Faculty Affiliates
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CHR Faculty Affiliates are Cal Poly faculty researchers whose work intersects health, broadly defined. Learn more about our Faculty Affiliate Program.
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Faculty Affiliate Directory
BRENNAN DAVIS, PhD
Marketing, Orfalea College of Business
Core Areas: Consumers’ Health and Wellbeing
JEAN DAVIDSON, PhD
Biological Sciences Department, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
Core Areas: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Disease
CHRISTINE HACKMAN, PhD
Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
Core Areas: Intentional and Unintentional Injury; Emerging Health Technologies; Virtual Reality Interventions; Prevention of Sexual Assault and Intimate Partner Violence
KRIS JANKOVITZ, PhD
Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
Core Areas: Center for Health Research Programs
MARTINE LAPPE, PhD
Social Sciences Department; College of Liberal Arts
Core Areas: Genetics and Epigenetics; Reproduction
ADRIENNE BELL LENT, DrPH
Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
Core Areas: Smoking cessation, smoking laws, undergraduate research training
KAREN MUÑOZ-CHRISTIAN, PhD
World Languages and Cultures Department, College of Liberal Arts
Core Areas: Linguistic & Cultural Adaptations of Lifestyle Intervention for Spanish Speaking Populations
KARI PILOLLA, PhD
Food Science and Nutrition Department, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences
Core Areas: Clinical Nutrition; Metabolism, Women’s Health; Cardiometabolic Health
JONI ROBERTS, PhD
Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
Core Areas: Global health, Young adult sexual health, Cultural beliefs
ANDREW SCHAFFNER, PhD
Statistics Department, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
Core Areas: Experimental Design, Multivariate Models, Mixed Models, Correlated Data Analysis, Analysis Missing Data
ADAM SEAL, PhD
Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
Core Areas: The effects of controllable environmental factors on diabetes risk, Specifically the effects of nutrition, exercise, hydration, and BPA on insulin sensitivity in various populations
JAFRA D. THOMAS, PhD
Department of Kinesiology and Public Health, Bailey College of Science and Mathematics
Core Areas: Health literacy, knowledge translation, equitable physical activity promotion, sociocultural kinesiology
JONATHAN VENTURA, PhD
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Core Areas: Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, Visual Modeling
LONG WANG, PhD
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Core Areas: Multifunctional Materials, Wearable Technologies, Amputee Rehabilitation
ELAINE YIN, MD
Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Santa Maria Women's Health, SLO
Core Areas: Obstetrics, Gynecology, Pre & Postnatal Maternal Health






