My 24 years as a transplant surgeon, occupational medicine physician, and public health my patient care domains have spanned a wide range of health care environments, including in-hospital and outpatient clinical settings. As a surgeon, I learned to be both flexible and decisive. As an occupational medicine physician, I have developed expertise working in care settings that require close multidisciplinary collaboration and accountability, thereby bringing teams together toward shared goals. As a public health professional, I have state-level experience including leadership at the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) as Medical Director for Healthcare Services, and Medical Director of the federally funded Iowa Bioterrorism Cooperative Agreement. During my work at IDPH, I communicated with a diverse group of community and government stakeholders to build a strong public health infrastructure to address disaster preparedness across Iowa. With a long-standing interest in health disparities, I focused my MPH graduate thesis on the relevance of the medical home model to the healthcare safety net.

Currently, my work in occupational medicine enables me to focus on large groups of individuals who experience injury or illness in the workplace, including immigrant, migrant and refugee populations. I have experience in work related to the health and safety of workers, including hazard recognition, evaluation, control, and policy development. My interest in underserved populations now includes a focus on health-related disparities within the workplace and the Workers’ Compensation System (WCS). At the University of Iowa, I am a co-leader of Immigrant and Refugee Health and Well-being Research Group, a multidisciplinary group of University faculty. I also serve as Director of the new University of Iowa Global Health Network. As Associate Director of Employee Health, I am deeply involved in University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (UIHC) incident command during the pandemic and a leader within the COVID-19 vaccine campaign for UIHC and other university employees. In this massive effort, I provide clinical care and oversight in my capacity as Associate Director of Employee Health. Within the larger Iowa state community, I work with Proteus, Inc., a nonprofit organization that serves migrant and seasonal farmworkers, immigrants, and others. Much of my current work includes the preparedness and response for public health emergencies among migrant and seasonal agricultural farmworkers, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently this work has focused on partnering with Proteus and state entities to prepare for vaccination opportunities for the migrant and seasonal farmworker population. My work has been informed by expertise gained through my participation in leadership of the UIHC COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

I am currently involved with the Free Medical Clinic and Open Heartland, working to improve the health of Latino populations. I helped start a clinic to increase access to contraception at the FMC and I am currently running a Women's Wellness clinic at OH that focuses on various health topics and helps teach women how to talk to other women in their community about health and their environment. I am working to create a learning immersion experience for students in Latin America. I'm collaborating with colleagues at the University to include environmental health sciences in holistic health teaching and to provide more culturally appropriate learning tools within the health topic education sessions.

I am a 30+year faculty member in the College of Nursing (CON) and have done research in The Gambia mostly focusing on rural nursing and farming injuries. My PhD is in epidemiology and I also teach a global health nursing course. In the CON I am the global health coordinator for visiting scholars and facilitate student practicum sites in other countries. I also work with other colleges outside the US in facilitating partnerships with their nursing programs and assist with visiting Fulbright scholars etc.

Dr. Dawson received his academic degrees from Brigham Young University and Harvard University, and is a Professor of Biostatistics. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies in Biostatistics, a Faculty Senate member, a member of the Institutional Review Board, and the chair of the CPH Faculty Council. He has collaborated with over 20 departments in the health sciences, and is particularly known for his collaborative work in elderly and neurologically impaired drivers, as well as in cardiovascular research. His methodological interests include longitudinal data and clinical trials. His outreach activities include educational, research, and public health efforts in Haiti. He has served as the CPH Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs since 2011.

I am a historian of medicine and public health whose work focuses on medical understandings of yellow fever in the Caribbean. My work also looks at topics of race and empire in the region. I teach historical methods, history of Latin America, history of medicine courses. 

I am an RHIT working on my Masters in Healthcare Administration. I have worked in every possible site type for a variety of providers. In the end I am concerned with how the providers document, how that affects patient care in all settings and how it affects reimbursement and shows value.