Framework Faculty
Global Health is relevant to a variety of disciplines and professional activities. As a result, t he Framework program is supported by faculty in many departments and programs at Case Western Reserve University. Individually tailored concentrations in Global Health may be developed from relevant courses in the School of Medicine, The College of Arts and Sciences, The School of Graduate Studies, The Case School of Engineering, The School of Law, and the Francis Payne Bolton School of Nursing.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Center for Global Health and Diseases
Schistosomiasis, flavivirus infections, echinococcus, immunogenetics
Malaria, filariasis, smallpox, immunoparasitology, vaccine development
Schistosomiasis, vector biology, ecologic factors in disease transmission
Malaria, HIV/CCR5 interactions, malaria/placental pathology, immunogenetics
Infectious disease epidemiology, vector-borne disease control, genetic epidemiology, transmission modelling, epidemiologic study design and analysis
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Epidemiology of tuberculosis, interaction of HIV and tuberculosis, epidemiology of drug resistant micro-organisms, epidemic models, cohort studies and clinical trials
Infectious disease epidemiology, vector-borne disease control, genetic epidemiology, transmission modelling, epidemiologic study design and analysis
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Department of Biology
Experimental ecology focusing on aquatic systems
Department of Bioethics
Decisions to limit life-sustaining treatment, ethics committees, physician-assisted suicide, advance directives, definitions of death, and ethical issues in organ and tissue retrieval and transplantation
Integrating Cultural, Observational, and Epidemiological Approaches in the Prevention of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS, the relationship between anthropology and bioethics, and ethical challenges related to biomedical and behavioral research in resource-poor settings
Department of Mathematics
Applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and mathematical analysis
Department of Anthropology
Physical anthropology focused on human adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia
Bi-directional impact of disease on human societies, encompassing the impact of social change on disease patterns and the social consequences of disease
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Systems Biology with application of complex systems representation, multi-scale modeling, coordination and goal seeking to understand complex diseases
FRANCIS PAYNE BOLTON
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Center for Research and Scholarship
Recovery following cardiac events, health behavior change, exercise following cardiac events, electronic nursing care, and gender differences and elder recovery following cardiac events
World Health Organization Collaborating Center
Home Health Care Issues, international health care issues, resource use and patient outcomes of chronically ill, re-hospitalization, and health services research
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