June 27, 2016

As many Dornsife students and faculty head to SeneGambia and Cuba in the Global Health summer courses this summer, other Dornsife faculty are heading to countries from Mongolia to Israel for international teaching engagements.

In June, Arthur Frank, MD, PhD, professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, returns to the National Medical University of Medical Science in Mongolia as a visiting professor in the School of Public Health.

Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH, associate professor and chair of Community Health and Prevention, will be co-teaching a month-long course in Israel on health in the age of globalization at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Students attend from all over the world – mainly India, China and the United States.

Yudell will lecture on public health, globalization and ethics; race and human genetics; and autism in the global context.

In addition, Health Management and Policy Associate Teaching Professors Jennifer Kolker, MPH, and Dennis Gallagher, MA, MPA, will teach a lecture on evaluating health systems through a social justice lens. Outside the classroom, Kolker and Gallagher have received a Louis and Bessie Stein Family Fellowship from Drexel University’s Office of International Programs to engage in comparative health research while in Israel. “We will be visiting health clinics that serve the safety net population in the Negev, looking at the provision of care to safety net populations in Israel and comparing to our own safety net system in the US,” said Kolker, who serves as Dornsife’s associate dean for Public Health Practice.

In August, Dean Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, will teach a course on urban health at the National University of Lanus in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Editor’s note: If you are a faculty member, student or alum heading out on a newsworthy adventure this summer, please let us know!