Selected International Initiatives
Afghanistan
- Professor John LeSar - policy, management, health systems, financing, child health, communications, project management, teaching/training
Armenia
- Danielle Landis - workshops in social marketing process, qualitative research methods, health education theory, community- based collaboration, team building, leadership theories, process and tools, strategic and program planning, logic modeling, program evaluation, fundraising, grant writing. development of health education campaigns and materials in the area of HIV/ AIDS prevention in migrant workers, tuberculosis medication compliance, minimizing second hand smoke exposure in pregnant women and awareness of free government health care services with Ministry of Health and local community health representatives
Australia
- Professor Boo Kwa - Tapeworm infections, Parasitology
- Professor Dennis Kyle –malaria drug resistance, epidemiology of infectious diseases at the Australian Army Malaria Institute (AMI), collaborating with Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) and the Menzies School of Health Research (Darwin)
Azerbaijan
- Danielle Landis - workshops in social marketing process, qualitative research methods, health education theory, community- based collaboration, team building, leadership theories, process and tools, strategic and program planning, logic modeling, program evaluation, fundraising, grant writing, development of health education campaigns and materials in the area of HIV/ AIDS prevention in migrant workers, tuberculosis medication compliance, minimizing second hand smoke exposure in pregnant women and awareness of free government health care services with Ministry of Health and local community health representatives
Bangladesh
- Professor William Ward - public health monitoring and evaluation of an Extension Project in Matlab; Assessment of the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Extension Program of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease
Belize
- Professor Andrea Spehar -Ethics, Law & Policy in Public Health course
- Professor Jay Wolfson- Health Law and Policy course
- Professor Boo Kwa - Parasitology courses
- Professor William Ward - Principles of Health Policy and Management
Bolivia
- Professor John LeSar - policy, management, health systems, financing, child health, communications, project management, teaching/training
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Professor Marion Cornwell - epidemiology projects and Avian influenza
Brazil
- Professor E. Szonntagh - gold mining impact on populations (evaporation of mercury)
- Dr. Tatiana Ochoa - Female Condoms for HIV Prevention
Cambodia
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - research management, malaria and other parasitic diseases with the World Health Organization
Cameroon
- Professor William Ward - assistance in operational research proposal development by the Pan African Institute for Development
Canada
- Professor Peter Gorski - Equity Research
- Professor Heather Stockwell - health-related research
- Professor Stanley Graven - early child development and language development
China
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - research management, malaria and other parasitic diseases with the World Health Organization
- Professor Yougui Wu - Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Professor Wei Wang - methodology, prevention science, statistical medical surveillance, computer applications
- Professor Thomas Mason - lung cancer among tin miners
- Professor Yiliang Zhu - school-aged children in rural China (health insurance, access, behavior, and outcomes)
- Professor Amy Borenstein - nutrition and cognitive decline among women; cognitive impairment and dementia among elderly Shanghainese
- Professor Boo Kwa - Parasitology, Exotic and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vectors of Human Disease, Environmental Health courses
Colombia
- Professor Martha Coulter - health projects in Medillin, Colombia, SA University of Antioquia
- Professor Sandra Cadena - psychiatric nursing; appointment at the college of Medicine at Elbosque University, Bogota and extensive travel in South America.
Costa Rica
- Professor Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano - Social Security System/health system in Costa Rica.
Cuba
- Laura Gonzalez - evacuating medically needy patients to the United States
- Dr. Anthony F. Kirkpatrick, College of Medicine - impact of US policy on the health of the Cuban people
Cyprus
- Professor Darlene Shearer - developed a system of care for children with disabilities and training for professionals and home visitors working with families of young children with disabilities
- Professor William Ward - public health consulting with WHO -Primary Health Care in the Ministry of Health
Dominican Republic
- Professor Martha Coulter - battered women's programs.
- Professor Wayne Westoff - training, service and research regarding street children, Haitians in the Dominican Republic and sugar cane fields, youth risk behaviors in schools, sex workers at risk for HIV/AIDS, date rape in the Dominican Republic and Caribbean area, Haiti, and Venezuela. Founded and works with an NGO Fondacion Familia Sana in prevention, health education, intervention, including a shelter for domestic violence
- Professor Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano and Professor Mason - epidemiology in a USF Global Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Action project
- Laura Gonzalez - evacuating medically needy patients to the United States
- USF Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine has initiated formal involvement with its inaugural partner in the Caribbean, Dr. Salvador B. Gautier Hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to carry out collaborative work to tackle infectious diseases in the country. More...
Ecuador
- Dr. Ricardo Izurieta - Cholera Control Project, Vaccinology with Pan American Health Organization
- Professor Carol Bryant - fluoride mouth-rinse program
- Dr. Tatiana Ochoa - National Nutritional Program, Ministry of Health.
- Laura Gonzalez - evacuating medically needy patients to the United States
Egypt
- Professor Stanley Graven - Tetanus and diarrhea, infant mortality and perinatal outcome.
El Salvador
- Dr. Ricardo Izurieta - Infectious Diseases Control and Environmental Microbiology
Ethiopia
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - research management, malaria and other parasitic diseases with the World Health Organization
France
- Professor Amy Borenstein - research training in study design and protocol implementation in methodologically standardized studies, also in Malta, Italy, Spain, Great Britain
Gambia
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - research management, malaria and other parasitic diseases with the World Health Organization
Georgia
- Professor Marion Cornwell - animal health infrastructure, epidemiology course
- Danielle Landis - workshops in social marketing process, qualitative research methods, health education theory, community- based collaboration, team building, leadership theories, process and tools, strategic and program planning, logic modeling, program evaluation, fundraising, grant writing. development of health education campaigns and materials in the area of HIV/ AIDS prevention in migrant workers, tuberculosis medication compliance, minimizing second hand smoke exposure in pregnant women and awareness of free government health care services, with local community health and Ministry of Health representatives
Germany
- Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Study Mary Evans - providing expert testimony on burnout in nurses and health professionals
Ghana
- Professor William Ward - program manager and Health Educator/Behavioral Science Advisor, Danfa Comprehensive Rural Health and Family Planning Project; Lecturer, Ghana Medical School, Department of Community Health
- Gordon Keller Professor Maureen Groer - international health care - setting up a primary clinic in Sekondi
Great Britain
- Professor Peter Gorski - Equity Research partnership with the European Society for Social Pediatrics.
Guam
- Professor Amy Borenstein - neurodegenerative disease in the native Chamorro population
Guatemala
- Dr. Ricardo Izurieta - Infectious Diseases Control and Environmental Microbiology
Guinea
- Professor William Ward - Monitoring/evaluation, Oral Rehydration Program
Haiti
- Professor Jeannine Coreil - cultural factors and health, MCH and infectious diseases; Stigma and Tuberculosis in Haitian populations.
- Professor Wayne Westoff - training, service and research regarding street children, Haitians in the Dominican Republic and sugar cane fields, youth risk behaviors in schools, sex workers at risk for HIV/AIDS, date rape in the Caribbean area, particularly in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Venezuela.
- Professor William Ward - public health monitoring and evaluation, Primary Health Care Program and Promotion of Community Leader Promotion of Oral Rehydration Program in rural Haiti; USAID evaluation of the programmatic activities of the Association of Private Health Agencies; Community Health Education Course
Honduras
- Professor Boo Kwa - Tropical diseases, parasitology; surveillance of parasitic infections
- Dr. Ricardo Izurieta - Infectious Diseases Control and Environmental Microbiology
- Professor Sharon Edwards - Teaching HIV/AIDS
Hungary
- Professor E. Szonntagh - history of formaldehyde use in milk and cancer statistics.
India
- Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence: USF builds a bridge to India
- Public Health Foundation of India
- Professor Ann DeBaldo - MPH program; Public Health Informatics; Public Health, Tropical Parasitic and Infectious Disease, International Health and Healthcare Programs, and Traditional Cultures and Practices around Health
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - research management, malaria and other parasitic diseases with the World Health Organization
- Professor Heather Stockwell - MPH program in India.
- Professor Sagar Galwankar - global health and developmental research; Center for Health and HIV/ AIDS Research and Training (CHART)-India; Global Emergency Medicine Program.
- Professor Eknath Naik - Co-Founder, Center for Health and HIV/ AIDS Research and Training (CHART)-India, Global Health, Infectious Diseases and International Medicine
- Professor John LeSar - former chief of Health Policy Programs for USAID in India, in policy, management, health systems, financing, child health, communications, project management, teaching/training
- Danielle Landis - Center for Health and HIV/ AIDS Research and Training (CHART), Competencies in Curriculum Training and Leadership Training with the International Institute of Information Technology
- Sandhya Srinivasan - distance learning projects
- Professor Donna Haiduven - Public Health Informatics
- USF Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine is collaborating with SVYM— this organization's work includes running a multi-specialty hospital and providing comprehensive healthcare to over 250,000 residents in rural India. Among its achievements are bringing its HIV/AIDS program to the sub-district level. More...
Indonesia
- Professor Amy Stuart - vehicular air pollution and health
- Professor William Ward - USAID program to strengthen field-based research in three Indonesian Schools of Public Health
Israel
- Professor Amy Borenstein - study of Israeli Arabs living in Wadi Ara
- Dorit Breiter - participated in research nursing seminars and psychology practicum
Jamaica
- Professor William Ward - Community Health Education Course
Japan
- Professor Jay Wolfson - Japanese health care costs, quality and outcomes and public/private sector interfaces
- Professor Amy Borenstein - Individuals of Japanese descent in Hiroshima, Japan, Honolulu, HI and Seattle, WA
Jordan
- Professor William Ward - Self-Help Project Supervisor. C.A.R.E. (Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere), Amman
- Professor Susan McMillan - cancer research and consultation, e.g. in quality of life at end of life, pain assessment and management, constipation assessment and management, symptom distress, prevention and early detection
Kenya
- Dr. William Quillen - establishing a B.S. Degree in Psysiotherapy with Moi University and research in disability and rehabilitation.
- Professor Susan McMillan - nursing
- Professor Dennis Kyle —malaria drug resistance and clinical studies of new drugs with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the US Army Medical Research Unit in Nairobi and Kisumu
Korea
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - research management, malaria and other parasitic diseases with the World Health Organization
- Professor William Ward - evaluation of USAID/REDSO Population, Health, and Nutrition Program
Kyrgystan
- Danielle Landis - courses and workshops in core competency based public health curriculum development, public health practice systems development, needs assessment development and implementation with the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy and Ministry of Health
- Professor William Reid - workshops
- Professor Marion Cornwall - programs to control/eradicate foot and mouth disease and brucellosis (human and animal)
Laos
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - research management, malaria and other parasitic diseases with the World Health Organization
Liberia
- Professor William Ward - Assistance in Operational Research Proposal Development by the University of Liberia Medical School
Malaysia
- Professor Boo Kwa - Lymphatic filariasis, babisiosis, zoonotic tapeworm infections, angiostrogyliasis, urban ecology of dengue
- Professor Azliyati Azizan - dengue hemorrhagic fever
Mexico
- Professor Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano - Occupational Physician in the Social Security System; national labor issues; Field Epidemiology with infectious diseases outbreak investigations
- Laura Gonzalez - evacuating medically needy patients to the United States
- Professor Alfonso Ruiz - Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), US-Mexico border, zoonoses and emerging diseases in the Americas; information and surveillance systems, diagnostic laboratory networks, Health Analysis and Information Systems, environmental health indicators. Also served in most countries of the Americas, China and South Africa
- Professor Thomas Mason - Co-Director of the PAHO Summer Program in Intermediate Epidemiology-training of health care professionals from Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean
- Danielle Landis - Bioterrorism Efforts in the United States
Myanmar
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - research management, malaria and other parasitic diseases with the World Health Organization
Netherlands
- Danielle Landis - Bioterrorism efforts in the United States.
- Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Study Mary Evans - consultation and student mentoring
Netherland Antilles
- Professor Eknath Naik - Commercial Sex Workers Study
Nicaragua
- Professor Stanley Graven - immunization and early nutrition
Nigeria
- Phoebe Afriyie Johnson - hospital nursing instruction, Nutrition and Hygiene instruction, inoculation against cholera; also provided nursing and migrant health primary care in a US clinic and a refugee center
- Professor Dennis Kyle— malaria chemotherapy, drug resistance mechanisms with University of Ibadan
Palestine
- Professor William Ward - Village Health and Development Director, Lutheran World Federation Department of World Services
Panama
- USF Health in Panama
- Professor Boo Kwa - educational programs
- Professor Dennis Kyle— malaria drug discovery and development with Gorgas Memorial Lab and leishmaniasis with SENACYT
Papua New Guinea
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - malaria epidemiology
- Professor John LeSar - policy, management, health systems, financing, child health, communications, project management, teaching/training
Peru
- Dr. Ricardo Izurieta - Tropical Medicine
Portugal
- Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Study Mary Evans - teaching child mental health in a Fullbright sponsored program
Puerto Rico
- Professors Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano and Thomas Bernard - back injuries in the work place project with the School of Public Health
Russia
- Professor John LeSar - Chief of Health Policy Programs for USAID and the USAID Environment Program
Rwanda
- Dr. Tatiana Ochoa - HIV/AIDS in Zambia and Rwanda
- Professor Jeannine Coreil - cultural factors and health, particularly Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and infectious diseases (also in Uganda, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic)
Saudi Arabia
- Professor Darlene Shearer - Cultural and contextual factors associated with family adaptation to disability and participation in child's intervention
- Professor Susan McMillan - cancer research and consultation
Slavic Countries
- Dr. Candace Burns - consultation to health care providers, nurses, hospital administrators and physicians regarding health care and hospital organization and management, nursing management, and medical response and management of natural and man made disasters.
South Africa
- Dr. William Quillen - Residence & Consultation, Faculty Exchange fellowship at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesberg, with a focus on physical therapy
- Professor John LeSar - policy, management, health systems, financing, child health, communications, project management, teaching/training
Spain
- Professor Amy Borenstein - research training in study design and protocol implementation in methodologically standardized studies, also in Malta, Italy, Great Britain, France
St. Lucia
- Professor Jay Wolfson - health costs and the creation of a regional health care system.
Sweden
- Professor Amy Stuart - biotechnology use for ecological remediation in the Baltic watershed countries
- Dr. Candace Burns - nursing and social work courses in culturally competent care and interdisciplinary team building
Taiwan
- Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Study Mary Evans - provide research results and consultation on use of data in the development of mental health policy of the Ministry of Health
Tanzania
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - research management, malaria and other parasitic diseases with the World Health Organization
Thailand
- Professor Dennis Kyle— new drugs and vaccines for malaria with the Armed Forces Institute of Medical Sciences and with MSF and Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol University
Trinidad and Tabago
- Professor Eknath Naik - Commercial Sex Workers research
Turkey
- Professor Darlene Shearer - Developed a system of care for children with disabilities and training for professionals and home visitors working with families of young children with disabilities
- Professor William Ward - World Bank-funded Training Program for the 2002 National Health Survey
Uganda
- Professor John LeSar - policy, management, health systems, financing, child health, communications, project management, teaching/training
Ukraine
- Professor Susan McMillan - consultation regarding cancer, also in Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Russia, Great Britain, Canada
Venezuela
- Professor Martha Coulter has been involved in a training program in domestic violence.
- Professor Wayne Westoff - Research regarding street children, youth risk behaviors in schools, sex workers at risk for HIV/AIDS, date rape in the Caribbean area, particularly in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Venezuela.
- Professor Jacqueline Cattani - rural community development.
- Professor Azliyati Azizan and Dr. Lillian Stark - Emerging Viral Diseases (esp. dengue) and laboratory methodologies for diagnosis
- Professor Aurora Sanchez-Anguiano - epidemiology and occupational medicine
- Danielle Landis - PAHO Leadership Training and a Leadership Focus Group
Zambia
- Professor Darlene Shearer - System of care for children with disabilities and training for professionals and home visitors to work with families of young children with disabilities.