Administrator Info
Name: Becca Johnson
Phone: 612-624-9996
Fax: 612-625-4410
Email: [email protected]
Mail: Mayo Memorial Building, MMC 250, 420 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455
Dr. William Stauffer is a Professor Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine at the University of Minnesota. He also holds appointments in the Pediatrics and in the School of Public Health. He is the Director of Human Migration and Health at the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility. His clinical practice is at Regions Hospital, Infectious Diseases, with an outpatient practice at the Travel and Tropical Medicine Specialty Clinic. He is an expert in travel and tropical medicine working in clinical medicine, surveillance, and policy development. Since 2005 he has served as the Lead Medical Advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant Health Branch) where he works on issues of human mobility and how it effects human health (e.g. refugee & immigrant health). He Co-Directs the UMN/CDC Global Health Course and other online courses. He works extensively overseas in clinical medicine education, research and in public health in more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle east. He is the director for the United Nations Migration Agency, University of Minnesota Collaborative. He is also a co-PI for a new COVID National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants. His research areas have included refugee and immigrant health issues, infectious disease surveillance, diagnostics, neglected tropical diseases, evaluations of public health programs. He acts as an advisor to the European Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and chairs an Inter-Governmental Refugee Health Work-Group aimed at aligning medical management of refugees.
MD, University of Minnesota
Stauffer WM, Alpern JD, Walker PF. COVID-19 and Dexamethasone. A potential strategy to avoid steroid-related Strongyloides hyperinfection. JAMA. Published online July 30, 2020. Doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13170,
Volkman HR, Walz EJ, Wanduragala D, Schiffman E, Frosch A, Alpern JD, Walker PF, Angelo KM, Coyle C, Mohamud MA, Mwangi E, Haizel-Cobbina J, Nchanji C, Stauffer WM. Barriers to malaria prevention among immigrant travelers in the United States who visit friends and relatives in sub-Saharan Africa: A cross-sectional, multi-setting survey of knowledge, attitudes, and practices. PLoS ONE 2020. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229565,
Goers M, Ope MO, Samuals A, Gitu N, Akandwanaho S, Nabwami G, Nyoka R, Cetron MS, Dalal W, Conroy AL, Cantey P, John C, Naoum M, Weinberg M, Marano N, Stauffer W. Splenomegaly of unknown etiology in Congolese refugees. Morb Mort Wkly Rep 2016;65(35):943-44,
Alpern JD, Song J, Stauffer WM. Essential medicines in the United States—Why access is diminishing. N Engl J Med 2016;374(20):1904-1907,
Kesselheim AS, Alpern JD, Stauffer WM. High-cost generic drugs—implications for patients and policy makers. N Engl J Med 2015;372(7):686,
Interests
Primary work is on infections and diseases in mobile populations including refugees, immigrants, migrants, and travelers. Currently working on prevention of importation of malaria into the United States through African VFR travelers, point-of-care diagnostics (e.g. malaria, Loa loa), soil-transmitted helminths and other neglected tropical diseases, zoonotic infections, drug pricing for neglected diseases, and cost-evaluation of public health interventions.
Research Support
Active
Advisor, Regional Emmy® Award (Upper Midwest). The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Recognition for contribution to the Regional Emmy® winning production “American Heart”. Topical Documentary, 2014
Nakano Citation, Honor Award Certificate. National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013
, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011
Honor Award, National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009
Health Equity Award, National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009
, Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, 2007
Education Excellence Award, University of Minnesota Medical Center, 2006
Medical/Technical Advisor, European Union Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Euro Health Group. EU/EAA Evidence Based Infectious Disease Guidelines (2015- pres)
Fellow, Inaugural year. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Immigrant, Refugee and Migrant Health Branch. Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Zoonotic and Emerging Infections, Lead Medical Advisor
Infectious Diseases & Tropical and Travel Medicine Clinic, HealthPartners, Staff
Tropical medicine; Parasitology, Travel and Tropical Medicine, General Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Adult Infectious Disease