Dr Sadeep Shrestha
Dr. Sadeep Shrestha, a recipient of the Quetelet Endowed Professorship in Public Health, is an Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UAB. Dr. Shrestha's background spans the fields of genetics, molecular biology, epidemiology, and forensic science. He has tremendous experience with host genetics, genomics and epigenetic studies in several HIV US-based and international cohorts including MACS, ALIVE, MHCS, HERS, FRAM and REACH. Specifically, he has experience in a wide spectrum of epidemiology and host genetic research involving various infectious diseases (HIV, HBV, HCV, HPV and Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis, Kawasaki disease) and chronic diseases (lung cancer, prostate cancer, asthma).
Dr. Shrestha is also a Global Health Scholar in the Sparkman Center for Global Health at UAB, mentoring students with international health research and experience. While most of Dr. Shrestha's focus has been in host genetics of infectious disease, specifically HIV and HPV infection outcomes, he has also been involved in several epidemiological studies of infectious diseases and have initiated and led a qualitative and quantitative project in collaboration with NFCC, the Nepal ministry of health and various international institutes in the past 8 years. Dr. Shrestha serves in several academic and NGO boards and committees in both US and Nepal. He currently serves in the editorial board of _Genes and Immunity_, Human Immunology, and Kathmandu University Medical Journal and also is the associate editor of BMC Infectious Diseases.
Dr.Madhav Bhatta
Dr. Bhatta has almost 15 years of administrative, teaching, training, and research experience in the field of public health, especially in infectious disease epidemiology and global health. He has taught for the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (health without boarders; infectious disease surveillance and control; global perspectives in disease control and prevention) and served as the program director of the UAB Sparkman Center for Global Health. Dr. Bhatta currently also serves as a consultant epidemiologist for the Carroll County and Tuscarawas County General Health Districts in Northeast Ohio as part of their Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program. As such he an integral part of the emergency preparedness response for these two counties and advises the health departments on all the epidemiologic aspects of emergency response and action. Dr. Bhatta currently teaches courses in global health at the undergraduate and epidemiologic methods at the graduate level in the college. Dr. Bhatta has published about a dozen articles, book chapters, and abstracts on topics in public health.
Maggie Piper
Maggie Piper has a BSc from the Australian National University and a Master of International Public Health from New York University. She has worked in countries in transition in Asia, the Middle East and West Africa for nearly 30 years. She lived in post-conflict Nepal for five years working with the United Nations in health system strengthening, maternal and child health and disability. Currently based in New York City, she continues to engage in evidence based health policy and education that strengthens women's agency, particularly in decision making about sexual and reproductive health and the transformative affect this has upon families and communities.