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Faculty

Rethinking Globalization
Cities in the 21st Century
Nations and Identities
Health and Community
Emerging India and China


In keeping with its history of innovative leadership in international comparative education, the IHP’s team-teaching system ensures the highest quality in academic oversight as well as a balanced, culturally aware approach to curriculum development. The Program takes maximum advantage of the breadth of cultural background, educational expertise, and geographic knowledge of our teaching and advisory faculty and country coordinators.

Working closely together, faculty and coordinators spend up to two years on course development prior to the start of each program. Each teaching team includes at least one IHP faculty member, traveling facilitator, and an in-country academic coordinator. Courses combine traditional in-class lectures by both IHP faculty and local guest experts with independent study, hands-on field exploration, case studies, and group projects as appropriate to each course.

The following individuals—most of whom have worked with IHP for three years or more—have contributed their expertise and wisdom as teaching faculty, advisors, curriculum reviewers, and in-country academic coordinators in preparation for the 2007/2008 International Honors Program. Traveling faculty appointments are generally confirmed six months in advance of the program.


Rethinking Globalization
Fatma Alloo, Faculty and Coordinator
Peter Bunyard, Faculty
Gustavo Esteva, Faculty and Coordinator
Oliver Froehling
Corrine Glesne, Faculty and Advisor
Peter Horsley, Faculty and Advisor
Jennifer Jones
Smitu Kothari, Faculty and Coordinator
Savyasaachi

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Cities in the 21st Century
Lynne Aschman, Coordinator
Jody Beck, Faculty
Jocelyne Chait, Faculty
Glenda de la Fuente, Coordinator
Sally Frankental, Coordinator
Barbara Knecht, Program Co-Director
Kenneth Kruckemeyer, Program Co-Director
Hong Zhang Mautz, Coordinator
Diya Mehra, Faculty
Claudia Oxman, Coordinator
Carolina Rovetta
Mieka Ritsema, Faculty
Leo Saldanha, Coordinator
Amy Todd, Faculty
Clovis Ultramari, Coordinator
Hoai Anh Tran, Coordinator
Eve Bratman, Faculty
Sudha Mohan, Faculty
Bhargavi Rao, Coordinator

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Nations and Identities
Kalpana Das: Canada
Gustavo Esteva: Mexico
Smitu Kothari: India

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Health and Community

Lois McCloskey, DrPH: Overall Program Director
Christopher J. Colvin, PhD, MPH: Director, Track 1 and Country Coordinator/Co-Faculty, South Africa
Lora Sabin, PhD, MA: Director, Track 2
Earl Noelte, PhD: Country Coordinator, Switzerland
Leo Saldanha: Country Coordinator/Co-Faculty, India
Bhargavi S. Rao: Country Coordinator/Co-Faculty, India
Zhang Chengping: Country Coordinator, China
Jeremy Ogusky, MPH: Country Coordinator, USA (Washington, DC)
Vu Cong Nguyen MD, MPH: Country Coordinator, Vietnam
Nguyen Thanh Huong, PhD, MPH: Country Coordinator, Vietnam
Farah N. Mawani, PhD, MSc: Traveling Faculty, Track 1
Stefi Barna, MPH: Traveling Faculty, Track 1
Roberto De Vogli, PhD, MPH: Traveling Faculty, Track 2
Tammy Watkins, MPH, Doctoral Candidate: Traveling Faculty, Track 2
Josh Fattal: Trustees Fellow, Track 1
Anna Brittain: Trustees Fellow, Track 2


Emerging India and China
Smitu Kothari
Hong Mautz


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Lois McCloskey, DrPH: Overall Program Director
Lois, Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health (SPH) and Pediatrics (MED), possesses over 25 years of experience in domestic and international health. Her public health career began as an applied anthropologist and educator of community health workers in Nepal. Dr. McCloskey’s Masters in Public Health focused on population studies and international health, and her Doctorate in Public Health on the socioeconomic context of fertility in low-income countries and perinatal epidemiology in the United States. Dr. McCloskey co-founded the Institute for Urban Health Policy and Research for the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals in 1989 and served as its Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director for 7 years before joining the faculty of Boston University. Dr. McCloskey maintains close research and practice ties with the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and many community-based health organizations. Her research and consultation activities focus on race-based disparities in infant mortality, access to and quality of primary health care for women in low-income communities and countries, provider-patient communication, the evaluation of urban health initiatives, and reproductive health policy. Dr. McCloskey is the co-founder of the Women’s Health Committee of the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association and serves on the peer review panels of Public Health Reports, Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, and the Maternal and Child Health Journal. She is Director of the MCH/MPH Program and the MCH Leadership Education Program and represents the department on the school-wide Practice and DrPH Committees. Her courses include Global MCH and Women’s Health Policy-making.

Christopher J. Colvin, PhD, MPH: Director, Track 1 and Country Coordinator/Co-Faculty, South Africa
Chris is an anthropologist living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. He has an MA and PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia. His doctoral research examined the politics of traumatic storytelling with a Cape Town support group for victims of apartheid-era political violence. After his PhD, he developed this work further as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Comparative Literature and Society. Since returning to South Africa, he has been involved in a number of teaching, research and consulting projects. He has lectured in anthropology and public health at the Universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch and the Western Cape. He has consulted in the areas of HIV/AIDS, community-based care, and health systems development for the Health Systems Trust, a prominent South Africa public health NGO, and other national and international development agencies. He is also about to complete a Masters in Public Health from the University of Cape Town (UCT). His thesis is a quantitative survival and longitudinal analysis of a three-year follow-up study of HIV-positive children in Cape Town receiving anti-retroviral treatment (ARVs). He is also developing a new course in qualitative research methods at UCT’s School of Public Health. His upcoming research plans center around a new ethnographic project with two HIV/AIDS support groups in Cape Town, one of which focuses exclusively on men taking ARVs. He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on trauma, violence and memory and has a book manuscript under review at Temple University Press.

Lora Sabin, PhD, MA: Director, Track 2
Lora is a health and development economist based at the Center for International Health and Development (CIHD) and the Department of International Health. Her research currently focuses on applied economics and behavioral issues related to HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases in Africa and Asia. She is currently the Principle Investigator on studies examining antiretroviral adherence in China and evaluating community outreach prevention programs in Vietnam. She is also engaged in studies evaluating utilization of malaria prevention and treatment strategies among pregnant women in India, interventions to improve quality and access to care among HIV-positive women in Vietnam, and a package of interventions to improve neonatal survival in Zambia. Lora teaches health economics and economic evaluation at the SPH. She also teaches in a number of international training programs, including the BUSPH Vietnam AIDS Policy and Planning Project. Lora also serves as Co-Program Director of the Health and Community Programs of the International Honors Program, a Boston-based non-governmental organization that provides study-abroad programs for students at US colleges and universities. Before joining the BUSPH, Lora worked in the Asia Public Policy Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and at the Harvard Institute for International Development. While there, she served for several years as the Academic Director of the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program, a Harvard-managed academic center in Ho Chi Minh City. Lora has lived in East Asia for ten years and has taught at universities and academic centers in China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. She has a PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University.

Earl Noelte, PhD: Country Coordinator, Switzerland
Earl holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and an M.A. in International Affairs from the School of Public and International Affairs at George Washington University. He has been Academic Director of the School for International Training’s Geneva study abroad program for ten years. He also currently serves as an expert with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. He has also served as a member of the Executive Committee at the Swiss Section of Amnesty International, and as organizer and leader of the Annual San Remo Seminar on Refugee and Migration Issues. He has conducted substantial field research around the world and is the author of “Reflections on post-war Kosovo” in the crisis of the Balkans in 1999: historical, political and legal dimensions of the Kosovo conflict.

Leo Saldanha: Country Coordinator/Co-Faculty, India
Leo is a graduate in Environmental Science from St. Joseph's College at Bangalore University and has gained wide-ranging experience in the areas of environmental law and policy, decentralization, urban planning, and a variety of human rights and development issues while working with NGOs for over a decade. He is a full-time coordinator of the Environmental Support Group and a trainer for the National Law School of India University on environmental law issues. Mr. Saldanha also facilitates various NGO training programs. In recognition of his work, the Association for India's Development, USA, nominated him under their AID Saathi program for a period of three years starting 2001.

Bhargavi S. Rao: Country Coordinator/Co-Faculty, India
Bhargavi is the Coordinator of Educational Programmes at Environment Support Group, a voluntary public interest, not for profit campaign, training and advocacy initiative focused on a variety of environmental and social justice issues. She has a M. Phil. in Botany from Bangalore University. Prior to joining ESG she has worked in the Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Biology of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and has coauthored research papers on Rota viral studies in Virology and Current Science journals. She has worked as a lecturer of Botany and Microbiology in the BMS Women’s College and as high-school geography teacher in Sri. Aurobindo Memorial School, Bangalore. At ESG, besides coordinating a variety of educational programmes, including IHP, she is an integral initiator of ESG campaign and advocacy initiatives, and also helps lead a variety of research projects.

Zhang Chengping: Country Coordinator, China
Ms. Zhang Chengping is an English professor at the Central South University (CSU) in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. Ms. Zhang has taught English and American history and culture to Chinese students at CSU for about 30 years. Her research has primarily been in the field of comparative study between Chinese and American cultures. She has participated and directed 9 research projects that mainly focus on improving second language acquisition from the perspective of culture and through the methodology of comparative study. She has published 10 books and more than 40 articles, and translated one book, A History of Technology, all of which concern applied linguistics. Ms. Zhang has received numerous awards, including one from China's prestigious Education Administration.

Jeremy Ogusky, MPH: Country Coordinator, USA (Washington, DC)
Jeremy has been interested in analyzing and changing the many policies and social constructs that determine health and illness for many number of years. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, Southern Africa, he worked within local government to coordinate and evaluate various HIV/AIDS community-level programs. Jeremy also taught university courses in Ecuador, South America, focusing on public health topics such as health policy, social medicine and community development. As a researcher with the Center for International Health and Development in South Africa, he led field research on the economic impacts of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. And most recently, he led public policy and advocacy with Metro TeenAIDS in the District of Columbia. Jeremy also loves to [speedily] ride anything with two wheels and is an active potter.

Peter Risha, PhD: Country Coordinator, Tanzania
Professionally, Peter is a pharmacist with more than twenty years of experience in the pharmaceutical sector in Tanzania has had opportunity to work with both Tanzania and Zambia regulatory authorities to establish a cost effective medicine Quality Assurance system in both countries. He has participated in an innovative program to holistically address improving access to essential medicines in rural underserved areas in Tanzania. Academic qualification includes a PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Ghent University –Belgium. Presently he is working as an academic member of staff, School of Pharmacy- Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Tanzania) where his research focus is on medicines quality and improving access and rational use of medicines particularly in underserved areas. He lives in Dar es Salaam Tanzania with his family.

Vu Cong Nguyen MD, MPH: Country Coordinator, Vietnam
Nguyen is Director of Family Health Research and Development Center, an affiliate Center of Consultation of Investment in Health Promotion (CIHP). He is also a founder/management board member of CIHP. Before working in FHRD/CIHP, Dr. Nguyen was National Program Officer of UNFPA manage a $27 million reproductive health program to support Ministry of Health of Vietnam strengthening their Reproductive Health Services and Program Officer of FHI to manage the first HIV/AIDS intervention projects for MARD people in Vietnam. Dr. Nguyen is leading several HIV/AIDS researches in Vietnam in the PEPFAR funded programs. Dr. Nguyen obtained his medical doctorate degree from Hanoi Medical School in 1993 and a Master of Public Health at Brown University in 2005. His expertise includes health system management, epidemiology, biostatistics and their applications in Public Health Researches with special interest in HIV/AIDS. Dr. Nguyen is a native of Vietnamese, and is fluent of English.

Nguyen Thanh Huong, PhD, MPH: Country Coordinator, Vietnam
Huong is a lecturer, researcher and Vice Head of the Community Health Faculty as well as the Head of the Health Policy Department and Health Promotion Department at the Hanoi School of Public Health. Huong holds an MPH from the University of Adelaide and a PhD in Public Health from Queensland University of Technology, in Australia. Her research areas have included rational use of drugs in communities; pharmaceutical personnel in Vietnam; evaluation of essential public health functions in Vietnam; analysis of on-going Primary Health Care experience in Vietnam implications for future; and analysis of accessibility and affordability to HIV/AIDS medicines (ARVs) in Vietnam, among many others. She has done work with the Hanoi School of Public Health, the Ministry of Health, UNICEP, WHO and other International agencies and NGOs.

Farah N. Mawani, PhD, MSc: Traveling Faculty, Track 1
Farah is a public health scientist committed to community-based global health research with marginalized communities internationally and with immigrant and refugee communities in Canada. She has worked with a Maasai community in Kenya and at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan. She also has extensive experience managing and conducting quantitative and qualitative Canadian research projects focused on the social determinants of immigrant and refugee mental health. She is Past Chair of the Board of Directors for Access Alliance Multicultural Community Health Centre, and a member of the Expert Review and Advisory Committee of the Canadian Women's Health Network.

Stefi Barna, MPH: Traveling Faculty, Track 1
Stefi has worked internationally for the past 20 years in public health, social justice, and alternative education. In the US, Netherlands, France, India and Bangladesh she designed HIV and STI prevention, research, and evaluation projects on behalf of government agencies and community groups, including sex worker’s unions, needle exchange initiatives, gang youth, undocumented immigrants, and the rural poor. In England and India she developed experiential high school and undergraduate programs to integrate self-directed academic learning with field work and reflective practice. She is currently employed by the University of East Anglia on a national initiative to improve the teaching of public health. She has a Master's degree in Public Health (UCLA) and a BA in medical history (UC Berkeley).

Roberto De Vogli, PhD, MPH: Traveling Faculty, Track 2
Roberto is a lecturer in social epidemiology and global health at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London (UCL). He is also a member of the Globalization and Health Knowledge Network of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health of the World Health Organization (WHO). His educational qualifications include an MPH (1988) and a PhD (2003) at the School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He also obtained a DrPsy and State License in Clinical and Community Psychology (1995-1996) at the University of Padua, Italy. Dr. De Vogli has relevant experiences in the field of international health having worked for the World Bank (1998-1999), the World Health Organization (1999), the Mexican Institute of Public Health (2002), the University of San Carlos, Guatemala (2004) and Population Services International, Russia (2004-2005). His research interests regard the study of social and societal determinants of health. Within the Whitehall II study he focuses on health inequalities, fairness, and psychosocial factors. At the societal level, he is interested in studying the health effects of macro factors such as globalization and income inequality in developing and developed societies. Dr. De Vogli's teaching interests center around social determinants of health, global health, income inequality and globalization and health. He is the coordinator of the advanced module in Global Health in the Master of Science (MSc) in Health and Society: Social Epidemiology, UCL. He is also teaching a session on "Globalization and Health" to undergraduate medical students (years four) at the Royal Free and University College Medical School of UCL.

Tammy Watkins, MPH, Doctoral Candidate: Traveling Faculty, Track 2
Tammy is a medical and nutritional anthropologist with strong ecological tendencies. She has done ethnographic research in Belize and Kenya and archeological fieldwork in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico, focusing on Maya civilization. She has also studied in Mexico and worked in Sudan. She has lengthy experience as a Nurse in healthcare in the US and completed an MPH in International Health Promotion at George Washington University. Tammy remains active in community education, primarily through the American Red Cross but also worked in GED and youth education in Washington, DC. Her Master's research was conducted in Belize focusing on Yucatec Maya women and children's access to healthcare. Her dissertation research was conducted in northern Kenya with Turkana pastoralists, this time focusing on children's contributions to household production.

Josh Fattal: Trustees Fellow, Track 1
A graduate of 2002-2003 Rethinking Globalization, Josh has worked and lived at Aprovecho Research Center in Oregon for three years. In and around small-town Oregon, Josh has lived at the grassroots, growing food in the city, designing and running education programs on Aprovecho's 40 acres, volunteering at the community radio station, another way enterprises, local newspaper, cougar mountain orchard, and organizing a really really free market. He has worked intimately through Aprovecho with Appropriate Technology in Oregon and Guatemala. He studied with Sierra Institute Wilderness Field Study, graduated UC Berkeley with a degree in Environmental Economics and Policy, Aprovecho's Sustainable Living Skills Internship, and Heartwood Institute's Healing with Whole Foods intensive program.

Anna Brittain: Trustees Fellow, Track 2
Anna majored in Political Science and Environmental Studies at Williams College in Massachusetts. During college she spent a semester exploring the world’s marine resources through the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program. She spent another semester traveling through India, South Africa and Brazil with IHP’s Cities in the 21st Century program. After graduating she moved to Washington, DC and worked in the Government Advocacy department of The American Institute of Architects. Her work focused on increasing the use of green building and sustainable design practices in the architecture profession and advocating for renewable energy incentives and preservation of historic buildings. Late in 2005 she left the AIA and moved to Vietnam to teach English. She taught adults between the ages of 18 and 30. Classes were four hours straight, five days a week! She was able to choose the topics of each lesson and incorporated an environmental focus into many of her classes. They discussed air and water pollution, flooding, deforestation, coastal erosion, and even green roofs. After six months of teaching, Anna returned to her home state of California and found a job with ViewCraft – an environmental consulting group. She works with businesses to help them develop and implement plans to improve water and energy efficiency, reduce waste, and decrease their carbon footprint. She also manages a regional environmental action project – Community Pulse (www.communitypulse.org). Her passion is writing.

 

 

 

 
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