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. He served as the Lead Medical Advisor (2005-2019) and a Guest Researcher (2019-2024) to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant Health Branch). He founded and co-Directs the UMN/CDC Global Health Course and other online courses as well as the UMN Global Medicine Program and is Director for the United Nations Migration Agency, University of Minnesota Collaborative. He is co-PI of the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants (NRC-RIM).   He is 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 (eg. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization) and governmental public health outside this US).