Global Health Faculty

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Chair, Presidents Advisory committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights; institutional capacity development in reproductive research in Mexico and Zimbabwe; gynecologic, perinatal and maternal morbidity.

Chair, Advisory Committee on Global Health; 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.

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.

HIV transmission in Montreal, Canada, and redesign of polio eradication efforts in Northern India with WHO.

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

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

Environmental justice and environmental health in developing countries

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

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

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

International family planning and reproductive health policies and programs.

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.

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.

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.

Collaborative research on social and environmental determinants of emerging diseases, especially malaria and other vector-borne infections in Africa, South America, and the Middle East.

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.