Global Health Program Affiliated Faculty

Global Health Students get the opportunity to work closely with university faculty from a wide range of departments and with diverse expertise.

Department of Anthropology

 Thomas Csordas, Ph.D., Professor

Tom Csordas is an expert on psychological and medical anthropology, anthropological theory, and comparative religion.

Janis H. Jenkins, Ph.D., Professor. Jenkins is an expert on psychological and medical anthropology, mental health, and Mexican and Central American migrants.

Nancy Postero Ph.D., Associate Professor. Political economy, multiculturalism, neoliberalism, citizenship, identity, indigenous politics, development, non-governmental organizations, Bolivia, Latin America.

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

Department of Cognitive Science

Department of Communication

Department of Economics

Department of Ethnic Studies

Department of History

Cathy Gere, 

School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS)

Department of Literature

School of Medicine

Anita Raj,MD, Ph.D, Director of UCSD's Center on Gender Equity and Healt, Professorh and is a Professor in the Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine

Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, Professor and Division Chief, Family & Preventive Medicine

Department of Political Science

David R. Mares, Ph.D., Professor
Mares' research interests include international security, international political economy and Latin American civil-military relations.

Department of Sociology

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Department of Visual Arts

Edwin (Teddy) Cruz, M.F.A., Professor
Cruz's work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory.