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Addiction Policy
Regina LaBelle
Director, Master of Science in Addiction Policy & Practice
Initiative Director, Addiction & Public Policy at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law
Subject Matter Areas:
- Addiction Policy
- Addiction
Communication and Media
Leticia Bode
Research Director, Knight-Georgetown Institute
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Social Media and Politics
- Misinformation
- Political Comedy
- Political Socialization
J.R. Osborn
Associate Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- History of print (specifically in the Arab/Islamic world)
- Museums
- History of Writing
- Typography and Graphic Design
Diana Owen
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Media and Politics
- Elections and Voting Behavior
- Civic education and civic engagement
Jeanine Turner
Professor and Director, Master of Arts in Communication, Culture & Technology
Annette N. Shelby Chair in Business & Leadership Communication
Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business
Subject Matter Areas:
- Digital Communication
- Leadership Communication
- Online presence
- Digital Media Use
- Telemedicine
Data Science and Technology
Trevor Adriaanse
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
Jeffrey Jacobs
Assistant Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Empirical Political Economy and International Relations
- Data Ethics, AI and Law, Public Policy
- Uses of Data in the Liberal Arts and Humanities
Nakul Padalkar
Assistant Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Blockchain & Distributed ledgers
- Industrial AI & Computer Vision
Environment
Vishal Agrawal
Henry J. Blommer Family Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business
Professor of Operations & Information Management, McDonough School of Business
Academic Director, Business of Sustainability Initiative
Subject Matter Areas:
- Sustainable Operations
- New Product Development
- Supply Chain Management
- Managerial challenges in business and the environment
- The effect of consumer behavior on operations, energy and sustainability
Abdel-Razak Kadry, DVM, Ph.D., DABT
Former Senior Research Advisor, U.S. EPA’s Center for Computational Toxicology & Exposure (CCTE)
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Toxicology and health risk assessment expert with a focus on food safety and food defense
Lee Pinkowitz
Associate Director, Georgetown’s Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy
Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business
Subject Matter Areas:
- Corporate cash holdings
- Corporate governance
Bob Sonawane
Retired Toxicologist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Toxicology and health risk assessment of environmental agents of public health concern
- Performing and managing health risk assessment of environmental agents of public health concern
- Providing technical support to the regulatory programs of the U.S. EPA
Safak Yucel
Associate Director, Business of Sustainability Initiative
Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business
Subject Matter Areas:
- Renewable and conventional energy sources (solar, wind, biomass, etc.)
- Governmental policies (subsidizing renewable energy, individual consumers investments in renewable energy, government directing utility firms to invest in renewable energy)
- Electric vehicles (and the broad range of issues- adoption, charging, batteries, second life)
- Climate change
- Business implications of climate change
- Capacity investment in electricity
- Energy supply chains
- Carbon management (off-setting, in-setting, government policies to limit carbon emissions)
- EPA
- Business of climate change
- Business of renewable energy and sustainability
- Language Skill: Turkish
Humanities and Education
Bryan Alexander
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Future of Higher Education
- Educational Technology
- Climate Change and Education
Edward Maloney
Executive Director, Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship
Founding Director, Master of Arts in Learning, Design, & Technology
Professor of the Practice
Subject Matter Areas:
- Higher Education
- Educational Technology
- Digital Learning
- Artificial Intelligence in Education
Michelle May-Curry
Curator at DC’s Commission on the Arts & Humanities
Adjunct Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Public Humanities
- Curation
Ricardo Ortiz
Director, Master of Arts in Engaged & Public Humanities
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Public Humanities and Higher Education
- Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
- U.S. Latinx Studies
- LGBTQ Studies
- Literary and Cultural Studies
Lourdes Ortega
Faculty Director, Initiative for Multilingual Studies
Interim Program Director, Master of Arts in Educational Transformation
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Applied linguistics
- Second language acquisition
- Multilingualism
Douglas Reed
Director, Master of Arts in Educational Transformation
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Educational politics and policymaking
- American political development
- American constitutional law
Kristin Sinclair
Assistant Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Place and community-based education
- Youth activism in education
Crissa Stephens
Assistant Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Applied linguistics
- Bilingual education/ESL
- Education policy, equity and access within institutional contexts
Sabrina Wesley-Nero
Assistant Director, Master of Arts in Educational Transformation
Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Teacher education
- Culturally and linguistically relevant education and curriculum
- English as a Second Language, Spanish bilingual, Spanish immersion, and general education K-12 classrooms
- Community-based learning and School-based praxis
Science and Health
Lucile Adams-Campbell
Distinguished University Professor
Associate Director, Minority Health & Health Disparities Research
Program Director, Master of Science in Epidemiology
Subject Matter Areas:
- Clinical Trials
- Lifestyle Interventions
- Cancer Epidemiology
Sonya Barsness
Adjunct Lecturer
Subject Matter Areas:
- Aging, Policy, Dementia
- Long-term care, senior living, person-centered care
- Multi-generational classroom
Traci Bethea
Assistant Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Sleep
- Breast Cancer
- Environmental Epidemiology
Chiranjeev Dash
Assistant Director of Health Disparities Research
Associate Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Cancer Biomarkers
- Cancer Epidemiology
Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D.
Director, PharmedOut and Urban Herbs Project
Co-Director, Master of Science in Health and the Public Interest
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Unethical pharmaceutical and medical device marketing
- Herbal medicine and dietary supplements
Dr. Christian Hunter
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Topics related to Global Health
- Student safety in high risk environments
- Novel technology for assessment of malnutrition in children and snakebite injury
- Human subjects protection and human studies ethics and practice
Christopher Loffredo
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Bladder Cancer, Liver Cancer, Lung Cancer
- Cancer Biomarkers
- Child Health and Human Development
Suzanne O’Neill
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Health Psychology
- Breast Cancer
- Population Science
Dr. Babatunji Oni
Director of Graduate Studies, Master of Science in Global Infectious Disease
Assistant Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Business administration, public health, and project management committed to the cause of expanding global health equity and improving the quality of clinical care and outcomes
- Effective clinical care intersects with sound business practices and a keen awareness of the public health needs of the local population
John Quattrochi
Program Director, Master of Science in Global Health
Associate Teaching Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Topics related to Global Health
- Cash-like Vouchers
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- Social Support
- Empowerment Training
- Health Infrastructure
- Public Work Programs
Pamela Saunders
Associate Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Aging, Health and Gerontology
- Language in Aging, Narrative Medicine
- Medical Education, Empathy and Doctor Patient Communication
Raymond Scott Turner, Ph.D., MD
Director, Memory Disorders Program
Professor
Subject Matter Areas:
- Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and mild cognitive impairment
- Biomarkers, clinical trials