Directory

Led by founding director Dr. Jennifer Horney, the Epidemiology program is comprised of faculty well recognized for their research, teaching, and service to their specific fields. For more information, visit our faculty and staff directory pages where you will find faculty bios, recent faculty publications, and details on how to contact faculty and staff.



Department leadership 

Jennifer Horney, PhD, MPH


Professor and Founding Director, Epidemiology
Interim Director, Partnership for Healthy Communities
 302-831-3866

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Department Faculty Members 

Yendelela Cuffee, PhD, MPH


Assistant Professor
 302-831-1302

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Tarang Parekh, PhD, MBBS


Assistant Professor
 302-831-0433

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Ryan Pohlig, PhD


Director of the Biostatistics Core
Associate Professor
 302-831-8384

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Amy Nelson, PhD, MPH


Assistant Professor
 302-831-0435

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Jee Won Park, PhD


Assistant Professor
 302-831-7515

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Lauren Camphausen


Assistant Director, MPH Program
 302-831-2782

Suite 614 Tower at STAR

Maria Pellicone


Business Administrator
 302-831-1610

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Name Title Email  
Ryan Pohlig Director rpohlig@udel.edu  
Barry Bodt Senior Biostatistician babodt@udel.edu  
Benjamin Brewer Biostatistician bcbrewer@udel.edu  
Name Title Email
Melissa N. Eliot, PhD CorEvitas, LLC (Biostatistician) melissa.eliot@gmail.com
Michael McGuire, MD, MPH Assistant Program Director, Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency and Academic Hospitalist ChristianaCare Health System maguire@udel.edu
Tabatha Offutt-Powell, DrPh, MPH Vice President of Public Health Data Modernization & Informatics, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials toffutt-powell@astho.org
Freda Patterson, PhD Associate Dean of Research and Professor
College of Health Sciences
University of Delaware
fredap@udel.edu
Matthew Robinson, EdD Director of UD Community Engagement Initiative and Professor
University of Delaware
mjrobins@udel.edu