This non-credit, short-course takes place over two weeks and includes 90 hours of lectures, group work, debates, and individual study. Participants will receive material to read prior to the course.

Key Faculty

Rachel Snow, Sc.D.
reproductive health, contraception, HIV/AIDS, policy and planning

Rachel C. Snow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and the Associate Director of the International Institute. She is also a Research Associate Professor at the U-M Population Studies Center. Trained as a reproductive biologist, she has a Sc.D. in Population Sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was Assistant Professor of Reproductive Health at Harvard, then Unit Head for Reproductive Health at the University of Heidelberg (Medical School) in Germany for six years before coming to Michigan. Rachel has served on numerous expert committees at the World Health Organization within the Human Reproduction Program and the Department of Reproductive Health and Research dealing with issues such as gender, human rights, sexually transmitted infections, and contraceptive technology. She has conducted clinical and epidemiologic research on contraception, reproductive morbidity, and gender in a wide range of countries, including China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, South Africa, and Mexico. She was a founding editor of the African Journal of Reproductive Health, serving as co-editor until 2002. Her research focuses on the effective integration of HIV interventions — clinical and social — into health systems.

Frank Anderson, M.D./M.P.H.
maternal health, monitoring, program indicators

Frank Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School where he is also director of Global Initiatives. He has been involved in the global Safe Motherhood Initiative since 1993, offering academic courses, conducting research and providing maternal care programming and evaluation assistance throughout the world. First through the Johns Hopkins Child Survival Support Program, and then as a Science and Diplomacy Fellow at
the American Association for the Advancement of Science at USAID, Frank has experience in African, Asian, and Central American countries, as well as Uzbekistan and the Navajo Nation. He now has active maternal care research programs in Ghana and Haiti, with an emphasis on capacity building partnerships and health research for development, as well as community based interventions. He sits on the State of Michigan Maternal Mortality committee and The State of Michigan Maternal Accident committee. He is a past member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Native American Affairs committee and is a Faculty
Scholar in Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

These faculty will be joined by guest speakers on selected topics.

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