Faculty Involved in Global Health
There are many Duke faculty involved in global health work internationally and locally. The following list includes faculty who are currently involved in global health efforts in education, research, policy or service at Duke.
As the passion for global health at Duke grows, we expect this list to expand. If you know of a faculty member who is not included on this list and whom you believe should be added, please email .
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| Name: | Catherine Adcock Admay |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Duke Center for International Development |
| Topical Interests: | FOCUS (International Law and Global Health), health and human rights, developing countries and international health and governance |
| Name: | Rand Allingham |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Ophthalmology |
| Division(s): | Glaucoma |
| Topical Interests: | Glaucoma |
| Geographic Interest: | Ghana Africa |
| Name: | Sarah Armstrong (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Pediatrics |
| Division(s) | Children's Primary Care |
| Topical Interests: | Childhood Obesity |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | John Bartlett (DGHI Member)(DGHI Executive Committee) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | Infectious Diseases |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS |
| Geographic Interest: | Tanzania Africa |
| Name: | Charles Becker |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Economics |
| Division(s) | Economics |
| Topical Interests: | Economic demography, social security forecasting and pension policy, accidental death mortality, disability incidence |
| Geographic Interest: | Former USSR (particularly Central Asia), Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Name: | Kim Blankenship (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Sociology |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS prevenntion, structural interventions, criminal justice and race disparities in health, gender poverty and health |
| Geographic Interest: | India, Nigeria, USA |
| Name: | James Blumenthal |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| Division(s): | Medical Psychology |
| Topical Interests: | Stress and health, behavioral interventions for disease prevention and treatment |
| Geographic Interest: | South America, Eastern Europe, Asia |
| Name: | Fred Boadu |
| School(s): | Nicholas / Pratt |
| Department(s): | Earth & Ocean Sciences / Civil Engineering and Environmental |
| Topical Interests: | Malaria |
| Geographic Interest: | Ghana West Africa |
| Name: | W. Kevin Broyles |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Community and Family Medicine |
| Division(s) | Duke Primary Care - Duke Urgent Care Services |
| Topical Interests: | Orphans and vulnerable children, HIV/AIDS, Community Health |
| Geographic Interest: | Kenya, Africa |
| Name: | Sherryl Broverman |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Biology |
| Topical Interests: | Education, WISER, Global Health Certificate |
| Geographic Interest: | Kenya, Africa |
| Name: | Allen Buchanan (DGHI Executive Committee) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Philosophy |
| Topical Interests: | Global justice and health, ethical issues concerning emerging biotechnologies, human rights |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Linda Burton |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Sociology |
| Topical Interests: | Disparities |
| Geographic Interest: | USA South Africa |
| Name: | Dennis
Clements |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Pediatrics |
| Division(s) | Children's Primary Care |
| Topical Interests: | Senior Advisor, Duke Global Health Institute |
| Geographic Interest: | NC, Central and South America, East Africa |
| Name: | Bob Cook-Deegan (DGHI Executive Committee) (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences / Medicine |
| Department(s): | Biology, Public Policy Studies / Department of Internal Medicine |
| Division(s) | Director, Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy (GELP), Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) |
| Topical Interests: | Policy, drug access |
| Geographic Interest: | India |
| Name: | Ralph Corey (DGHI Member) (DGHI Executive Committee) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | Director, Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health |
| Topical Interests: | Physician training, infections in the developing world |
| Geographic Interest: | Developing world |
| Name: | Phil Costanzo (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Psychology |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Obesity |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | John A. Crump (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | Infectious Diseases and International Health |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS, medical microbiology, infectious diseases epidemiology, enteric infections, tropical medicine |
| Geographic Interest: | Africa |
| Name: | Coleen Cunningham (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Pediatrics |
| Division(s) | Infectious Diseases |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS in children |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Elizabeth Davis |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Cultural Anthropology |
| Topical Interests: | Mental health |
| Geographic Interest: | Eastern Mediterranean |
| Name: | Thomas Denny |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s): | Human Vaccine Institute & the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Victor J. Dzau (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | School of Medicine |
| Department(s): | Chancellor for Health Affairs, CEO of Duke University Health |
| Topical Interests: | Cardiovascular translational research, eliminating |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Carol Dukes-Hamilton |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | Infectious Diseases |
| Topical Interests: | Infectious Diseases / Tuberculosis |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Peter English |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences / Medicine |
| Department(s): | History /Pediatrics |
| Division(s) | |
| Topical Interests: | Obesity, history of childhood obesity |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Tracy Falba |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Economics |
| Division(s): | Center for Health Policy |
| Topical Interests: | Health behaviors in aging populations; analyzing determinants and consequences of health behaviors such as smoking using economic frameworks |
| Name: | Fernando Fernholz |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Economics |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Economist |
| Geographic Interest: | Bolivia South America, Latin America |
| Name: | Rosemary Fernholz |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Duke Center for International Development |
| Topical Interests: | Policy Analysis, Social and Environmental Policy, Political Economy |
| Geographic Interest: | Southeast Asia, Central and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Bangladesh |
| Name: | Guido Ferrari |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Surgery |
| Division(s) | Experimental Surgery |
| Topical Interests: | HIV diagnosis and immune response |
| Geographic Interest: | Tanzania, South Africa |
| Name: | Elizabeth Frankenberg (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy Studies and Sociology |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute for Public Policy |
| Topical Interests: | Maternal and child health, mental health |
| Geographic Interest: | Asia, Mexico |
| Name: | Michael Freemark |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Pediatrics |
| Division(s) | Endocrinology and Diabetes |
| Topical Interests: | Endocrinology and diabetes |
| Geographic Interest: | China East Asia and the Pacific |
| Name: | Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco |
| (DGHI Executive Committee) | |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Molecular Genetics & Microbiology |
| Topical Interests: | Flaviruses and other emerging viral diseases |
| Geographic Interest: | Puerto Rico, Singapore Latin America, Southeast Asia |
| Name: | Gary Gereffi (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Sociology |
| Topical Interests: | Obesity, sociology |
| Geographic Interest: | Mexico, China, USA |
| Name: | Duane Gubler |
| School(s): | Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School - Singapore |
| Department(s): | |
| Topical Interests: | Zoonotic viruses, vector borne diseases, and emerging infectious diseases epidemiology and control |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Michael
Haglund |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Surgery |
| Division(s) | Neurosurgery |
| Topical Interests: | Epilepsy surgery, spine surgery, Neurosurgery Training Program Director |
| Geographic Interest: | Uganda, Ecuador |
| Name: | Amy Laura Hall |
| School(s): | Divinity / Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Divinity / Graduate Division of Religion |
| Division(s) | Ethics |
| Topical Interests: | Women's health, children and poverty, HIV/AIDS |
| Geographic Interest: | NC Africa |
| Name: | Robert Harrington |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Cardiology |
| Division(s) | Director of the DCRI |
| Topical Interests: | Clinical Trials |
| Name: | Barton Haynes (DGHI Member) (DGHI Executive Committe) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine, Immunology, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics |
| Division(s) | Director, Duke Human Vaccine Institute |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis vaccine development, host defense to infectious agents, Director of the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) |
| Geographic Interest: | Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Africa |
| Name: | Leon Herndon |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Opthalmology |
| Division(s) | Glaucoma |
| Topical Interests: | Glaucoma |
| Geographic Interest: | West Africa |
| Name: | Charles Hicks |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | Infectious Diseases |
| Topical Interests: | Infectious Diseases |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Catherine Hoyo |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Community and Family Medicine |
| Division(s) | Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Research and Education |
| Topical Interests: | Epigenetics, Epidemiology, Cancer |
| Geographic Interest: | Africa, Nordic countries, Latin America |
| Name: | Marco Huesch |
| School(s): | Fuqua School of Business |
| Department(s): | Strategy |
| Topical Interests: | Business Strategy, Health Services Provider Strategy |
| Geographic Interest: | Thailand, Asia |
| Name: | Margaret Humphreys |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences / Medicine |
| Department(s): | History / Medicine |
| Division(s) | History |
| Topical Interests: | History of global diseases |
| Geographic Interest: | USA |
| Name: | Dora Il'yasova |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Community and Family Medicine |
| Division(s) | Prevention Research |
| Topical Interests: | Cancer group, brain, kidney, cervical, |
| Geographic Interest: | Russia, Europe |
| Name: | Robert Jackson |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences / Nicholas |
| Department(s): | Biology / Earth & Ocean Sciences |
| Topical Interests: | Environmental health |
| Name: | Sherman James (DGHI Executive Committe) (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences / Medicine |
| Department(s): | Public Policy / Sociology / African & African Amercan Studies / Community & Family Medicine |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Policy, CVD, Diabetes |
| Geographic Interest: | USA, Brazil |
| Name: | Randy Jirtle |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Radiation Oncology / Pathology |
| Topical Interests: | Epigenetics, Genomic Imprinting, Fetal Origins of Adult Disease Susceptibility |
| Geographic Interest: | India, Southeast Asia |
| Website: | http://www.geneimprint.com |
| Name: | James Joseph |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Director, United States - Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values, Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Governance |
| Geographic Interest: | South Africa |
| Name: | David Katz |
| School(s): | Pratt School of Engineering / Medicine |
| Department(s): | Biomedical Engineering / Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Division(s) | |
| Topical Interests: | HIV, Microbicides against STIs, HIV vaccines |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Samuel Katz |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Pediatrics |
| Division(s) | Infectious Diseases |
| Topical Interests: | Vaccines |
| Geographic Interest: | Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia |
| Name: | Priya Kishnani |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Pediatrics |
| Division(s) | Medical Genetics |
| Topical Interests: | Genetics |
| Geographic Interest: | India, Southeast Asia |
| Name: | Katia Koelle |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Biology |
| Topical Interests: | Disease modelling, ecology and evolution of infectious diseases |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Randall Kramer |
| School(s): | Nicholas School of the Environment |
| Department(s): | Environmental Sciences and Policy |
| Topical Interests: | Malaria, decision analysis, environmental health |
| Geographic Interest: | East Africa, Southern Africa, Indonesia |
| Name: | Anirudh Krishna |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy / Political Science |
| Topical Interests: | Poverty, Democracy, Social capital, Civil Society |
| Geographic Interest: | India |
| Name: | Ranga Krishnan |
| School(s): | Medicine / Graduate Medical School - Singapore |
| Department(s): | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| Topical Interests: | |
| Geographic Interest: | Singapore |
| Name: | Peter Kussin |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine |
| Topical Interests: | Tuberculosis, pulmonary and critical care medicine |
| Geographic Interest: | Indonesia Asia |
| Name: | Sandhya Lagoo-Deenadayalan |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Surgery |
| Division(s) | General Surgery |
| Topical Interests: | Gastrointestinal and laparoscopic surgery |
| Geographic Interest: | India, Southeast Asia |
| Name: | Ken Land |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Sociology |
| Topical Interests: | Demography |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Scott Levin |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Surgery |
| Division(s) | Plastic, Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery / Orthopaedic Surgery |
| Topical Interests: | Plastic surgery, orthopaedic surgery |
| Geographic Interest: | Singapore, Zambia, South Africa East Asia and the Pacific, Africa |
| Name: | Jennifer Li |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Pediatrics |
| Division(s) | Pediatric Cardiology |
| Topical Interests: | Pediatric Cardiology |
| Geographic Interest: | India |
| Name: | Pao-Hwa Lin |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Nephrology |
| Division(s) | Stedman Nutrition Center |
| Topical Interests: | Nutrition |
| Geographic Interest: | China |
| Name: | Elizabeth Livingston |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | OB-GYN |
| Division(s) | Maternal & Fetal Medicine |
| Topical Interests: | Maternal health, maternal HIV transmission |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | David Lobach |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Community and Family Medicine |
| Division(s) | Clinical Informatics |
| Topical Interests: | Applied use of health information technology, proactive use of clinical decision support, information technology to support new models of care, direct collection of clinical information from patients through computers |
| Geographic Interest: | World-wide, Argentina |
| Name: | Frank Lombard (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | DGHI |
| Department(s): | Center for Health Policy |
| Division(s) | Health Inequalities Program |
| Topical Interests: | Associate Director, Health Inequalities Program |
| Geographic Interest: | Central America, Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Name: | Herbert Kim Lyerly |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Surgery |
| Division(s) | General Surgery |
| Topical Interests: | Cancer |
| Geographic Interest: |
| Name: | Bob Malkin (DGHI Member) (DGHI Executive Committee) |
| School(s): | Pratt School of Engineering |
| Department(s): | Biomedical Engineering |
| Topical Interests: | Director, Duke-Engineering World Health |
| Geographic Interest: | Central America, Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Name: | Ian Martin |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Surgery and Medicine |
| Division(s) | Emergency Medicine and Hospital Medicine |
| Topical Interests: | International emergency medicine and development, Fellowship Program Director, Duke International Emergency Medicine / Global Health Residency Program |
| Geographic Interest: | Kenya, Tanzania East Africa |
| Name: | Anne Martin-Staple |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Center for Health Policy and Duke Center for International Development |
| Topical Interests: | Global health finances, health sector reform and policy, human resources, monitoring and evaluation; President, Health Strategies International LLC, |
| Geographic Interest: | Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia |
| Name: | David Matchar |
| School(s): | Medical |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | General Internal Medicine |
| Topical Interests: | Director of the Center for Clinical Health Policy Research |
| Geographic Interest: | China, India |
| Name: | Frederick Mayer |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Globalization |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Christina Meade (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | School of Medicine |
| Department(s): | Psychiatry |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Mood disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, dual diagnosis, HIV/AIDS |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Gilbert Merkx (DGHI Executive Committee) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Sociology / Vice Provost, International Affairs and Development |
| Topical Interests: | International affairs, public policy, political economy |
| Geographic Interest: | Latin America, Scandinavia |
| Name: | Giovanna Merli (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Contemporary Chinese society, demography, HIV/AIDS |
| Geographic Interest: | China, South Africa |
| Name: | Michael Merson |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | General Internal Medicine |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, global health, Director of Global Health Institute |
| Geographic Interest: | India |
| Name: | Marie Lynn Miranda (DGHI Executive Committe) (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Nicholas School of the Environment |
| Department(s): | Environmental Sciences and Policy |
| Topical Interests: | Children's environmental health and spatial analysis, Children's Environmental Health Initiative (http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/cehi/) |
| Geographic Interest: | NC North America |
| Name: | Will Mitchell |
| School(s): | Fuqua School of Business |
| Department(s): | Strategy |
| Topical Interests: | Corporate strategy, pharmaceutical strategy, management education |
| Geographic Interest: | Varied |
| Name: | Jeff Moe (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Fuqua School of Business |
| Department(s): | Health Sector Management Program |
| Topical Interests: | workforce shortage, drugs, neglected diseases |
| Geographic Interest: | South Africa Africa |
| Name: | Phil Morgan (DGHI Executive Committee) (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Sociology |
| Topical Interests: | Demography, fertility |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Holly Muir |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Anesthesiology |
| Division(s): | Division of Women's Anesthesiology |
| Topical Interests: | Obstetric anesthesia, maternal/neonatal outcomes |
| Geographic Interest: | Ghana Africa |
| Name: | Robert Murphy |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| Division(s) | Medical Psychology |
| Topical Interests: | Executive Director, Center for Child and Family Health |
| Geographic Interest: | Malawi Africa |
| Name: | Chris O'Connor |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s): | DCRI |
| Topical Interests: | Director, Duke Heart Center |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Karen O'Donnell |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Pediatrics |
| Division(s) | Medical Psychiatry |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS, child development, child trauma, mental health assessment and treatment in poor areas |
| Geographic Interest: | US, Africa, Asia |
| Name: | Adeyemi Olufolabi |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Anesthesiology |
| Division(s) | Women's Division |
| Topical Interests: | |
| Geographic Interest: | Ghana, Africa |
| Name: | Truls Ostbye (DGHI Executive Committe) |
| School(s): | Medicine / Nursing |
| Department(s): | Community and Family Medicine |
| Division(s) | Epidemiology |
| Topical Interests: | Epidemiology, obesity, aging, longitutinal population based health surveys |
| Geographic Interest: | Sri Lanka, USA, Singapore, Norway, Canada, Southeast Asia, North America |
| Name: | Jan Ostermann(DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences / Medicine |
| Department(s): | Public Policy / Community and Family Medicine |
| Division(s) | Center for Health Policy |
| Topical Interests: | Health economics and health policy, health disparities, global health |
| Geographic Interest: | Global |
| Name: | Rob Paterson |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | General Internal Medicine |
| Topical Interests: | AIDS orphans in Africa |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Richard Payne |
| School(s): | Divinity / Medicine |
| Department(s): | Institute for Care at the End of Life |
| Topical Interests: | Palliative care, spiritual care, end of life care |
| Geographic Interest: | USA North America |
| Name: | Brian Wells Pence (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Epidemiologic methods, HIV/AIDS, mental health |
| Geographic Interest: | Southeastern US, Sub-Sararan Africa |
| Name: | Eric Peterson (DGHI Executive Committee) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | Cardiology |
| Topical Interests: | Biostatistics, health economics, decision analysis, geriatric cardiology and outcomes research |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Alex Pfaff |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Economics / Public Policy / Environment |
| Topical Interests: | Environmental and natural resources economics, development |
| Geographic Interest: | Costa Rico, Brazil, Mexico, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Ghana |
| Name: | Ricardo Pietrobon |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Surgery / Anesthesiology |
| Division(s) | Orthopaedic Surgery |
| Topical Interests: | Research on research, improvement of quality, productivity and cost benefit from perspective of research teams and policy makers |
| Geographic Interest: | Singapore East Asia and the Pacific |
| Name: | Charles Piot |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Cultural Anthropology |
| Topical Interests: | Anthropology and history of West Africa |
| Geographic Interest: | West Africa |
| Name: | Dorothy Powell (DGHI Executive Committe) (DGHI Afffiliate) |
| School(s): | Nursing |
| Department(s): | Office of Global and Community Health Initiatives |
| Division(s) | |
| Topical Interests: | |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Anil Potti |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medical Oncology |
| Topical Interests: | Oncology - IGSP |
| Geographic Interest: | Thailand |
| Name: | Rae Jean Proescholdbell (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Community and Family Medicine |
| Division(s) | DGHI / Center for Health Policy |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, Substance Abuse, Integrated Care |
| Geographic Interest: | Southern United States, Malawi |
| Name: | Timothy Profeta |
| School(s): | Nicholas School of the Environment |
| Department(s): | Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions |
| Topical Interests: | Global warming policy |
| Name: | Arti Rai |
| School(s): | Law |
| Topical Interests: | Patent law, law and the biopharmaceutical industry, health care regulation, law and innovation |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Jen'nan Ghazal Read (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Sociology |
| Topical Interests: | Social determinants of health, gender, ethnicity, religion, particularly among Arab and Muslim populations |
| Geographic Interest: | USA, Middle East |
| Name: | Jerome Reichman (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Law |
| Topical Interests: | International intellectual property law and regulation, access to medicine in developing countries |
| Name: | Michael Relf |
| School(s): | Instructor |
| Department(s): | School of Nursing |
| Topical Interests: | Health systems capacity building |
| Geographic Interest: | Southern Africa |
| Name: | Gillian Sanders |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine/Biostatistics & Bioinformatics |
| Division(s): | Clinical Pharmacology |
| Topical Interests: | Decision Analysis |
| Name: | David Schaad |
| School(s): | Pratt School of Engineering |
| Department(s): | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Topical Interests: | Hydrology |
| Name: | Kevin Schulman |
| School(s): | Fuqua School of Business / Medicine |
| Department(s): | Health Sector Management / Medicine |
| Topical Interests: | Director of the Health Sector Management Program, business administration |
| Name: | Gopal Sreenivasan |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Philosophy |
| Topical Interests: | Ethics, Bioethics, Philosophy of Law |
| Geographic Interest: | Tanzania, South Africa |
| Name: | Kathy Sikkema |
| School(s): | Nursing / Arts & Sciences, Medicine |
| Department(s): | Nursing / Psychology and Neuroscience / Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS prevention and mental health |
| Geographic Interest: | Tanzania, South Africa |
| Name: | Frank Sloan (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Economics |
| Topical Interests: | Aging, health behaviors, hospitals, behavior of individuals as health care consumers |
| Name: | Maria Small |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | OBGYN |
| Division(s): | Maternal & Fetal Medicine |
| Topical Interests: | |
| Geographic Interests: | |
| Name: | Anthony So (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Director, Program on Global Health and Technology Access, Innovation and access to essential medecines, technology transfer, intellectual property rights, tobacco control in developing countries, information technology use, strategic health philanthropy and civil society |
| Geographic Interest: | Southeast Asia (tobacco control); Geneva |
| Name: | Justine Strand |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Community and Family Medicine |
| Division(s) | Physician Assistant |
| Topical Interests: | Public health, midlevel practitioners, primary care, health policy, medical sociology. |
| Geographic Interest: | Brazil, Mozambique and other Portuguese speaking countries, Latin America, Spanish-speaking Caribbean |
| Name: | Alessandro Tarozzi |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Economics |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Development Economics, poverty measurement and child nutrition |
| Geographic Interest: | India |
| Name: | Don Taylor |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | health policy, aging and long term care, comparative health systems |
| Name: | Nathan Thielman (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | Infectious Diseases |
| Topical Interests: | Clinical trials, operational, and health disparities research related to HIV/AIDS |
| Geographic Interest: | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Name: | Duncan Thomas (DGHI Executive Committee) (DGHI Affiliate) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Economics |
| Topical Interests: | Develolpment, population and family economics, global health |
| Name: | Debara Tucci |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Surgery |
| Division(s) | Otolaryngology |
| Topical Interests: | Deafness and ear diseases |
| Geographic Interest: | India Southeast Asia |
| Name: | Krishna Udayakumar |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s): | General Internal Medicine |
| Topical Interests: | Health care delivery systems; Clinical and translational research; Organizational innovation; Application of IT/Informatics |
| Geographic Interest: | Asia |
| Name: | Jim Vaupel |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Sanford Institute |
| Topical Interests: | Director, Policy and Aging Research Center; Director, Duke Population Research Institute |
| Geographic Interest: | Europe, China, North America |
| Name: | Avner Vengosh |
| School(s): | Nicholas School of the Environment |
| Division(s) | Earth & Ocean Sciences |
| Topical Interests: | water quality, isotope hydrology, GeoHealth |
| Geographic Interest: | South America, Middle East |
| Name: | Priscilla Wald (DGHI Executive Committee) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | English |
| Topical Interests: | Cultural study of science and medicine |
| Name: | David Walmer (DGHI Associate) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Division(s) | Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility |
| Topical Interests: | Cervical cancer prevention, maternal child health, GIS mapping, Family Health Ministries |
| Geographic Interest: | Haiti, Central America, East Africa |
| Name: | J. Brice Weinberg |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine and Immunology |
| Division(s) | Hematology |
| Topical Interests: | Host resistance to malaria |
| Geographic Interest: | Africa (Tanzania), Indonesia (Papua) |
| Name: | Kate Whetten (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences / Medicine / Nursing |
| Department(s): | Public Policy/ Community & Family Medicine / Nursing |
| Division(s) | Center for Health Policy |
| Topical Interests: | HIV/AIDS, director of the Center for Health Policy; director of the Health Inequalities Program |
| Geographic Interest: | Africa, India, Europe |
| Name: | Jonathan Wiener |
| School(s): | Law, Nicholas School of the Environment, Sanford Institute |
| Department(s): | |
| Division(s) | |
| Topical Interests: | Risk regulation (health, safety and environmental policy), risk analysis, risk-risk tradeoffs, global climate change |
| Geographic Interest: | |
| Name: | Jeff Wilkinson (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Obstetrics and Gynocology |
| Division(s) | Gynocologic Specialties |
| Topical Interests: | Obstetric fistula, maternal morbidity and mortality, minimally invasive gynecologic surgery |
| Geographic Interest: | West Africa, East Africa, Middle East |
| Name: | Hunt Willard (DGHI Executive Committee) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology |
| Division(s) | Director, Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy |
| Topical Interests: | Sickle Cell Anemia, Director of IGSP, Vice Chancellor for Genome Sciences at Duke |
| Geographic Interest: | Africa, East Asia and the Pacific |
| Name: | Redford Williams |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| Division(s) | Behavioral Psychiatry |
| Topical Interests: | Genetics, behavior and cardiovascular disease |
| Geographic Interest: | India, Brazil, China, Germany, Hungary, Singapore |
| Name: | Ara Wilson |
| School(s): | Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Cultural Anthropology / Women's Studies |
| Division(s) | Director, Program in Sexuality Studies |
| Topical Interests: | medical tourism, sexuality, gendered effects of globalization |
| Geographic Interest: | Thailand |
| Name: | Chris Woods (DGHI Member) |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Medicine |
| Division(s) | Infectious Diseases |
| Topical Interests: | Infectious diseases, pathology and medical microbiology |
| Geographic Interest: | Global |
| Name: | Yi Zeng |
| School(s): | Medicine / Arts & Sciences |
| Department(s): | Medicine / Public Policy |
| Division(s) | Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development; Center for Chinese Populations and Socioeconomic Studies |
| Topical Interests: | Demography, aging |
| Geographic Interest: | China |
| Name: | Nancy Zucker |
| School(s): | Medicine |
| Department(s): | Psychiatry & Behavioral Science |
| Division(s) | |
| Topical Interests: | Eating disorders, obesity, childhood feeding disorders |
| Geographic Interest: |
