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Hee-Jin Jun, PhD

Jee-Jin Jun, MPH, ScD

Hee-Jin Jun, PhD

Co-Investigator, Health Data Analytics Group

Dr. Hee-Jin Jun is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at SDSU, an affiliated Investigator at the Institute of Behavior and Community Health, and a participating scholar of the SDSU Center for Research on Sexuality and Sexual Health. She is a social and behavioral epidemiologist with expertise in population health, health behavior, including weight-related outcomes, substance use, child and adolescent health. She also has expertise in methods for designing and analyzing large representative health surveys and intervention studies. She provides statistical support to the Research Infrastructure Team investigators at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. See Dr. Jun’s profile for details on publications and projects

Petrona Gregorio-Pascual, MA, PhD Candidate


Petrona Gregorio-Pascual, MA, PhD Candidate

Doctoral Research Assistant, Intervention Methods Group

Mrs. Petrona Gregorio-Pascual is a Doctoral Research Assistant at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. She has a master’s degree in experimental psychology from California State University San Marcos and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health (Heath Behavior Track), in the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program. As a Doctoral Research Assistant, Mrs. Gregorio-Pascual is working with Dr. Guadalupe X. Ayala on analyzing multiple research studies on healthy eating and beverage consumption. Her research interest has focused on studying children and adults’ sugar-sweetened beverage consumption. Mrs. Gregorio-Pascual also acquiring fidelity coding skills by working on an NIDDK-funded study led by Dr. Brian Saelens at Seattle Children’s Hospital. The research project is called SHIFT and Dr. Ayala is a subcontract PI on this study.

 

See Mrs. Gregorio-Pascual’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Joseph Gibbons, PhD

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 Joseph Gibbons, PhD

Co-Investigator, Health Data Analytics Group

Dr. Joseph Gibbons is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Human Dynamic in the Mobile Age in the College of Arts and Letters at SDSU. He is an urban sociologist interested in how neighborhoods affect the wellbeing of their residents. He is a Co-Investigator at the SDSU HealthLINK Center providing expertise on sociologic and spatial methods in demography research. 

  

See Dr. Gibbon’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Kim Finley, PhD

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Kim Finley, PhD

Co-Investigator, Biomedical Methods Group

Dr. Kim Finley is an Associate Research Professor at the Shiley BioScience Center at SDSU. She received her Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Medicine at UCSD and was a PostDoctoral Researcher and Staff Scientist in the Cellular Neurobiology Laboratory at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Her work has largely focused on the molecular-genetic mechanisms that regulate neural development, function and age-related degeneration. At SDSU, she leads a team of scientists who investigate the aspects of a key clearance pathway called autophagy. Autophagy is essential for the removal of damaged cellular material and pathological protein aggregates. Her work has shown that autophagic function is critical for longevity and the long-term function of the nervous system. Pathway defects are closely associated with accelerated aging and common degenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s Disease. Recently, Dr. Finley’s work has expanded beyond Drosophila genetics, and has taken an integrative approach to identify factors that slow the progressive decline of the nervous system. Ongoing studies involve transcriptomic profiling following dietary manipulations, drug discovery and an examination of the dynamic physiological processes involved with severe and mild repetitive traumatic brain injury. These studies have largely centered on the ability that autophagy, stress response and inflammatory pathways have on neural aging and traumatic brain injury outcomes.  Dr. Finley also serves as a Co-Investigator on the Research Infrastructure Team at the SDSU HealthLINK Center.

See Dr. Finley’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Noe Crespo, MPH, PhD

Noe Crespo, MPH, PhD

Co-Investigator, Biomedical Methods Group

Dr. Noe Crespo is an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science in the School of Public Health at SDSU. His research focuses on reducing health disparities and prevention of chronic disease through large scale community-based interventions that promote physical fitness, physical activity and healthy eating in schools and recreation centers. He also studies the health consequences of sedentary behaviors and conducts behavioral interventions to increase physical activity in the workplace. He is a Co-Investigator at the SDSU HealthLINK Center.   See Dr. Crespo’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Jose Castillo, PhD

Jose Castillo, PhD

Co-Investigator, Health Data Analytics Group

Dr. Jose Castillo is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Director of the Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) at SDSU. He leads several initiatives of CSRC to provide computational infrastructure for the SDSU community and to bring together researchers in different disciplines who have a common interest in modern scientific computation. Dr. Castillo has an extensive experience in applied mathematics and has received numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and other various agencies and foundations. He serves as a Co-Investigator on the SDSU HealthLINK Center’s Research Infrastructure Team and responds to computational infrastructure needs at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. See Dr. Castillo’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Claudia Carrizosa, MD, MPH

Claudia Carrizosa, MD, MPH

Research Associate, Biomedical Methods Group

Dr. Claudia Carrizosa is a Research Associate at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. She has years of experience in research studies among medically underserved and populations affected by chronic disease and cancer. Her foreign degree in medicine and Master of Public Health with a health promotion emphasis has shaped her interest in interventions that offer more than clinical services to prevent and control disease. She has a strong background in qualitative data collection and as a research interventionist. She is part of the Research Infrastructure Team at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. See Dr. Carrizosa’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Jerel Calzo, PhD, MPH

Jerel Calzo, PhD, MPH

Co-Investigator, Measurement Methods Group

Dr. Jerel Calzo in an Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science in the School of Public Health at SDSU. He is a developmental psychologist with postdoctoral training in social epidemiology.  He is a Co-Investigator at the SDSU HealthLINK Center studying health behaviors through the use of ecological momentary assessment technology and CBPR. See Dr. Calzo’s profile for details on publications and projects.

Elva Arredondo, PhD

Elva Arredondo, PhD

Co-Leader, Intervention Methods Group

Dr. Elva Arredondo is a Professor in the School of Public Health at SDSU. She is the Co-Leader of the Intervention Methods Group. Dr. Arredondo’s research is in the area of health disparities. Her research focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of community-based interventions that improve the health of various communities.  She has served as an investigator in studies that promoted healthy eating and physical activity behaviors in youth and in adult populations and in studies that identified effective and sustainable methods to prevent and control cancer in specific populations. She is a Co-Investigator for research projects at the SDSU HealthLINK Center. See Dr. Arredondo’s profile for details on publications and projects.
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