Faculty

Daniel Eisenberg

Best Investments, Best Returns: Improving Mental Health for College Students

Daniel Eisenberg

Daniel Eisenberg has spent years researching adolescent and young-adult mental health and sees public health as a leader in improving mental health for entire populations. Now, he and his team are building new tools that prevent and treat mental illnesses and will cost a lot less than individual therapy.

Betsy Foxman

Thinking Slow, Living Resilient, and Making a Difference

Betsy Foxman

Professional science requires a host of nuanced problem-solving skills, which for prominent epidemiologist Betsy Foxman includes learning how to “think slow” and how tolerate failure—even when the world around us demands quick answers and indisputable facts.

Ebbin Dotson

Preparing the Best Minds for Health Care Leadership Today

Ebbin Dotson, MHSA '01

Across the health care landscape, Ebbin Dotson wants to make sure persons of color are prepared for leadership roles and given opportunities to lead. Whenever he is successful in this work, health care improves for all of us.

Laura Power

Prevention in Action: The Bigger Picture around Individual Infections

Laura Power, MPH ’15

Preventive medicine mitigates the spread of disease by linking clinical practice and population health. The regular teamwork and the chance to learn a variety of skills—from statistics to social sciences—drew alum Laura Power into this exciting field.

Kendrin Sonneville

A Clinician's Experience, An Advocate's Perspective: Charting a Weight Inclusive Approach to Health

Kendrin Sonneville

Informed by clinical experience and the perspectives of the advocacy community, Kendrin Sonneville brings rigorous science to the pursuit of more weight inclusive approaches to health. Her work asks how we can promote health in a way that’s independent of body size, and promote health and nutrition without increasing weight bias, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating.