Global Scholars
Global Scholars
Anthropological archaeologist who specializes in the rise of sociopolitical complexity in ancient pre-Columbian societies
Specializes in Quantitative Health Policy Research, Pharmacoepidemiology and Health Services Research, Social Epidemiology, Healthcare Outcomes Research, Global Health, all with a focus on Health Disparities.
Specializes in long-term ethnographic field research in two regions of the Pacific island nation, Papua New Guinea: Orokaiva in Oro Province and Arapesh in East Sepik Province. Also specializes in global comparison of forms of the corporation historically and geographically.
Specializes in Public Health Policy, Law, and Ethics and led university-wide efforts to develop the undergraduate Global Public Health Minor and Global Public Health Major programs.
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Specializes in hospice and palliative care decision-making and outcomes.
Specializes in translational research, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer and founding program director of the UVA- Coulter Translational Partnership.
Specializes in pedagogy of Chinese language instruction.
Specializes in narrative medicine, reflective education for professionals, the moral formation of the physician, interprofessional learning, and uses of the arts and humanities in preparation for professional practice. Professor emerita of medical education and Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita in the School of Medicine. Has co-led a Seminar in Ethical Values for law and medical students since 2002.
Specializes in Program Evaluation Consumer Health Informatics; Biomedical Informatics Survey Research & Qualitative Methods Program Planning & Project Management.
Medical anthropologist with extensive experience researching HIV and masculinity; health activism and community health governance; trauma, subjectivity and narrative; and the interface between communities and health systems in the context of HIV/AIDS, TB and maternal and child health with significant research in South Africa.
Specializes in the history and theory of modern architecture and cities, particularly in Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean region.
Specializes in sustainable relationships between specific cultures and built environments, specific challenges and opportunities found in emerging megacities and villages.
Specializes in cellular and molecular mechanisms of Neisserial pathogenesis
Specializes in music and sound studies, law, and anthropology, exploring the limits and possibilities of voice, music, sound, and silence in political contexts. Previous research has been on voice and quietness in Guinea.
Specializes in the teaching of anesthesiology in developing countries in Africa with work in Tanzania and Rwanda.
Specializes in teaching clinical reasoning, patient safety and quality, clinical research, brain injury, prediction models, decision-making in the Emergency Department, pediatric trauma. Part of UVA's AMPATH Kenya collaboration.
Specializes in Indian and Buddhist art, 16th-century Indian painting; early Indian sculpture and architecture; and architecture, sculpture, and painting of the Gupta Period.
Specializes in environmental engineering and water resources. Co-created the Engineering in Context (EIC) Program, in which he has taught engineeering students with a number of projects in global engineering development (e.g. in Yaounde and Bahmendi, Cameroon, South Africa, Guatemala and Nicaragua).
Specializes in green infrastructure planning, watershed planning and stormwater management and global health and environmental ordinances. She has also worked with UVA projects in the Venda Region of South Africa for 8 years and has participated in other international strategy work for Middle Eastern Countries under a grant from the U.S. State Department.
Specializes in Chinese language instruction
Specializes in the fundamental processes (thermodynamic, kinetic, mechanical and optical) that lead to different organic molecule and metal organic framework morphologies, and utilizing this knowledge to create innovative methods of controlling microstructure and phase for pharmaceutical and energy applications. Has done work on using innovative materials to reduce the effects of air pollution in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Specializes in the intersection of sustainability, design, and materials science and was founder of Engineers PRODUCED in Virginia, an initiative which explored the use of state-of-the-art online communication and collaboration solutions for the delivery of undergraduate education to underserved communities.
Specializes in Post Transcriptional Gene Regulation and the Molecular Biology of Human Retroviruses
Specializes in Korean language instruction
Specializes in risk and protective factors for SIDS, with particular attention to the disparities.
Specializes in multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB); pharmacokinetics; clinical application of diagnostics for TB; clinical trials to optimize TB treatment; chronic illness/ TB integration. Has field experience in HIV-drug-resistant TB-endemic areas, including rural South Africa, the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania, and Eastern Siberia.
Epidemiologist with expertise in maternal and child health, including research in the Dominican Republic.
Specializes in molecular diagnostics, tuberculosis, and global health.
Specializes in Korean language instruction
A visual artist, designer, and Associate Professor of Architecture and Studio Art who specializes in public art. Also teaches in the Global Environments & Sustainability track in the Global Studies program.
Specializes in Japanese language instruction
Specializes in Japanese linguistics and pedagogy, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, socio-phonetics, articulation and advocacy in Japanese language education.
Specializes in Health Behavior and Health Education. Sexual Health Education. Community Based Participatory Research to advance health equity in underrepresented public housing communities. Culturally respectful research implementation in community and global health. Qualitative and mixed-method approaches to community-based issues.
Professor emerita who specializes in the health, mental health and development of adolescents. Globally, she has had adolescent health projects in Malawi, Hong Kong, and China.
Specializes in emerging architectural issues in contemporary Chinese cities
Specializes in sustainability and human needs, engineering and social justice, equity in access to infrastructure services, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM Higher Education. His research seeks to build capacity for sustained access to essential human services, including water sanitation and hygiene, in marginalized communities. He has published on development in Africa and in Iran.
Specializes in preventive cardiology, cardiac imaging, outcomes research.
Specializes in Japanese pedagogy, curriculum, and instruction
Specializes in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Epistemology and Applied Ethics
Specializes in nutrition and major global infectious diseases; HIV/AIDS; tuberculosis and other respiratory infections; Cryptosporidium and enteric infections
Specializes in cultural psychiatry, ADHD, psychosomatics
Specializes in contemporary Chinese views regarding military strategy, military ethics, and political warfare.
Specializes in past changes in coastal, marine, and glacial environments and the processes that control those changes, primarily using sedimentological and geomorphological archives.
Specializes in distributing HPV self-collection tests to women in Nicaragua’s rural Caribbean coast, as well as training providers to recognize and treat cervical cancer lesions using a mobile thermo-ablation procedure.
Specializes in sepsis pathophysiology with particular interest in the role of the innate immune system; sepsis pathophysiology, management, and outcomes of HIV infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa.
Specializes in enteric bacterial infections, principally diarrheagenic E. coli and Shigella spp, which are major causes of death and growth problems among children in impoverished countries.
Specializes in community understanding of health problems, and how that understanding influences community solutions.
Specializes in leishmaniasis and immunoparasitology and has done research in Northeastern Brazil
Specializes in immune mechanisms of defense against COVID-19 and enteric (diarrheal) infections
Specializes in Health Care for Underserved Populations, Patient Safety, and Alternative Medicine
Specializes in breastfeeding support, adolescence, underserved and cross-cultural populations, palliative care, and home based care for children with medical complexity. Has worked in South Africa.
Specializes in global health policy and governance, qualitative and quantitative research methods, international relations, public administration in low and middle-income countries, global health policy analysis
Specializes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Gene Expression; Human Endogenous Viruses; SARS-CoV-2 Protein Trafficking; Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation
Specializes in applied qualitative and quantitative strategies designed to assess and advance health equity outcomes through research, teaching and mutually beneficial community partnerships.
Specializes in Japanese pedagogy
Specializes in cognitive and developmental outcomes of children with malnutrition and enteric disease around the world
Specializes in molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, sepsis/septic shock, adenosine receptors, inflammation, innate immunity, anthrax, vaccines
Specializes in examining dynamic cultural and environmental processes in architectural design, ranging in scale from human physiology to global energy flows. Director of Programs in Venice and the Veneto.
Specializes in sustainable point-of-use water treatment technologies for the developing world and their impact on human health, the disinfection properties of zero-valent nano-silver and nano-copper particles, organic vapor transport in the vadose zone, low-impact development (LID) teachnologies for stormwater runoff, the fate and transport of emerging environmental pollutants, the engineering properties of organoclays, and bacterial transport and chemotaxis in porous media. He is the founder of PureMadi, a not-for-profit organization working to solve global water and health problems by working at the interface of water, societal, and human health disciplines. He is also a member of the Water and Health in Limpopo (WHIL) program in collaboration with the University of Venda in Thohoyandou, South Africa.
Specializes in procedural competency, technology in education, “flipping the classroom,” COVID-19, emergency care in low resource settings, global health, climate change and emergency medicine education. Part of UVA's AMPATH Kenya collaboration.
Specializes in pediatric tuberculosis: epidemiology and biomarkers for diagnosis/prognosis
Specializes in the use of Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to community centric work in rural South Africa.
Specializes in second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, teacher development, task-based language teaching, online language teaching and learning.
Specializes in understanding and designing solutions to support the ways in which people manage health at home and in the community. Human Factors Engineering, Consumer Health IT, Culturally Informed Design, Co-Design, Inclusive Design, Mixed Methods, Health Equity, Community-Based Participatory Research.
Specializes in Chinese culture and language instruction.
Specializes in Chinese language instruction
Specializes in Chinese language instruction
Specializes in corporate finance and sustainable business practices and teaches in the Global Environments & Sustainability track in the Global Studies program. He has led study-abroad trips to more than 30 countries over the past 10 years. A former Fulbright scholar, he speaks fluent German and currently holds a visiting professorship in environmental economics at the Technische Universität Dresden.
Specializes in Molecular and Signaling Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Plasticity