epidemiology 鈥� 黑料不打烊 Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:45:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Brooks Gump /faculty-experts/brooks-gump/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:25:07 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=158400 Brooks Gump is the Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health in the Falk College at 黑料不打烊. A large gift to the University from alumni David B. and Rhonda S. Falk allowed for the created of a series of endowed professorships, of which Gump was awarded. These professorships allow the Falk College to support internationally recognized faculty to enhance the research, academic and experiential components of its programs to advance its mission rich in teaching, research, scholarship, practice and service.

Professor Gump’s specialties include psychosocial factors and their overall effect on health, and more recently, the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage, race, and environmental toxicants (e.g.,lead and mercury) on children and adolescents鈥� health. His teaching areas include introduction to epidemiology, introduction to psychology, health psychology, research methods/experimental psychology, health promotion, introductory and advanced statistics, behavioral medicine and psychophysiology.

Recognized internationally for his research on cardiovascular disease risk in children, Gump was awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health鈥檚 (NIH) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences earlier this year for the project, 鈥淓nvironmental Toxicants, Race and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Children.鈥� The study investigates the relationship between race, socioeconomic status, blood lead levels, cardiovascular responses to acute stress and cardiovascular disease risk.

In addition to his ongoing NIH-supported research with children, Gump is currently principal investigator for a grant from the National Science Foundation Research Education for Undergraduate (REU) program, entitled, 鈥淭raining Veterans to Conduct Trauma Research with Fellow Veterans.鈥�

He serves on the editorial board of two prominent journals in his field,听Psychosomatic Medicine, and Health Psychology, and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous other journals, including the American Journal of Epidemiology,听Pediatrics,听Stroke, and聽American Journal of Psychiatry. He is currently serving a four-year term as a member of the National Institute of Child Health and Development鈥檚 (NICHD鈥檚) Health, Behavior, and Context Subcommittee.

]]> Brittany Kmush /faculty-experts/brittany-kmush/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:56:21 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=134315 Brittany received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University鈥檚 Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her dissertation was entitled, 鈥淩isk factors for antibody loss after Hepatitis E virus natural infection and vaccination.鈥� She earned a master of science in infectious disease epidemiology from the Bloomberg School at Johns Hopkins University and holds a bachelor of science in biochemistry from the University of Rochester where she graduated cum laude. Her areas of specialization include epidemiology, global health, infectious diseases, vaccines, nutrition, immunology and environmental exposures particularly within the context of risks for infectious diseases, and Hepatitis E virus.

In addition to a series of graduate research assistantships at Johns Hopkins, she was a student investigator at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh and the National Institute for Diagnosis and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China where she Implemented a study examining the persistence of antibodies after hepatitis E virus infection.

Her professional portfolio includes participation on numerous research grants, including an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where she was a student investigator on the project, 鈥淒eterminants of Immunological Persistence of Hepatitis E Virus Antibodies.鈥� The purpose of the study was to determine antibody persistence after Hepatitis e virus and vaccination in South Asia.

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