In forming a master's or doctoral committee, students need to review which faculty are on the department's core faculty list. Core faculty are those heavily involved in the department's educational mission. Faculty with primary appointments in a department are automatically considered core faculty.
- Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
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Steven M. Albert
Sara Baumann
Jessica Griffin Burke
Kar-Hai Chu
Robert Coulter
Emily Dauria
Jason Deakings
James Egan
Thistle Elias
Abi Fapohunda
Elizabeth Felter
Mary Hawk
Zoe Hendrickson
Beth Hoffman
Christina Mair
Cynthia Salter
Jaime Sidani - Biostatistics and Health Data Science
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Pedro Baldoni
Andriy Bandos
Hanna Bandos
Jeanine Buchanich
Jenna Carlson
Reena Cecchini
Chung-Chou (Joyce) Chang
Ying Ding
Rebecca Deek
Haley Grant
Jong-Hyeon Jeong
Chaeryon Kang
Yan Ma
Daniel Normolle
Yong Seok Park
Soumik Purkayastha
Gong Tang
Lu Tang
Chieng-Cheng (George) Tseng
Abdus S. Wahed
Hong Wang
Jiebiao Wang
Qiong Wu
Jonathan Yabes
Greg Yothers
Ada O. Youk
Guan Yu - Environmental and Occupational Health
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Andrew Amoscato
Aaron Barchowsky
Nesta Bortey-Sam
Hannah Covert
Berthony Deslouches
YuanPu Di
James P. Fabisiak
Nicholas Fitz
Peng Gao
Valerian E. Kagan
Oleksandr Kapralov
Radosveta Koldamova
Iliya Lefterov
Christina Ndoh
Patricia Opresko
Linda Pearce
James Peterson
Bruce R. Pitt
Alison Sanders
Wan-Yee Tang
Vladimir Tyurin
Yulia Tyurina
Firoz Abdoel Wahid
Sally Wenzel
Jinming Zhao
Xiuxia Zhou - Epidemiology
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Jennifer Adibi
Emma M. Barinas-Mitchell
Steven H. Belle
Marnie Bertolet
Lisa M. Bodnar
Maria M. Brooks
Donald S. Burke
Lora E. Burke
Janet M. Catov
Jane A. Cauley
Alicia Colvin
Tina Costacou
Samar Riyad El Khoudary
Anthony Fabio
Samaneh Farsijani
Mary Ganguli
Tiffany Gary-Webb
Nancy W. Glynn
Balasubramani Goundappa
Catherine L. Haggerty
Lee H. Harrison
Marquis Hawkins
Ashley V. Hill
Wendy King
Andrea M. Kriska
Allison Kuipers
Hung Luu
Christina Mair
Nina Markovic
Megan Marron
Karen Matthews
Dara Mendez
Iva Miljkovic
Rachel Miller
Jean B. Nachega
Anne B. Newman
Gale A. Richardson
Bonny Rockette-Wagner
Caterina Rosano
Andrea Rosso
Kristine Ruppert
Robert E. Schoen
Akira Sekikawa
Elizabeth Shaaban
Thomas J. Songer
Elsa Strotmeyer
Sonja Swanson
Evelyn O. Talbott
Sharon C. Welburn
Stephen R. Wisniewski
Jian-Min Yuan
Joseph M. Zmuda - Health Policy and Management
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Kevin Broom
Brittany Brown-Podgorski
Cindy Bryce
David Bubas
Evan Cole
Howard B. Degenholtz
Julie Donohue
Travis Donahoe
Coleman Drake
Jacqueline Ellison
Mike Evans
Dan Fisher
Robert Frank
Laura Griffin
Meredith Hughes
Tom Heatherington
Tina Hershey
Everette James
Marian Jarlenski
Praveen Kumar
Mary Krauland
Bob Monte
Sue Paone
Angela Perri
Martin Raniowski
Mark Roberts
Lucy Savitz
Lindsay Sabik
John Sullivan
Justin Swearington - Human Genetics
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Roxanne Acquaro
Michelle Alabeck
Victoria Bacon
Joshua Barch
Natasha Robin Berman
Debra Berry
Stephanie Betts
Guillermo Rodriguez Bey
Christina Bittner
Kelsey Bohnert
Melissa Bourdius
Natalie Carter
John Chernus
Rebecca Clark
Michele Clemens
Michael J. Deem
F. Yesim Demirci
Brenda Diergaarde
Kelly Donahue
Sarah Drewes
Mary Dunkel
Andrea Durst
Kang-Hsien (Frank) Fan
Eleanor Feingold
David Finegold
Luanne Fraer
Christa Goyda
Robin E. Grubs
Sara Hay
Nadene Henderson
Jacqueline Hoover
Sara Hunter
Rachelle Huziak
Elena Infante
Emily James
Laura Jenkins
Meredith Jones
M. Ilyas Kamboh
Eve Karloski
Susan Kladny
Kelly Knickelbein
Amy Kunz
Ashley Lahr
Rachel Lasher
Kara Levine
Susan Lewis
Kathy Linn
Megan Marshall
Maureen May
Andrew McCarty
Juliann McConnell
Elizabeth McCracken
Marianne McGuire
Ryan L. Minster
Lauren Morganroth
Kyla Morphy
Michelle Morrow
Fangping Mu
Christine Munro
Quasar S. Padiath
Hyun Jung (HJ) Park
Lisa S. Parker
Shelley Patrick
Abigail Peffer
Chloe Phillips
Claire Plack
Beth L. Roman
Hannah Scanga
Jessica Sebastian
John R. Shaffer
Elizabeth Sheehan
Charlotte Skinner
Andrea Smith
Edward Smith
Sheila Solomon
Deanna Steele
Julia Stone
Rachel Sutton
Darcy Thull
Zsolt Urban
Jodie M. Vento
Catherine Walsh Vockley
Leslie Walsh
Daniel E. Weeks
Linford Williams
Beth Yurkovich - Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
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Velpandi Ayyavoo
Simon M. Barratt-Boyes
Moses Bility
Priscilla Castanha
Shubhada Chothe
Linda Frank
Toan Ha
David Givens
Phalguni Gupta (emeritus)
Amy L. Hartman
Sarah Krier
Suresh Kuchipudi
Teagen O'Malley
Ernesto Marques, Jr.
Jeremy Martinson
Josh Mattila
Cynthia McMillen
Sougat Misra
Santhamani Ramasamy
Danielle Tufts - Multidisciplinary Master of Public Health
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Core faculty for the MMPH are any core faculty members among any of the Pitt Public Health departments.
- General Notes Regarding All Committees
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Core faculty that are heavily involved in the educational mission of the department will demonstrate this by teaching courses or having significant involvement in courses led by others, participating on a routine basis in a journal club, mentoring students in independent studies and master's essays, serving on curriculum committees or serving on examination or dissertation committees. Faculty with primary appointments in the department are automatically considered core faculty.
The Office of Student affairs is responsible for keeping record of the core faculty list. The departments bear the responsibility of meeting with core faculty once a year to update them on any changes in policy or procedures and to provide them with academic program manuals.
- Research associates who are involved in the educational program of the department may be listed as core faculty and allowed to serve on all committees at departmental discretion.
- All rules below are intended as school-wide minimum standards; individual departments are free to implement requirements that are more stringent.
- Individuals who do not have University of Pittsburgh faculty appointments may serve on committees only in addition to the minimum required numbers of University of Pittsburgh faculty. A list of the graduate faculty for the University of Pittsburgh (as referenced below) may be found on the provost's Web site for graduate studies.
Rules for Committee Composition
- PhD Qualifying Exam
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- The committee must consist of at least three University of Pittsburgh faculty members.
- The committee chair must be on the core faculty list of the student’s department.
- Half or more of the members must be on the core faculty list of at least one Pitt Public Health department.
- Half or more of the members must have graduate faculty status.
- One of the Pitt faculty on the committee must not be on the core list from the student's department.
- PhD Comprehensive Exam
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If the comprehensive exam takes place at the same time as the dissertation proposal, then the rules for the dissertation committee apply. If the comprehensive exam is taken separately from the dissertation proposal, then the comprehensive exam committee can be composed
- PhD Dissertation Overview and Proposal Committee
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If the overview/dissertation proposal meeting takes place separately from the comprehensive examination, composition rules for the dissertation committee apply.
- PhD Dissertation Committee
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- The committee must consist of at least four University of Pittsburgh faculty members.
- At least two members must be on the core list of some Pitt Public Health department.
- The majority of members must have graduate faculty status.
- One of the Pitt faculty on the committee must not be on the core list from the student's department.
- If thesis work includes internship/practica experience, including data and policies, from the Allegheny County Health Department the committee must include a preceptor from the Allegheny County Health Department. If the preceptor is an adjunct faculty member, they count as a faculty member. If they do not hold an adjunct appointment, they must be added in addition to all faculty on the committee.
- MS Comprehensive Exam
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The rules are the same as for the PhD qualifying exam, except that graduate faculty status is not required.
- MS or MPH Thesis Committee
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- The committee must consist of at least three University of Pittsburgh faculty members.
- Half or more of the members must be on the core faculty list of at least one Pitt Public Health department.
- One of the Pitt faculty on the committee must not be on the core list from the student's department.
- If thesis work includes internship/practica experience, including data and policies, from the Allegheny County Health Department the committee must include a preceptor from the Allegheny County Health Department. If the preceptor is an adjunct faculty member, they count as a faculty member. If they do not hold an adjunct appointment, they must be added in addition to all faculty on the committee.
The same rules as for the MS comprehensive exam, except that the thesis committee chair need not be on the core list of the student's department.
- MPH and MHA Essay
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- The committee must consist of at least two University of Pittsburgh faculty members.
- Members must have primary appointments in different University departments (at least two departments represented).
- At least one member must be on the core list of some Pitt Public Health department.
- If thesis work includes internship/practica experience, including data and policies, from the Allegheny County Health Department the committee must include a preceptor from the Allegheny County Health Department. If the preceptor is an adjunct faculty member, they count as a faculty member. If they do not hold an adjunct appointment, they must be added in addition to all faculty on the committee.
- DrPH
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Rules for composition of all committees are the same as for the PhD, except that all committees must have a majority of members who are on the core list of at least one Pitt Public Health department.