Faculty and Staff
Director
Whitney Garney, PhD
979.436.9765
wrgarney@tamu.edu
Core Faculty
Jim Burdine, DrPH
979.436.9320
jnburdine@tamu.edu
Heather Clark, DrPH, MSPH
979.436.9363
hrclark@tamu.edu
Junhyoung Kim, PhD, CTRS
979.436.9372
kim9@tamu.edu
Marcia Ory, PhD, MPH
979.436.9368
mory@tamu.edu
Matthew Lee Smith, PhD, MPH
979.436.9518
matthew.smith@tamu.edu
Kelly Wilson PhD, MCHES
979.436.0151
kwilson@tamu.edu
Staff
Brittany Badillo, MS
Project Manager
Catherine Catanach, BA
Senior Associate Director
Christi Esquivel, PhD
Research Specialist
Caitlin Holden, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Tracy LaTourette
Program Manager
Dinorah Martinez, CHWI, CHW
Training Specialist, NCHWTC
Sara Mendez, DrPH, MPH
Assistant Research Scientist
Meagan Miller, MPH
Research Associate
Wah Wah Myint, DrPH
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ninfa Peña-Purcell, PhD, MCHES
Research Scientist
Jennifer Ramirez-Chavarria, MPH
Program Manager, NCHWTC
Paula Saldana, CHWI, CHW
Lead Instructor, NCHWTC
Elfreda Samman, DrPH, MPH
Assistant Research Scientist
Felicia York, PhD
Program Coordinator
Aishatu Yusuf, DrPH
Assistant Research Scientist