Faculty global engagement
School of Nursing faculty are part of a global community of health researchers. They pursue research interests with international collaborators and in global locations. A general list of faculty global engagement is below.
Name | Region of interest | Global teaching, research and practice |
| Brazil, Haiti | Global health informatics | |
| Debra Barton | China | Traditional Chinese medicine for cancer care |
Ghana, Ethiopia, Grenada | Ghana Emergency Medicine Collaborative; World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine; EM-PACE from U-M’s Third Century Initiative with Aksum University in Ethiopia | |
Thailand | ||
Ghana, Ethiopia, Zambia | Reducing maternal mortality; women's rights; Global Feminism Project | |
Pacific Rim, Middle East, North Africa and Mexico | Developing master’s level nursing education in Mexico Nurse migration, brain drain, health workforce capacity, urban homeless populations | |
| Nadia Charania | Pakistan, Ethiopia | International women's mental health |
| Patricia Coleman-Burns | Ghana, Lesotho, Rwanda, India | Cultural competence and health disparities |
| Lynae Darbes | Kenya, South Africa, Namibia | HIV prevention and treatment; couples research (heterosexual and MSM couples), pregnant women |
| Ivo Dinov | Korea, China, Spain | Data science and predictive analytics; health and biomedical informatics; computational neuroscience |
Mexico, Ecuador, Indonesia | Epidemiology; health disparities; maternal mortality, rural health, developing master’s level nursing education in Mexico | |
Mexico | Community health; Faculty leader of NURS 456: Global Community Health Assessment in Oaxaca, Mexico | |
| Bonnie Hagerty | Jordan | Mood disorders, stress and coping |
| Marcelline Harris | Brazil | Clinical informatics, telehealth, nursing health services research |
| Erin Kahle | South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda | Global health, health disparities, HIV prevention and management |
| Jody Lori | Ghana, Liberia, Zambia, Ethiopia | Skilled birth attendance, community-based interventions, human rights, neonatal mortality |
Netherlands; Honduras; Turkey | Comparative health systems, safe motherhood, childbirth practices in developing countries, PTSD and psychological effects of childbirth, pelvic floor dysfunction post-childbirth; Midwifery clinical immersions in Honduras and the Netherlands | |
Taiwan; Thailand | Occupational health | |
Democratic Republic of Congo | Gender-based violence, GBV in conflict settings | |
Ghana, Ethiopia, Zambia | Global health; vulnerable populations; gender-based violence; MHealth | |
Sub-Saharan Africa | HIV; mental health; sexual reproductive health among youth | |
| Kathryn Nelson | Mongolia, Nicaragua | Pediatric nursing |
| Mexico | Faculty leader of HS 300: Spanish Language for Health Care Professionals in Oaxaca, Mexico | |
Thailand | ||
| Robert Ploutz-Snyder | International Space Station | Experimental design and statistics analysis of data collected in support of NASA research on the effects of long-term space flight on humans |
Botswana, Latino migrant workers, Native American communities | Community health videoconferencing with University of Botswana; community health field immersion in Northern Michigan | |
Thailand | Chronic disease in developing countries, human resources in nursing, community-based interventions; PI for Strengthening NCD Research Capacity in Thailand | |
| Marie-Anne Sanon Rosemberg | Haitian immigrants | Occupational health |
Japan, Italy, Ireland | Comparative health systems, immigrant health, mental health, depression, transcultural psychiatry, gender-based violence | |
Ghana, Ecuador, Haiti, India | Faculty co-lead undergraduate immersion program in India; global videoconferencing in undergraduate curriculum; Community health nursing in Haiti, India and Botswana. | |
| Laura Saslow | Thailand | Type 2 diabetes |
Australia/Oceana, United Kingdom; Cyprus | Post-traumatic stress disorder during pregnancy and the postpartum period | |
| Ellen Lavoie Smith | Thailand | Cancer symptoms research; team science and research methods; Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy |
South Africa, Namibia, Ethiopia, India | HIV; sexuality and sexual health; violence; maternal health in resource poor countries | |
Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand | Substance abuse; mental health; Global Reach Brazil Platform; President-Elect for International Nurses Society on Addictions | |
Sub-Saharan Africa, Canada, Australia | Effectiveness and implementation science; aging populations; translation science | |
| James Yang | Statistics; bioinformatics | |
Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Liberia | Midwifery training for traditional birth attendants in South Sudan; Master’s level clinical midwifery immersion in Uganda |
