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The mission of the Tulane Office of Global Health (OGH) is to foster interdisciplinary, collaborative research opportunities for faculty across Tulane University and to promote global health research training opportunities for Tulane students. Offices are located in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and in an overseas office in Lima, Peru (HOLA, or the Health Office for Latin America).
In this era of interdisciplinary global health, research teams pooling expertise in diverse areas, such as human behavior, design of the built environment, ecology and climate, biomedical engineering, social and cultural mores, clinical tropical medicine, and health access and societal rights, global health is not just of interest to faculty in medicine and public health. It is an increasingly important focus area for universities, with potential relevance and impact for faculty and students from schools within Tulane University.
The Tulane Office of Global Health includes representation from across the university, including many of the schools (see OGH Steering Committee, below). Additionally, the Office of Global Health has collaborative relationships with international organizations from a variety of countries, including Argentina, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, and Sierra Leone.
For faculty, OGH provides support through:
For students, OGH provides support through:
Leadership of OGH
Director: Richard A. Oberhelman, MD (oberhel@tulane.edu)
Professor and Associate Dean for Global Health, Department of Tropical Medicine, and Margaret W. and Eamon M. Kelly Distinguished Chair in International Development, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Senior Program Manager: Robert Palestina, MPH (rpalesti@tulane.edu)
OGH Steering Committee:
Adeno Addis, JSD
W.R. Irby Chair and W. Ray Forrester Professor of Public and Constitutional Law
Tulane School of Law
Iñaki Alday, MArch
Dean & Koch Chair in Architecture
Tulane University School of Architecture
Carolyn L. Bayer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Tulane School of Science and Engineering
Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD
W.H. Watkins Professor of Epidemiology
Tulane SPHTM
Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH
Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America
Associate Professor, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
Tulane SPHTM
Mary A. Clark, PhD
Associate Professor of Political Science
Tulane School of Liberal Arts
Regardt J. Ferreira, PhD
Associate Professor
Tulane School of Social Work
Maureen Y. Lichtveld, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair, Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences
Tulane SPHTM
Anjali Niyogi, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Co-Director, Resident Initiative in Global Health at Tulane
Tulane University School of Medicine
Valerie Paz Soldan, PhD, MPH
Deputy Director, Office of Global Health
Director, Tulane Health Office for Latin America
Associate Professor of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
Tulane SPHTM
Katherine K. Raymond, PhD
Professor of Practice
Tulane School of Science and Engineering
John S. Schieffelin, MD, MSPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine