Published October 28, 2013, last updated on April 9, 2018
Kelly Brownell, DGHI affiliate
Brownell is Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy and professor of public policy. He is a leading authority on public policies to enhance nutrition and combat obesity. Brownell has advised the White House, members of Congress, governors, world health and nutrition organizations and media leaders on issues of nutrition, obesity and public policy.
Nelson Chao, professor of medicine, immunology, pathology and global health
He is a long-time leader of the Duke Cancer Institute and focuses much of his research on two topic areas: clinical hematopoietic stem cell and cord blood transplantation. He also conducts laboratory studies related to graft vs. host disease and immune reconstitution. Chao will lead DGHI’s efforts in global cancer.
Henry Rice, DGHI affiliate
Rice is professor of pediatric surgery at Duke Medicine and has served as the Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery since 2007. His early research focused on stem cell biopsy, and has evolved into a clinical research program in spleen surgery for children. He leads a national clinical research consortium on spleen surgery in children, which oversees a multicenter patient registry of children undergoing spleen surgery.
Kristen Shirey, assistant research professor of global health
Shirey is assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and clinical associate in the Duke Department of Medicine. Her global health mental health research is focused on orphans, coping with HIV/AIDS, implementation of mental health services in East Africa and strategies to link antiretroviral and antidepressant management. Her clinical interests include inpatient general internal medicine and psychiatry, consultation liaison psychiatry and electroconvulsive therapy.
Qian Xu, adjunct professor of global health
Xu is professor and chair of the Maternal and Child Health Department at the School of Public Health at Fudan University. She directs the Fudan Global Health Institute, a DGHI partner. Xu studies women and child health, including family planning, rural health service and insurance, childhood obesity prevention, and multidisciplinary approaches to reproductive health.
