The Institute has a highly qualified and experienced faculty, representing the fields of health services research, health policy, psychology, social epidemiology, biostatistics, economics, and social demography. Institute faculty are engaged in multiple research studies throughout the College of Medicine, the Health Sciences Center, and the University. The faculty also have multiple collaborations with other universities and federal and state agencies.

Faculty members at the Institute for Child Health Policy maintain joint appointments in the College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, and affiliate appointments in other departments across the University of Florida. Institute faculty are actively involved in the teaching and mentoring of fellows and graduate students in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, the Interdisciplinary Degree Programs offered through the College of Medicine, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the College of Business.

Please click on the faculty name below to learn more about his or her work:

Sema Aydede, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Division of Health Services Research and Evaluation, Institute for Child Health Policy, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (health economics, environmental economics, microeconomics, child health, health services research and evaluation)

Jill Boylston Herndon, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Institute for Child Health Policy and Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research
Associate Director for Research, Institute for Child and Adolescent Research and Evaluation (health economics, health care antitrust, health services research, health policy, and program evaluation)

I-Chan Huang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (health services research, health outcomes research, risk adjustment, provider profiling, health-related quality of life)

Kelli A. Komro, MPH, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (social and community epidemiology, adolescent health, comprehensive preventive interventions, group randomization trials)

Mildred Maldonado-Molina, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (substance use, prevention science, health disparities, methodology, alcohol use, adolescents, longitudinal data analysis)

June Nogle, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Division of Health Services Research and Evaluation, Institute for Child Health Policy, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (program evaluation techniques, quantitative methods and statistical computing, health services research, international and internal migration processes and measurement, demographic trends in Florida)

John G. Reiss, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research and Pediatrics, Institute for Child Health Policy (health policy, child health)

Betsy Shenkman, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research and Pediatrics, Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, and Director, Institute for Child Health Policy (health policy, child health, health services research, outcome evaluations)

Joseph V. Terza, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (health economics, econometrics, economics of substance abuse and smoking, healthcare finance)

Alexander C. Wagenaar, PhD., Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (social epidemiology, public health policy, community intervention trials, alcohol studies, violence prevention, traffic safety, injury control, and evaluation of public policy changes and community-level interventions, using both randomized trial and time-series research designs and statistical methods)