John E Ehiri

Biography

 

Dr. Ehiri is a Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Health Promotion Sciences in the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. He is a behavioral health scientist with >25 years of research and field experience in global health. His research focuses on global maternal and child health, and on infectious diseases with particular emphasis on HIV/AIDS, in keeping with its global importance. He obtained his MPH and PhD from Glasgow University in Scotland. He also has an MSc (Economics) in Health Policy & Planning from the University of Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Prior to moving to the United States in 2002, he was a Lecturer in International Health & Director of the Master of Community Health (MCommH) Program at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), England. At LSTM, he taught several courses in global health and managed a program that prepared students for their overseas field project and dissertation research, working in collaboration with Ministries of Health and development agencies in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Ehiri was recruited by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Public Health in 2002. At UAB, he served as Chair of the University’s Framework for Global Health Program. He developed and piloted UAB’s first University approved Certificate Program in Global Health, which was later adopted as UAB's educational curriculum in international and global health studies. Dr. Ehiri joined the University of Arizona as Chair of the Department of Health Promotion Sciences in 2009. With funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), he developed the UA Graduate Certificate in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology in 2010. He also developed the UA Certificate in Global Health in 2011 and remains the convener of the program. Over the years, Dr. Ehiri has developed and disseminated numerous policy frameworks for integrated approaches to health system development in low and middle-income countries. These frameworks have been widely cited in policy documents of the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, USAID, and other leading global health agencies. He has also made significant contributions to the development of future generations of global health practitioners. He has supervised numerous masters’ and doctoral research projects globally. Many of his former trainees hold leadership positions in national Ministries of Health, and in global health practice and research world-wide. Some of his peer-reviewed publications can be found on PUBMED database at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Ehiri+J. His edited textbook, “Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies (Springer 2009) is available at:  http://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387892443. 

 

Degrees

• Ph.D. Public Health
• Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Evaluation of implementation of the hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) system, and food hygiene training in Scotland
• M.S. Health Policy & Planning; Health Economics; Health Systems Administration
• Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
• The role of socioeconomic factors in infant and child mortality in Nigeria.
• MPH Public Health
• Glasgow University, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
• Evaluation of the role of health visitors in the prevention of home injuries involving children in northwest Glasgow, Scotland