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Racial And Ethnic Disparities

Volker Mai

Dr. Mai’s lab is interested in determining causal associations between microbiota composition and various health outcomes. While his lab is using animal models for proof of principle studies, and human feeding studies to determine effects of dietary interventions on microbiota composition, they are most interested in performing prospective cohort studies…

Catherine Striley

As a psychiatric epidemiologist, Catherine Woodstock Striley’s, PhD, MSW, MPE, research is concerned with increasing the recognition of psychopathology and addictive behavior to, in turn, increase service receipt, and with decreasing barriers to service. She has been a Co-Investigator on research involving community members, out-of-treatment drug users, and women in…

Linda Cottler

Her research has focused on drug and alcohol use and dependence in vulnerable populations like injection drug users, criminal offenders, women and African-Americans. She has developed internationally recognized assessment tools for drug, alcohol and nicotine use and gambling. Dr. Cottler is also known for her innovative approach to community-based research.

Michael Marsiske

Dr. Marsiske’s research investigates the impact of cognitive aging on adults’ everyday functioning, with a particular emphasis on the development and evaluation of interventions (cognitive training, mental and physical exercise) to maintain and improve late life cognition. Dr. Marsiske is also strongly connected with the University of Florida’s Institute on…

Michael Robinson

Dr. Robinson studies a broad spectrum of topics related to the human pain experience. Specific topics include Placebo Analgesia, Patient Centered Outcomes, Sex, Race, and Age biases in decisions about pain, Psychological Factors in pain perception, Behavioral Interventions (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for pain and insomnia, Manual Therapy, Placebo) and Coping with…