Community Engagement is a strategic process with the specific purpose of working with identified groups of people or stakeholders to identify and address issues affecting their well-being. It often involves partnerships and coalitions that help mobilize resources, influence systems, and serve as catalysts for changing practices.
Faculty Research Interests
Weihsueh Chiu
T32 Preceptor & Externship Coordinator
Computational and statistical methods to transform data into knowledge used to protect public health, predicting the human health effects of environmental chemicals
Rebecca Fischer
T32 Preceptor
Zoonotic, vector-borne, parasitic, and other tropical diseases, epidemiology of infectious diseases, field epidemiology and rapid epidemiologic assessment and response, outbreak epidemiology, global health
Robin Fuchs-Young
T32 Preceptor
Mechanisms of cancer susceptibility, environmental health disparities
Ivan Rusyn
T32 Director & Preceptor
Mechanisms of action of environmental toxicants and the genetic determinants of the susceptibility to toxicant-induced injury