FACULTY

School of Social Work
School of Nursing
School of Public Health

School of Social Work

Ruth Campbell
Ruth Campbell is a Professor in the School of Social Work. Dr. Campbell has conducted research on the elderly (caregiving, long term care, married couples, programs and services, volunteers) in Japan for the past 20 years.

Barry N. Checkoway
Barry Checkoway is a Professor in the School of Social Work.  His research interests include increasing involvement of diverse groups in community organization, social planning, and neighborhood development. His research projects include "Involving Young People in Community Change" (Ford and Kellogg Foundations), "Community Initiatives to Promote Health of Older People in Latin America" (HelpAge International), "Leadership and Management of Community Health in Africa" (World Health Organization), and "Community Participation in Heath Planning" (National Academy of Sciences), among others. He previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley and University of Pennsylvania, and was visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jorge Delva
Jorge Delva is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. Dr. Delva has an interest in studying the epidemiology of substance use in Latin America. He has worked with the Organization of American States, and other international bodies conducting drug use surveys in Latin America.

Kathleen Faller, PhD
Dr. Faller's fields are social work and psychology. She is an internationally recognized authority on child abuse and neglect, has conducted a number of research projects focused on this topic, and directed multiple service projects focused on abused children and their families. She has provided consultations to colleagues and has made presentations in Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Korea, Scotland, The Netherlands, and Switzerland.

Charles Garvin
Charles Garvin is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Social Work.  Dr. Garvin’s current international interests include an international collaboration on how schools work with adolescents who are in conflict because of ethnicity using group workshops. Collaborators are in Israel and South Africa. Dr. Garvin has previously worked with the development of group work in Poland, of doctoral social work education in the UK and Hungary, development of social work curricula in Macedonia, and development of group work for trauma survivors in Croatia.

José A. Tapia Granados
José A. Tapia Granados is an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Research Scientist in the School of Social Work and the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations.  Dr. Tapia Granados completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the New School University in New York.  He has a degree in medicine from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has been a primary care physician. He has extensive experience in the area of international health.  In addition to his background as a physician, he has worked with the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Pan American Health Organization in Washington DC. He has published and taught classes and conducted workshops in the areas of health and economics.

Andrew Grogan-Kaylor
Andrew Grogan-Kaylor is an  Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. Dr. Grogan-Kaylor’s work has consisted of community development in Africa, primarily in Bawku, Ghana.  He is conducting research on the validity of measurement instruments across racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. and in other countries. He speaks Spanish and Kusaal, a tribal language in Ghana.

Berit Ingersoll-Dayton
Dr. Ingersoll-Dayton's areas are social work, gerontology, and psychology. She has conducted cross-cultural research on caregiving with American and Japanese populations. She was recently awarded a Fogarty grant for research on aging in Thailand.
 

Edith Lewis
Edith Lewis is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work. Dr. Lewis is a Fulbright Award recipient. She has developed a professional practicum seminar for those planning overseas work,  has developed the two international courses currently taught in Social Work, has coordinated the agreement between the University of Michigan and University of Ghana for Social Work Students' Exchange, has developed and supervised professional practicum placements in Ghana, and has helped develop professional practicum placements for students interested in practice in Costa Rica and Ireland.

Lydia Li
Lydia Li is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. Dr. Li is studying the system of care, including formal and informal, of older adults in different nations. Presently, she is working on a data set collected from elders in China (P.I.: Jersey Liang). She is investigating issues related to widowhood, social support, and well-being of Chinese elders.

William Meezan
William Meezan is a Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Social Work at the School of Social Work. Dr. Meezan has done significant work in all three of the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) for the last 10 years, as well as work in Israel. His work has involved teaching various research courses and courses related to children and family services, the development of social work education programs, and the development of programs that impact the lives of children and their families.

Christina Montague
Christina Montague is a faculty liason at the School of Social Work.  Ms. Montague has served for 12 years on the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners. She is a social worker working with the Ann Arbor Public Schools. She is an elected member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).  She is particularly interested in working with nations who are pursuing democracy as their form of government. She recently returned from a fact finding trip to Taiwan where she along with other DNC members met with Taiwanese officials to discuss their work towards independence from China and to gain U.S. support.

Thomas J. Powell
Thomas J. Powell is a Professor in the School of Social Work. Dr Powell has an interest in mental health research. He has served as a Mental Health Consultant for the World Health Organization in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, specifically in Egypt, Sudan, and Kuwait.

Michael Reisch
Michael Reisch is a Professor in the School of Social Work.  Dr. Reisch has published and presented widely on comparative social welfare systems, the history of social welfare, the role of non-governmental  organizations in social development and social service delivery, and the  transformation of the welfare state.  A Fulbright Senior Scholar since 2001,  Professor Reisch has taught courses on international social work/social welfare  at the University of Maryland, the University of Pennsylvania, and the  University of Michigan, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer in  Bulgaria, France, Italy, and Spain.  He has also conducted research and  consulted with scholars and social service organizations in Europe, Latin  America, and Asia.  He was a member of the Executive Committee of the  International Institute at the University of Michigan from 1999-2002 and is currently on the editorial board of NEW GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT and an editor of a  new international electronic journal, SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIETY.

Mieko Yoshihama, PhD, LCSW, CSW, MSW
Dr. Yoshihama is a clinical social worker with a special interest in domestic violence from a transcultural perspective. She has explored this issue as it affects Asian/Pacific Islander, Japanese, and American women. She has multiple Japanese language publications.

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School of Nursing

Donna Algase, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Algase is an internationally recognized expert in gerontology, especially for her work on interventions with patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Currently she is conducting cross-cultural research with colleagues in Australia and China.

Violet H. Barkauskas, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Barkauskas has been providing leadership for the international initiatives in the School for some time. Her background includes service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia and work as a Fulbright Scholar in Lithuania. While in Lithuania, she collaborated with colleagues to develop the curriculum for the first generic baccalaureate program for that country. In addition, she has lectured in, and developed collaborative initiatives with, colleagues in Armenia, China, and Taiwan.

Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Hinshaw is Dean of the School of Nursing. She is an internationally recognized authority on nursing research, and has consulted with numerous international nursing education groups about the development of nursing research programs and countrywide priorities. She has supported the establishment of many partnerships between the University of Michigan School of Nursing and other schools of nursing throughout the world.

Oi-Saeng Hong, PhD, RN
Dr Hong completed her basic and early graduate education in Korea, and a doctorate in the United States. While in Korea she developed the field of occupational health nursing and currently has an active program of research investigating behavioral and educational interventions to encourage workers' use of hearing protection devices. She is co-principal investigator in the Healthy Asian Americans Project based at the University of Michigan.

Shaké Ketefian, EdD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Ketefian has been Director of the Office of International Affairs in the School of Nursing since 1996. In that role she has established many partnerships with schools of nursing internationally. These partnerships are supporting multiple research, education, and service ventures. She has also provided consultation in several countries on doctoral education. In addition, she has provided leadership in establishing the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing (INDEN), and is its first elected chairperson. She has conducted collaborative research in Botswana and Thailand.

Sally Lusk, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Lusk is an internationally recognized expert in occupational health nursing education and research.  For ten years she has served as the Section Editor for the quarterly column Linking Practice and Research in the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses Journal.  Her program of research focuses on behavioral interventions related to worker protection.  She has been funded by NIOSH and NIH to design and test interventions to increase workers' use of hearing protection devices to prevent noise-induced hearing loss.  A randomized clinical trial funded by NIH demonstrated effectiveness of an individually-tailored multimedia intervention, delivered via computer, in increasing workers' use of hearing protection.  With funding from UAW-GM, she assessed the acute and chronic effects of noise exposure on blood pressure and heart rate.  Recently she has worked with colleagues in Egypt, Mexico, South Africa, and Thailand on occupational health nursing education and research.

Joanne Pohl, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Pohl's expertise is health promotion and primary care. She has provided consultation in several counties on primary care, smoking cessation [her research program], and on the development of nurse-managed health centers. She has worked in the Philippines, Zimbabwe, and several countries in Central America.

Jeanne Raisler, PhD, RN, CNM
Dr. Raisler's area is Maternal and Child Health and breastfeeding support. She has substantial experience in Maternal and Child health programs in the African countries of Mozambique and Angola.

Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN
Dr. Villarruel's expertise is in the health promotion of children and adolescents. In the recent past she has been involved in studies of interventions to reduce HIV risk among Latino and Latina adolescents. Her studies have been conducted among populations in the U.S. as well as in Mexico and Puerto Rico. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan (1993-95), and now directs one of the centers of excellence within the School of Nursing [Health Promotion Research Center]. She is now collaborating with Mexican investigators on a study being conducted in that country, for which she is the principal investigator.

SeonAe Yeo PhD, RN
Dr Yeo received much of her basic and graduate education in Japan and has continued to work with colleagues in that country over time, especially in the area of research development in schools of nursing. She has multiple Japanese language publications. She has an active research program involving the effects of exercise on pregnant women.

Mei-Yu Yu, MD, PhD
Dr Yu has been a research scientist in the School of Nursing since 1990. She has provided leadership in developing our partnership with Peking University and is the project director on a research and service initiative to develop cancer screening programs for Asian American Women. Dr. Yu is Director of the Healthy Asian Americans Project which involves the Michigan Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, and Vietnamese populations. She has multiple Chinese language publications.

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School of Public Health

Sioban Harlow, PhD
Dr. Harlow is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Director, International Institute, U-M. Her research and academic interests are in women's and reproductive health. She has done extensive consultative and research work internationally, especially in Mexico and the UK. She is currently co-director of a training grant (NIH-funded) in environmental and occupational health in South Africa.

Jersey Liang, PhD
Jersey Liang is a Professor of Health Management and Policy and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Gerontology. Dr. Liang's research interests focus on health related quality of life and geriatric care from a cross-cultural comparative perspective. His current research centers around three major themes. First, Liang is interested in issues related to the conceptualization and measurement of quality of life at the individual level and the estimation of health expectancy at the population level. Second, he is interested in modeling the dynamics of health and health care in old age. The third interest concerns the comparative analysis of geriatric care management and policy. Since the mid-1980s, Liang has been actively engaged in comparative studies of health, health care, and aging in the U.S. and several countries in Asia.

Arnold Monto, MD
Dr. Monto is Professor of Epidemiology, with an interest in viral and infectious diseases. His publications deal with treatment and related issues in individuals with infectious diseases. He has a long-standing interest in international health, having served as the chair of the department of Population planning and international health in the recent past.

Mark L. Wilson, Sc.M, Sc.D.
Dr. Wilson is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Director of Global Health Program.   Dr. Wilson is an ecologist and epidemiologist with broad research interests in infectious diseases, including the analysis of transmission dynamics, the evolution of vector-host-parasite systems, and the determinants of human risk. Most projects address environmental and social variation, in time and space, as it impacts on vector and reservoir populations and pathogen transmission dynamics. Recent efforts have been directed at various "emerging" diseases including ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, raccoon rabies, and hantaviruses in the U.S., leishmaniasis in the Middle East, dengue fever in South America, and malaria in Africa. In addition to standard field, lab, and statistical techniques, he has been using satellite image data and GIS to undertake spatial analyses of environmental change and the ecology of risk. Spatial analytic tools are also being applied to non-infectious disease processes. Other recent efforts have been directed at understanding how to anticipate and prepare for intentional introductions of biological disease agents.  

Joseph Winchester Brown, PhD
Dr. Winchester Brown is an Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education.  Dr. Winchester Brown's research interests include the interrelationships of physical and mental health, and living arrangements among older adults in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and China; factors contributing to inconsistent use of oral contraceptive pills; understanding use of emergency contraception in the United States public health system; international family planning and reproductive health programs.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Shaké Ketefian, Director
Office of International Affairs
University of Michigan, School of Nursing, Room 3216
400 N. Ingalls Bldg.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0482
Tel.: 734/763-6669 FAX: 734/615-3798 [ ketefian@umich.edu ]