Global Health Faculty

Mousumi Bannerjee

Longitudinal modeling, survival analysis, competing risks methodology, and cancer epidemiology.

Stuart Batterman

Training and research programs in the environmental sciences and engineering in southern Africa, Russia and Europe.

Ana Diez Roux

Urban health and the social patterning of health in South America.

Joseph Eisenberg

Epidemiology of waterborne diseases, both conducting experiments and studying theoretical aspects of disease transmission using mathematical models. See EcoDess site.

Christine Erdmann

Molecular mechanisms underlying the relationship between breast cancer risk and enviornmental factors in Brazil.

Kathy Ford

Factors related to prevention of HIV infection among vulnerable populations in Southeast Asia; the impact of the AIDS epidemic on a rural population in south Africa.

Brant Fries

President of interRAI, a 28-nation consortium of researchers using resident assessment and case mix to compare and improve care of elderly and disabled persons.

Sandro Galea *

Health of urban populations;  mental health and behavior in urban populations after exposure to mass trauma in Madrid, Kosovo, and Jerusalem.

Scott Greer

Consequences for health policy and the welfare state of federalism and decentralization, focused especially on the U.K. and the development of health policy in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; European integration and its effects on health policymaking.

Sioban Harlow *

Director of the University of Michigan Global Health Research and Training Initiative; institutional capacity development in reproductive research in Mexico and Zimbabwe, gynecologic, perinatal and maternal morbidity.

Howard Hu

Multi-disciplinary environmental epidemiology studies of the impact of toxic metals and other pollutants on early life development and risk of adult chronic disease, with major programs in Mexico and India. More information.

Marcia Inhorn *

Director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the UM International Institute, research on infertility and the new reproductive technologies in the Middle East and Arab America.

Olivier Jolliet

UNEP Life Cycle Impact Assessment program, environmental risks of chemicals and of innovative technologies, environmental impacts of consumption and trade on human health and health inequalities.

James Koopman

Assisting the Japanese National Institue of Infectious Diseases to establish an infection modeling unit.

Margaret Kruk *

International health policy, maternal health, health systems, financing, and equity in developing countries.

Jersey Liang *

Comparative studies of health, health care, and aging in the U.S. and several countries in East Asia.

Arnold Monto

Occurrence, etiology and prevention of infectious diseases in industrialized and developing countries.

Jerome Nriagu *

Environmental justice and environmental health in developing countries

Mark Padilla *

HIV/AIDS prevention among various populations in the Dominican Republic; program evaluation in Latin America.

Ken Resnicow

Smoking prevention programs for South African youth, harm reduction programs in Australia and South Africa.

Thomas Robins *

Human resource capacity in environmental and occupational health in the 14-nation Southern Africa Development Community

Ruth Simmons

International family planning and reproductive health policies and programs.

Rachel Snow *

Clinical and epidemiologic research on contraception, reproductive morbidity, and gender in several countries, including China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, South Africa, and Mexico with a research focuses on the effective integration of HIV interventions — clinical and social — into health systems.

Amr Soliman *

International cancer epidemiology studies pursued through interaction and collaboration with clinicians and scientists in the U.S. as well as international agencies and academic and medical institutions in Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morrocco, Turkey, Tanzania, and India.

Kenneth Warner

Economic and policy aspects of disease prevention and health promotion, with a special emphasis on tobacco and health, consultant with the World Health Organization and the World Bank including representative to the negotiations for adoption of the international tobacco control treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Mark Wilson *

Director of Global Health Program; research in emerging diseases including malaria and schistosomiasis in Africa, leishmaniasis in the Middle East, and dengue fever in South America.

Zhenhua Yang

Collaborations with the clinical microbiology laboratory of Innonu University, Malatya, Turkey, and the Hong Kong Health department to study the genetic mechanism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance in different geographic regions and to develop molecular methods for rapid detection of drug resistance in M. tuberculosis clinical isolates.