María Duarte-Gardea, Ph.D, RD, LD
Department Chair

Research Interests: Chronic Diseases Prevention, Woman's Health, Environmental Health.
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Rodrigo X. Armijos, MD, ScD
Associate Professor & Co-Director, Human Immunology & Nutrition Research Lab

Research Interests: Infectious disease prevention and control especially tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, Chagas’ disease, and intestinal parasites. Infection, nutrition and immune response. Air pollutants and inflammation.
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Paula B. Ford, Ph.D
Assistant Professor

Research Interest: Nutritional Epidemiology, Public Health Nutrition, GIS and Public Health, Neighborhood and Socioeconomic Determinants of Health, Health Disparities, Multilevel and Spatial Modeling

1101 N. Campbell Street, Room 715
El Paso, TX 79902-0581
Tel: (915) 747-8516 
Fax: (915) 747-7232
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Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia, M.D., Ph.D.
Lecturer/ Research Scholar

Research interests: Occupational and Environmental Health, Ergonomics.

1101 N. Campbell Street, Room 704
El Paso, TX 79902-0581
Tel: (915) 747-7270 
Fax: (915) 747-7207
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Adriana Rascon, BS, MS, RD, LD
Instructor & Practicum Coordinator

Research Interests: Nutrition, Diabetes Prevention.
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E. Lee Rosenthal,  MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Community health and development; eliminating health disparities; public health policy / public policy; Community Health Workers; Community-based ParticipatoryResearch.
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Joe Tomaka, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Research interests: Social psychology and health, Behavioral approaches to alcohol, risk reduction, Stress, coping, and cardiovascular reactivity to stress.
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Sharon Thompson, Ph.D., MPH, CHES
Associate Professor

Research interests: U.S.-Mexico border health issues; health education/promotion in underserved communities.
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M. Margaret (Meg) Weigel, Ph.D.
Professor,
Graduate Advisor/Director, MPH Program
Associate Dean, College of Health Science

Research Interests: Infectious disease/   nutritional/perinatal epidemiology; Hispanic/border health and nutrition;  international health and nutrition.
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