Awards

Titled Professor - 2023 - 2024

Stephanie and Craig Brater Professor in Global Health

About Bill Stauffer

Dr. William Stauffer has accepted a position as a Professor of Medicine and Executive Field Director of AMPATH-Kenya, Stephanie and Craig Brater Professor at the Indiana University of Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine. Prior to accepting this position, Dr. Stauffer was a Professor Department of Medicine and Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, University of Minnesota. He was the Director of Human Migration and Health at the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility. Since 2005 he has served as Lead Medical Advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant Health Branch) where he works on issues of human mobility and how it effects human health. He is also PI of the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants. the Lead Medical Advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant Health Branch) where he works on issues of human mobility and how it effects human health (e.g. refugee & immigrant health). He founded the UMN/CDC Global Health Course and other leading global health online courses. He has worked extensively overseas in clinical medicine education, research and in public health in more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle east. He is the director for the United Nations Migration Agency, University of Minnesota Collaborative. He is also a co-PI for a new COVID National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants. His research areas have included refugee and immigrant health issues, infectious disease surveillance, diagnostics, neglected tropical diseases, evaluations of public health programs, and examining drug costs and impact on patient. He acts as an advisor to the European Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization.