Researchers across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus are creating solutions and advancing the health sciences from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Here we highlight some of the researchers who are making strides in the areas of brain health, health equity, maternal and child health, and microbial systems.
Brain Health
Catherine Best-Popescu, PhD
Department of Bioengineering
Jefferson Chan, PhD
Department of Chemistry
Catherine Christian, PhD
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Hee Jung Chung, PhD
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Kari Foss, DVM, MS, DACVIM
Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine
Neha Gothe, PhD
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
Fatima Husain, PhD
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
Makoto Inoue, PhD
Department of Comparative Biosciences
Naiman Khan, PhD
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
Issam Moussa, MD, MBA
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
John Polk, PhD
Department of Anthropology
Laura Rice, PhD
Department of Kinesiology & Community Health
Sepideh Sadaghiani, PhD
Department of Psychology
Health Equity
Reginald Alston, PhD
Department of Kinesiology & Community Health
Jessie Chin, PhD
School of Information Science
Karen Tabb Dina, PhD
School of Social Work
Craig Gundersen, PhD
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Carla D. Hunter, PhD
Department of Psychology
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, PhD
Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition
Daniel Morrow, PhD
Department of Educational Psychology
Nidia Ruedas-Gracia, PhD
College of Education
Chelsea Singleton, PhD
Department of Kinesiology & Community Health
Shardé McNeil Smith, PhD
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Ryan Wade, PhD
School of Social Work
Kate Wegmann, PhD
School of Social Work
Robin Fretwell Wilson, JD
College of Law
Maternal & Child Health
Meghan Burke, PhD
Department of Special Education
Karen Tabb Dina, PhD
School of Social Work
Jodi Flaws, PhD
Department of Comparative Biosciences
Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo, PhD
Department of Kinesiology & Community Health
Microbial Systems
Stephen Boppart, MD, PhD
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Chris Brooke, PhD
School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD
Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition
Katy Heath, PhD
School of Integrative Biology
Hannah Holscher, PhD, RD
Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition
Seppe Kuehn, PhD
Department of Physics
Jason Ridlon, PhD
Department of Animal Sciences
Shannon Sirk, PhD
Department of Bioengineering
Jeff Woods, PhD
Department of Kinesiology & Community Health