Scientists

Center for Injury Science and Prevention

Co-Directors

Charles Branas, PhD
Director of the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP)
Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Sonali Rajan, EdD, MS
Director of Research, Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention
Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Associate Professor of Health Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Senior Associate Director of Research, Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME)

Training and Education Core, Co-Directors

Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD, FAAP 
Co-Director of Training and Education, Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention
Senior Scholar-in-Residence, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York
Associate Director, Injury Free Coalition for Kids
Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Thelma J. Mielenz, PT, PhD, MS, OCS
Co-Director of Training and Education, Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Outreach Core, Co-Directors

Barbara Barlow, MD, FACS, FAAP
Co-Director of Outreach, Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention
Emeritus Professor of Surgery in Epidemiology
Special Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Joyce C. Pressley, PhD, MPH
Director of Outreach, Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management
Faculty lead, MPH Certificate in Injury and Violence, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

FACULTY

Paris “AJ” Adkins-Jackson, PhD, MPH  
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Qixuan Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Dustin T. Duncan, ScD
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Deborah Hasin, PhD, MS
Professor of Epidemiology (in Psychiatry), Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Director of NIDA T32 Substance Abuse Training Program
CoDirector, Center for the Study of Social Inequality and Health, Columbia University

Katherine M. Keyes, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Guohua Li, MD, DrPH
Director Emeritus of the Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention
Chair of the Internal Advisory Committee
M. Finster Professor of Epidemiology and Anesthesiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Silvia Martins, MD
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Substance Abuse Epidemiology Unit, Co-Director of the NIDA T32 Substance Abuse Epidemiology Training Program, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Christopher N. Morrison, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Daniel B. Niell, PhD
Professor of Computer Science and Public Service, NYU Wagner

John R. Pamplin II, PhD, MPH 
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Jonatan Platt, PhD, MPH 
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Iowa School of Public Health

Kara Rudolph, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Andrew Rundle, DrPH, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Co-Director, Built Environment and Health Research Group

Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Yoshira Van  Horne Ornelas, PhD
Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Lalitha Vasudevan, PhD
Professor of Technology and Education and Director, Media and Social Change Lab
Teachers College, Columbia University