Kenya

Chris Abbyad

Nursing

Chris Abbyad’s research focuses on Black/White racism in healthcare, racism experienced by pregnant Black women, smoking cessation, waterpipe use by university students, and smoking during pregnancy. Abbyad also has an interest in cultural awareness and competency having taught nursing in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Stephen Anderson

Marketing

Stephen Anderson is a quantitative researcher who studies management and policy questions at the intersection of marketing and development economics. His research program focuses on stimulating more inclusive, equitable growth in disadvantaged communities through marketing and entrepreneurship.

Lucy Atkinson

Advertising & Public Relations

Lucy Atkinson's research looks at communication in the context of sustainability and the environment. She focuses on the ways message components (like visual elements, argument frames, source factors) in environmental communication campaigns influence environmental attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.

Deborah Briggs

Medicine

Deborah Briggs has worked to investigate the role of cellular immunity in patients with suspected autoimmune epilepsy that have been negative to currently known biomarkers.

William Brode

Medicine

William Brode focuses on Long COVID research and treatment. He works to enhance medical systems to identify patients' social health needs by developing community health worker programs. His work includes integrating point of care ultrasound diagnostics in both local and global health settings.

Dave Clarke

Medicine

Dave Clarke has a special interest and has done clinical research in medical and surgical management of drug-resistant epilepsy. His collaborative projects have focused on reducing deficits and disparities in epilepsy care.

Rebecca Cook

Population Health, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics

Rebecca Cook works with AMPATH Mexico, a model for providing access to health with a mission of care, education and research via collaboration between academic medical centers and universities. She works with a public health medical school, and clinical and community partners to improve the health and well being of communities in Puebla. She also works locally in Austin with community health workers, and has prior experience in working in Africa.

Kerry Cook

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Kerry Cook's research centers on predicting and understanding climate change and climate variability around the world, including Africa, South America, and the central U.S. Her group uses numerical models of the climate system, including atmosphere, ocean, and vegetation components, along with observational analysis to improve understanding about processes at the earth's surface interact with atmospheric circulation and precipitation fields.

Raissa Fabregas

Public Affairs, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Raissa Fabregas is an applied microeconomist with research interests in development and labor economics. Her work is primarily related to understanding constraints on learning and the accumulation of human capital in developing countries and evaluating interventions and policies that could mitigate those barriers.

Alexandra Garcia

Nursing

Alexandra Garcia's research focuses on the social, cultural, and economic influences on health and equity, diabetes self-management and symptom experience of Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes.

Patricia Hamilton-Solum

Nursing

Patricia Hamilton-Solum's research interests are in perinatal nursing, interdisciplinary lactation support and community perinatal education, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant related research, and marginalized populations.

Janice Hernandez

Nursing

Janice Hernandez's work focuses on serving the community, supporting college students who want to pursue a degree in nursing by hosting internal/external transfer workshops as well as mentoring high school students who are interested in the nursing field.

Hans Hofmann

Integrative Biology, Pharmacy

Hans Hofmann's research seeks to understand the molecular and hormonal mechanisms that underlie social behavior and its evolution, using African cichlid fishes as the model system to address these questions because of their recent, repeated and rapid radiations that have resulted in hundreds of phenotypically diverse species.

John Kappelman

Anthropology, Geological Sciences

John Kappelman's research focuses on hominoid evolution and human origins and evolution, with particular emphasis in paleoecology and functional morphology, and stratigraphy and geochronology. He conducts field and laboratory research in paleontology, stratigraphy, and paleomagnetism, and laboratory research in functional morphology and computer imaging.

Erin Lentz

Public Affairs

Erin Lentz's research explores food security, the linkage between gender, nutrition, and agriculture, and U.S. food aid and food assistance policies. She also researches innovative approaches to improving early warning for food insecurity crises, with a focus on leveraging real-time data and machine learning techniques. In Bangladesh, she is developing a collaborative, community-based research project exploring the social life of famine.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Tim Mercer

Population Health, Internal Medicine

Tim Mercer is interested in solving health system challenges and promoting health through community-engaged scholarship and service to improve access, quality and equity in health for vulnerable populations. He implements and evaluates health system and community-based programs and conducts implementation research. He leads the development of equitable academic global health partnerships to promote health equity and improve population health.

Charles Nemeroff

Medicine

Charles Nemeroff's research is focused on the pathophysiology of mood and anxiety disorders with a focus on the role of child abuse and neglect as a major risk factor. His research also examines the role of mood disorders as a risk factor for major medical disorders including heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Shanti Nulu

Medicine

Shanti Nulu is a cardiologist with advanced training in echocardiography, as well as degrees in global health and medical anthropology. She is dedicated to working with underserved populations. She is also actively engaged in global cardiology through AMPATH and has a special interest and expertise in rheumatic heart disease. She works collaboratively on building surgical capacity for endemic rheumatic heart disease in Eldoret, Kenya.

James Patton

Special Education

James Patton's areas of activity include transition assessment and planning, differentiating instruction for students with special needs, study skills instruction, needs of college students with learning-related challenges, and issues associated with individual with disabilities who encounter the criminal justice system.

Heath Prince

Public Affairs

Heath Prince is a research scientist and has written, published, and presented extensively on domestic and international employment, training programs and policies, post-secondary education, and poverty reduction.

Denne Reed

Anthropology

Denne Reed focuses on the influences of ecology and environment on human adaptation and behavior. He has conducted field research in various parts of Africa, including paleoanthropological research focusing on early human evolution. Reed works on integrating paleoanthropological data to address questions about human evolution and environmental change and to improve access to the human fossil record.

Suzanne Seriff

Anthropology

Suzanne Seriff's interests center on issues of museum representation, public folklore and folklife, Jewish museums and material multure, folk arts and social change, public culture and global folk arts.

William Tierney

Medicine

William Tierney is internationally recognized for his research in biomedical informatics, health services and clinical database epidemiology. He also served as the founding director of informatics and research for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), a 30-year collaboration of more than 20 North American universities with universities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Scott Tinker

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Bureau of Economic Geology

Scott Tinker’s academic training and professional work experience are in carbonate stratigraphy and reservoir characterization. More recently, his research efforts are centered on the interface between global energy supply and demand, environmental impacts of energy, and economic drivers and scale of energy.

Stephen Walker

Mathematics, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences

Stephen Walker's research is predominately in Bayesian methods, including nonparametric, asymptotics, computational and methodological and foundational. Other areas of interest include hypothesis testing, inequalities, matrix, and linear algebra.

Abigail Weitzman

Sociology, Latin American Studies

Abigail Weitzman is a sociologist with a particular interest in gendered family dynamics and the social psychology of demographic processes. Weitzman studies diversity in young women's sexual and fertility desires, how and why such desires evolve during the transition to adulthood, and their influence on young women's reproductive behaviors. Her research explores how different types of sexual relationships emerge and progress among young adults.

Julie Zuniga

Nursing

Julie Zuniga's area of research is self-management of chronic illnesses for underserved populations, with a focus on the impact of the social determinants of health.

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