Faculty and Staff
Faculty
Maria Duarte-Gardea, PhD, RD, LD
Department Chair
Research Interests: Nutrition and Chronic Diseases Prevention, Women's Health, Environmental Health.
moduarte@utep.edu
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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
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Jeannie Concha, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Research Interests: Hispanic Disparities in Diabetes, Mental Health and Coping, Cultural Health Beliefs, Community Health.
jeannie@utep.edu
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Delfina Dominguez, PhD, MT (ASCP)
Professor
Research Interests: Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Resistance
delfina@utep.edu
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Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Public Health
Research interests: Occupational and Environmental Health, Ergonomics.
gabmejiia@utep.edu
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Julia Lechuga, PhD
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Cultural, contextual, and familial factors that influence the risk of infectious disease and adoption of preventative sexual and reproductive health behaviors.
julialec@utep.edu
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Oralia Loza, PhD
Associate 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
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Thenral Mangadu, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor
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
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Teresa Reyes, MPH, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
tmreyes2@utep.edu
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Christina Sobin, PhD
Professor and MPH Program Director
Research Interests: Developmental cognitive neuroscience; stress and the developing brain; the effects on neurocognitive development and function of low-level toxic exposures and stress in minority and underserved children.
casobin@utep.edu
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Cynthia I. Wittenburg, MS, DrPH
Assistant Professor of Instruction
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
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