Experts Guide

Bulka is an environmental and molecular epidemiologist. Her research interests include the health effects of exposures to chemical pollutants such as metals and metalloids, perfluorinated substances, toxins and other inorganic contaminants, especially exposures that occur early in life.

As an anthropologist working in social marketing, Parvanta studies how culture affects health behavior and develops audience-informed health and safety interventions. Her research uses social marketing to address college student vaping and emerging nicotine products. She is also using facial expression and vocal analysis tools to identify effective tobacco cessation counseling approaches.

Petersen is an expert in maternal and child health. She is the former senior associate vice president of USF Health and dean of the USF College of Public Health.

Firat is an expert in geographic information science whose research focuses on wildlife ecology and conservation, public health and safety and transportation.

Aul is Interim Assistant Dean of Simulation and Experiential Learning, College of Nursing.

Liller's research focuses on public health and injury prevention, including a textbook, "Injury Prevention for Children and Adolescents: Research, Practice, and Advocacy," published by the American Public Health Association.

Pasha's research focus is social marketing with a focus on practice and translation to help communities to build capacity to improve behavioral outcomes. Her current community-based social marketing research includes improving access to clean water in Madagascar; reducing incidence of non-communicable diseases, specifically cardiovascular disease and hypertension, through policy and lifestyle changes in Latin America and the Caribbean; changing road users’ behaviors on key risk factors for road traffic injuries/fatalities (i.e. distracted driving) in Florida; and improving environmental health and road safety by encouraging the use of alternative modes of transportation.