DGHI Welcomes Three Faculty Members to Duke

Bloomfield in Kenya

Bloomfield sees a patient in Eldoret, Kenya.

Published August 2, 2011, last updated on March 5, 2013 under Education News

The Duke Global Health Institute is proud to announce three new faculty members with specialties in cardiovascular medicine, environmental health and cultural anthropology. Gerald Bloomfield, William Pan and Harris Solomon are the latest of 25 new global health faculty members recruited to Duke since 2006. Most of the 25 have appointments in another Duke school or department, as well as DGHI.

Gerald Bloomfield, MD, MPH, joins the faculty as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Global Health after completing his Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship training at Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute in 2011.  Bloomfield also completed the Duke Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway and a Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship in 2010.  He has launched a clinical research program at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya to determine the causes of heart failure among East Africans supported by a K01 Career Development Award from the Fogarty International Center.  As part of this endeavor, Bloomfield spends approximately 6 months of the year in Kenya.  He received his medical education, internal medicine residency and Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University.

William Pan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Health, comes to Duke from a faculty position at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Pan’s research interests focuses on Population, Health, and Environmental interactions in developing countries, with particular interest in policies related to sustainable development and how micro-level research can inform global environmental health policies.  He has worked countries throughout Latin America and Africa on topics ranging from land use change, reproductive health and human migration, to tuberculosis, HIV, enteric infections, and childhood nutrition. Pan received his doctoral training in Biostatistics from UNC-Chapel Hill with a focus on demography and spatial analysis.  He also received a Master of Public Health from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Harris Solomon, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health, comes to Duke and DGHI from Brown University, where he received his doctoral training in cultural anthropology.  He also holds an MPH in Global Health from Emory University.  Solomon’s research focuses on the connections between consumerism and health in urban India.  His research and teaching engage medical anthropology, South Asian studies, food studies, science and technology studies, and gender and sexuality studies.  His current ethnographic project is based in Mumbai, and investigates relationships between food and the body in the context of India’s rising rates of obesity and diabetes.  Solomon has also written about medical tourism and the politics of language surrounding HIV/AIDS in India.  He taught medical anthropology at Brown University and Butler University, and worked in Washington, DC on global reproductive health and HIV policy.  In 2011-2012, he will teach courses in medical anthropology and the anthropology of global health.