CHAIR

Caryl Waggett
Professor
Environmental Health; Climate and Health; Children’s Health; Population Health Inequities

FACULTY

Becky Dawson
Associate Professor
Epidemiology; Community Health
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Steven Farrelly-Jackson
Associate Professor
Medical Ethics; Philosophy and the Arts; Philosophy of Literature; Epistemology
sfarrell@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-5323
Oddfellows 115
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Amelia B. Finaret
Associate Professor
Child nutrition, agriculture and health linkages; food and nutrition economics
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Tricia Humphreys
Professor
Microbiology; host-pathogen interactions
thumphre@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-2967
Steffee Hall B.211
Kirsten Peterson
Associate Director for Pre-Professional Advising
Issues in Public Health; Poverty, Health, and Education in Nicaragua; Introduction to Medicine.
Ken Pinnow
Professor of History
Medical History; History of Medical Ethics; Russia and the former Soviet Union
kpinnow@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-4308
Arter Hall 204, Box 27
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Barbara Shaw
Associate Professor
Gendered and BIPOC violence; reproductive justice; intersectional and transnational feminist and queer theory; history of sexuality; women’s and LGBTQAI+ health, health policy, and health equity; feminist and queer pedagogies
bshaw@allegheny.edu
Office: (814) 332-2097
Oddfellows 209
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Vesta Silva
Professor
Analyzing questions of health, medicine, science, and identity in American culture