Faculty | Master of Public Health
Ji-Yeun Park
- Associate Professor of Public Health
- Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington
- MPP, KDI (Korea Development Institute) School of Public Policy and Management
- B.S., Sookmyung Women's University
Ji-Yeun Park’s teaching focuses on health behavior theories, social and behavioral health sciences, and research methods. The primary goal of her teaching is to provide rich learning opportunities that encourage students to think more deeply and critically about public health issues. She enjoys bringing Christian faith into the classroom so that students can better understand how the Christian...
Courses
- Lifetime Wellness
- Public Health Principles and Practice
- Principles of Biostatistics
- Public Health Policy and Practice
- Research Methods
- Current Issues in Global Health
- Community Health Assessment, Planning, and Evaluation
Research Interests
- Substance Abuse
- Mental Health and well-being
- Policy evaluation
Brent Peterson
- Co-Program Chair of Kinesiology and Public Health
- Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Public Health
- Ph.D., University of Northern Colorado
- MPH, Colorado School of Public Health
- M.S., California State University Fullerton
- B.A., Concordia University
Dr. Peterson’s research background is founded on biomedically-based applications [molecular to applied] in human, animal, and clinical settings. Specifically, his doctoral training was focused on applying the aforementioned methodologies toward the investigation of human movement-related physiological adaptations, and applying outcomes observed in animal models, in a clinically-based cancer...
Courses
- Exercise Physiology
- Exercise Physiology Laboratory
- Functional Assessment and the Prescription of Exercise
- Functional Assessment and the Prescription of Exercise Laboratory
- Clinical Exercise Physiology
Research Interests
- Bioethics
- Exercise
- Cancer
- Metabalomics
- Microbiomics
- Immunology
- Biological Markers
Danielle Walker
- Co-Program Chair of Kinesiology and Public Health
- Associate Professor of Public Health
- Director of Lifetime Wellness
- Ph.D., University of Texas at El Paso
- M.A., Azusa Pacific University
- B.S., California State University Northridge
- A.S., College of the Canyons
Danielle Walker’s teaching experience and interests include global health, epidemiology, community health, public health education, HIV/AIDS, health promotion, disease prevention, health behavior, and ethics. She was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award for the UTEP College of Health Science for her doctoral work on understanding the multidimensional factors that influence HIV testing...
Courses
- Lifetime Wellness
- Health Education and Health Promotion
- Community & Global Health
- Health Behavior and Health Promotion
- Global Health Leadership
- Health Policy & Ethics
- Community & Global Health
- Health Behavior and Health Promotion
- Global Health Leadership
- Public Health Integrative Experience
- Graduate Project
- Grant Writing
- Applied Methods in Epidemiology
Research Interests
- HIV/AIDS
- Access to care
- Malaria
- Health disparities