
Julie Merten, Ph.D. | Director of Faculty Excellence
jmerten@unf.edu
Julie Merten, Ph.D., MCHES is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, serves as the Program Director for the Interdisciplinary Health Studies program in the Brooks College of Health, and is the Editor-in-Chief for the Florida Public Health Review journal.
Her research involves behavioral cancer prevention, specifically in the areas of skin cancer (the most common cancer in the US) and tobacco control (the leading cause of preventable deaths in the US). She has used her research training to evaluate the effectiveness of school-based sun safety education, analyzed how people utilize the Internet and social media for cancer information, surveyed children, adolescents and young adults on their skin cancer prevention behaviors, assess cancer prevention programs among special populations, and implemented skin cancer assessment and referral intervention to increase national skin cancer screening rates.