Directory
Directory of Iowa Global Health Network professionals
Katherine Herz
I have worked abroad in the former Soviet Union as a Peace Corps volunteer and working for an NGO. Additionally, I worked for five years at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and seven years at the Harvard School of Public Health managing the office and his research portfolio for a Danish researcher in Environmental Health focused on Women and Children.
William C. (Curt) Hunter
William C. Hunter is the Henry Tippie Dean Emeritus and Professor of Finance, Tippie College of Business. Hunter has co-authored more that 80 scholarly research papers and is the co-editor of 11 books in finance and economics. He is the U.S. Treasury Advisor to Eastern and Central Europe, consultant to central banks and official agencies in Asia, Europe, and South America, and board member of Wellmark, Inc. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa and South Dakota). Hunter holds an MBA in Finance and PhD in Finance and Environment from Northwestern University. Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Vice President Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Kanwal Matharu
I have studied molecular biology, neuroscience, medical humanities, and global ophthalmology at Princeton, Baylor College of Medicine, and Stanford. Through my global fellowship, I established connections with the Himalayan Cataract Project, Aravind, and Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital. I would like to work on health care disparities at home (immigrant, refugee, and incarcerated populations) as well as those abroad, with a focus on South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Wendy Jean Maury
My lab works on the basic biology of filoviruses (Ebola and Marburg virus). Included in this is studies on the impact of malaria infection on immune responses to filovirus vaccines.
Carly Nichols
I am a broadly trained human-environment geographer with specializations in feminist, health, and agro-food geographies. I have over 7 years of research experience across northern, eastern, and central India investigating agriculture, health, gender, and food and nutrition security. My most recent project, entitled, Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture, Global Nutrition Policy, and the Gendered and Affective Politics of Health in India, examines the changing political context of global health and nutrition policy in the context of agrarian India.
Corinne Peek-Asa
Corinne Peek-Asa is the Director of the CDC-funded Injury Prevention Research Center and Directs the NIH-funded International Trauma and Violence Research Training program that builds research capacity in Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia, Georgia, and Moldova. Trained at UCLA as an Epidemiologist, her work focuses on traumatic injuries and violence, including surveillance, causal analysis, policy evaluation, intervention implementation, and translation science. She is an appointed member of the Transportation Research Board and the Global Violence Prevention Forum of the National Academies of Science.
Christy Petersen
My groups work focuses on better understanding the transmission of vector borne diseases between insects, people and domestic animals. We have multiple NIH funded projects working on tick-borne and parasitic diseases working in India, Brazil and Ethiopia. I am also a member of a European group called Leishvet that helps provide the guidelines for prevention and treatment of the zoonotic parasite Leishmania in animals, particulalry pets, that kills 20,000 people annually.
Rebecca Reynolds
I am a pediatric neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. I completed my residency training in neurological surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and my fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. In my research in Zambia, I study a broad range of pediatric neurosurgical conditions, with a special emphasis on pediatric hydrocephalus and spina bifida.
Diane Rohlman
Dr. Rohlman received her doctoral degree in Experimental Psychology from Bowling Green State University in cognitive psychology. She is co-founder of Northwest Education Training and Assessment. She is Director of the graduate program in Agricultural Safety and Health and the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest at the University of Iowa. Her primary research focus is in how occupational and environmental exposures impact all people, particularly populations that are at greater risk, including children, young workers, and those working in hazardous industries, which often include immigrant workers who may have additional risk factors. Her research activities include both basic and applied research to identify, characterize, and prevent occupational and environmental illness and injury in high-risk populations.