Stephen W. Marshall, PhD, IPRC Director. Professor, Department of Epidemiology. Jointly appointed in the Department of Orthopedics and adjunct professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science. He is also Director of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, at the Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention. Special Expertise: sports injury, epidemiologic and statistical methods, occupational injury, highway safety, and violence. Click here for more about Dr. Marshall.

Shrikant I. Bangdiwala, PhD, Research Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Fulbright Senior Specialist, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina, since 2005). Dr. Bangdiwala is Chief, UNC IPRC Biostatistical Core Unit and Director of International Studies. Special Expertise: statistical analysis and surveillance, database management. Click here for more about Dr. Bangdiwala.

Susan J. Blalock, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, UNC School of Pharmacy. Special Expertise: Health outcomes assessment, the psychosocial aspects of chronic illness, and patient decision-making and compliance with therapeutic regimens. Click here for more about Dr. Blalock.

J. Michael Bowling, PhD, IPRC Associate Director for Education. Statistician and Research Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education. Special Expertise: survey research, sampling, research design, analysis, surveillance, state databases, university-agency linkages. Click here for more about Dr. Bowling.

Carri Casteel, PhD, MPH, IPRC Associate Director for Research, is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology. She also serves on the IPRC Core Faculty. Special Expertise: occupational violence, older adult falls.

Alan J. Dellapenna, Jr. R.S., MPH is Branch Head of the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (IVPB), North Carolina Division of Public Health. The IVPB is the lead Injury and Violence Prevention agency in North Carolina. The branch is divided into the Injury Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit and the Applications and Programs Unit. Branch programs include the Violent Death Reporting System, Youth Suicide Prevention, Get Alarmed! NC, and Rape Prevention Education.

Kevin M. Guskiewicz, PhD, A.T.C., Professor and Chair in the UNC Department of Exercise and Sports Science, and Kenan Distinguished Professor. He is the Director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center. Special expertise: sport-related concussion. Click here for more about Dr. Guskiewicz.

Deborah Jones, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology. Special Expertise: transmission of mental and physical health risk behaviors in children and families; at-risk and understudied children and families; parenting and co-parenting; development and enhancement of prevention and intervention programs for underserved children and families. Click here for more about Dr. Jones.

Krista Perreira, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy. Special Expertise: child development, demography of immigration, health economics and policy analysis, family violence, mental health and substance abuse, mixed-methods research design, research with Latino populations. Click here for more about Dr. Perreira.

Preston "Chip" Rich, MD, is the Chief of Trauma Surgery at UNC Hospitals and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. Dr. Rich's specialties include trauma, critical care, and acute care surgery. Dr. Rich's research focuses on the development of hemostatic agents; membrane oxygenation and liquid ventilation; and biomolecular mechanisisms of mechanotransduction. Click here for more about Dr. Rich.

David Richardson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology. Special Expertise: Occupational epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, radiation epidemiology, and injury epidemiology. Click here for more about Dr. Richardson.

Paul Smokowski, MSW, PhD, is a Professor at the UNC School of Social Work and a member of the UNC IPRC Core faculty. His expertise includes at-risk youth; acculturation in latino families; mixed methods research design; developmental science; and technology in social work practice.

Adam Zolotor, MD, DrPH, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine. Special Expertise: family medicine, child maltreatment.