global health 鈥� 麻豆频道University News Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:20:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Bernard Appiah /faculty-experts/bernard-appiah/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:25:27 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=171689 Bernard Appiah joined the Public Health Department as assistant professor in fall 2020. He is director of the Research Program on Health Communication and Public Engagement (H-COPE) within the Public Health Department. H-COPE has research collaborations in New York state, nationally and globally.

Prior to joining 麻豆频道University, Appiah was assistant professor at Texas A&M University鈥檚 School of Public Health in the Departments of Environmental and Occupational Health and Public Health Studies. He was the founding director of the Research Program on Public and International Engagement for Health.

Previously, Appiah served as a drug information pharmacist/publications manager at the National Drug Information Resource Centre (NDIRC) for the Ministry of Health in Ghana. He has taught courses such as environmental and occupational health communication, social context of population health, and comparative global health systems.

]]> Brittany Kmush /faculty-experts/brittany-kmush/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:56:21 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=134315 Brittany received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University鈥檚 Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her dissertation was entitled, 鈥淩isk factors for antibody loss after Hepatitis E virus natural infection and vaccination.鈥� She earned a master of science in infectious disease epidemiology from the Bloomberg School at Johns Hopkins University and holds a bachelor of science in biochemistry from the University of Rochester where she graduated cum laude. Her areas of specialization include epidemiology, global health, infectious diseases, vaccines, nutrition, immunology and environmental exposures particularly within the context of risks for infectious diseases, and Hepatitis E virus.

In addition to a series of graduate research assistantships at Johns Hopkins, she was a student investigator at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh and the National Institute for Diagnosis and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China where she Implemented a study examining the persistence of antibodies after hepatitis E virus infection.

Her professional portfolio includes participation on numerous research grants, including an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where she was a student investigator on the project, 鈥淒eterminants of Immunological Persistence of Hepatitis E Virus Antibodies.鈥� The purpose of the study was to determine antibody persistence after Hepatitis e virus and vaccination in South Asia.

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