![Helen Chu](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Chu-Helen.jpeg?itok=eBnHFVQm)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Sara%20Curran_0.jpg?itok=avmswlCB)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/burcu-darst.jpg?itok=NRnNzVkX)
Burcu Darst
Areas of Interest:
- Genetic and multi-omic risk factors of prostate cancer in diverse populations
- Genetic Epidemiology
![Daniel Enquobahrie](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Daniel%20Enquobahrie.jpg?itok=3uddCfRp)
Daniel Enquobahrie
Areas of Interest:
- Perinatal Epidemiology
- Cardiovascular/ Metabolic Epidemiology
- Epigenetics
![Carey Farquhar](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Carey_Farquhar.png?itok=C-GnO5Y9)
Carey Farquhar
Areas of Interest:
- HIV, Maternal child health
- Bioethics, Epidemiology
- Implementation Science
![Alison Fohner](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Fohner%2C%20Alison.jpg?itok=cO7fnrKO)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Fretts%2C%20Mandy.jpg?itok=dG3OvjTn)
Mandy Fretts
Areas of Interest:
- Cardio-metabolic disease prevention
- Social epidemiology
- American Indian health
- Health disparities
![Malia Fullerton's head is centered against a black background, her head is slightly tilted to the left. Malia is smiling, wearing glasses and has short brown hair.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Malia%20Fullerton.jpg?itok=R-NZm9fB)
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
![Michael Gale Jr.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Michael%20Gale%20Jr.jpg?itok=eTgzzWJi)
Michael Gale Jr.
Areas of Interest:
- Innate immune regulation in infection, immunity, and autoimmunity
- Immunogenetics
- Viral genetics
![Kelley Harris](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Harris%2C%20Kelley_0.jpg?itok=OxGF7-ZS)
Kelley Harris
Areas of Interest:
- Evolution of mutagenesis
- Evolutionary history of humans and other species
- Developing new statistical models
![Vida Henderson](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/vida-henderson_0.jpg?itok=unxg85mH)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Henrikson_Nora__205x293.jpg?itok=LKvRMdmd)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Jarvik_Gail-2.jpg?itok=NYpL6Jv6)
Gail Jarvik
Areas of Interest:
- Genomic and Precision Medicine
- Biomedical Ethics
- Complex Disease and Statistical Genetics
![Grace John-Stewart](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/gjs%20photo%20v2.jpg?itok=BA1sb_6e)
Grace John-Stewart
Areas of Interest:
- HIV Transmission Genetic Epidemiology
- HIV Progression Genetic Epidemiology
- Transmission of Sexually Treated Infections
![Edward Kelly](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Screenshot%202023-01-29%20at%2012.36.25%20PM.png?itok=JUJAqdOJ)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Knerr%2C%20Sarah.jpg?itok=dLR1hdsh)
Sarah Knerr
Areas of Interest:
- Cancer prevention and control
- Translational genomics
- Stakeholder engagement
- Health and health care disparities
![Su-in Lee](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Su-In%20Lee.jpg?itok=wZLLVtEc)
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
![Harmit Malik](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/H%20Malik.jpg?itok=6TALw5us)
Harmit Malik
Areas of Interest:
- Evolutionary studies of genetic conflict
- Selective pressures drive the adaptive evolution
![Ulrike (Riki) Peters](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Peters1.png?itok=HiEvhZcB)
Ulrike (Riki) Peters
Areas of Interest:
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
- Diverse Populations/Minority Research
- Complex Disease
![Ken Rice](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Ken%20Rice.png?itok=YGq4QzBa)
Kenneth Rice
Areas of Interest:
- Statistical methods for complex disease epidemiology
- Cardiovascular disease and aging
![Brian Shirts](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Shirts%2C%20Brian_0.jpg?itok=4CXvkYp0)
Brian Shirts
Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics
Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Associate Director, Genetics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Assistant Director, Medical Informatics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
shirtsb@uw.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Associate Director, Genetics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
Assistant Director, Medical Informatics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
shirtsb@uw.edu
Areas of Interest:
- Diagnostic genetic testing
- Translational genomics
- Hereditary cancer prevention
![Ali Shojaie](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Ali%20S.jpg?itok=A946LG4G)
Ali Shojaie
Areas of Interest:
- Statistical methods for analysis of large, complex systems
- ML/Big Data
- High-dimensional networks
![Noah Simon](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Noah%20Simon.jpg?itok=INDzl88W)
Noah Simon
Areas of Interest:
- Biomolecular and imaging-based measurements
- ML/Big Data
- Clinical trial design
![Peter Tarczy-Hornoch](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Peter%20Tarczy.jpg?itok=W7rQZa9e)
Peter Tarczy-Hornoch
Areas of Interest:
- Data Integration
- Biomedical Informatics
- Pharmacogenetics
- Translational Bioinformatics
![Luke Wander](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Screenshot%202023-01-29%20at%2012.44.06%20PM.png?itok=qeMGJxG_)
Luke Wander
Areas of Interest:
- Blood-based epigenetic biomarkers
- Diabetes biomarkers
- Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology
![Ron Whitener](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Ron%20whitener.jpg?itok=MBFDy1Zo)
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](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Ellen%20Wijsman.jpg?itok=fLSGSJXy)
Ellen Wijsman
Areas of Interest:
- Statistical Genetics
- Population Genetics
- Genetic Basis of Complex Traits
![Rachel Winer](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Winer%2C%20Rachel_0.jpg?itok=SdecjkKQ)
Rachel Winer
Areas of Interest:
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Infectious Disease Epidemiology
- Maternal and Child Health/Women's Health
![Joon-Ho Yu](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/profile_photos/Yu_Joon%20headshot%20prof%20cropped.jpg?itok=1N9uC5FV)
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