Core Faculty
Debby Herbenick
Provost ProfessorDean's Eminent Scholar
Director, Center for Sexual Health Promotion
Phone: 812-855-7011
Email: debby@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0352-2248
Scholarly Interests
- Population-representative sexual health
- Women's sexual health
- Rough sex behaviors
- Sexual pleasure
- Sexual behavior trends in the U.S.
Scholarly Interests
- Sociology
- Quantitative methods
Heather Eastman-Mueller
Assistant Director, Indiana University Health CenterDirector
Clinical Associate Professor
Phone: 812-855-4851
Email: heastman@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4376-0977
Scholarly Interests
- Sex education and curriculum development
- College students knowledge, attitudes, behaviors
- Gender identity and expression
- Sexual and reproductive health promotion
Tsung-chieh (Jane) Fu
Research AssociateEmail: janefu@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Analysis of the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior
- Data management
Scholarly Interests
- Implementation science
- HIV
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Behavioral science
Scholarly Interests
- Personal networks and health
- Disease prevention
- Health promotion
- Applied network science
Scholarly Interests
- Health education for youth
- Sexual health education
- Sexual health
- Substance use disorders
- Adolescent substance abuse treatment
- Juvenile drug courts
- Mental health
- System-level change
- Process evaluation
- Cost analysis
- Technology utilization in treatment
- Evidence-based treatment
Lucia Guerra-Reyes
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-7663
Email: luguerra@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-3300-0720
Scholarly Interests
- Reproductive health
- Reproductive decision-making
- Latin America
- Health disparities
- Indigenous groups
- Culturally responsive frameworks
Kristen Jozkowski
William L. Yarber Endowed Professor in Sexual HealthPhone: 812-856-4355
Email: knjozkow@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Survey Research
- Abortion Attitudes
- Influence of alcohol intoxication on correlates of sexual assault
- Sexual violence prevention
- Sexual consent and refusal communication
Scholarly Interests
- Mixed methods inquiry
- Public health workforce and instructional development
- Sexual/reproductive health
- Adolescent and emerging adult health
- Intervention design and evaluation
- Health education and health promotion
Christina Ludema
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-855-9181
Email: cludema@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-0779-810X
Scholarly Interests
- Infectious diseases
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social epidemiology
- Causal inference
Scholarly Interests
- Program Planning, Design, and Evaluation
- Aging and Chronic Conditions
- Health Disparities
- Physical Activity and Sport
Molly Rosenberg
Associate ProfessorPhone: 812-856-2509
Email: rosenmol@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-6679-6791
Scholarly Interests
- Infectious disease epidemiology: HIV, STIs, SARS-CoV-2
- Sexual health promotion
- Cognitive aging
- Cash transfers, microfinance, micro-enterprise
- Poverty alleviation and health across the lifecourse
- Global health
- Social epidemiology
Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin
Clinical ProfessorAssociate Chair
Phone: 812-855-2673
Email: csherwoo@iu.edu
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Education Professional Development and Training
- Sexuality Education in School and Community-Based Settings
- Intervention Design and Implementation
- Community Health Needs and Assets Assessments
- Community-Based Participatory Research
Scholarly Interests
- Sexual Health Attitudes among Spanish-speaking Latinx communities
- Quantitative Sampling and Measurement Practices for Underrepresented Populations
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent health
- Sexual health promotion
- Health communication
- Digital health/social media
Core Faculty Partners
J. Dennis Fortenberry
Professor EmeritusDivision of Adolescent Medicine
School of Medicine
Indiana University
School of Medicine
Indiana University
Devon Hensel
Division of Adolescent Medicine
School of Medicine
Indiana University
School of Medicine
Indiana University
Bryant Paul
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Telecommunications
The Media School
Indiana University
The Media School
Indiana University
Scholarly Interests
- Social inclusion
- Socially Assistive Robots
- Adaptive sports
- Sexual Health and Disability
Department of Health Professions
IU Indianapolis
IU Indianapolis
Stephanie A. Sanders
ProfessorDepartment of Gender Studies
Indiana University
Indiana University
Paul Wright
Professor and Director of Communication Science
The Media School
Indiana University
The Media School
Indiana University
Affiliated Faculty
Jonathon Beckmeyer
Assistant ProfessorCollege of Applied Science and Technology
Illinois State University
Illinois State University
Randolph D. Hubach
ProfessorDepartment of Public Health
Purdue University
Purdue University
Callie Patterson Perry
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Public Health
College of Health Sciences
Des Moines University
College of Health Sciences
Des Moines University
Core Partners In Memoriam
Judith Bradford
Patricia Stowers
School of Nursing
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago