Mercy Aula, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Migrant and migrant worker health, vaccine-preventable diseases in low and middle-income countries, cancer screenings, environmental exposures from mining practices, WASH research

Geographical Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, United States

Katia Bruxvoort

Research Focus: Infectious diseases, malaria, COVID, vaccines; infectious disease prevention, diagnostic/screening approaches, medication adherence; intervention implementation, evaluation; community impact

Geographical Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa

Henna Budhwani, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Health disparities and Health Equity; Global Health; Stigma Reduction

Geographical Focus: Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Eastern Caribbean Islands, Cameroon

Amy Chatham, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Rural health, Health equity and access, WASH, soil-transmitted helminth ingection, Community-Based Participatory Research

Geographical Focus: United States

Zhen Cong, Professor

Research Focus: Climate change, disasters, older adults vulnerability and resilience to disasters, social and health disparities, disaster preparedness, mitigation, recovery, environmental justice, intergenerational relationships, family solidarity, filial piety, well-being

Geographical Focus: United States, China

 

Paul Erwin, Dean

Research Focus: Health Systems

Geographical Focus: Cuba, China, England

Shaikh Eskander, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Climate policy and economics, climate and health, energy development, sustainable development

Geographical Focus: South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Eric Ford, Professor

Research Focus: Improving organization and infomration management, Healthcare management

Geographical Focus: Republic of China

Kathryn Foti, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Monitoring and improving the prevention and control of hypertension and elimination of cardiovascular health disparities locally and globally; health equity

Geographical Focus: Bangladesh, Ethipoia, Ghana, United States

Meredith Gartin, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Globalization and health; food and water security; climate change; migration and refugee health

Geographical Focus: Latin America; South Pacific; US immigrant/refugees

Anna Helova, Deputy Director, Sparkman Center for Global Health

Pauline Jolly, Professor Emeritus

Research Focus: HIV/AIDS, STIs, Genetics of hypertension, Complementary/Alternative Medicine use for Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Cervical cancer screening and prevention

Geographical Focus: Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, Guatemala and Tanzania, Peru

Suzanne Judd, Professor

Research Focus: Diet and environment as mediators of racial disparities in the risk of hypertension, kidney disease, and stroke; nutrition science, obesity, community health

Geographical Focus: United States, France

Andrzej Kulczycki, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Reproductive health; Behavior and policy; Demography and population studies; Maternal and early child health; Vaccination and primary health care, health service delivery, and health policy

Geographical Focus: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Lebanon, Mexico and Poland

Bhekumusa Lukhele, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Socio-epidemiology, clinical Nursing, government & NGO management, health informatics

Geographical Focus: Eswatini, Uganda, Japan, London

Sarah MacCarthy, Associate Professor, Magic City LGBTQ Health

Research Focus: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) health

Geographical Focus: Brazil

Van Nghiem, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Economic evaluations for healthcare programs

Geographical Focus: Vietnam

Emmanuel Odame, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Lung Cancer in low and middle-income countries, Cancer Screening in Sub-Saharan Africa, Secondhand smoke exposure, Vaccination and vaccine hesitancy, Climate change and health impacts in low and middle-income countries

Geographical Focus: Sub-Sharan Africa

Sadeep Shrestha, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, womens health, HPV and HPV-related cancer, reproductive health

Geographical Focus: Nepal

Janet Turan, Professor

Research Focus: Maternal and child health (MCH) in low-resource settings; Stigma as it relates to a variety of reproductive health conditions/services, including abortion, obstetric fistula, HIV/AIDS, and gender-based violence

Geographical Focus: Kenya, Turkey, Eritrea, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Jordan, and Egypt

Jeffrey Wickliffe, Professor/Chairperson

Research Focus: Exposures to environmental chemicals and hazards, maternal and child health, neurodevelopment and neurological disease, cancer

Geographical Focus: Kenya, Turkey, Eritrea, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Jordan, and Egypt

Craig Wilson, Professor Emeritus

Research Focus: HIV/AIDS, Healthcare workforce development and use of IT innovations to deliver educational content

Geographical Focus: Zambia, Ethiopia, African Educational systemst

Lori Bateman, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Colon cancer screening, socio-cultural and demographic factors; utilization

Geographical Focus: Egypt

Carolyn Bolton Moore, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Implementation science, HIV, adolescent HIV, health systems strengthening

Geographical Focus: Zambia/Africa

Waldemar Carlo, Distinguished Professor

Research Focus: Neonatal and childhood research in single and multicenter trials

Geographical Focus: US, developing counrties, and Global Network

Jodie Dionne-Odom, Associate Professor

Research Focus: HIV and coinfections in pregnancy

Geographical Focus: Cameroon

Marcela Frazier, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Educational interventions for improving eye care and health care in the Hispanic community

Lily Gutnik, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Breast cancer, oncology, surgery

Geographical Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa

Renee Heffron, Professor

Research Focus: HIV prevention through biomedical intervention development and delivery optimization

Geographical Focus: Eastern and Southern Africa

Zdenek Hel, Professor

Research Focus: HIV/AIDS research, Pathology, Molecular Pathology, Immunology, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, cancern

Geographical Focus: South Africa, Switzerland, Canada, Czech Republic

German Henostroza, Professor

Research Focus: TB-HIV, Tropical medicine

Geographical Focus: Central & South America

Lisa Jackson, Professor

Research Focus: Cardiovascular prevention, digital health, womens health

Geographical Focus: Kenya

James Michael Johnston, Professor

Research Focus: Surgical Training and Capacity Building; Pediatric Neurosurgery; Hydrocephalus; Spina Bifida; Brain Trauma; Surgical Outcomes/Education; Craniofacial Surgery; Brain Tumors

Geographical Focus: Vietnam, Ghana

Jayme Locke, Professor/Division Director

Research Focus: Transplant of incompatible organs, and HIV-infected end-stage patients

Geographical Focus: South Africa

Amy Mackay, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Neonatal global health with a focus on resuscitation and mobile health. I have a passion for implementation science involving translating early newborn care evidence-based interventions into clinical care in low-resource settings and discovering innovations to decrease neonatal morbidity and mortality

Geographical Focus: Zambia

Albert Manasyan, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Perinatal research, maternal & child health, cervical cancer, stigma, perinatal depression

Geographical Focus: Zambia

Simon Manga, Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Focus: Cervical cancer prevention, womens reproductive health care

Geographical Focus: Cameroon, Sub-Saharan Africa

Lynn Matthews, Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Focus: HIV prevention and disclosure, Reproductive health, Safer conception, Reproductive rights, Womens health

Geographical Focus: South Africa, Uganda

Steven Obaro, Professor

Research Focus: Vaccine preventable infections of childhood, Antimicrobial resistance, Pathogen genomics, Infectious disease diagnostics, Hemoglobinopathies and infections

Geographical Focus: United States, Nigeria, Rwanda

Holly Richter, Professor

Research Focus: Recto-and vesicovaginal surgery and research; pelvic floor surgery (prolapse, incontinence); global fellow education

Geographical Focus: West Africa

Brandon Rocque, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Neurosurgical education, Hydrocephalus incidence and treatment, epilepsy surgery program development

Geographical Focus: Vietnam

Martin Rodriguez, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Tropical diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, metabolic complications in HIV; education interventions in Infectious Diseases for developing countries

Geographical Focus: Peru

Monsoor Saleh, Professor

Research Focus: Global oncology, clinical investigator training, clinical trials, overcoming barriers to cancer care and cancer clinical trials

Geographical Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Central and Southeast Asia

Isabel Scarinci-Searles, Professor

Research Focus: Tobacco control; cervical cancer prevention and control

Geographical Focus: Brazil, Colombia, Sri Lanka

Michael Straughn, Professor

Research Focus: Cervical precancer and cancers screening and education, gynecologic care, OBGYN training

Geographical Focus: Mekelle, Ethiopia

Alan Tita, Professor

Research Focus: Pregnancy, Infections, Epidemiology, Gynecology, Reproductive Health, Womens Health

Geographical Focus: Sub-Saharan South Africa

Barbara Van Der Pol, Professor

Research Focus: STIs and HIV

Geographical Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, Caribbean

R. Marty Vander Noot, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Tropical Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Ultrasound Utilization

Geographical Focus: Peru, Kenya and Cambodia

Michael Vinikoor, Associate Professor

Research Focus: HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, alcohol misues, mental health, implementation science

Geographical Focus: Zambia

Ursula Wesselmann, Professor

Research Focus: Pain and Racial Health Disparities

Geographical Focus: Asia

Amanda Willig, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Nutrition and Exercise interventions, HIV and TB, education of health professionals

Geographical Focus: Zambia, Panama

Nabinha Yusuf, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Cancer, Infectious disease

Majd Zayzafoon, Associate Professor

Research Focus: International Human Trafficking

Geographical Focus: China, Taiwan, Central America, Middle East

Robert Blanton, Professor/Chairperson

Research Focus: Human Rights, Labor Rights, Human Trafficking, Workplace Safety

Geographical Focus: Cross-National

Renato Corbetta, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Research methodology, International relations, major power states in international politics and international law

Loretta Cormier, Professor

Research Focus: Historical ecology, ethnoprimatology, ethnohistorical research

Geographical Focus: Brazil

Colleen Fisher, Associate Professor

Research Focus: HIV/AIDS; water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH); maternal and child health; microfinance and other livelihood interventions to improve health in low resource settings

Geographical Focus: Kenya, India, Guatemala, Ecuador

Achala Gunasekara Rockwell, Credentialed Course Instructor

Research Focus: Languages and cultures of Asia. Improving educational opportunities in South Asian communities, especially among young girls and physicially disable children.

Geographical Focus: Sri Lanka

Akhlaque Haque, Professor

Research Focus: Big Data, social justice, and public health data. Geographic information systems (GIS) and health related applications of GIS

Geographical Focus: Bangladesh

Ragib Hasan, Professor

Research Focus: Provided free online courses to rural and disadvantaged students in Bangladesh and India, and online learning programs through YouTube

Geographical Focus: Bangladesh

Chris Kyle, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Criminal violence and Narcotics, production, trafficking, use, and the associated violence

Geographical Focus: Mexico

Stacy Moak, Professor

Research Focus: Clean water, sustainable agriculture, education in orphanages, feminine hygiene produces to adolescent girls to promote education, and promoting policies to end the process of female genital mutilation in the Maasai culture

Geographical Focus: Nairobi and Maasai Mara, Kenya

Tina Reuter, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Human rights, ethnic conflict and conflict resolution, peace studies, international politics/law

Geographical Focus: Middle East and North Africa, Europe, Kenya, Peru

Christina Rodriguez, Professor

Research Focus: Parenting, child abuse, intimate partner violence

Geographical Focus: Spain, Peru, United States

Cynthia Ryan, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Medical Rhetoric

Geographical Focus: India, Nepal, Zambia, Poland, the Netherlands, United States

David Schwebel, University Professor

Research Focus: Child and adolescent unintentional injury

Geographical Focus: China, Iran, Uganda, Canada

Lisa Sharlach, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Child and adolescent unintentional injury

Geographical Focus: China, Iran, Uganda, Canada

Magdalena Szaflarski, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Cross-cultural comparisons and vulnerable populations (immigrant health, HIV, mental/behavioral health, neurologic diseases), and comparative health care systems

Geographical Focus: Eastern Europe, former USSR/Russia designs

Bulent Turan, Adjunct Associate Professor

Research Focus: Mechanisms underlying the relationship between social bonds and well-being across the life-span; Sitgma and discrimination

Geographical Focus: Turkey

Nancy Borkowski, Professor

Research Focus: Advancing health management as a profession

Geographical Focus: China

Leandra Celaya, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Healthcare Management Education

Geographical Focus: Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Brazil, Switzerland, Czech Republic, France, Spain, The Netherlands, and Honduras 

S. Robert Hernandez, Professor

Research Focus: Management and leadership development, healthcare management research

Geographical Focus: Armenia, Western & Central Europe, Russia, Saudi Arabia 

Shannon Houser, Professor

Research Focus: Education and research in the areas of Healthcare/Hospital Administration, Health Information/Informatics, health behavior, and epidemiology

Geographical Focus: China

Nataliya Ivankova, Professor

Research Focus: Qualitative inquiry, mixed methods research, community-based and action research, implementation science and translational research

Geographical Focus: Generally international - no specific area

Gavin Jenkins, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Education Abroad Programs for Occupational Therapists; Collaboration with the OT Association of South Africa to support the credentialing of OTs who work in Low Vision Rehabilitation; Discussion representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross to support development of hybrid school of OT in Rwanda

Geographical Focus: South Africa, Uganda, Rwanda

Heather Lee, Professor/Chairperson

Research Focus: Physical therapy

Ana Oliveira, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Infectious Diseases, Parasitolgy, Epidemiology and Public Helath Practice (ex: outbreak investigation), Education

Geographical Focus: United States

Chandrika Piyathilake, Professor

Research Focus: Lifestyle-based interventions cancer prevention and control, Discovery and validation of early detection biomarkers of cancer, Validation of cost-effective tests for cervical cancer screening, Novel evidence-based approaches to increase the accuracy of cervical cancer screening in HIV infected

Geographical Focus: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Colombia

Deborah Bowers, Assistant Professor

Research Focus: Mobile medical clinics; access to primary care in critical provider shortage areas and refugee settlements; treatment for infectious diseases of poverty

Geographical Focus: United States, South Sudan, Uganda, South Africa, Venezuela

Martha Dawson, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Impact of nurse mitigation on the cost of health care, nursing and global health

Geographical Focus: Canada, Denmark, Philippines, Ghana

Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Infectious disease, HIV/AIDS 

Geographical Focus: Nepal

Ada Markaki, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Health systems research in primary health care; collaborative practice; compassionate care; organ donation 

Geographical Focus: Latin American and Caribbean region, Greece

Lynn Nichols, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Sustainable development goals and social determinants of health; interprofessional teamwork 

Geographical Focus: Haiti, Thailand

Grace Jepkemboi, Associate Professor

Research Focus: Psychosocial aspects on Children and families impacted by HIV/AIDS, HIV /AIDS and Adolescents population

Geographical Focus: Kenya, Swaziland, Jamaica

Phillip Musa, Associate Professor

Research Focus: IT diffusion/adoption; Public Health Disease Surveillance and Containment; Health Equity and Access; IT for Development, IT Preparedness for Telemedicine, etc.

Geographical Focus: Sub Saharan Africa and other Low Resource Regions