Global Health

Global health public health research focuses on improving health and equity for people worldwide. SPH interdisciplinary research addresses sustainable health systems, emergency medicine, forced migration, disease prevention and treatment, emerging zoonotic infections and pathogens, as well as health crises like HIV/AIDS, malaria.

Faculty List
Bruce Alexander
Bruce H. Alexander, PhD
Professor and Division Head
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health
lynn blewett
Lynn Blewett, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
Horacio Duarte
Horacio Duarte, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Eva Enns
Eva Enns, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Linda Frizzell
Linda Bane Frizzell, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Kyle Hill
Kyle X. Hill, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Substance Use
Tran Huynh
Trân Huỳnh, PhD, CIH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management
David Jacobs
David Jacobs, PhD
Mayo Professor of Public Health
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health
Rhonda Jones-Webb
Rhonda Jones-Webb, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Substance Use
Shalini Kulasingam
Shalini Kulasingam, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Claudia Muoz-Zanzi
Claudia Muñoz-Zanzi, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Michael Osterholm
Michael T. Osterholm, PhD
Regents Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Tess Peterson
Tess Peterson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Melinda Pettigrew
Melinda Pettigrew, PhD
Dean
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Specialty Areas:
Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Reilly Cavan
Cavan S. Reilly, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
B.R. Simon Rosser
B.R. Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Substance Use
Sandra Safo
Sandra Safo, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health
Kelly Seaerle
Kelly Searle, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Irina Stepanov
Irina Stepanov, PhD
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Mayo Professor in Public Health
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families ◦ Substance Use
Gillian Tarr
Gillian Tarr, PhD, CPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Drissa M. Toure
Drissa M. Toure, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
Elizabeth Wattenberg
Elizabeth Wattenberg, PhD
Associate Dean of Education and Student Engagement
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Substance Use
Rebecca Wurtz
Rebecca Wurtz, MD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases