Directory

Directory of Iowa Global Health Network professionals

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Jeydith Gutierrez

Jeydith Gutierrez

Credentials
MD, MPH
Position/Title
Clinical Assistant Professor
Primary College
College of Medicine
Department
Internal Medicine
Primary Research Focus Areas
Health Equity and Disparities, Health Policy, Health Promotion and Communication
Languages
English, Spanish
Biography

I'm an internal medicine physician, originally from Venezuela. I'm interested in global health, health disparities and Telemedicine. My research mainly focus on applications of telemedicine to improve access and quality of care.

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Cara Hamann

Cara Hamann

Credentials
MPH, PhD
Position/Title
Associate Professor
Primary College
College of Public Health
Department
Epidemiology
Primary Research Focus Areas
Behavioral Health, Epidemiology, Injury and Violence Prevention
Languages
English
Regions of Focus
Europe
Biography

Dr. Cara Hamann is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of Training and Education for the Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on unintentional injury prevention, with a concentration on transportation safety. Her work includes naturalistic studies, interventions, and linked analyses of transportation, justice, and medical data of high-risk and vulnerable road user groups and locations (rural areas, bicyclists, pedestrians, teen drivers, older drivers, child passenger restraint). She has a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Iowa and a Master’s in Public Health from the University of North Texas Health Science Center.

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Katherine Herz

Credentials
MPH, MA
Position/Title
Adjunct Instructor
Primary College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department
Global Health Studies
Primary Research Focus Areas
Environmental Health and/or Sustainability, Health Policy, Infectious Diseases
Languages
French, Russian
Regions of Focus
Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe
Biography

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.

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William C. Hunter

William C. (Curt) Hunter

Credentials
BS, MBA, PhD
Position/Title
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Finance
Primary College
Tippie College of Business
Department
Finance
Primary Research Focus Areas
Health Policy, Health Equity and Disparities, Health Economics
Languages
English
Regions of Focus
Asia, Caribbean, Europe, North America, South America
Biography

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.

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Kimberly Kenne

Kimberly Kenne

Credentials
MD, MCR
Position/Title
Clinical Associate Professor
Primary College
College of Medicine
Department
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Primary Research Focus Areas
Maternal and Child Health Vulnerable Populations
Languages
English
Regions of Focus
Southeast Asia, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa
Biography

Kimberly Kenne MD, MCR is an associate clinical professor at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She attended the University of Iowa for medical school, the Ohio State University for her obstetrics and gynecology residency, and completed her fellowship in urogynecology at Oregon Health & Science University. While in fellowship she earned a masters in clinical research. She returned to the University of Iowa in 2018 to join faculty in the division of urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery.

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Kanwal Matharu

Kanwal Matharu

Credentials
MD
Position/Title
Assistant Professor
Primary College
College of Medicine
Department
Ophthalmology
Primary Research Focus Areas
Rural and Farm Health, Health Equity and Disparities, Vulnerable Populations
Languages
English, Spanish, Hindi
Regions of Focus
Asia, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Biography

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.

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Wendy Jean Maury

Wendy Jean Maury

Credentials
PhD
Position/Title
Professor
Primary College
College of Medicine
Department
Microbiology and Immunology
Primary Research Focus Areas
Infectious Diseases
Languages
English
Regions of Focus
Sub-Saharan Africa
Biography

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.

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Carly Nichols

Carly Nichols

Credentials
PhD
Position/Title
Assistant Professor
Primary College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department
Geography and Global Health Studies
Primary Research Focus Areas
Environmental Health and/or Sustainability, Social, Cultural, and Historical Health Factors
Languages
English, Hindi
Regions of Focus
Asia, North America
Biography

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.

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Corinne Peek-Asa

Corinne Peek-Asa

Credentials
MPH, PhD
Position/Title
Associate Dean for Research
Primary College
College of Public Health
Department
Occupational and Environmental Health
Primary Research Focus Areas
Epidemiology, Health Policy, Injury and Violence Prevention
Regions of Focus
Asia, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa
Biography

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.