Core Faculty Partners
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
Brian Dodge
Adjunct Professor, The Fenway InstituteCo-Director, Bisexual Research Collaborative on Health (BiRCH)
Phone: 812-856-0792
Email: bmdodge@iu.edu
ORCID: 0000-0003-4491-6603
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
- 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
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
Jennifer Piatt
Department ChairAssociate Professor
Scholarly Interests
- Social inclusion
- Socially Assistive Robots
- Adaptive sports
- Sexual Health and Disability
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
Bryant Paul
Department of Telecommunications
The Media School
Indiana University
The Media School
Indiana University
Callie Patterson Perry
Department of Public Health
College of Health Sciences
Des Moines University
College of Health Sciences
Des Moines University
Andrea L. DeMaria
Senior Director, Applied Research and Evaluation & Adjunct Faculty
Department of Public Health
March of Dimes & Purdue University
Department of Public Health
March of Dimes & Purdue University
Devon Hensel
Division of Adolescent Medicine
School of Medicine
Indiana University
School of Medicine
Indiana University
Randolph D. Hubach
Department of Public Health
Purdue University
Purdue University
Jonathon Beckmeyer
Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Illinois State University
Illinois State University
J. Dennis Fortenberry
Division of Adolescent Medicine
School of Medicine
Indiana University
School of Medicine
Indiana University
Paul Wright
Professor and Director of Communication Science
The Media School
Indiana University
The Media School
Indiana University
Stephanie A. Sanders
Department of Gender Studies
Indiana University
Indiana University
Core Partners In Memoriam
Judith Bradford
Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development
West Virginia University
West Virginia University
Patricia Stowers
School of Nursing
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago