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Global Health Studies Program Steering Committee Members, 2009-10

GHSP policies, courses, and program offerings are determined by a steering committee consisting of faculty from a wide range of disciplines including medical humanities, public health, nursing, dentistry, history, anthropology and women's studies as well as P & S staff and students who meet as a body at least twice each semester. The steering committee also uses these meetings to evaluate all aspects of the program.

Faculty and Staff

Nanette Barkey, PhD Anthropology

Dr. Barkey's Website

David Bedell, M.D.

Family Medicine, College of Medicine
01290 Pomerantz Family Pavilion
Phone: 319-384-7525
E-mail: David-Bedell@uiowa.edu
152:199 Special Projects in Global Health
Dr. Bedell's Website

Anthony Brenneman, MPAS, PA-C

Director of Clinical Education
Physicians Assistant Program
Dr. Brenneman's Website

Thomas Cook, Ph.D.

Research interests include Ergonomics, International Health, and uses of information/communications technology.

Center for International Rural and Environmental Health
College of Public Health
158 IREH, Oakdale campus
Phone: 319-335-4533
E-mail: thomas-cook@uiowa.edu
Dr. Cook's Website

Laurence Fuortes, M.D.

Associate Professor Occupation and Environmental Health, College of Public Health. Director of the University's Occupational Health Services Clinic. Research interests include rural occupational and environmental health, economic and social factors impacting occupation and environmental health.

Occupational Health, College of Public Health
2124 Westlawn (Main Campus)
Phone: 319-335-9819
E-mail: laurence-fuortes@uiowa.edu
Dr. Fuortes' Website

Paul Greenough, Ph.D.

Professor of History, founder and immediate past director GHSP, current director of the Crossing Borders: Revitalizing Area Studies graduate training project, University of Iowa. His research interests include the history of international public health, history of science and technology in South Asia, global immunization programs, and environmental health history in South and Southeast Asia. Research areas include India, Nepal and Tanzania-Zanzibar.

Professor of History and of Community & Behavioral Health Director
Room 280 Schaeffer Hall,  Iowa City, IA, 52242
Phone: 319-335-2222
E-mail: paul-greenough@uiowa.edu
Dr. Greenough's Website

Kathleen Janz, Ed.D.

Health & Sport Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences E102 Fieldhouse
Phone: 319-335-9345
E-Mail: kathleen-janz@uiowa.edu
Dr. Janz' Website

Susan Joslyn, M.D.

Dr. Joslyn is a Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Dean of Graduate Academic Affairs at the University of Northern Iowa.  She is also an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at The University of Iowa College of Public Health.  Dr. Joslyn's research interests include breast cancer epidemiology, bladder/urologic cancer epidemiology and racial difference in survival and treatment of cancer.

Division of Health Promotion and Education
University of Northern Iowa Wellness Recreation Center 221
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0241
Phone: 319- 273-6155
E-Mail: sue.joslyn@uni.edu

Maureen McCue, M.D., Ph.D.

Adjunct Clinical Professor in Public Health, Adjunct Professor in Medical Anthropology, former director of GHSP. Research interests include women's health, rural and environmental health,  human rights.

Global Health Studies Program
1120 University Capitol Centre
Phone: 319-335-1304
E-Mail: mickiq@earthlink.net

Robin Paetzold-Durumeric

Global Programs Director for Student Affairs and Curriculum
College of Medicine
114 CMAB
Phone: 319-353-5762
E-Mail: robin-paetzold@uiowa.edu

Janis Perkins, M.A.

Director of Study Abroad, IP
1111AA University Capitol Centre
Phone: 319-335-0353
E-Mail: janis-perkins@uiowa.edu

Erica Prussing, Ph.D.

Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
114 Macbride Hall
Phone: 319-335-0528
E-Mail: erica-prussing@uiowa.edu
Dr. Prussing's Website

Hazel Seaba, MS

Professor (Clinical)
Division of Drug Information Service, College of Pharmacy
Website

Lisa Skemp, Ph.D.

College of Nursing
488 Nursing Building
Phone: 319-335-7125
E-Mail: lisa-skemp@uiowa.edu
Dr. Skemp's Website

Christopher Squier, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Dentistry. As a Professor in the Department of Oral Pathology, Radiology and Medicine, Dr. Squier's interests are in the relationship between tobacco and oral disease.

Dental Research
N419 DSB
Phone: 319- 335-7388
E-Mail: christopher-squier@uiowa.edu
Dr. Squier's Website

Michele Yehieli, Dr. P.H.

Dr. Michele Yehieli is an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Promotion and Education at the University of Northern Iowa, where she is the recipient of the Richard Remington Award, and other local, state, and national honors for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service in the health and human rights field. Dr. Yehieli is the Executive Director of the Iowa EXPORT Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, a model organization funded by the National Institutes of Health to improve health equity for underserved populations.  Dr. Yehieli’s primary areas of specialty include refugee, minority, and immigrant care, as well as maternal and child health for underserved populations.  Dr. Yehieli has more than 25 years of field experience in public health, conducting programs both domestically and internationally with refugees, women, children, minorities, the elderly, and other at-risk individuals.

Center on Excellence on Health Disparities
University of Northern Iowa
220 WRC
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0241
Phone: 319-273-5806
E-Mail: michele.yehieli@uni.edu