Faculty Advisors: International Health
The following Stanford faculty members are involved in International Health research and service projects.
Featured Faculty Profiles
Name: Ronald L. Barrett
Department: Assistant Professor of Anthropological Sciences
Contact: rb2@stanford.edu
Countr(ies): India
Professor Ronald Barrett specializes in medical anthropology and the topics of medical pluralism, infectious disease, death and dying, and disease stigma. He has clinical experience in neuro-intensive care, brain injury rehabilitation, and hospice. Dr. Barrett is also interested in the selective forces of social conditions upon the epidemiology of infectious diseases, and plans to do research on cultural attitudes towards dying and end-of-life care.
Name: Walter Falcon
Department: Co-director Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Professor Emeritus
Contact: wpfalcon@stanford.edu
Countr(ies): Indonesia, Mexico
Professor Walter Falcon is the Helen Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy. He studies food pricing and food policy in developing countries, rural development and food production systems in Indonesia, and American agriculture as it relates to the Third World.
Name: Amreen Husain
Department: Assistant Professor of OB/GYN
Contact: amreen.husain@stanford.edu
Weblink: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Amreen_Husain
Countr(ies): Eritrea; Jordan
Related Links: http://obgyn.stanford.edu/gynonc/eritrean.html
Dr. Amreen Husain is an Assistant Professor in OB/GYN and is involved with the Eritrean Women's Project. Collaborating with other OB/GYNs, she treated Eritrean women suffering from vesicovaginal and rectovaginal fistulas. She has also been involved in education and clinical training at the Ling Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan. Dr. Husain welcomes student involvement for future projects.
Name: David Katzenstein
Department: Professor of Medicine-Infectious Disease
Contact: davidkk@stanford.edu
Weblink: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/David_Katzenstein/
Countr(ies): Harare and Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe; Cape Town, South Africa; Uganda; Chennai, India; Tehran, Iran; China; Thailand; Israel; Spain; Portugal; Brazil
Related Links:
http://med.stanford.edu/act-now/
Professor David Katzenstein's international work has focused primarily on AIDS care and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last 15 years, Professor Katzenstein has developed the community based research organization, ZAPP, in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe. He has also been involved with a clinical research program and community service teaching at the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. In addition, Professor Katzenstein collaborates with labs in Southern and Southeast Asia, South America, China, and other regions to further research on ARV drug resistance and HIV prevention. Invited by the Iranian AIDS Society, Dr Katzenstein spoke at the Iranian National AIDS meeting in 2004.
Name: Sam LeBaron
Department: Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Contact: slebaron@stanford.edu
Weblink: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Samuel_LeBaron/
Countr(ies): Iran, Mexico, Mongolia, China, Tibet, unspecified
Dr. LeBaron is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine. He has conducted community-based research, developed health policy and education, and provided training and consultation in order to improve the delivery of health care in various countries. Dr. LeBaron's projects have included working with the Iran Ministry of Health and Education to develop family medicine in Iran, assessing rural people's knowledge and attitudes towards STDs and type 2 diabetes in Mexico, researching the use of traditional medicine in Mongolia, consulting about health care management strategies in modern China, and developing internationally-based medical rotations. Dr. LeBaron has advised many students on research projects.
Name: Julie Parsonnet
Department: Professor of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine; Health Research and Policy - Epidemiology
Contact: parsonnt@stanford.edu
Weblink: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Julie_Parsonnet/
Countr(ies): unspecified
Dr. Parsonnet is a Professor of Infectious Diseases and Health Research and Policy at the Stanford School of Medicine. She studies both infectious disease and cancer epidemiology. Her focus is on the long-term consequences of chronic bacterial infection, including the relation between Helicobacter pylori infection and subsequent malignancy.
Name: Robert Siegel
Position Held: Associate Professor (Teaching) of Microbiology & Immunology, Program in Human Biology
Contact: siegelr@stanford.edu
Weblink: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Robert_Siegel/
Countr(ies): Tanzania
Related Links:
http://www.stanford.edu/~siegelr/
Dr. Robert Siegel's international work has focused primarily on HIV/AIDS education and prevention in Tanzania with the NGO Students for International Change. Dr. Siegel is also very involved in medical education and curricular development, especially in the areas of infectious disease, virology, HIV, and molecular biology. Dr. Siegel welcomes student involvement in his international work, and advises in both the areas of international health and infectious disease.
Name: Scott Smith
Position Held: Lecturer, Program in Human Biology; Chief of Infectious Diseases at Kaiser Permanente - Redwood City
Contact: ssmith@stanford.edu
Countr(ies): Indonesia, unspecified
Dr. Scott Smith specializes in parasitic and other diseases of public health impact. He is particularly interested in pathogenesis, clinical syndromes, complex life cycles, and the interplay between environment, vectors, hosts, and reservoirs in historical context to better understand public health policy approaches to halting disease transmission. He worked with the MENTOR-Initiative in Indonesia following the tsunami to help prevent outbreaks of malaria and dengue.
Name: Paul Wise
Department: Professor of Pediatrics
Contact: pwise@stanford.edu
Weblink: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Paul_Wise
Countr(ies): India, South Africa, Guatamela, Vietnnam, Peru, Haiti
Dr. Paul Wise is a health policy and outcomes researcher who seeks to improve healthcare practices and policies in developing countries. He serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the NIH Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research, a network that has 10 research sites in Africa, Latin America, and India. In addition to his ongoing child health projects, Dr. Wise also provides health care and education in Guatemalan village clinics. Dr. Wise welcomes student involvement.
