Faculty Profiles by School/Center

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Environmental Health Sciences

Stuart Batterman, PhD
is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also appointed as Professor in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is active in Africa, Europe and Asia. Current activity involves Kwa-Zulu Natal University (Durban, South Africa) on air pollution-related work; the Typhoon Laboratory (near Moscow, Russia) on environmental chemistry; the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal) on energy and sustainability; medical waste management in Mozambique (Ministry of Health); and enivornmentl health in Nigeria. He is an active participant in the University of Michigan NIH Fogarty International Center program providing research training in environmental and occupational health in South Africa. Previously, he directed the US AID Tertiary Linkage Education Program that helped developed post-graduate capacity in engineering in South Africa and directed the Fogarty HEED project in south Durban examining air quality, economic development, and environmental health.

Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD
is Chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Professor of Environmental Health, Epidemiology, and Medicine. He is founder and director of the Metals Epidemiology Research Group (MERG) http://sitemaker.umich.edu/merg/merg_home, which, with support from NIH, the EPA, and other granting agencies, has been conducting multi-disciplinary human population studies around the world on the health effects of general environmental and occupational exposures to environmental toxicants with an emphasis on metals such as lead, manganese, mercury, arsenic and cadmium. Among MERG's research projects led by PI Dr. Hu is a 15 year old NIEHS-funded research program on exposures and reproductive toxicity in Mexico City in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico (the early life exposures to environmental toxicants in Mexico study--ELEMENT), and an NIH Fogarty funded FIRCA Study of Lead Exposure & Outcomes Amongst Children in Chennai, India. The latter is an on-going collaborative multi-institutional environmental health research and training project with the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (SRMC) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The project aims to describe lead exposure and exposure-dose relationships of lead dose to neurobehavioral outcomes (and the modifying effect of genetic polymorphisms on those same relationships) in primary school children in Chennai (formerly Madras), India.

Olivier Jolliet, PhD
is Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and a founding member of the Center for Risk Sciences. His research focuses on environmental fate and transport and human exposure assessment, and assesses the environmental risks and impacts of chemicals and of innovative technologies. Dr. Jolliet co-initiated the United Nations Environment Program/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative and is the scientific manager of its Life Cycle Impact Assessment program.

Jerome O. Nriagu, PhD
is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Research Professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development. His research focuses on the sources, fate, and effects of toxic metals in the environment; environmental risk factors for asthma; and environmental justice. His research interests encompass environmental health and environmental epidemiology and include exposure assessment, risk evaluation, and environmental impact assessment. He has conducted research and training activities in a number of countries overseas including South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil and Jamaica. Dr. Nriagu also coordinates student research placements for the FIC MHIRT program in Jamaica.

Thomas Robins, MD, MPH
is Director of the University of Michigan NIOSH Education and Research Center (ERC) and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences. He is also Director of the Fogarty International Center International Research Training in Environmental and Occupational Health program building research and technical capacity in Southern Africa. He is currently Principal Investigator (PI) on an R01 examining the effects ofvehicular exhaust on asthma in Detroit. His previous work includes an investigation of occupational asthma among seafood processing workers in South Africa; a study of respiratory effects of the health effects of air pollution among children in South Africa; and co-PI on a study of the respiratory health of South African coal miners. He also has served as a Co-PI on a study of renal and reproductive effects of work exposures in lead acid battery workers in South Africa. In addition, he has developed and conducted several large scale train-the-trainer health and safety worker education programs and has been the PI on several grants evaluating such programs.

Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD
is Professor of Epidemiology with research interests in the social and environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease, with a special focus on neighborhoods and health. Some of her ongoing research projects include neighborhood context and cardiovascular disease, long term exposure to airborne particulates and subclinical atherosclerosis, the social patterning of stress, inflammation and hemostasis, and the social patterning of cardiovascular disease in Latin America. Dr. Diez Roux also has a long-standing interest in methodological issues related to the integration of group-level and individual-level factors in health research, including the application of multilevel analysis to study area and neighborhood health effects.

Joseph Eisenberg, PhD
is Associate Professor of Epidemiology with research interests in the epidemiology of waterborne pathogens and malaria; microbial risk assessment; environmental determinants of infectious diseases; transmissions of infectious diseases; and mathematical modeling.

p> Christine Erdmann, PhD, MPH
is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology with research interests in molecular mechanisms underlying the relationship between breast cancer risk and environmental factors, preclinical disease detection, and spatial analysis methods. Her present research in Brazil explores the areas of cancer and environmental epidemiology. She is co-principal investigator on a case-control study of the relationship between environmental factors and breast cancer risk in Brazil, funded by the Department of Defense (DOD) Breast Cancer Research Program.

Kathleen Ford, PhD
is Research Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology and a Research Affiliate at the Population Studies Center. She has conducted research related to AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in Thailand, Indonesia and South Africa. In Indonesia, she collaborates with faculty from Udayana Medical School in Bali, conducting behavioral research and intervention studies about groups at high risk for HIV infection including sex workers, their clients, and drug users. At the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, her collaborations focus on the impact of a severe AIDS epidemic on children, families, and households. More recently, she has served as Visiting Professor at Mahidol University in Bangkok.

Siobán Harlow, PhD
is Professor of Epidemiology, a Research Affiliate at the Population Studies Center, and of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender’s program on Gender and Global Health. She is also a member of the Scientifical and Technical Advisory Group for the Department of Reproductive Health and Research, the World Health Organization. Dr. Harlow headed the UM Fogarty International Center Training Grant for Research Training in Reproductive and Perinatal Health in collaboration with El Colegio de Sonora in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico and with the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, Zimbabwe. She is Principal Investigator of a collaborative study examining the impact of economic development and socio-environmental vulnerability on infant and adult mortality in Sonora Mexico. Her research focuses on reproductive health in the context of export-led production and on gynecological, perinatal and obstetric morbidity in low and middle income countries. For more information on UM's Fogarty International Training Program with profiles of some of the Fogarty Fellows go to: http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/training/funds/fogarty.html and for information on the Reproductive Health of Global Supply Chain Workers see: http://rhgw.psc.isr.umich.edu/index.html

Betsy Foxman, PhD
is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology (MAC-EPID) and of the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Infectious Disease supported by NIAID. Her research interests focus on transmission, from sexual behavior to the transmission of gene coding for antibiotic resistance between bacteria. Ongoing projects include using a molecular epidemiologic strategy to discover new bacteria genes associated with transmission, virulence, and resistance. Dr. Foxman has ongoing collaborative projects in Curitiba, Brazil.

James Koopman, MD, MPH
is Professor of Epidemiology with long-term research interests in infection transmission and complex systems with application in the design of STD and HIV surveillance systems, the determination of how different paths through the environment from one person to another affect the overall circulation of infectious agents, the evaluation of waterborne and environmentally based infection control strategies, the design of vaccines and vaccine trials, and the use of DNA sequence patterns of infectious agents to describe transmission system behavior.

Arnold S. Monto, MD
is Professor of Epidemiology and founding Director of the Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative. The major focus of his work has been the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of acute infections, including work on prevention and treatment. Influenza has been a major research interest, with special reference to the evaluation of vaccines in various populations and the assessment of the value of antivirals such as amantadine, rimantadine and the neuraminidase inhibitors. He is currently involved in assessing the efficacy of live and inactivated vaccines in prophylaxis and the neuraminidase inhibitors in therapy of influenza, and working with US and international organizations on pandemic preparedness.

Marie O'Neill, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Science. Her research interests include health effects of air pollution and temperature extremes (mortality, asthma, and cardiovascular endpoints); environmental exposure assessment; and socio-economic influences on health. Her current international research collaborations include a study of air pollution, socio-economic status and mortality in Latin American cities (including Mexico City, Santiago, Chile and Sao Paulo, Brazil) and a study of air pollution and asthma hospital admissions in Seoul, Korea. She has worked for the Pan American Health Organization and in Mexico at the National Institute of Public Health and the National Center for Environmental Health as a Fulbright Scholar.

Amr Soliman, MD, PHD
is Professor of Epidemiology with research focused on international cancer epidemiology, investigating colorectal and other cancers in different ethnic and racial groups through national and international comparative studies and the use of molecular and genetic methods. He is also exploring the effect of migration to the United States on cancer risk modification. These studies are in collaboration with clinicians and scientists in Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Professor Soliman is the Director of the Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations Program of the Michigan School of Public Health http://www.sph.umich.edu/ceesp

Mark L. Wilson, ScM, ScD
is Professor of Epidemiology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. His research and teaching focus on the social and environmental determinants of infectious disease risk and the impacts of globalization on health. He is an ecologist and epidemiologist with broad research interests in infectious diseases, including the analysis of transmission dynamics, the evolution of vector-host-parasite systems, and the determinants of human risk. Most projects address environmental and social variation, in time and space, as they impact on vector and reservoir populations and pathogen transmission dynamics. Recent efforts have been directed at malaria and schistosomiasis in Africa, leishmaniasis in the Middle East, and dengue fever in South America. Dr. Wilson currently is involved in training and research projects in Kenya, Malawi, China, Egypt, Israel, and Peru.

Zhenhua Yang, MD, PhD
is Associate Professor of Epidemiology, with research 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.

Noreen Clark, PhD
is the Myron E. Wegman Distinguished University Professor of Public Health, the Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, and Director of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease. Her research centers on the systems, policies and programs that promote health, prevent illness, and enable individuals to manage disease, particularly asthma. She is National Program Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Allies Against Asthma Program, and a member of the Coordinating Council of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Dr. Clark is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.

Marcia C. Inhorn, PhD, MPH
is Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, Anthropology and Women's Studies and is former director of the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. A medical anthropologist specializing in Middle Eastern gender and health issues, she has conducted research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America over the past 20 years.

Ken Resnicow, PhD
is Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, an Investigator for the Center for Health Communications Research, and a member of the Tobacco Research Network. His research interests include the design and evaluation of health promotion programs for special populations, particularly cardiovascular and cancer prevention interventions for African Americans; understanding the relationship between ethnicity and health behaviors; school-based health promotion programs; substance use prevention and harm reduction and motivational interviewing for chronic disease prevention. In addition to domestic initiatives, his international work includes an NIH/Fogarty International Center-funded study to develop smoking prevention programs for South African youth.

Ruth Simmons, PhD
is Professor Emeritus of Health Behavior and Health Education with research interests in the organization of public sector family planning and related reproductive health services, placing special emphasis on the interface between users and programs and quality of care. Of particular interest to her work is the scaling up of innovative pilot, experimental and demonstration projects to regional and national policy and programmatic levels. With funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Dr. Simmons current work is focused on convening a global network of public health professionals who seek to advance the science and practice of scaling up health innovations, called ExpandNet (www.expandnet.net). She has written and co-edited a book on scaling up, published by the World Health Organization, and co-written two guides to support scaling up health services, all three of which are available on the ExpandNet website.

Rachel Snow, ScD
is Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education and a Research Associate Professor at the Population Studies Center. Her research focuses on the measure of gender and its relation to health in diverse settings, as well as the effective integration of HIV interventions (clinical and social) into reproductive health systems. 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 is currently conducting research on the operational and policy challenges of integrating HIV/AIDS into reproductive health programs in Burkina Faso and South Africa, and the social impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The School of Public Health's Spring/Summer 2006 Findings publication features Professor Snow on this topic at URL: http://www.sph.umich.edu/news_events/findings/spring06/future/two.htm

Jean Thatcher Shope, MSPH, PhD
is Research Professor in Social and Behavioral Analysis at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and Associate Director of UMTRI, responsible for enhancing UMTRI's educational activities. She is a faculty member of Health Behavior and Health Education at the School of Public Health, and also an Adjunct Professor with the Center for Accident Research and Road Safety of the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Shope's research has focused on school health education, adolescent substance use, adolescent driving, at-risk drinking, drink/driving, and graduated driver licensing.

Caroline Wang, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, and currently provides consultation to non-governmental organizations, health agencies, and other institutions around the world in using the photo-voice concept and methodology as a tool for participatory needs assessment and participatory policy and program development. Her professional interests include: participatory and community-based health education, mass media, and stigma. Dr. Wang has 10 years of collaborative experience working on health promotion and reproductive health in urban and rural China. She is also the co-developer of Photovoice.

Frank Zinn, PhD
is currently Director of the Population Fellows Program. He is interested in the link between academic training and professional practice in a global context, and has developed approaches to professional and leadership development that emphasize experiential learning.

Marc Zimmerman, PhD
is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Professor of Psychology, and Research Scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development. He is also Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)-funded Prevention Research Center of Michigan which includes a demonstration project on fathers and sons, a youth violence prevention project, a biennial community survey, and a capacity building project for community organizations. Dr. Zimmerman coordinates student research placements for the FIC-MHIRT program in South Africa. He also works with colleagues in Poland and Chile, and is currently developing a project in China on research projects on adolescent health and development.

Scott Greer, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health. His research focuses on the consequences of federalism, decentralization, and European integration for health policy and the welfare state, with an emphasis on the development of health policy in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He has also done research on health politics and federalism in the United States, Canada, and Spain. He currently directs a two-year project on the consequences for health services and citizenship rights of trends towards both decentralization and the development of European Union powers in health.

Jersey Liang, PhD
is a Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health and Research Professor at the Institute of Gerontology. His work focuses on health and aging from a cross cultural comparative perspective. His current research centers around three major themes: (1) the conceptualization and measurement of quality of life at the individual level and the estimation of health expectancy at the population level, (2) dynamics of health and health care in old age, and (3) geriatric care management and policy. Since the mid-1980s, he has been actively engaged in comparative studies of health, health care, and aging in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, and China.

Kenneth Warner, PhD
is Dean of the School of Public Health, Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health, and Director of the Tobacco Research Network. His research focuses on economic and policy aspects of disease prevention and health promotion, with a special emphasis on tobacco and health. He is on the editorial boards of three professional journals and chairs the board of the international journal Tobacco Control. He is a consultant to numerous governmental bodies, voluntary organizations, and businesses, and was a founding member of the board of directors of the American Legacy Foundation. During 2001–2003, Dr. Warner served as the World Bank’s representative to the negotiations on the world’s first international health treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The FCTC is now international law, ratified by over 15 countries.

Frank Anderson, MD, MPH
is Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where he is Director of International Initiatives. Partnering with universities and programs in less developed countries to decrease maternal mortality is a major goal of this program. His research in Ghana and Haiti focuses on both hospital and community based interventions to improve maternal and neonatal health and decrease mortality while ensuring that research programs answer local health problems and build local capacity, in addition to providing new knowledge that can be applied to other settings. He sits on the ACOG Native American Affairs Committee and other advisory board, is frequently a consultant to USAID and non-governmental organizations on Safe Motherhood programs.

Rita Benn, PhD
is Research Investigator in Family Medicine, Assistant Research Scientist with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Director of Education for the University of Michigan’s Integrative Medicine Program, where she has a grant to develop and expand curriculum related to integrative health into medical education and allied health fields. Her research examines the effects of mind-body practices on emotional development. Dr. Benn is on a board for a newly founded international non-profit that provides humanitarian services to children and families in China who are suffering from the effects of HIV and AIDS.

Andrew Campbell, MD
is Director of the Pediatric Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program, which coordinates the delivery of specialized comprehensive health care and necessary resources to children and families affected by sickle cell disease in a five county region of southeastern Michigan. His clinical and research interests within sickle cell disease includes: pulmonary hypertension, sickle cell chronic lung disease, obstructive sleep apnea, phenotypic differences between twins/siblings with sickle cell disease, iron overload, and human beta globin gene regulation.

Kevin C. Chung, MD, MS
is Associate Professor of Surgery with clinical interests in upper extremity trauma, microvascular sugery, congenital hand anomaly, rheumatiod arthritis, peripheral nerve injuries, hand and microsurgery, tetraplegia, and brachial plexus. His specialties are plastic surgery and hand surgery.

Amanda Dempsey, MD, PhD, MPH
is Clinical Lecturer of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases with research interests in human papillomavirus, sexually transmitted diseases, and adolescent immunization.

Andrew Haig, MD
is Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and was founding director of the University of Michigan Spine Program. His research and clinical work in musculoskeletal disorders, occupational rehabilitation, and neurodiagnostic testing has received numerous and international awards. He currently directs the Global Leadership in Medical Rehabilitation program, consults with governments and multinational corporations on rehabilitation policy and practice, and works to build academic rehabilitation in developing countries.

Michael Fetters, MD, MPH, MA
serves as Director of the Japanese Family Health Program, Department of Family Medicine. His international research focus is on the promotion and growth of the US model of medical education, especially with regards to family medicine in Japan. This has involved a multifaceted program of research, clinical care, and education. Previous research includes a series of studies conducted in the Family Medicine Japanese Family Health Program (JFHP) that is currently located at Dominos Farms. The focus has been on investigating the influence of Japanese culture on medical decision making. The JFHP also serves as an educational laboratory for medical students, residents, community physicians, and faculty who are interested in developing culturally and linguistically competent skills in Japanese for provision of family medicine. The program actively supports educational exchange of students, residents and faculty between UM and multiple institutions in Japan.

Sofia Merajver, MD, PhD
is Professor of Internal Medicine, Scientific Director of Breast Oncology Program, and Director of the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk and Evaluation Clinic. She is an expert in breast cancer genetics with research interests in the molecular genetics of breast cancer, gene function, cancer risk assessment, international breast cancer research, and prevention. Her laboratory studies aggressive forms of breast cancer, with inflammatory breast cancer being the primary model. She also performs clinical and translational research in breast cancer. She is especially well known as an educator and dedicated mentor of postdoctoral and predoctoral students and of junior faculty at the UM Medical School and SPH and at many institutions worldwide.

Karl Rew, MD
is Instructor of Family Medicine with a joint appointment in Urology. In the Japanese Family Health Program at Domino’s Farms, Dr. Rew integrates his bilingual clinical practice with training students and physicians. Trainees gain cultural and linguistic competency along with family medicine skills. The Japanese Family Health Program actively supports educational exchange of students, residents and faculty between U-M and multiple institutions in Japan, and assists the Japanese physicians and students who are building family medicine as a new specialty in Japan. Dr. Rew provides health care for all age groups. He has particular clinical interests in urgent care medicine and men’s health.

James O. Woolliscroft, MD
is Dean of the University of Michigan Medical School, the Lyle C. Roll Professor of Medicine and Professor of Medical Education. An internationally recognized medical educator, Dr. Woolliscroft’s research interests include using technology to facilitate medical education and educational outcomes assessment.

Robert Zucker, PhD
is Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director of the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center (UMARC), and Director of the Substance Abuse Section in the Department of Psychiatry. He directs two training programs for substance abuse researchers, one funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for the training of pre and post-doctoral fellows and post-residency physicians, the other an NIH/Fogarty International Center and National Institute on Drug Abuse co-funded project that supports a collaborative research training initiative to improve substance abuse research infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe. This program is run in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, Poland, the Riga Stradins University in Riga, Latvia, the Institute and Centre for the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Social, Forensic Psychiatry and Narcology in Kiev. Dr. Zucker’s research focuses on the multilevel etiology of substance use disorders over the life course. He is particularly interested in the relationship of macrolevel influencing structures (community, neighborhood) to individual behavior, and the interplay between genetic vulnerability, brain function, behavior, socialization structure, and life phase task variation, in producing problem outcomes.

Rosa Angulo-Barroso, PhD
is Professor of Kinesiology, and a Research Scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development. She is a faculty member in the Center for Motor Behavior and Pediatric Disabilities, and MHIRT training faculty for projects in China and Chile. She is a behavioral developmentalist with a neuroscience and biomechanics background working in the field of movement science. She specializes in infant and children populations, both with and without developmental problems. Her research focuses on the effects of physical rehabilitation interventions on gait, mobility, physical activity levels, and quality of life in pediatric populations. She also examines the role of iron deficiency on physical activity and motor skill performance and how these deficiencies relate to other developmental domains such as cognitive and emotional.

A. Robert Frisancho, PhD
is the Arthur A. Thurnau Professor of Anthropology and Research Professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development and Honorary Professor of Anthropology of the National University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco, Perú. He is a biological anthropologist with research interests in: the determination of the developmental components of cardio-respiratory adaption to high altitude environment particularly in South America; determining the role of undernutrition on the development of obesity in the developing nations; the biological and environmental components of blood pressure variability among blacks; and the development of anthropometric references for the evaluation of growth and nutritional status of children and adults. He is the author of 5 books concerned with Human Adapatation to past and present environments and World Nutritional Antrhopometric Standards.

Sheila Gahagan, MD
is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the Medical School, Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development, and MHIRT training faculty for projects in Chile. She is a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and epidemiologist whose research is aimed at understanding health disparities in child growth and development. Dr. Gahagan also has considerable expertise in cultural factors and their role in health behavior, and studies early psychosocial and socioeconomic risks for the development of obesity, the impact of iron deficiency anemia on brain development and behavior, the importance of environmental risk factors and early infant regulations problems in determining later behavioral health problems, the role of stress hormones in children born to mothers with depression, and the role of breast feeding, home visiting and day care in modifying and moderating risk for obesity and other common health problems. Dr. Gahagan has current research collaborations in France, Italy, Viet Nam, as well as in Chile.

Betsy Lozoff, MD
is Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the Medical School and Research Professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development. She is a behavioral/developmental pediatrician whose research focuses on the effects of iron deficiency anemia, the most common single nutrient disorder in the world, on infant behavior and development. She heads a multiuniversity cross-species program project grant on brain and behavior in early iron deficiency. Lozoff also directs a large project on iron deficiency in Chile, continues a follow-up study in Costa Rica of young adults who had iron deficiency in infancy, and was part of another large study of micronutrient supplementation in India.

Twila Tardif, PhD
is Professor of Psychology, Faculty Associate at the Center for Chinese Studies, and Research Professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development. Her primary research interests are in exploring the relationships between language, culture, and cognition in particular, early language learning in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. She has reported that Mandarin-speaking children use more verbs than nouns in their early vocabularies, and is developing a theory about how parents guide children's attention in focusing on and labeling different aspects of causative action sequences to explain both universal and language-specific features of vocabulary learning. In addition, she works together with pediatricians, kinesiologists, clinical psychologists, and a mechanical engineer on an NSF-funded project on "Emotion Regulation as a Complex System" to examine multiple levels (behavioral, physiological) of emotion regulation in Chinese, Japanese, and US preschoolers and uses dynamic systems approaches to model emotion regulation in preschoolers. She has recently returned from a 2-month ethnographic experience in Japan and is using qualitative research methods to help understand some of the behavioral and questionnaire results from these studies.

Jorge Delva, PhD
is Associate Professor of Social Work with research interests in the use of multi-level statistical techniques to study the effect, and trends, of individual risk and protective factors on substance use and childhood obesity, while taking into account neighborhood and their contextual level factors with a particular focus on racial and ethnic differences and Latin American populations.

Larry Gant, PhD
is Associate Professor of Social Work with research interests in the program evaluation of small and moderate-size human service and social action organizations in urban communities; and the creation, implementation and evaluation of community-based health promotion initiatives, substance abuse prevention, sexually transmitted diseases, integrative health and wellness care, urban community development, community nutrition initiative and HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. Dr. Gant conducts and supports health outreach education and research in western Africa (Ghana, Niger), South Africa, and stress reduction in traumatized populations in Pakistan and Kashmir.

Lorraine Gutierrez, PhD
is Professor of Social Work and Psychology, and a faculty associate in American Culture. Her teaching and research focus on multicultural and community organization practice. Current projects include identifying methods for multicultural community based research and practice, defining multicultural education for social work practice, and identifying effective methods for learning about social justice.

Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, PhD
is Professor of Social Work with interests in social support, interpersonal practice, mental health, and clinical research with respect to families in later life. Within the area of social support, she has focused on positive and negative aspects of support, gender differences, issues of equity and reciprocity, and cross-cultural differences in marital and intergenerational relationships. In relation to clinical research, she has assessed various group interventions with the elderly, intergenerational family therapy approaches, and methods of assisting employed caregivers of the elderly.

Srinika Jayaratne, PhD
is Professor of Social Work with research interests in the effects of work stress on the health and well being of social workers for the past twenty years. His program of research has included four national surveys of social workers, as well as a study of social workers and their spouses. Jayaratne is also exploring aspects of client violence towards social workers in the workplace. In a related project, he and his collaborators are examining practice standards, the behaviors social workers engage in when they see a client, and the worker’s judgments about the appropriateness of such behaviors. Other areas of Dr. Jayaratne’s research and scholarly interests include social work practice, practice evaluation, and program evaluation.

Edith Lewis, PhD
is Associate Professor of Social Work with primary research interests in the methods used by women of color to offset personal, familial, community and professional role strain. To date, this has included involvement in studies identifying strengths within African-American women's communities; the intersections of gender and ethnicity in the lives of women of color; outcomes of an intervention project for pregnant substance-dependent women; multiple role strains for faculty women of color; multicultural organizational development; isolating the successful methods used by Ghanaian women in community development projects; conflict management at the individual, group, community and society levels, particularly as it pertains to inter-ethnic conflict; curriculum development for African and U.S. social work programs; effective global networks for faculty women of color; and the development of the Network Utilization Project intervention to systematically address individual, family, and community concerns.

Lydia Li, PhD
is Associate Professor of Social Work with an interest in gerontology. Her research focuses on issues related to elder care, including family caregiving, home and community-based long-term care, aging in place and quality of life. Dr. Li’s research on Chinese elders examines family care and old-age support in China. She is interested in cross-cultural comparisons of the association between social relationships and well-being.

Robert Ortega, PhD
is Associate Professor of Social Work with research interests in relationship development, group work practice, treatment interventions and service utilization particularly in the areas of mental health and child welfare, with a special focus on multiculturalism. His current research focuses on Latinos, child welfare and mental health help-seeking behaviors, and examines the underutilization of mental health and child welfare services by the rapidly growing Latino population. Dr. Ortega was Principle Investigator of the MexUSCan project, which offered a multi-methodological approach designed to examine the well being of youth within the context of economic globalization and trans-nationalism. He is cofounder of the Latino Community Outreach Project which provides research, student training and evaluations of programs serving Latino communities throughout Michigan.

Lawrence Root , PhD
is Professor of Social Work with research interests in employment and social welfare, focusing on issues of social policy associated with employment-based services (such as employee assistance programs), employee benefits, and education/training in the workplace. He has worked extensively with joint union-management programs in the automobile industry, directing programs in General Motors and Ford. He directed UM's Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations for 15 years.

Jose Tapia, MBBCh, MPH, PhD
is Assistant Research Scientist with the Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy (IRLEE). He earned his medical degree in Spain, and has performed as editor and Chief-Editor of Periodicals of the Washington DC Regional Office of the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). He has taught classes and workshops in scientific publishing, international health, and economic development. His work on Sweden and Japan has been recently published in the "Journal of Health Economics" and "Demography". His research focuses on the relations between economic growth, macroeconomic fluctuations and health, and the pathways leading from working and living conditions to changes in mortality.

Mieko Yoshihama, PhD
is Associate Professor of Social Work with research interests in violence against women of color, which is reflected in her advocacy work with Asian Pacific American battered women in Los Angeles and in Japan over the past decade. Her investigations focus on the multidimensional impact of culture and oppressed status on women's experiences of domestic violence in communities of color, especially among immigrants. She has conducted a study of women of Japanese descent in Los Angeles, focus groups with survivors of domestic violence in Japan, and a study in Detroit aimed at improving methods of data collection and analytical approaches to the study of domestic violence. In collaboration with the World Health Organization, she is also coordinating a large-scale epidemiological study of domestic violence and women's health in Japan. Yoshihama is a founding member of the Domestic Violence Action and Research Group, whose first nationwide survey of domestic violence in Japan provided an impetus for emerging battered women's movements in Japan.

Rosina Bierbaum, PhD
is Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment, where she is also Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy. Her research interests center on climate change. She currently serves on the boards of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR); the National Research Council's Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; the Federation of American Scientists; the Enivornmental and Energy Study Institute; the Energy Foundation; and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In April 2008, Dr. Bierbaum was selected by the World Bank to co-autor and co-direct its prestigious World Development Report 2010, which will focus on climate change and development. She is also a member of the Executive Committee for the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement and the Science Advisory Council for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dan Brown, PhD
is Professor of Natural Resources and Environment specializing in the causes and consequences of changing land use and land cover patterns. His research focuses agent-based modeling of land use change and its effects on ecosystems and on human vulnerability, with particular focus on land-use and land-cover dynamics, and makes use of multiple methods, including GIS, remote sensing, digital terrain analysis, ecological mapping, social surveys and statistics, and computer simulation. A current project focuses on land-use and vulnerability to flooding in central China. He also collaborates with health scientists on a range of questions related to spatial and neighborhood effects on health outcomes.

Rebecca Hardin, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Natural Resources and Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Her areas of interest and scientific study include disease emergence, social and environmental change related to tourism and hunting, and concessionary politics involving corporations, NGOs, and local communities in southern and central Africa.

Michael Wiley, PhD
is Professor of Natural Resources with research interests in understanding ecological processes in aquatic systems of all types and the application ecological knowledge to practical problems of resource management, including: watershed management; community dynamics and population regulation; trout stream food webs; modeling complex systems; and fisheries management.

Raymond De Young, PhD
is Associate Professor of Environmental Psychology and Planning whose research centers on the psychology of environmental stewardship, the role of nearby nature on human wellness, and the planning for a viable and wholesome existence on a finite planet. His current research interests focus on localization, considered a foundational aspect of a sustainable society.

Maria Carmen Lemos, PhD
is Associate Professor of Natural Resources, with special focus on the human dimensions of climate change, environmental policy, environmental justice. Her research interests include the use of techno-scientific knowledge in environmental policymaking (especially water mater management) in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and United States; the human dimensions of global change and the impact of seasonal climate forecasting in policymaking (agriculture, drought-relief, water management); the role of technocrats and public participation in environmental policymaking; and the socioenvironmental vulnerability of residents in the Mexico/U.S border region.

Johannes Foufopoulos, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Natural Resources with research and teaching interests in conservation biology and the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. His major research projects focus on the impact of diseases on wildlife populations and the environmental causes leading to disease emergence, with other projects examining how habitat fragmentation and global climate change result in species extinction.

Anthropology

Julia Paley, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Anthropology with research interests in the multiple meanings and practices of democracy in various geographic contexts. Through fieldwork in Chile, she has explored the ways in which social organizations--particularly a grassroots health group--in a Santiago poblacion (shantytown) created strategies to improve living conditions and analyzed political phenomena in the post-dictatorship period. In Ecuador, funded by the Fulbright Commission, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the National Science Foundation, she is investigating democracy promotion activities by international aid agencies in relation to citizen participation processes by alternative local governments and the indigenous movement. One of the key issues in this fieldsite is the decentralization of health care. Dr. Paley’s book, Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile (University of California Press, 2001) won the 2001 Sharon Stephens Award of the American Ethnological Society for the best first book by a junior scholar.

Elisha P. Renne, PhD
is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies. Her research focuses on fertility and reproductive health; gender relations; the politics of epidemics; religion and social change; and the anthropology of development, specifically in Nigeria.

Miriam Ticktin, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies with research interests in human rights, humanitarianism, and social justice; the anthropology of medicine, health, and social suffering; transnational feminisms and feminist theory; and immigration and “the new racisms” in Europe, particularly the economic, social, and political status of the les sans papiers in France.

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Center for Afroamerican and African Studies

Howard Stein, PhD
is Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies. He conducts research in the area of African development, particularly the interactive relationship between health and development and is supervising a student project on the socioeconomic and ecological determinanats on health in Mwanza, Tanzania during the summer of 2007. His latest volume is "Beyond the World Bank Agenda: An Institutional Approach to Development" (U. of Chicago Press, 2008) which among other things critically examines the history and impact of the World Bank's health policy on Africa and other regions.

Aaron King, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolution Biology and Mathematics, with research interests in the dynamics of ecological systems, particularly: the role of seasonality in shaping population dynamics; the dynamics of host-pathogen systems including rabies, cholera, measles, and whooping cough; population cycles; laboratory microcosms as model systems; statistical methods for nonlinear, stochastic systems with measurement error; and dynamical approaches to phylogenetic comparative analysis. Dr. King’s current research includes a study aimed at understanding the role of decadal-scale climatic fluctuations in determining the incidence and severity of cholera outbreaks.

Mercedes Pascual, PhD
is Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Affiliated Faculty at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. She is a theoretical ecologist interested in population and community dynamics, with research interests in: the spatio-temporal dynamics of ecological systems such as predator-prey, host-parasite, and disturbance-recovery, extrapolating her findings to potential similarities with the dynamics of infectious diseases in networks; the documented link between climate variability and cycles of cholera outbreaks; and the relationship between structure and dynamics in large networks of ecological interactions.

Mark L. Wilson, ScM, ScD
is Professor of Epidemiology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. His research and teaching focus on the social and environmental determinants of infectious disease risk and the impacts of globalization on health. He is an ecologist and epidemiologist with broad research interests in infectious diseases, including the analysis of transmission dynamics, the evolution of vector-host-parasite systems, and the determinants of human risk. Most projects address environmental and social variation, in time and space, as they impact on vector and reservoir populations and pathogen transmission dynamics. Recent efforts have been directed at malaria and schistosomiasis in Africa, leishmaniasis in the Middle East, and dengue fever in South America. Dr. Wilson currently is involved in training and research projects in Kenya, Malawi, China, Egypt, Israel, and Peru.

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Economics

David Lam, PhD
is Professor of Economics and Research Professor at the Population Studies Center. Dr. Lam specializes in the application of microeconomic theory to demographic behavior and the interaction of population dynamics and economic variables. His research focuses on the interaction of economics and demography in developing countries, including analysis of the economics of population growth, fertility, marriage, and aging. He has worked extensively in Brazil, where his research analyzes links between education, labor markets, and income inequality. He is currently Principal Investigator of the Cape Area Panel Study, a longitudinal survey of young people in Cape Town supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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Psychology

Marc Zimmerman, PhD
is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Professor of Psychology, and Research Scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development. He is also Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)-funded Prevention Research Center of Michigan which includes a demonstration project on fathers and sons, a youth violence prevention project, a biennial community survey, and a capacity building project for community organizations. Dr. Zimmerman coordinates student research placements for the FIC-MHIRT program in South Africa. He also works with colleagues in Poland and Chile, and is currently developing a project in China on research projects on adolescent health and development.

Robert Zucker, PhD
is Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director of the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center (UMARC), and Director of the Substance Abuse Section in the Department of Psychiatry. He directs two training programs for substance abuse researchers, one funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for the training of pre and post-doctoral fellows and post-residency physicians, the other an NIH/Fogarty International Center and National Institute on Drug Abuse co-funded project that supports a collaborative research training initiative to improve substance abuse research infrastructure in Central and Eastern Europe. This program is run in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, Poland, the Riga Stradins University in Riga, Latvia, the Institute and Centre for the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Social, Forensic Psychiatry and Narcology in Kiev. Dr. Zucker’s research focuses on the multilevel etiology of substance use disorders over the life course. He is particularly interested in the relationship of macrolevel influencing structures (community, neighborhood) to individual behavior, and the interplay between genetic vulnerability, brain function, behavior, socialization structure, and life phase task variation, in producing problem outcomes.

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Sociology

William Axinn, PhD
is Research Professor at the Population Studies Center and the Survey Research Center and Professor of Sociology. Dr. Axinn studies the relationships among social change, family organization, intergenerational relationships, marriage, cohabitation and fertility in the United States and Nepal. His research also includes the development of new methods for collecting social science data.

Barbara Anderson, PhD
is Professor of Sociology, Faculty Associate at the Center for Russian and East European Studies, and Research Professor at the Population Studies Center. Dr. Anderson studies the relationship between social change and demographic change. Her research focuses on South Africa, the former Soviet Union and China.

Jennifer Barber, PhD
is Associate Research Professor at the Population Studies Center and the Research Survey Center and Associate Professor of Sociology. Dr. Barber studies intergenerational processes in families in the U.S. and Nepal. She is currently collecting mixed-method data on relationship dynamics and unintended pregnancy in the United States. Her current research in Nepal focuses on intergenerational influences on family formation attitudes and behavior.

John Knodel, PhD
is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Research Professor Emeritus at the Population Studies Center. He has been involved in collaborative research in Southeast Asia for over three decades, with current projects in Cambodia and Thailand. His recent research in these countries focuses on three main topics. The first concerns the health and socioeconomic well-being of the general population of older persons. The second focuses on the impact of the AIDS epidemic on older age parents whose adult children have AIDS and the parent's contribution to AIDS care giving and assistance with treatment (ART) adherence. The third examines the impact of urban migration of adult children on the well-being of older age parents who remain in rural areas. His current collaborations involve the Faculty of Nursing at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and the Department of Sociology at the Royal University of Phnom Penh.

Arland Thornton, PhD
is Professor of Sociology, Research Professor at the Survey Research Center, and Director and Research Professor of the Population Studies Center. Dr. Thornton specializes in the study of marriage, family, and life course structures and processes. His work currently focuses on intergenerational relations, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, reproductive behavior, living arrangements, and gender roles in Nepal, Taiwan, and the United States. His research includes historical and comparative perspectives, studies of the influence of developmental models and methods on family scholarship, data about family change, and the beliefs and behaviors of individual and community actors.

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Women’s Studies

Miriam Ticktin, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies with research interests in human rights, humanitarianism, and social justice; the anthropology of medicine, health, and social suffering; transnational feminisms and feminist theory; and immigration and “the new racisms” in Europe, particularly the economic, social, and political status of the les sans papiers in France.

Violet Barkauskas, PhD, RN, FAAN
is Associate Professor of Nursing with research interests in the roles of and interventions provided by community-based nursing practitioners and the effectiveness of their practice, as well as the development of innovative graduate programs for community-based practice. She has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia and a Fulbright Teacher and Scholar in Lithuania, where she also conducted a study of nursing interventions provided in acute- and long-term care settings in collaboration with the Lithuanian Ministry of Health.

Ruth Barnard, PhD, RN
is Associate Professor Emerita, School of Nursing. After retirement, she led the development of the Faculté des Sciences Infirmières de l·Université Episcopale d·Haiti (FSIL) in Léogane, Haiti, the first baccalaureate nursing program (4-year) in Haiti. She has visited Haiti several times working with Haitians who requested help. FSIL was dedicated and the first class of students started in January, 2005. The first class will graduate in January, 2009. Approximately 91 students are enrolled with a new class entering this fall. She is President of the Haiti Nursing Foundation whose purpose is to support the advancement of nursing in the Republic of Haiti.

Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN
is Professor of Nursing with research interests in instrumentation of nursing staff, client quality, and economic outcomes; development of testing of middle range practice models; evaluation of practice structures/environments influencing professional practice; shaping health policy through nursing research; and the evaluation of doctoral programs in nursing. Her current research focuses on the validity of ratio scales for subjective nursing concepts.

Lisa Kane Low, PhD, CNM, FACNM
is an Assistant Professor in Women's Studies and at the School of Nursing. She is also in practice as a nurse midwife in the Department of OB/GYN. Her research interests include care practices during the process of birth including the role of social support. Her areas of focus have included qualitative review of the experience of childbirth for women and adolescents, the role of social support as provided by Doulas, care practices for women with a history of trauma or PTSD and management of the second stage of labor to prevent pelvic floor trauma. She is Principal Investigator of a study focused on the implementation of SafeMotherhood policy in northern rural Honduras.

Shaké Ketefian, EdD, RN, FAAN
is Director of the Office of International Affairs and Professor of Nursing. Her research interests include practice environments, ethics research (particularly in health care), scientific integrity, and international health. Her current research pertains to global health issues, international doctoral education, and dealing with the effects of individual and environmental work-related variables on ethical decision making.

Jody Lori, MS, CNM
is a Lecturer IV in the School of Nursing. Her research interests include racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes, discrimination and maternal-child health. She recently completed a three-year project in post-war Liberia to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality by increasing access to basic life saving measures within the home and community. She also does work in Latin America and Africa building midwifery capacity to improve birth outcomes. The focus of her research is on maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.

Carol Loveland-Cherry, PhD, RN, FAAN
is Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the School of Nursing, where she is also Professor. Her research interests include intervention research, particularly family interventions, and community-based nursing interventions derived from theoretical empirical bases. Her current research includes antecedents of alcohol use and abuse; altering family norms regarding adolescent alcohol abuse and misuse; and school and family interventions to decrease adolescent substance abuse.

Michelle O’Grady, MS, CNM
is a Registered Nurse, Certified Nurse-Midwife, and Lecturer in the School of Nursing, where she teaches graduate students in the core course Pathophysiology and in clinical courses in the midwifery program. She is also Director of the Health Sciences Scholars Program, a College of LS&A living-learning community for undergraduates interested in health care.

Joanne Pohl, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN
is Professor of Nursing. Her research interests include nurse managed centers (NMCs), their outcomes, and their cost of care; smoking cessation, EHRs in primary care; the nurse practitioner's role in health policy; primary care of the homeless; and student-patient data logs.

Richard Redman, PhD, RN
is Director of Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Programs and Professor of Nursing. His research interests include the measurement of clinical and organizational outcomes, patient safety, patient expectations for care experiences, and assessment of quality health care. His current research focuses on the development and testing of an instrument to measure patient expectations for hospital care.

Antonia Villarruel, RN, PhD
is Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Nursing. Her research focus is health promotion, primarily among Latino youth. Her current work involves the development and testing of HIV sexual risk reduction interventions with Latino and Mexican youth.

Ann Whall, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA
is Associate Director of the UM Geriatrics Center and Professor of Nursing. Her research interests include geriatric nursing and dementia care, particularly the role of implicit memory in maintaining function in dementia. Her current research focuses on nursing approaches to the behavior of cognitively impaired nursing home residents and the use of implicit memory by expert nurses with the cognitively impaired.

Matt Davis, MD, MAPP
is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, as well as of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine at the Medical School. His current work focuses on 3 major areas of child and family health policy: vaccination policy issues, including physicians’ responses to vaccine recommendations and the influence of rising vaccine costs on the performance of vaccination efforts in the public and private sectors; child and family health insurance issues, with an emphasis on employer decision-making regarding private health plans; and health and economic implications of obesity throughout the life span.

James Levinsohn, PhD
is Professor of Economics, Research Affiliate at the Population Studies Center, the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. His research interests span international economics, industrial organization, applied econometrics, and development economics. His current research is on estimating productivity, understanding industry dynamics, the estimating the impact of HIV/AIDS on economic outcomes in southern Africa.

Sharon Maccini, PhD
is Lecturer at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. As a health economist, her overarching research interest is the econometric evaluation of public health policies in developing countries. Previous research has analyzed the impact of decentralization on health outcomes and public health, and the role of environmental conditions at birth on health and socioeconomic status in adulthood. Current research focuses on the link between breast-feeding and infant health, and the population health impact of hurricanes.

Shobita Parthasarathy, PhD
is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program. Her research centers on the comparative politics of science and technology, particularly genetics and biotechnology. Her recent book, published by MIT Press in April 2007, Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11166), compares the development of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer in the United States and Britain in order to show how national context shapes the development and use of science and technology, even in an era of globalization, in ways that have important consequences for the public. Her current project is a comparative study of the current politics of patenting genetics and biotechnology in the United States and Europe. She is exploring how civil society groups are increasingly challenging patent offices to contend with the social, ethical, economic, health, and environmental consequences of their decisions, and how patent offices are trying to maintain their credibility and legitimacy in this context. Dr. Parthasarathy plans to use this comparative case study to explore whether patent offices can and should serve as more systematic spaces for public participation and democratic governance for science and technology. This project is supported with a grant from the National Science Foundation. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Shobita held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar in Washington, DC.

Jan Svejnar, PhD
is the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, and Professor of Public Policy Analysis. His academic interests are in the areas of economic development and transition, labor economics and behavior of the firm. His research focuses on the determinants and effects of government policies on firms and labor and capital markets; corporate and national governance and performance; and entrepreneurship.

p> Katherine Terrell, PhD
is Professor of Public Policy Analysis at the Ford School and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the School of Business. Her work examines the impact of globalization and government programs and policies on the labor market. Her research and teaching focus on Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America where the transition to the global market economy has been dramatic in the last decade.

Marina Whitman, PhD
is Professor of Public Policy at the Ford School and Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the School of Business. Her current research examines questions of international trade and investment, changing relationships between firms and their various constituencies, and current issues in corporate governance and global corporate social responsibility.

Amid I. Ismail, MPH, MBA, DrPh
is Professor in the Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences and Endodontics and the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. He is also Director of the Program in Dental Public Health, Detroit Center for Research on Oral Health Disparities and the Detroit Oral Cancer Prevention Project. Dr. Ismail’s current research is on determinants of disparities of dental caries in African-American children; he is conducting a clinical trial testing the impact of motivational interviewing on oral hygiene behaviors as well as on dental caries incidence measured using the International Caries Detection and Assessment System (ICDAS). He is also conducting a community-based multi-media intervention to reduce the mortality from oral cancer in Detroit. Dr. Ismail will coordinate training of pre- and post-graduate dental students in international health in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, with potential assignments in South America; and with other countries in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

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