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Victoria Frye, DrPH
Associate Professor, Track Coordinator
Email vfrye@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel: 212-481-7580 Professional Bio
Professional Interests: Intimate partner violence; neighborhood effects; HIV/AIDS; structured distribution of disease and risk. Work combines epidemiological and social science theories and methods to study the distribution, determinants and health consequences of a range of adverse health outcomes including intimate partner violence, and sexual HIV risk behavior among gay and heterosexual men. Currently is the recipient of a mentored career development award (1K01 DA020774) to study the role of socio-structural neighborhood factors in partner violence, drug use and HIV risk, among urban women. A co-investigator on two CDC-funded sexual HIV risk reduction intervention studies; one among gay men (I65/CCU-222309) and another among heterosexual, African-American men (1-UR6/PS-000667-01).Primary Teaching Areas:
Social epidemiology; social and economic determinants of health; violence as a public health issueSelected Publications:
Frye, V., Galea, S., Tracy, M., Bucarelli, A., Putnam, S., and Wilt, S. (2008) Neighborhood characteristics and femicide: A multilevel analysis. American Journal of Public Health. electronic printing ahead of publicationFrye, V., Putnam, S. and O’Campo, P. (2008) Whither gender in urban health? Health and Place Vol. 14 No. 3
Frye, V., Latka, M.H., Wu, Y., Valverde, E., Knowlton, A., Knight, K., Arnsten, J.A., and O’Leary, A. for the INSPIRE Study Group. (2007) Intimate partner violence perpetration against main female partners among HIV-positive male injection drug users JAIDS Vol. 46. S1.
Frye, V. (2007) The informal social control of intimate partner violence: Assessing the role of individual level attitudes. Journal of Community Psychology. Vol. 35 No. 9.
Frye, V. Haviland, M. and Rajah, V. (2007) Unintended consequences of and factors associated with mandatory arrest in New York City. Journal of Family Violence. Vol. 22. No. 6.
Education:
BA Columbia College, Columbia University
MPH Columbia University School of Public Health (Epidemiology)
DPH Columbia University School of Public Health (Sociomedical Sciences)
Jennifer Beam Dowd, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email jdowd@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel: 212-481-4176
Professional Iinterests: Jennifer Dowd is currently Assistant Professor of Public Health and Demography at Hunter College, School of Health Sciences, City University of New York (CUNY), and the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR). From 2006-2008, Jenn was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in August 2004, where she specialized in Economics and Demography, with a focus on socioeconomic inequalities in health. Her dissertation tested several mechanisms linking economic status and health outcomes, including the role of maternal health behaviors during pregnancy in explaining childhood health inequalities, as well as the role of biological markers of stress in explaining educational and income gradients in older adults. She also worked as a Health Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, DC on issues regarding children’s health insurance and Medicaid availability for persons with mental illness. Her current work examines the relationship between education, income, and antibody response to latent infection as a marker of stress and immune function, and how immunity may mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and chronic disease outcomes. She is also collaborating on an international project to examine the shape of the relationship between income and mortality, as well as a project investigating the validity of traditional self-reported health measures in the study of health inequalities. Prior to her graduate work, Jenn received a B.A. in Politics and Spanish from Washington and Lee University and served as a Luce Scholar at the Rural Development Foundation in East Java, Indonesia
Shiro Horiuchi, PhD
Professor, Urban Public Health
Email shoriuch@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel 212-481-8896, Professional Bio
Professional interests:
Health demography (with focus on longevity and aging); quantitative methods and mathematical models in health sciences and social sciences. Previous scientific accomplishments (in collaboration with several other researchers) include: development of the life table aging rate analysis and the log-convexity hypothesis about the age pattern of human mortality risk on the individual level; discovery of the general equation of population age structure and development of demographic methods based on the equation; development of the line-integral model of decomposition analysis. Currently conducting research on: changes in the age pattern of mortality decline; decomposition of dispersion measures; methodology for analyzing patterns and trends in the modal age of adult deaths. Member of the Human Mortality Database (www.mortality.org) ProjectPrimary Teaching Areas:
Biostatistics and quantitative methods (at introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels); longevity and aging; mortality and morbidity.Selected Publications:
1. Glei D, Horiuchi S. The narrowing sex gap in life expectancy: Effects of sex differences in the age pattern of mortality. Population Studies, 2007; 61(2):141-159.
2. Horiuchi S. Causes of death among the oldest-old: Distributions and age variations. In: Robine JM, Crimmins E, Horiuchi S, Zeng Y, eds., Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population. Springer, pp.215-235, 2006.
3. Horiuchi S. Tempo effect on age-specific death rates. Demographic Research, 2005; 13(8):189-200.
4. Horiuchi S, Finch C, Meslé F, and Vallin J. Differential patterns of age-related mortality increase in middle age and old age. Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences, 2003; 58A(6):495-507.
5. Horiuchi S. Interspecies comparison of life span distribution: Humans versus invertebrates. In: Carey J, Tuljapurkar S, eds., Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological and Demographic Perspectives, (Population and Development Review, Special Supplement to Volume 29), pp. 127-151, 2003.
Education:
BA, Keio University, 1970
MA, Keio University, 1972
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1981
Elizabeth Kelvin, MPH
Substitute Instructor
Email: ekelvin@hunter.cuny.edu
Tel: 212-481-4764
Professional Interests:
HIV-AIDS, Reproductive Health
Primary Teaching Areas:
Biostatistics, EpidemiologyEducation:
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois B.A. 1989 Psychology (biopsychology)
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana M.A. 1995 Latin American Studies
Columbia University, New York, New York M.P.H. 2001 Epidemiology
Columbia University, New York, New York M.Phil 2005 EpidemiologyPublications:
Perera FP, Illman SM, Kinney PL, Whyatt RM, Kelvin EA, Shepard P, Evans D, Fullilove M, Ford JG, Miller RL Meyer I, Rauh V. The challenge of preventing environmentally related disease in young children: community based research in New York City, Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(2):197-204, 2002.
Jones H, Van de Wijgert J, Kelvin E. The need for a "condoms-only" control group in microbicide trials. Epidemiology, 14(4): 505, 2003.
Admissions requirements for the EPI-BIOS track: In addition to the general admission requirements for the MPH program, EPI-BIOS applicants: a.) are expected to demonstrate evidence of quantitative abilities – such as college level algebra with a grade of B or better; ≥550 on quantitative and ≥4.5 on analytical portions of the GREs; or similar evidence of quantitative abilities; and b.) have at least one year of paid or volunteer work experience in public health research or a related field. All students must meet Hunter College admissions requirements, more information about those is available here.