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Membership types are based on affiliation with the School of Public Health, University, and greater community. The goal is to be inclusive, while distinguishing roles for organizing purposes.
SPH Global Health Work Group welcomes members from different programs and disciplines across the University. We strongly believe that global health will be improved through multi-disciplinary collaborations.
Members include:
-Faculty, either adjunct or regular
-Professional and Administrative Staff
-Graduate, professional, or undergraduate students
-Community members
-Alumnae
Member Profiles
Member Profiles
Leadership Team:
Leadership Team:
The Global Health Work Group (GHWG) Leadership Team consists of two SPH faculty co-chairs and two graduate assistants as the co-coordinators. Together, they manage the GHWG’s membership and are constantly working to provide faculty, community, and student members with opportunities and resources in global health.
Claudia Muñoz-Zanzi, DMV, MPVM, Ph.D.
Co-Chair
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Benjamin Jorgenson, MPH
GHWG Coordinator
Ph.D. Student, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
GHWG Advisory Committee:
GHWG Advisory Committee:
The GHWG Advisory Committee serves as a liaison between each SPH division and the GHWG. In addition to facilitating communication and promoting the GHWG within each SPH division, the Advisory Committee provides guidance and advice on GHWG projects and events.
GHWG SPH Faculty Members:
GHWG SPH Faculty Members:
Because the GHWG is housed under the SPH, we invite all SPH faculty involved or interested in global health to join as GHWG faculty members. Click the drop down arrow option to see all GHWG SPH Faculty Members.
Susan Arnold, PhD, CIH
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
Saonli Basu, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
saonli@umn.edu
Raiza Beltran, PhD
Division of Epidemiology & Community Health
belt0013@umn.edu
Jeff Bender, DVM, MS
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
bende002@umn.edu
Jesse Berman, PhD
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
berma186@umn.edu
Ann Brearley, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
brea0022@umn.edu
Lynn Blewett, PhD
Division of Health Policy and Management
blewe001@umn.edu
Dana Carroll, PhD, MPH
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
dcarroll@umn.edu
Thierry Chekouo, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
tchekouo@umn.edu
Erjia Cui, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
ecui@umn.edu
Sarah Cusick, PhD
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
scusick@umn.edu
Biyue Dai, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
biydai@umn.edu
Jose Debes, MD, PhD
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
debes003@umn.edu
Horacio Duarte, MD, MS
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
hduarte@umn.edu
Lynn Eberly, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
leberly@umn.edu
Eva Enns, PhD
Division of Health Policy and Management
eenns@umn.edu
Mark Fiecas, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
mfiecas@umn.edu
Linda Bane Frizzell, PhD
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
lfrizzel@umn.edu
Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD
Division of Health Policy and Management
gaug0015@umn.edu
Weihua Guan, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
wguan@umn.edu
Lisa Harnack, DrPH, RD, MPH
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
harna001@umn.edu
Kyle X. Hill, PhD, MPH
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
kxhill@umn.edu
James Hodges, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
hodge003@umn.edu
Trân Huỳnh, PhD, CIH
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
huyn0098@umn.edu
Byeonghwa Jeon, PhD
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
bjeon@umn.edu
Rhonda Jones-Webb, PhD
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
jones010@umn.edu
Hyun Kim, ScD
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
kimx4804@umn.edu
Joseph Koopmeiners, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
koopm007@umn.edu
Katy Kozhimannil, PhD, MPA
Division of Health Policy and Management
kbk@umn.edu
Shalini Kulasingam, PhD, MPH
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
kulas016@umn.edu
Karen Kuntz, ScD
Division of Health Policy and Management
kmkuntz@umn.edu
Benjamin Langworthy, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
langw019@umn.edu
Eric Lock, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
elock@umn.edu
Richard MacLehose, PhD
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
Thomas Murray, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
murra484@umn.edu
Manka Nkimbeng, PhD, MPH, BSN
Division of Health Policy and Management
manka@umn.edu
Jonathan Oliver, PhD
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
joliver@umn.edu
Michael T. Osterholm, PhD
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
mto@umn.edu
John Oswald, PhD
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
oswal007@umn.edu
Theresa L. Osypuk, SD
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
tosypuk@umn.edu
Mark Pereira, PhD, MPH
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
perei004@umn.edu
Harrison Quick, PhD, MS
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
quic0038@umn.edu
Todd Rockwood, PhD
Division of Health Policy and Management
rockw001@umn.edu
B.R. Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
rosser@umn.edu
Kyle Rudser, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
rudser@umn.edu
Sandra Safo, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
ssafo@umn.edu
Lianne Siegel, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
siege245@umn.edu
Matt Simcik, PhD
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
msimcik@umn.edu
Tetyana Shippee, PhD
Division of Health Policy and Management
tshippee@umn.edu
M. Kumi Smith, PhD
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
smi00831@umn.edu
Irina Stepanov, PhD
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
stepa011@umn.edu
Weihong Tang, PhD
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
tang0097@umn.edu
Gillian Tarr, PhD, CPH
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
gtarr@umn.edu
Traci Toomey, PhD, MPH
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
toome001@umn.edu
Drissa M. Toure, MD, PhD, MPH
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
dtoure@umn.edu
David Vock, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
vock@umn.edu
Caitlin Ward, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
ward-c@umn.edu
Elizabeth Wattenberg, PhD
Division of Environmental Health Sciences
watte004@umn.edu
Rachel Widome, PhD
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
widom001@umn.edu
Julian Wolfson, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
julianw@umn.edu
Xiao Zang, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
xzang@umn.edu
Lin Zhang, PhD
Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science
zhan4800@umn.edu
GHWG Community Members:
GHWG Community Members:
We are pleased to include community members in the GHWG because global health is not limited to the SPH. If you are interested or experienced in global health and are UMN faculty outside of the SPH, staff at the SPH or UMN, alumni of the SPH, or a community member, we invite you to join the GHWG as community members. If you receive our emails as a GHWG community member and would like to be featured on this membership page, please email us at ghsph@umn.edu! We’d love to highlight the breadth of experiences our community members contribute to the GHWG!
GHWG Student Members:
GHWG Student Members:
If you are a current undergraduate, graduate, professional, or doctoral student and you are interested in learning more about global health and relevant opportunities/events, we encourage you to join the GHWG as student members! Here are a few students (click the hyperlink for their stories) who have been involved with global health at the SPH in the past:
Vanessa Voller (PhD Candidate – College of Education and Human Development)
Eugene B. Floersch (MPH ’21 Community Health Promotion)
Nicole Havel (Global Environmental Health MPH ’20)
Mateo Frumholtz (Environmental Health MPH ‘19)
Chelsea Kline (Maternal and Child Health ’19)
Shelby Panttaja (Maternal and Child Health MPH ’19)
Maddy Kluesner (MPH ‘19)
Sara Lederman (MPH ’18)
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