Global Pediatrics Program Team

Director, Global Pediatrics Program

Academic Interests: HIV and other infectious diseases of public health importance in West and Central Africa,  maternal and child health in West and Central Africa, implementation science, and sexual and reproductive health for young people.

Director, Global Pediatrics Education

Faculty global partner lead for Costa Rica

Incoming Director, Global Pediatrics Education

Academic Interests: Global Health Education including curriculum development in tropical medicine, simulation, equity, anti-racism and decolonization (GHEARD) for students, residents and fellows.

Emily Danich

Coordinator, Global Pediatrics Program

edanich@umn.edu ndofhsfohsofhs

Incoming Director, Global Pediatrics Partnerships

Faculty global partner lead for Uganda

Academic Interests: Global PEM, and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Medical Education

Cassidy Huun

Global Pediatrics Instructor

huun0001@umn.edu

Mo Muttineni

Global Pediatrics Instructor

mutti005@umn.edu

Director, Global Pediatrics Research

Faculty global partner lead for Nigeria

Co-Director, Global Pediatrics Research

Affiliate Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Academic Interests: Research

Academic Interests: sickle cell disease and thalassemia

Research topics: patient-centered outcomes and health inequity

Academic Interests: Human rights, migration, community health, and health equity

Faculty global partner lead for Tanzania

Academic Interests: Pediatric and adult hospital medicine, Tanzania, global health and the ethics of international practice. 

Faculty global partner lead for Somaliland

Academic Interests: 

Director, Educational Research and Development in the Department of Medicine

Faculty global partner lead for Haiti

Academic Interest: Health equity, advocacy, and global health education. 

Faculty global partner lead for Laos

Academic Interest: Photography and social media in global health.

Academic Interests: Type 1 diabetes prevention and cystic fibrosis related diabetes

Professor Emeritus, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

Academic Interests: Immigrant and Refugee Health and Children's Rights

Academic Interests: Medical Education, Neonatal Health, and Nutrition

Academic Interests: Global Health Education & International Project Implementation 

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Faculty global partner lead for Bolivia

Academic Interests: Integrative Medicine.


Faculty global partner lead for Southcentral Foundation

Academic Interests:  Rural health systems, Native American Health, and Refugee and Immigrant Health.

Faculty global partner lead for Rosebud

Academic interest: Native American Health

Faculty global partner lead for Rosebud

Academic Interest: Native American Health

Academic Interests: Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine

Academic Interests: Molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of respiratory viruses, infections of immunocompromised patients, clinical immunology, travel and tropical medicine, professional development of physician-scientists, medical/scientific communication on social media

Academic Interests: Narrative Summary in Medicine and POCUS.

Academic Interests: Global health, decreasing neonatal morbidity and mortality in low-resource settings with focus on infection control, and family communication.  

Andrew Wu

Faculty global partner lead for Cambodia

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Adjunct Global Pediatrics Faculty

Professor Stephen Oguche 

University of Jos/Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Director, Stop Kernicterus in Northern Nigeria (SKINN)

Professor Mark Okolo 

Associate Professor or Medical Microbiology, University of Jos/Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Head infection prevention and control.


Associate Professor Mark Okolo, Jos University Teaching Hospital.