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
Susan Aguiñaga, PhD
Department of Kinesiology
& Community Health
Catherine Best-Popescu, PhD
Department of Bioengineering
Corinne Cannavale, PhD
Candidate
Neuroscience Program
Jefferson Chan, PhD
Department of Chemistry
Catherine Christian, PhD
Department of Molecular
& Integrative Physiology
Hee Jung Chung, PhD
Department of Molecular
& Integrative Physiology
Kari Foss, DVM, MS, DACVIM
Department of Veterinary
Clinical Medicine
Neha Gothe, PhD
Department of Kinesiology
& Community Health
Manuel Hernandez, PhD
Department of Kinesiology
& Community Health
Fatima Husain, PhD
Department of Speech
& Hearing Science
Makoto Inoue, PhD
Department of Comparative
Biosciences
Mickeal Key, PhD
Candidate
Neuroscience Program
Naiman Khan, PhD
Department of Kinesiology
& 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
Tim Hale, PhD
Department of Kinesiology
& Community Health
Craig Gundersen, PhD
Department of Agricultural
& Consumer Economics
Carla D. Hunter, PhD
Department of Psychology
Christopher R. Larrison, PhD
School of Social Work
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 & Family Studies
Margarita Terán-Garcia,
MD, PhD, FTOS
University of Illinois
Extension
Vishal Verma, PhD
Civil & Environmental
Engineering
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
Pooja Agashe, PhD
Candidate
Department of
Microbiology
Stephen Boppart, MD, PhD
Department of Electrical
& Computer Engineering
Chris Brooke, PhD
School of Molecular
& Cellular Biology
Danielle Campbell,
Recent Graduate
Department of
Microbiology
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
Collin Kieffer, PhD
School of Molecular &
Cellular Biology
Seppe Kuehn, PhD
Department of Physics
Jason Ridlon, PhD
Department of Animal
Sciences
Leila Shinn, MS, RDN, FAND
Division of Nutritional
Sciences
Shannon Sirk, PhD
Department of
Bioengineering
Jeff Woods, PhD
Department of Kinesiology
& Community Health