ITDI Staff and Membership Directory
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Maryam Ahmed, PhD
Professor, Chair, College of Arts & Sciences
email address
ahmedm@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2401
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
email address
aros@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.0415
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Stocker Center
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Assistant Clinical Professor
email address
balbo@ohio.edu
phone number
740.597.9068
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Primary Care
location
Athens
building location
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Gender-affirming healthcare, Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Infections
Barbara Geralds Schoonover Professor of Health Communication, School of Communication Studies
email address
batesb@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.9163
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Schoonover Center
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Professor & Graduate Chair
College of Arts & Sciences
email address
carrolr3@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2201
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Life Science Building
Director, Education and Research; Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
email address
casapull@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2257
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Primary Care
Rural and Underserved Programs
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
chertok@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4492
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grover Center

Rebekah Crawford, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Public Health
email address
crawforr@ohio.edu
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grover Center
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Janet Duerr, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
email address
duerr@ohio.edu
phone number
740.597.1921
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Life Sciences Building
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Director, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute; Professor, Microbiology
email address
grijalva@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2192
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
haile@ohio.edu
phone number
614.793.5591
Diabetes Institute
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Social Medicine
location
Dublin
building location
Medical Education Building 1

Tarig B. Higazi, PhD
Professor of Biology
email address
higazi@ohio.edu
phone number
740.588.1533
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Zanesville
J

Kelly Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
email address
johnsonk3@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.0276
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Wilson Hall

Brad D. Jokisch, PhD
Professor, Undergraduate Chair, Geography
email address
jokisch@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.1143
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Clippinger Hall
K

Laeeq Khan, PhD
Associate Professor, Media Arts and Studies
email address
khanm1@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4803
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Schoonover Center

Caroline Kingori, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Social and Public Health
email address
kingori@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4680
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grover Center
M

Graciela Muniz-Terrera, PhD
Professor, Social Medicine; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor in Health and Aging
email address
muniz@ohio.edu
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Social Medicine
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Aging, brain health, epidemiology, biostatistics
Chair, Biomedical Sciences; Professor of Bacteriology
email address
murphye@ohio.edu
phone number
740.597.3061
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
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
email address
pant@ohio.edu
phone number
740.597.9009
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
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Michael Reece, PhD, MPH
Lecturer in Community and Public Health, Department of Social and Public Health
email address
mr554119@ohio.edu
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Grover Center W324
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Professor, Functional Morphology & Vertebrate Paleontology
email address
stevensn@ohio.edu
phone number
740.597.2785
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Life Sciences Building
Expertise: Functional Morphology, Paleobiology, Environmental Change, Extinction, Conservation, One Health
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Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology
email address
wangs4@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2355
Biomedical Sciences
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Life Science Building
Associate Professor & Director of Molecular & Cellular Biology
email address
weyand@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.0191
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Life Science Building
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Todd Young, PhD
Professor, Mathematics & Undergraduate Chair
email address
youngt@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.1277
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
location
Athens
building location
Morton Hall