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Major Research Areas
Maternal and Child Health
Tim Dye
My research interests predominantly surround the intersection of
culture, healh, and technology, with special emphasis on community
health informatics, maternal and child health, and remote isolated
regions of the world. Methodologically, I am particularly interested
in rapid community field methods that blend qualitative and quantitative
approaches, and in distance-based, innovative teaching strategies.
Geographically, I have a special interest in health and technology
in areas of political, social, or environmental unrest. Molly McNulty
Professor McNulty's current research focus is "Medicaid, SCHIP,
Managed Care, and Adolescent Health: State Prevention Policies,"
funded by the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc, the William
T. Grant Foundation, and U.S. Maternal Child Health Bureau. The
principal objectives of this project are to identify whether and
to what extent state Medicaid & SCHIP programs incorporate current
medical recommendations for the care of adolescents, particularly
in managed care plans. The methods used are surveys of state Medicaid
programs, and state legal research. Nancy Chin
Maternal and Child Health research is fertile ground for qualitative
approach to classic questions whose definitions have been well established
for years using epidemiological data. Why are breast feeding rates
so low? What can be done to improve perinatal health outcomes among
poor women? An ethnographic research design tries to understand
the situation of the people most affected: women and children. Joseph Guido
Lead Analyst Programmer and Statistician for several NCI and
NHLBI grants including smoking cessation, diet and drug therapies
affecting cholesterol levels, preventive cardiology interventions
in patients with CAD and the epidemiology of growth and nutrition
in children. Diana Fernandez
Dr Fernandez is interested in childhood and adolescent nutritional
epidemiology. Dr. Fernandez areas of research are the two ends of
the spectrum in the nutritional intake continuum: wasting and stunting,
and obesity. Dr. Fernandez is also performing an analysis of the
World Health Organization Database on child growth and malnutrition.
She studies individual and community-level determinants of obesity
in children and adolescents. Ann Dozier
Customer/client satisfaction; Survey design and development;
parenting and child maltreatment; Perinatal outcomes. Jack Zwanziger
Dr Zwanziger is a member of a multi-disciplinary team evaluating
the effectiveness of various forms of the Child Health Insurance
Plan, the new federal-state initiative to provide health insurance
to uninsured children. This study will identify which forms of
insurance are most effective for which sub-populations. Deborah Ossip-Klein
Behavioral medicine, health impact of lifestyle change with
particular focus on cigarette smoking, obesity, aging, child/adolescent
outcomes measurement, and community intervention.
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