Learn about a new global health topic at noon on the second Tuesday of each month at our Research Speaker Series.
February 14, 2023
"Intervening on the social determinants of health to improve HIV treatment outcomes: Preliminary findings from the Harambee Study"
March 14, 2023
Dorothy Apedaile, MPH, is a PhD students at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
May 9, 2023
Dr. Rosenberg is an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington. She is an epidemiologist and population health researcher who studies how social, structural, and economic factors influence health across the lifecourse. In her primary research line, Dr. Rosenberg examines how poverty alleviation interventions can influence health, and represents vulnerable populations in low-resource settings across the globe. Representative projects examine the impact of cash transfers on cognitive aging in rural South Africa (NIA R01AG069128, MPIs: Rosenberg and Kobayashi), the potential for microfinance to be used to promote natural disaster resilience in Haiti, and the association between an income generation program and healthcare utilization in Kenya. Trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist, Dr. Rosenberg also maintains research lines in the epidemiology of HIV and SARS-CoV-2.
June 13, 2023
Esi Thompson, PhD, is an assistant professor and teaches public relations courses at the Media School, Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research focuses on health risk/crisis communication, development communication and strategic communication. She has studied how communication surrounding the Ebola outbreak was undertaken and received by the affected communities and how this could inform public communication/policy around infectious disease outbreaks in developing contexts. Her research on Covid-19 has focused on using an informational intervention as a misinformation prophylaxis as well as understanding how risk information on Covid-19 is communicated and received.
She was previously a communication consultant in Ghana and served various clients both local and international.
July 11, 2023
Ana Bento, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics in the Indiana University School of Public Health--Bloomington. A population ecologist by training, her research focuses on developing mathematical models to understand the eco-evolutionary, demographic and environmental drivers of seasonal epidemics and (re) emerging diseases.
August 8, 2023
Palka Patel, MD and Shaina Hecht, MD
Dr. Patel is assistant professor for Clinical Medicine at the IU School of Medicine and has served as a team leader for AMPATH Kenya.
Dr. Hecht is assistant professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and is the associate director for Pediatric Global Health Education.
September 12, 2023
Niki Messmore, MS
Niki Messmore is director of Medical Service Learning for the Indiana University School of Medicine. She will be discussing global engagement and the application of trauma-informed practices and critical race theory and global research applications.
October 10, 2023
E. Angeles Martinez-Mier, DDS, PhD, MSD
Dr. Martinez-Mier is the associate dean for Global Engagement and chairperson of Cariology, Operative Dentistry and Dental Public Health at the Indiana University School of Dentistry.
November 14, 2023
Dr. Scott L. Coven is an assistant professor of Pediatrics faculty member of the division of pediatric hematology-oncology at Indiana University School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for Children. He is active in promoting awareness of brain tumors in children, as well as employing technology to improve the quality of life for childhood cancer survivors. He is passionate about global medicine and is utilizing his expertise to expand neuro-oncology services in Kenya.
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