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, Graduate Certificate in Sexual and Reproductive Health
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
- Physical Activity
- Behavior change
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
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
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
Eric Walsh-Buhi
Department ChairProfessor
Phone: 812-855-4867
Email: erwals@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-1690-5352
Scholarly Interests
- Adolescent health
- Sexual health promotion
- Health communication
- Digital health/social media
Core Faculty Partners
Jonathon Beckmeyer
Andrea L. DeMaria
J. Dennis Fortenberry
Devon Hensel
Randolph D. Hubach
Callie Patterson Perry
Bryant Paul
Stephanie A. Sanders
Paul Wright