Social Sciences & Health Faculty
Below is a list of Health Sciences Integrated PhD faculty working within the Social Sciences & Health (SSH) track. View individual profiles of our faculty members — with publication and contact information, research and clinical specialties and more — via the links below.
SSH Track Faculty Leader: Betina Yanez, PhD
Lai, Jin-Shei
Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Outcome and Measurement Science), Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health), Medical Social Sciences (Implementation Science) and Pediatrics
Bio
Jin-Shei Lai, Ph.D., OTR/L., is a registered occupational therapist and a trained psychometrician. She has been a member of the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Children's Oncology Group (COG), ... [more]
Lewis-Thames, Marquita
Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health)
Moskowitz, Judith T
Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Intervention Science) and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Bio
Trained as a social psychologist, I study the impact of positive emotion on adjustment to health-related and other life stress. I am the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded trials of an inter... [more]
Mroczek, Daniel K
Professor of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences/Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health)
Bio
Dan Mroczek received his B.S. at Loyola University Chicago and his Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Boston University. After completing a postdoc in epidemiology at the Univ. of Michigan, he was ... [more]
Mustanski, Brian
Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Implementation Science), Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Bio
Director of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Co-Director of the NIH Third Coast Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), and Co-Director of the NIDA Center for Prevention Imp... [more]
Newcomb, Michael E
Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Intervention Science)
Bio
Michael E. Newcomb, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University and the Associate Director for Scientific Development of the Northwestern I... [more]
Phillips, II, Gregory
Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Outcome and Measurement Science), Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health) and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)
Bio
My research focuses on using complex epidemiological data and community-based evaluations to identify, describe, and address health disparities in marginalized minority populations. My current work in... [more]
Phillips, Siobhan M
Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Behavioral Medicine) and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Bio
Research interests include: understanding the biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying the relationship between physical activity and health and disease outcomes in cancer survivors; identifying the det... [more]
Pila, Sarah
Research Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Outcome and Measurement Science) and Medical Social Sciences (Determinants of Health)
Rini, Christine M
Professor of Medical Social Sciences (Intervention Science), Medical Social Sciences (Implementation Science) and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Bio
Dr. Rini is a Professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences. She is also Program Leader of Cancer Control and Survivorship and Director of the Cancer Survivorship Institute at the Robert H. L... [more]