Faculty & Administration

• Program Director: Judith A. Levy, PhD, Associate Professor, Health Policy and Administration, UIC, School of Public Health.
  
• Co-Director: Beverly McElmurry, EdD, RN, FAAN, Professor Public Health Nursing and Associate Dean, Global Health Leadership Office, UIC, College of Nursing.

UIC AITRP Administrators

• Saima Chaudhry, Project Coordinator
• Norman Altman, Grants Administrator

Country Coordinators

• Chile: Rosina Cianelli, PhD, RN, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
  
• China: Shun-zhen Xiao, MD, Peking University Health Science Center.
  Hua Xu, MD, Chinese Foundation for the Prevention of STDs and AIDS.
  
• Malawi: Chrissie Ndasochera Kaponda, PhD, RN, Department Head of Maternal-Child Nursing at Kamuzu College of Nursing, The University of Malawi.
  
• Indonesia: Irwanto, PhD, UIC AITRP Country Coordinator for Indonesia.
  

Country Program Coordinators

• Chile: Beverly McElmurry, EdD, RN, FAAN, Professor Public Health Nursing and Associate Dean, Global Health Leadership Office, UIC, College of Nursing.
  
• China: Carol Christenson, PhD, RN, Research Assistant Professor; Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing.
  
• Indonesia: Wayne Wiebel, PhD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UIC School of Public Health.
  
• Malawi: Kathleen Norr, PhD, UIC AITRP Program Coordinator for Malawi.

UIC-AITRP Faculty and Research Preceptors AITRP faculty at UIC represent a wide range of multidisciplinary expertise in research theory and methods including direct experience in conducting AIDS, STD, and/or TB research both in the US and internationally.

UIC-AITRP School of Public Health Faculty

• Judith A. Levy, PhD (Sociology), Associate Professor, Health Policy and Administration, UIC, School of Public Health;
• Robert C. Bailey, PhD, MPH, (Anthropology), Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics;
• Paul J. Goldstein, PhD (Sociology), Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Biostatistics;
• Lena Hatchett, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences;
• Ronald Hershow, MD, (Medicine) Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics;
• Michele Issel, PhD, RN, Clinical Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences;
• Susan Levy, PhD (Educational Psychology) Professor of Community Health Sciences and Director of the UIC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research;
• Edward Mensah, PhD (Economics) is an associate professor of health economics in Health Policy and Administration;
• Lawrence J. Ouellet, PhD (Sociology), Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Co-Director of the Community Outreach Intervention Projects;
• Nadine Peacock, PhD (Anthropology), Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences;
• Thomas Prohaska, PhD (Psychology), Professor of Community Health Sciences;
• Jesus Ramirez-Valles, PhD (Anthropology), Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences;
• Wayne Wiebel, PhD (Sociology), Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics;
• Chyvette Williams, PhD, Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Administration, UIC, School of Public Health.

UIC-AITRP College of Nursing Faculty

• Barbara Berger, PhD, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor, Medical Surgical Nursing;
• Carol Christenson, PhD, RN, Research Assistant Professor; Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing;
• Barbara Dancy PhD, MSN, Associate Professor, Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing;
• Marquis Foreman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, Medical-Surgical Nursing;
• Tonda Hughes, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing;
• Gwen Brumbaugh Keeney, PhD, RN, CNM, Clinical Assistant Professor, Maternal-Child Nursing;
• Beverly McElmurry, EdD, RN, FAAN, Professor Public Health Nursing and Associate Dean, Global Health Leadership Office, UIC, College of Nursing.
• Arlene Miller, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing;
• Kathleen Norr, PhD, Associate Professor, Maternal Child Nursing;
• Patrick Robinson, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Medical Surgical Nursing;
• Marie Talashek, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor, Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing;
• Diana Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Harriet Werley Endowed Chair for Nursing Research, Medical Surgical Nursing.

• Kathleen Crittendon, PhD, Professor Emerita, Sociology
• Carol Ciesielski, MD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology
• Nathan Linsk, PhD, MSW, Professor, Social Work
• Claudia Morrissey, PhD, Deputy Director, Center for Research on Women and Gender
• Richard Novak, MD, Associate Professor, Infectious Disease
• Roger Weissberg, PhD (Psychology), Professor of Psychology