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McGill Global Health Projects in South America

Within each country, faculty are listed in alphabetical order by first name

Yellow map of South America

Argentina

Name	Title	Department	Subject	Other regions
Jeannie Haggerty	Professor	Department of Family Medicine	Primary health care organization and evaluation; measurement of the patient experience of health care, especially access and continuity; psychometric analysis; health policy analysis.	Mexico, Bolivia, China

Bolivia

Name	Title	Department	Subject	Other regions
Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez	Associate Professor	Director, McGill Institute for Global Food Security; School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition	Food insecurity, hunger, developing world, vulnerable communities	Brazil, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Dominica Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico, The Philippines
Jeannie Haggerty	Professor	Department of Family Medicine	Primary health care organization and evaluation; measurement of the patient experience of health care, especially access and continuity; psychometric analysis; health policy analysis.	Mexico, Argentina, China

Brazil

Name	Title	Department	Subject	Other regions
Anne Andermann	Associate Professor	Department of Family Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health	Primary health care, social determinants of health, vulnerable populations, community health workers, social support, community development, supportive environments for health, intersectoral action	Bangladesh, Niger, Pakistan, Uganda, Canada, Northern Canada
Argerie Tsimicalis	Associate Professor	Ingram School of Nursing	Global Oncology, Childhood Illness	India, Greece, United Kingdom, Spain
Brian Ward	Professor	Centre for the Study of Host-Parasite Interactions	Correlates of immune protection, immunologic correlates of vaccine-associated adverse events, diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for dengue virus infection, HIV transmission reduction	Thailand, Puerto Rico, Peru, Zimbabwe
Dick Menzies	Professor	Faculty of Medicine & Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health; McGill University Health Centre: Montreal Chest Institute	Tuberculosis, TB diagnosis, TB treatment, latent TB, TB prevention, TB control, TB epidemiology	Australia, Indonesia, Korea (S), Guinee, Benin, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Ecuador
Erwin Schurr	Professor	Medicine and Human Genetics	Genetic epidemiology of leprosy and tuberculosis	Vietnam, Morocco, South Africa, Colombia, India, France, Haiti
Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez	Associate Professor	Director, McGill Institute for Global Food Security; School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition	Food insecurity, hunger, developing world, vulnerable communities	Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Dominica Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico, The Philippines
Luis Souhami	Professor	Oncology, Division of Radiation Oncology	Brain tumors, Gynecological malignancies, Genito-urinary malignancies	Portugal, United States
Mabel Carabali	Assistant Professor	Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health	Epidemiologic Methods Global Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology Social Epidemiology	Colombia, Chile, Peru, Cuba, Mexico Burkina Faso, Senegal, South Africa, Germany
Marc Laporta	Assistant Professor	Department of Psychiatry	Knowledge exchange in mental health Aboriginal mental health Diagnostic systems in Mental Health Primary care interventions	The Carribean, Chile, France, Haiti, Canada, Vietnam, Northern Canada
Martin Olivier	Associate Professor	Department of Microbiology and Immunology	Immune evasion by parasites, malaria pigment (hemozoin) and inflammatory response	Ethiopia, Benin
Raphael Lencucha	Assistant Professor	School of Physical and Occupational Therapy	Mental health policy, public health policy, tobacco control, trade and investment	Philippines, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia
Tarek Razek	Assistant Professor	Department of Medicine- surgery	Trauma in Tanzania - trauma registry implementation and analyses, trauma team training program implementation	Tanzania, Ukraine, Nepal, Chile, Senegal, Mozambique, South Africa, Uruguay, Palestine/Israel

Chile

Name	Title	Department	Subject	Other regions
Jay S Kaufman	Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Disparities	Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health	Epidemiology, health inequality, health policy, surveillance	Peru
Mabel Carabali	Assistant Professor	Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health	Epidemiologic Methods Global Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology Social Epidemiology	Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Burkina Faso, Senegal, South Africa, Germany
Marc Laporta	Assistant Professor	Department of Psychiatry	Knowledge exchange in mental health Aboriginal mental health Diagnostic systems in Mental Health Primary care interventions	The Carribean, Canada, France, Haiti, Brazil, Vietnam, Northern Canada
Tarek Razek	Assistant Professor	Department of Medicine- surgery	Trauma in Tanzania - trauma registry implementation and analyses, trauma team training program implementation	Tanzania, Ukraine, Nepal, Senegal, Mozambique, South Africa, Uruguay, Brazil, Palestine/Israel

Colombia

Name	Title	Department	Subject	Other regions
Erwin Schurr	Professor	Medicine and Human Genetics	Genetic epidemiology of leprosy and tuberculosis	Vietnam, Morocco, South Africa, Brazil, India, France, Haiti
Harriet Kuhnlein	Professor Emerita	School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition	bringing recognition to nutritional qualities of unique foods experienced by indigenous peoples	Canada, Peru, Federated Stats of Micronesia, Japan, Thailand, India, Kenya and Nigeria
Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez	Associate Professor	Director, McGill Institute for Global Food Security; School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition	Food insecurity, hunger, developing world, vulnerable communities	Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Dominica Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico, The Philippines
Kristine Koski	Associate Professor	School of Dietetics/Human Nutrition and Experimental Medicine	Maternal and child nutrition in developing countries, interrelationship among nutrition, infection and immunity on perinatal growth and development, impact of subclinical mastitis on milk composition, milk microbiome and infant growth	Panama, Guatemala
Mabel Carabali	Assistant Professor	Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health	Epidemiologic Methods Global Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology Social Epidemiology	Brazil, Chile, Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Burkina Faso, Senegal, South Africa, Germany
Marilyn Scott	Professor	Institute of Parasitology	Host-parasite interactions, malnutrition-infection, maternal-child health, ecosystem health, co-infections, impact of biophysical and psychosocial stresses on perinatal growth	Guatemala, Panama
Myriam Denov	Professor	School of Social Work	Children and youth in adversity, and international child protection, with an emphasis on war and political violence, children in armed conflict, gender-based violence, and war-affected youth living in Canada	Asia, Africa, Sierra Leone, Canada
Neil Andersson	Professor	Professor of Family Medicine; Executive director of CIET-PRAM (Participatory Research at McGill)	Cluster randomized controlled trials, social audit, evidence-based planning, community-based research, epidemiology, aboriginal health	Nicaragua, Mexico, Nigeria, Botswana, Northern Canada

Ecuador

Name	Title	Department	Subject	Other regions
Alison Doucet	Assistant Professor	Faculty of Medicine-Family Medicine	Health care delivery, under-serviced areas, health education, culture and healthcare practice	Tanzania
Dick Menzies	Professor	Faculty of Medicine & Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health; McGill University Health Centre: Montreal Chest Institute	Tuberculosis, TB diagnosis, TB treatment, latent TB, TB prevention, TB control, TB epidemiology	Australia, Indonesia, Korea (S), Guinee, Benin, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, South Africa
Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez	Associate Professor	Director, McGill Institute for Global Food Security; School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition	Food insecurity, hunger, developing world, vulnerable communities	Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Dominica Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico, The Philippines

Peru

Name	Title	Department	Subject	Other regions
Brian Ward	Professor	Centre for the Study of Host-Parasite Interactions	Correlates of immune protection, immunologic correlates of vaccine-associated adverse events, diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for dengue virus infection, HIV transmission reduction	Thailand, Brazil, Puerto Rico,Zimbabwe
Harriet Kuhnlein	Professor Emerita	School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition	bringing recognition to nutritional qualities of unique foods experienced by indigenous peoples	Canada, Colombia, Federated Stats of Micronesia, Japan, Thailand, India, Kenya and Nigeria
Jay S Kaufman	Professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Disparities	Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health	Epidemiology, health inequality, health policy, surveillance	Chile
Mabel Carabali	Assistant Professor	Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health	Epidemiologic Methods Global Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology Social Epidemiology	Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Burkina Faso, Senegal, South Africa, Germany
Madhukar Pai	Professor	Department of Global and Public Health	Infectious diseases epidemiology, tuberculosis (TB), TB diagnosis, TB epidemiology, TB transmission, global health, quality of care, international health in low- and middle-income countries	Bangladesh, Canada, India, Pakistan, South Africa
Mathieu Maheu-Giroux	Assistant Professor	Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health	Cost-Effectiveness; Global Health; Impact Evaluation; Infectious Diseases; Mathematical Modeling; Population Health; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Vector-Borne Diseases	Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA
Theresa Gyorkos	Professor	Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health	Parasite epidemiology; Global health; Neglected tropical diseases; Deworming programs; Parasite prevention and control; Monitoring and evaluation; Malnutrition and parasites; Soil-transmitted helminths	Ethiopia; Senegal; Switzerland; USA

Uruguay

Name	Title	Department	Subject	Other regions
Tarek Razek	Assistant Professor	Department of Medicine- surgery	Trauma in Tanzania - trauma registry implementation and analyses, trauma team training program implementation	Tanzania, Ukraine, Nepal, Chile, Senegal, Mozambique, South Africa, Brazil, Palestine/Israel

Latin America

Name	Title	Department	Subject	Other regions
Timothy Johns	Professor	School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition; Director-McGill Canadian Field Studies in Africa	Nutrition, traditional thoughts, human adaptation, diet and medicine	Sub-Saharan Africa and Northern Canada

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