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1332 Southern Drive
Statesboro, Georgia 30458
Phone: (912) 478-4636
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Georgia Southern University

1332 Southern Drive
Statesboro, Georgia 30458
Phone: (912) 478-4636
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Georgia Southern University

1332 Southern Drive
Statesboro, Georgia 30458
Phone: (912) 478-4636
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Affiliated Faculty

The Rural Health Research Institute's affiliated faculty represent dozens of research interests and expertise areas and are drawn from 10 departments throughout four colleges within the University. This broad network creates unique collaboration opportunities for engaging in interdisciplinary rural health research.


College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Name Department Research Interests
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Rebecca Ryan Psychology lifespan developmental psychology
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Jeff Klibert Psychology suicide prevention, adolescent development, vulnerability factors for psychopathology
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Karen Z. Naufel Psychology health psychology, social psychology, and measurement
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Catherine Marcum Department of Political Science sexual offending and victimization, correctional behaviors
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Adam Bossler Department of Political Science victimization, innovative practices in policing and corrections
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Bryan Miller Department of Political Science drug use, abuse, and policy
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Peggy Hargis Sociology and Anthropology persistent racial inequalities
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Heidi Altman Sociology and Anthropology intersections between language, worldview, and health
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. April Schueths Sociology and Anthropology education inequality and health disparities
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Danny Dixon Sociology and Anthropology hospice care, suicide risk management, medical and psychiatric social work practice methods, PTSD among veterans
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Pam Bourland-Davis Communication Arts health communication, alcohol use
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Beverly Graham Communication Arts gender and health communication

Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health
Name Department Research Interests
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. John Luque Community Health migrant health, community-based participatory research, cancer prevention, health disparities, social marketing
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Alison Scott Community Health social determinants of health, qualitative research, community-based participatory research
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Laura Gunn Biostatistics Bayesian statistics, order-restricted inferential methods, applied linear models, categorical data analysis, survival analysis, hierarchical modeling
Dr. Simone Charles Dr. Simone Charles Environmental Health obesity and the built environment, linkages between environmental exposures and disease outcomes in rural areas, environmental justice, evaluation of programs to reduce public exposure to environmental triggers for disease risk in rural areas
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Robert Hines Epidemiology cancer prevention and control
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Marina Eremeeva Environmental Health vector-borne diseases

College of Health and Human Sciences
Name Department Research Interests
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Deborah Allen School of Nursing chronic illness and disabilities in children and adults, scholarship of teaching and learning
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Kathryn Hoehn Anderson School of Nursing health disparities, family interventions, mental health interventions, physical health of mental health patients, motivational interviewing
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Winston Dill School of Nursing integrating mental health treatment in rural areas into primary care for underserved, minority, and disadvantaged persons
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Melissa Garno School of Nursing mental health, substance abuse, healthy lifestyles, stress and coping
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Marie Graf School of Nursing improving patient outcomes in the critical care area
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Donna R. Hodnicki School of Nursing qualitative methods, policy related to primary care practice
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Joanne Chopak-Foss Health and Kinesiology health literacy in college-age students, health literacy and adolescent health issues, health literacy and women's health issues
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Amy Jo Riggs-Deckard Health & Kinesiology children's health, nutrition

College of Education
Name Department Research Interests
Jacob C. Warren, Ph.D. Dr. Fayth Parks Department of Leadership, Technology, and Human Development substance abuse treatment, HIV/AIDS prevention and outreach, folk healing belief systems

Rural Health Research Institute P.O. Box 8028 Statesboro, Georgia, 30460 (912) 478-7254RHRI@GeorgiaSouthern.edu