disease epidemiology
- Cardiovascular disease and aging

Margaret Rosenfeld
Professor of Pediatrics at UWSOM and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the UW SPH
margaret.rosenfeld@seattlechildrens.org
margaret.rosenfeld@seattlechildrens.org
Areas of Interest:
- Newborn screening
- Cystic Fibrosis and Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
- Genetic modifiers

Ali Shojaie
Areas of Interest:
- Statistical methods for analysis of large, complex systems
- ML/Big Data
- High-dimensional networks

Noah Simon
Areas of Interest:
- Biomolecular and imaging-based measurements
- ML/Big Data
- Clinical trial design

Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
Areas of Interest:
- Data Integration
- Biomedical Informatics
- Pharmacogenetics
- Translational Bioinformatics

Luke Wander
Areas of Interest:
- Blood-based epigenetic biomarkers
- Diabetes biomarkers
- Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology

Ron J. Whitener
Areas of Interest:
- Jurisdictional and ethical issues in courts of American Indian and Alaska Native tribal courts
- Legal, ethical and societal implications of research among American Indian and Alaska Native communities
- The effect of fetal alcohol syndrome/effect, post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury

Ellen Wijsman
Areas of Interest:
- Statistical Genetics
- Population Genetics
- Genetic Basis of Complex Traits

Rachel Winer
Areas of Interest:
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Maternal and Child Health/Women's Health

Joon-Ho Yu
Research Assistant Professor, SOM: Pediatrics: Genetic Medicine: Genetic Medicine
Associate Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics
joonhoyu@uw.edu
Associate Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics
joonhoyu@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Ethical, legal, social implications (ELSI)
- Translation of genomics
- Race and ancestry in biomedical research