Urban Public Health Faculty
Public Health Faculty & Research
Public Health faculty at UMass Boston are experts dedicated to their respective fields of training, research & scholarship, and teaching. They serve on regional, national, and international boards, providing leadership to their professional societies in which they have received recognition and honors. Please follow the links below for detailed profiles, expertise, areas of research, publications, and honors.
Core Faculty
Associate Professor, Department of Exercise and Health Sciences
617.287.4826
Phil.Gona@umb.edu
Expertise: Statistical Methods for Public Health
Associate Professor of Urban Public Health
617.287.6839
alexander.more@umb.edu
Expertise: Climate change and health
Associate Professor, Department of Nursing
617.287.7845
Lingling.Zhang@umb.edu
Expertise: Health Equity
Affiliated Faculty
Professor, Department of Nursing
617.287.7504
Laura.Hayman@umb.edu
Expertise: Child and Adolescent Health
Professor, Department of Exercise & Health Sciences
617.287.7579
Ana.Lindsay@umb.edu
Expertise: Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
Associate Professor and Director of PhD in Nursing Program, Department of Nursing
617.287.7508
Ling.Shi@umb.edu
Expertise: Child Health
Sr. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Department of Exercise and Health Sciences
617-287-3807
Jessica.Whiteley@umb.edu
Expertise: Health Promotion Intervention