Kyle X. Hill
Assistant Professor
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
What are your research interests?
“My research considers the social, political, and ecological determinants of Indigenous health, as well as the intersection of climate justice and land-based healing within Indigenous communities.”
What do you like to do in your free time?
“I spend most of my time with my one-year-old daughter, Miskwaades Marian Hill. It has been such a wonderful, life-altering experience becoming a dad and I am incredibly grateful. I also enjoy watching baseball and basketball.”
Faye Norby
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
“You can’t edit a blank page.”
What do you like to do in your free time?
“I run ultramarathons and compete in long-distance winter races including this past year’s Iditarod. I enjoy hiking with my dogs and playing recreational volleyball.”
Zinzi D. Bailey
Associate Professor
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
What are your research interests?
“My research focus identifies and characterizes the interconnected mechanisms between structural racism and observed health inequities in cancer, HIV, and aging, especially as they relate to the criminal legal system and housing policy.”
What are you reading right now?
“Practical Radicals by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce.”
What do you like to do in your free time?
“I love to spend time with my family and friends in, on, or by the ocean. I also love traveling and amateur astronomy.”
Raiza Beltran
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
What are your research interests?
“I study the implementation of culturally aligned health interventions intended to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes among young people facing multiple structural vulnerabilities.”
What are you currently reading?
“I just started reading Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista which recounts the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines during Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs.’ ”
Kristine Ensrud
Professor
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
What are your research interests?
“My research focus for over 30 years has been osteoporosis and related fractures, interventions for menopausal symptoms, and geriatric syndromes such as frailty and functional impairments. My research is at the intersection of women’s health and aging.”
What are you reading right now?
“I just finished A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall and After Annie by Anna Quindlen. I want to read The Bee Sting by Paul Murray next.”
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
“In terms of my research career, the best pieces of advice I received were to ‘Be open to new ideas and opportunities,’ and ‘Don’t be afraid to fail; be afraid not to try.’”
Harrison Quick
Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
What are your research interests?
“My research focuses on Bayesian methods for the analysis of spatial and spatiotemporal data and applications in data privacy. Much of this research involves collaborating with experts from federal, state, and local health departments to investigate geographic, racial, and ethnic disparities in public health outcomes. I am exploring ways to expand access to public health data while preserving the privacy of the underlying data subjects.”
What do you like to do in your free time?
“My favorite thing to do is watch TV with my daughter.”
Stuart Grande
Associate Professor
Division of Health, Policy & Management
What is the best piece of advice you ever got?
“Mindset is everything.”
What do you like to do in your free time?
“I like to work out in the morning with my wife, watch Sunday night hockey, take walks with my dog, listen to audiobooks, and hug my son as often as he allows me to.”
