Chris Colvin (cjc5r@virginia.edu)
Christopher J Colvin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. His research interests include: masculinity and HIV; the use of qualitative social science evidence in global health research, policies and programs; sexual, reproductive and maternal health; community health workers; and health activism and community engagement for primary health care. Some of his most recent publications include “Perpetuating gender inequity through uneven reporting.” and “Exploring Community Residents' Motivations for Interacting With American Field School Undergraduates in South Africa”
Christopher Charles Moore (ccm5u@virginia.edu)
Christopher Moore, MD is a a physician and clinical researcher with the Division of Infections Diseases and International Health. His research interests include 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. Current projects include early warning Alert and response systems in the community, health facilities and border entry points to improve ability to prevent, detect, and mitigate infectious disease threats.
Rebecca Dillingham (rd8v@virginia.edu)
Rebecca Dillingham, MD, is a physician and clinical researcher who specializes in treating patients living with HIV. She sees patients at the Ryan White Clinic at UVA and directs a clinic that serves patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) as well as HCV mono-infected patients. Her research focuses on innovative mobile-based technologies to improve chronic care, enteric infections, and global health education.
Marcel Durieux (law9xc@virginia.edu)
Marcel Durieux M.D is aN Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology and Global Health and Clinical Research at the anesthesiology department of UVA. Professor Durieux focuses on the teaching of anesthesiology in developing countries in Africa, working with several organizations, and in several locations, to accomplish this. Currently, he participates in programs in Tanzania and Rwanda. He supports opportunities next summer in Rwanda (assuming COVID allows). These programs will have projects for research at the University of Rwanda in Kigali, and with the University of Global Health Equity in Butaro, a more rural area in the north.
James Platts-Mills (jp5t@virginia.edu)
James Platts-Mills is a researcher and professor in the the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health. His research focuses on the application of quantitative molecular diagnostics to the epidemiology of enteric diseases in children in developing countries, including revising estimates of pathogen-specific burdens of diarrhea and understanding the impact of early enteric infections on child growth and development.
Mami Taniuchi (mt2f@virginia.edu)
Mami Taniuchi is an Associate Professor in the Infectious Diseases and International Health. She works to develop molecular diagnostic assays to detect enteric pathogens that cause diarrhea and malnutrition. Her focus is to develop assays on platforms that can be used in low resource settings such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Thailand to study etiology of diarrhea and vaccine efficacy.
Howie Epstein (hee2b@virginia.edu)
Howie is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Environmental Sciences, as well as a co-Director of the College Science Scholars Program, at the University of Virginia. His current research efforts are in the arctic tundra of North America and Russia, and the temperate forests of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. In the Arctic, we are examining the recent dynamics of arctic tundra vegetation in response to changing climate and disturbances, and the effects that these vegetation changes have on other arctic ecosystem properties. In the U.S. Mid-Atlantic we are examining carbon cycling along successional gradients from old-field to old-growth, as well as carbon-water interactions in topographically complex watersheds.
Aaron Mills (amills@virginia.edu)
Aaron L. Mills is a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. His Active projects examine the microbial transformations of contaminants and trophic transfer of energy through microorganisms. A main line of inquiry deals with bacteria in the subsurface (groundwater) environment. Current projects include field and laboratory investigations of hydrological factors controlling the transient removal of agricultural nitrate in sediments of low-relief coastal streams, and the role of autotrophic microbes in the dissolution of carbonates in submerged caves.
China Scherz (crs4he@virginia.edu)
China Scherz is an associate professor in the anthropology department here at UVA. She is a cultural medical anthropologist that researches and teaches interests focused on how people construe and negotiate ethical problems of care. Through a diverse range of projects, she has explored: how people decide whom they should care for and how, how these values are instilled, and how they change over time. China scherz spoke about her research in religion and addiction in Uganda as well as south western Virginia.
James Smith (jas9e@virginia.edu)
James A. Smith is an environmental engineer holding the Henry L. Kinnier Chair of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment at the University of Virginia. His research interests include 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) technologies for stormwater runoff, the fate and transport of emerging environmental pollutants, the engineering properties of organoclays, and bacterial transport and chemotaxis in porous media.
Pablo Penataro Yori (pp4ec@virginia.edu)
Pablo Penataro Yori is an instructor at the department of medicine and infectious diseases at University of Virginia’s school of medicine. He has developed a committed interest in the optimization of laboratory procedures and data management for complex population based studies such as Epidemiology, microbiology and immunology of enteric pathogens.
Rupa Valdez (rsv9d@virginia.edu)
Rupa Valdez is a professor in the School of Engineering and Public Health Sciences. Her work focuses on systematically understanding and supporting health management at home through technological and non-technological interventions that is deeply responsive to patients’ lived experiences. Much of this work focuses on marginalized populations, including racial/ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and people living in under-resourced settings.
David Edmunds (dse7r@virginia.edu)
David Edmunds is a faculty leader in Global Development Studies. He has worked in various countries in Africa and Asia, as well as with Native American tribal nations in the United States. He teaches Global Development Theory II and Development on Ground each year to GDS students, as well as a variety of other courses, including Science, Technology, and Development and Culture, Commerce, and Travel. He is also responsible for helping students arrange for out-of-the-university learning experiences with a variety of local, national and international partners.