About Me
Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Global health practitioner for maternal and child health and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in six African countries, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique. Community health educator for strengthening family program to prevent family violence and alcoholism in Thailand.
Current Interests and Projects:
- Social Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Mental Health
- Community Health, Immigrant health
- Program development and implementation
- Modeling Assessment of health interventions
- Preparedness, Surveillance, and Response to Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
- Monitoring and Evaluation of Maternal and Child Health Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Health Education
- Comparative Global Health Systems
- Humanitarian Aid and Development Assistance
- Health Finance and Management, Health Economics
- Public Health Informatics, mobile Health