Core Faculty
Global Health Studies core faculty perform many important duties for the program, including teaching a variety of global health courses, serving on the Global Health Studies Curriculum Committee, advising students on independent research projects, and directing GLO's public health study abroad programs.
Assistant Professor of Instruction; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Science in Human Culture
Phone number:
847-467-4914
Office location:
1800 Sherman, Suite 1-200, #1208
sokhieng.au@northwestern.edu
Geographic Regions: Global South, Southeast Asia, Central Africa
Topics of Expertise: History and philosophy of medicine and science, humanitarian aid and the Global South, Medical cultures -- exchanges and flows, colonial medicine, migration (contemporary and historical), infectious diseases (contemporary and historical)
Assistant Professor of Instruction; Co-Director, Colloquium for Global Iran Studies
Phone number:
(847) 467-7834
Office location:
1800 Sherman Ave., Suite 1-200, #1211
elham.hoominfar@northwestern.edu
Geographic Regions: Global South and North
Topics of Expertise: Environmental Sociology and Environmental Justice, Hazards and Disasters, Development and Sustainability, Gender, Social Inequality, and Social Movements emphasizing political economy
Professor, Global Health Studies
Phone number:
847-491-4839
Office location:
1800 Sherman Suite 1-200 #1212
w-leonard1@northwestern.edu
Geographic Regions: South America (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador), Russia (Siberia), and the US
Topics of Expertise: Nutritional assessment, growth and development, energetics, physical activity, metabolic health, human adaptability
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies; Professor of Instruction, Global Health Studies
Phone number:
847-491-4832
Office location:
1800 Sherman Suite 1-200 #1201
peter.locke@northwestern.edu
Geographic Regions: Western Africa (Sierra Leone) and Eastern Europe (former Yugoslavia)
Topics of Expertise: Global Mental Health, Trauma, and Humanitarian Psychiatry, Comparative Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies, Postwar Memory Politics, Post-socialism, Public Health and Development in West Africa
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Phone number:
(847) 491-4566
Office location:
1800 Sherman Ave., Suite 1-200, #1207
charlayne.mitchell@northwestern.edu
Geographic Regions: United States, particularly the southeastern U.S. (Mississippi)
Topics of Expertise: Global Health, nutrition, critical nutrition, health inequalities and disparities, social and cultural dimensions of health; race, gender, and class intersections; Black Americans' health, decolonizing research methods, Community based participatory research, qualitative research methods, Black Feminist Thought, water insecurity and environmental inequities
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Global Health Studies
Office location:
1800 Sherman Suite 1200 #1204
beatriz.reyes@northwestern.edu
Geographic Regions: What is currently known as the United States
Topics of Expertise: Community health, health policy and social justice, Native/Indigenous health, bioethics
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor of Instruction, Global Health Studies; Lecturer, Medical Education, Feinberg School of Medicine; Senior Faculty, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Graduate Program
Phone number:
847-467-2447
Office location:
1800 Sherman Suite 1-200 #1210
srodriguez@northwestern.edu
Geographic Regions: Global, US and other former British colonies
Topics of Expertise: American History since 1900, Global History, History of Medicine, Gender and Sexuality History
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Global Health Studies
Phone number:
847-491-7207
Office location:
1810 Hinman Ave #204
r-seligman@northwestern.edu
Geographic Regions: Brazil and the United States
Topics of Expertise: Mental health, psychiatry, religion, and embodiment
Program Director; Professor of Instruction, Global Health Studies
Phone number:
847-467-2780
Office location:
1800 Sherman Suite 1-200
noelle.sullivan@northwestern.edu
Geographic Regions: East Africa, USA
Topics of Expertise: Health systems, Health sector reform, development, transnational governance and policy, international volunteerism, institutional culture and bureaucracy, gender and sexuality
Professor, Anthropology and Global Health Studies
