Affiliated Researchers: Women's Health

Elizabeth Ransom

Associate Professor, School of International Affairs
Top research keywords: Food, Local Food Systems, Global Commodity Chains, Gender, Rural Communities

Jeff D. Yanosky

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Top research keywords: Air Pollution, Particulate Matter, Exposure, Atmospheric Pollution, Women's Health

Xuemei Huang

Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Development, Penn State College of Medicine
Top research keywords: Parkinson Disease, Substantia Nigra, Manganese, Fingers, Welding

Wilson Brown

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Trauma, Veterans, Drop-out

Mary K. Shenk

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Marriage, Bangladesh, Kinship, Fertility, Population Dynamics

Shedra "Amy" Snipes

Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Farmers, Pesticides, Personal Protective Equipment, Mexican Americans, African Americans

Emily Pakhtigian

Assistant Professor in School of Public Policy, School of Public Policy
Top research keywords: Nepal, Household, Sanitation, River Basin, Hydropower

Brian Thiede

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Climate, Poverty, Household, Human Migration, Indigenous Forest

Sarah Kawasaki

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Top research keywords: Opioid Analgesics, Buprenorphine, Methadone, Opioid Epidemic, Pandemics

Mallika Bose

Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Built Environment, India, Woman, Income, Residential Satisfaction

Esther Prins

Professor, Learning & Performance Systems
Top research keywords: Literacy, Adult Education, El Salvador, Basic Education, Participation

Joshua Smyth

Distinguished Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Ecological Momentary Assessment, Health, Mood, Mindfulness, Depression

Stephan J. Goetz

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: County, Economic Growth, Income, United States Of America, Economics

Rick Bates

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Abies Fraseri, Fans (equipment), Ammonia, Farms, Phytophthora Drechsleri

Deborah Ehrenthal

Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Mothers, Pregnancy, Medicaid, Parturition, Pregnancy Outcome

Steven Schiff

Brush Chair Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
Top research keywords: Seizures, Hydrocephalus, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Brain Computer Interface, Brain

Louis Bengyella

Assistant Research Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Ascomycota, Solanum Tuberosum, Bambusa, Fungal Spores, Germination

Lorraine Dowler

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Geopolitics, Gender, Woman, Nationalism, Politics

Stephanie Buechler

Top research keywords: Livelihood, Mexico, Global Change, Environmental Policy, Water

Aleksandra Slavković

Professor, Statistics
Top research keywords: Privacy, Contingency Table, Synthetic Data, Disclosure, Logistic Regression

Cheryl Thompson

Professor, Interim Vice Chair for Education and Endowed Chair in Cancer Population Sciences Research, Department of Public Health Sciences
Top research keywords: Breast Neoplasms, Colonic Neoplasms, Adenoma, Melanoma, Neoplasms

Nita Bharti

Associate Professor And Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Niger, Measles, Disease Outbreaks, SARS Virus, Satellite Imagery

Emily Southard

PhD Candidate, Rural Sociology & Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Top research keywords: Food-systems, Climate change, International development, Women's empowerment, agriculture

Kristin Sznajder

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Top research keywords: China, Pandemics, Latent Class Analysis, Cross-Sectional Studies, Occupational Stress

Jordan Bisanz

Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Microbiota, Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Probiotics, Microbiome, Yogurt

Kristina Brant

Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Deferred Action, Childhood, Illegality, Family Formation, Deportation

Kathleen Sexsmith

Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Farm, Gender, Agriculture, Worker, Farmer

Ying-Ling Jao

Associate Professor, Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing
Top research keywords: Dementia, Apathy, Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care, Systematic Reviews

Nina Jablonski

Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Skin Pigmentation, Hominidae, Theropithecus, Vitamin D, Ultraviolet Rays

Melanie Hetzel-Riggin

Professor, School of Humanities & Social Sciences (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Wounds And Injuries

Aparna Parikh

Assistant Teaching Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies