Dr. William Stauffer

Dr. Stauffer is formally trained in public health, internal medicine, pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine, tropical medicine and infectious diseases. He recently served as Executive Site Director for the Consortium AMPATH-Kenya as the Stephanie and Craig Brater endowed Professor, Indiana University of Center for Global Health, Division of Infectious Diseases. He is an expert in travel and tropical medicine working in clinical medicine, surveillance, and policy development. His area of expertise focuses on how human mobility affects health (eg. refugee & immigrant health, travel and tropical medicine). He served as the Lead Medical Advisor (2005-2019) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant Health Branch). He has contributed to the CDC Yellow Book as a section editor and authors of multiple chapters for >20 years. He founded the UMN/CDC Global Health Course and other online courses as well as initiated UMN Global Medicine Program.

He serves as the Director for the United Nations Migration Agency-UMN Collaborative. He is a special Senior Advisor to the new Migration Health Initiative at the Task Force for Global Health in Atlanta. He has also acted/acts as an advisor and consultant to intergovernmental organizations and governments such as the European Centre for Disease Prevention & Control, the World Health Organization and the governments of Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

He has published >160 peer-reviewed articles. His research areas include refugee/immigrant health issues, infectious disease surveillance, diagnostics, neglected tropical diseases, public health programs evaluations, and drug costs.