Faculty and Staff
Maria Duarte-Gardea, PhD, RD, LD
Department Chair
Research Interests: Nutrition and chronic diseases prevention; women's health; environmental health.
moduarte@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
Ximena Burgos, MS in Health Promotion, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Research Interests: Nutrition through the life cycle and chronic disease prevention; nutritional epidemiology.
xburgos@utep.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Jeannie Concha, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Hispanic disparities in diabetes; mental health and coping; cultural health beliefs; community health.
jeannie@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Research interests: Occupational and environmental health; ergonomics.
gabmejiia@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
Dolores Licerio, BS, MA
Business Coordinator
dlicerio@utep.edu
Oralia Loza, PhD
Professor
Research interests: Ethnic and gender health disparities; U.S.-Mexico border health; LGBT health; transgender care; HIV, Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and sexually-transmitted infections (STIs); sexual risk behaviors; substance use.
oloza@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
Thenral Mangadu, MPH, PhD
Peter de Wetter Endowed Professor in Health Sciences
Research Interests: Minority health disparities related to HIV, substance abuse and HCV prevention; nutrition in special populations; violence prevention; program evaluation; global health disparities.
tdmangadu@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
Teresa Reyes, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor of Instruction
MPH Program Administrator
tmreyes2@utep.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Alfonso Rojas Alvarez, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Health disparities; chronic disease (diabetes); aging; public health policy; data science
ajrojasalvarez@utep.edu
Emre Umucu, PhD, MPH
Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Health, wellbeing, and rehabilitation outcomes among individuals with chronic conditions and disabilities (including veterans); combat exposure and traumatic experiences among veterans; community participation outcomes in individuals with chronic conditions and disabilities (including veterans); interdisciplinary mental health, substance use, and addiction research and policy implications; employment and education outcomes in individuals with chronic conditions and disabilities (including veterans); positive psychology approaches in health, counseling, and psychology; aging and geriatric health outcomes; self-determined, strengths-based, and socially-just health research, health policy, and administration; disability in public health systems; rural and frontier health policy and administration.
eumucu@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
Amy Wagler, PhD
Professor of Public Health
Research Interests: Causal inference methods; graph theory modeling; categorical data with a focus on application to EHR data; understanding interventions in research training and health.
awagler2@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
Cynthia I. Wittenburg, MS, DrPH
Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Pediatric and adult cancer survivorship; exercise regimes during and after treatment; exercise and neuropathy; quality of life in cancer survivors.
cwittenburg@utep.edu
Faculty Profile
Delfina Dominguez, PhD
Professor Emerita
delfina@utep.edu
Christina Sobin, PhD
Professor Emerita
casobin@utep.edu
