DGHI Welcomes Three Faculty

From left: Jenson, Park, Strand de Oliveira

Published March 26, 2013, last updated on April 9, 2018 under Research News

Deborah Jenson, professor of Romance Studies, joins DGHI as a global health faculty member. She co-directs the Duke Haiti Humanities Lab, focusing her work on the history of cholera in Haiti and the Caribbean, and mental health issues among survivors of the Haiti earthquake. Her other research areas focus on traumatic stress, cognition and culture and the ethnic identities of African slaves in 18th century Saint-Dominique.

Larry Park joins DGHI as Adjunct Assistant Professor. He is based in the Department of Medicine at the Duke School of Medicine and the Infectious Diseases Division at the VA Medical Center. His work focuses on infectious disease epidemiology, occupational epidemiology and biomedical informatics. Park also teaches graduate epidemiology courses in the Master of Science in Global Health.

Justine Strand de Oliveira, joins DGHI as an affiliate. She is Vice Chair for Education for the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Her research and educational interests include the global health workforce, global health and women’s health. Strand de Oliveira is a past president of the Physician Assistant Education Association and North Carolina Medical Society Foundation and serves on the Advisory Council for the North Carolina Center for Nursing.

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