The Team

Jody R. Lori CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN is Associate Dean for Global Affairs and a professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Dr. Lori’s program of research contributes to the design and testing of innovative models of care to improve maternal and newborn health in areas of the world challenged by a lack of human resources, long distances to care, and cultural, gender, and socio-economic barriers. Dr. Lori has served as a mentor and dissertation chair for numerous doctoral and post-doctoral students within the University of Michigan and internationally. She also serves as Director of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery at UMSN, now in its 24th year. Dr. Lori has extensive fieldwork experience in Ghana, Liberia, and Zambia. She holds a PhD in Nursing from the University of Arizona and a MS in Midwifery from the University of Michigan.

Megan Eagle MSN, MPH, FNP-BC is the deputy director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center and Clinical Instructor at the University of Michigan, School of Nursing. Megan has been providing primary health care services to underserved populations since 1995. She has done research on the health care needs of uninsured adults in Washtenaw County, the adaptability Group Prenatal Care models to the family practice setting and on strategies for addressing maternal mortality in rural areas. She has served as a clinical preceptor to adult and family Nurse Practitioner students and also supervised clinical placements for students from the Schools of Social Work, Pharmacy, and Medicine. She is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Nancy Lockhart is a Community Health Nurse with over 30 years of experience as a Research Project Manager. She has managed multiple projects, including evaluation and operation research, foundation-funded international projects, NIH-funded grants, and survey research. She is passionate about health system strengthening, equitable access to health services, and using participatory research to understand community needs. During the past 7 years she has served as Project Manager on international research projects focusing on maternal and newborn care in sub-Saharan Africa, including examining the impact of maternity waiting homes as a system-based intervention and a RCT to test the efficacy of group antenatal care in Ghana. Ms. Lockhart holds a Master’s Degree in Community Health Nursing from Wayne State University.

Michelle Munro-Kramer Ph.D., CNM, FNP-BC is the Director of Global Programs and a Suzanne Bellinger Feetham Professor of Nursing at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Dr. Michelle Munro-Kramer’s program of research focuses on gender-based violence prevention and response, primarily among college-age youth, within domestic and international contexts. As part of the inaugural Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship, she is interested in leveraging nurses’ creativity to develop innovative solutions to complex health and human rights issues such as intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking. Her research projects approach these topics using a trauma-informed and patient-centered lens. She uses mixed methods and participatory action research to understand the experiences of vulnerable populations in order to inform innovative future intervention development. Her global health field work has included Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia and Zambia.

Gurpreet K. Rana leads the Taubman Health Sciences Library's Global Health Program at University of Michigan. The Library's Global Health Program works towards eliminating health inequities through the power of information. As the Global Health Coordinator, Gurpreet’s activities include: building research capacity through evidence-based information skills instruction at U-M and abroad; curation of global health data sources; participation in health equity research and collaboration; conducting expert searching of the global health literature; and building, promoting and fostering relationships with international partners. In 2013, the Medical Library Association awarded her the Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year and in 2017 she received the T. Mark Hodges International Service Award in recognition of her work in advancing the field of global health librarianship.

Janet Gribbons is the Administrative Assistant for the Office of Global Affairs at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Janet has a Bachelor’s of Business Administration from Eastern Michigan University, and is currently pursuing a MBA with a concentration in Information Systems Management from the University of Michigan Dearborn. She assembled this website!

A special thanks to the following University of Michigan students for their assistance with literature review, page creation, translation, and editing:

Angel de Alba
Chelsea Schroeder-Lozada
Fiyin Morenikeji
Kathy Sliwinski
Claire Yeamans
Samantha Nilsson