Faculty
Global Health Studies Program Steering Committee Members, 2007-08
GHSP policies, courses, and program offerings are determined by a steering committee of 12 members 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
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
Dr. Joslyn's Website
Lisa Kelley, Ph.D.
College of Nursing
488 Nursing Building
Phone: 319-335-7125
E-Mail: Lisa-Kelley@uiowa.edu
Dr. Kelley's Website
John Lawrence, M.D.
Surgery, College of Medicine
1519 JCP Main Hospital
Phone: 319-384-6328
E-Mail: john-lawrence@uiowa.edu
Dr. Lawrence's Website
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
William Miller, Pharm.D.
Clinical Hospital Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy
S525 Pharmacy
Phone: 319-335-8695
E-Mail: william-a-miller@uiowa.edu
Website
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
Jennifer Burek Pierce, PhD
Library Science
Dr. Pierce's Website
Dr. Pierce's Website
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
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
Robin Ungar, M.S.
Program associate in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, and Associate Director for the Center for International Rural and Environmental Health (CIREH). Involved in two training programs with Central and Eastern European public health and research institiutions in Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Croatia. Research interests include Agricultural health and safety, Environmental and Occupational Health and injury prevention. Administrates a program through CIREH that funds students to do international research and international summer interships.
Center for International Rural and Environmental Health
College of Public Health
120 IREH, Oakdale campus
Phone: 319- 335-4541
E-Mail: robin-ungar@uiowa.edu
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