Posted 08/08/2007

Williams joins Arnold School faculty
 under USC Centenary Plan

Dr. Edith M. Williams, a research assistant professor who recently completed her doctorate in epidemiology and community health at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is the newest faculty member to join the Arnold School of Public Health under the USC Centenary Plan.

The Centenary Plan seeks to recruit new faculty (either tenure or non-tenure track) who are expected to conduct quality research and attract external funding to support their endeavors.

Funding through this program provides partial salary support and start-up costs toward each position for a period not to exceed three years

Williams received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Her research interests include health disparities, women’s health, cardiovascular diseases and lupus.

 Her immediate research efforts include a proposal to investigate carotid intima media thickness (IMT) in African American college students, NHANES analysis and manuscript preparation with the W.K. Kellogg African American Research Network.

She will hold a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Institute for Partnerships to Eliminate Health Disparities. 

Other Centenary Plan faculty members in the Arnold School include Dr. Steven Blair and Dr. Angela Murphy, a professor and research assistant professor, respectively, in the Department of Exercise Science. 

Also, Dr. Sean Norman, a research assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Science and Dr. Heather Shaw and Dr. Leonardo Bonilha, both research assistant professors in the Department of Communication Sciences.