William Stauffer, MD, MSPH, FASTMH

Dr. William Stauffer is a Professor Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine at the University of Minnesota and is formally trained in public health, internal medicine, pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine, tropical medicine and infectious diseases. He recently returned from a 2-year LOA working as the 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.

His clinical practice has been at Regions Hospital, Infectious Diseases, with an outpatient practice at the HealthPartners Travel and Tropical Medicine Specialty Clinic. 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 has worked as a section Editor and continues to contribute to the CDC Yellow Book.  His area of expertise addresses how human mobility around the world affects health (eg. refugee & immigrant health, travel and tropical medicine). He founded and co-Directs the UMN/CDC Global Health Course and other online courses as well as the UMN Global Medicine Program. He is the 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).

NRC-RIM acted as the lead public health response to COVID in the US in RIM populations.  In addition, he is Senior Advisor to the new Migration Health Initiative at the Task Force for Global Health in Atlanta. He has worked (and lived) extensively overseas in clinical medicine education, research and in public health throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

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), His research areas include refugee/immigrant health issues, infectious disease surveillance, diagnostics, neglected tropical diseases, public health programs evaluations, and NTD drug costs.