Research > Faculty Research
There are four primary focus areas into which much of the research at the College may be grouped:
- Aging and health
- Women's health
- Biobehavioral Interventions with Infants, Children and Adults
- Public Health and Health policy
The following summarizes the research interests of the College's research faculty. Click on a faculty member's name for a more complete profile.
Jennifer Elder
elderjh@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Mental health: parent-child interactions; autism; child behavioral and dietary interventions
Focus Area: Biobehavioral interventions
Ann Horgas
ahorgas@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Aging; pain; dementia; nursing home caregiving
Focus Area: Aging and health
Shawn Kneipp
skneipp@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Social and economic determinants of health disparities; welfare policy; women's health; stress/physiologic responses/health disparities relationships
Focus Areas: Women's health; health disparities
To find out more about Dr. Kneipp's current study, click here
Charlene Krueger
ckrueger@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Learning; heart rate variability; infant development
Focus Areas: Women's health; biobehavioral interventions
Barbara Lutz
bjlutz@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Community health; disability and rehabilitation
Focus Area: Health policy
Donna Neff
dneff@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Primary interventions for women with diabetes mellitus and hypertension; aging
Focus Areas: Women's health; aging and health
Alice Poe
poeah@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Maternal birth outcomes
Focus Areas: Women's health; biobehavioral interventions
Beverly Roberts
robertsb@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Exercise from a physical and psychosocial standpoint of elderly adults
Focus Area: Aging and health; elderly adults and exercise
Meredeth Rowe
mrowe@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Informal caregiving of cognitively impaired individuals; technology for adaptive aging; stress and coping
Focus Area: Aging and health
Sharleen Simpson
simpssh@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Sociocultural dimensions of health behavior and reproductive health; STDs
Focus Areas: Health policy; women's health
Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini
jeannems@ufl.edu
Research Interests: depression among minorities, community-based interventions for minority population and group-treatment among minorities
Focus Areas: Health policy; minority health
Joyce Stechmiller
stechjk@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Nutrition; Immune competence; wound healing; aging
Focus Areas: Aging and health; biobehavioral interventions
Bryan Weber
bweber@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Cancer (prostate); aging; social support
Focus Areas: Aging and health; biobehavioral interventions
Sunny Yoon
yoon@ufl.edu
Research Interests: Complementary and alternative medicine; osteoarthritis; pain; aging
Focus Areas: Aging and health; women's health; biobehavioral interventions