Rohan Jeremiah

Dr. Rohan D. Jeremiah is the Associate Dean for Global Health and an Associate Professor of Human Development Nursing Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, College of Nursing. He is a global public health scholar with cross-disciplinary training in Applied Medical Anthropology and Public Health. His research is at the intersections of substance use, violence, and HIV/AIDS. He focuses on developing strategies to reduce trauma, disease risks, and mortality among communities of refugee/immigrant/migrants, Black/African American men, and LGBTQ. His expertise includes qualitative methods, community-based participatory research, health disparities and global health. Dr. Jeremiah’s scholarship reflects more than twenty years of global health experiences, including Peace Corps volunteer services in Cameroon and South Africa and program development and management throughout Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Botswana, Uganda, Swaziland, Lesotho, and Tanzania); South Asia (India and Bangladesh), Latin America, the Eastern Caribbean, and the United States. He has served as a Technical Advisor to the United Nations, US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),