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Sherryl A. Broverman

Professor of the Practice of Biology
Biology
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338
Science Dr, 307 B Biological Sciences, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


How inclusion of civic issues, international connections, and social engagement alters the cognitive and affective responses of non- major science students to science education. Developing inclusive course content and structure. Interventions that improve education and positive mental health and reduce HIV risk for adolescent girls in rural Kenya.  www.wisergirls.org

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of the Practice of Biology · 2020 - Present Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of the Practice of Global Health · 2020 - Present Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers

In the News


Published November 18, 2024
A How-To on Navigating the Tenure Process
Published May 11, 2023
Three Students Honored as Faculty Scholars
Published September 14, 2021
Duke-Founded Initiative Is Helping At-Risk Girls Defy the Odds in Kenya

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Recent Publications


Is social-ecological risk associated with individual HIV risk beliefs and behaviours?: An analysis of Kenyan adolescents' local communities and activity spaces.

Journal Article Global public health · December 2022 The places where adolescents live, learn, and play are thought to influence behaviours and health, but we have limited tools for measuring environmental risk on a hyperlocal (e.g. neighbourhood) level. Working with 218 adolescents and their parents/guardia ... Full text Cite

Dietary Diversity and Dietary Patterns in School-Aged Children in Western Kenya: A Latent Class Analysis.

Journal Article International journal of environmental research and public health · July 2022 Inadequate diet among children has both immediate and long-term negative health impacts, but little is known about dietary diversity and dietary patterns of school-aged children in rural Kenya. We assessed dietary diversity and identified dietary patterns ... Full text Cite

Between a hygiene rock and a hygienic hard place: Avoiding SARS-CoV-2 while needing environmental exposures for immunity.

Journal Article Evol Med Public Health · 2021 Suboptimal understanding of concepts related to hygiene by the general public, clinicians and researchers is a persistent problem in health and medicine. Although hygiene is necessary to slow or prevent deadly pandemics of infectious disease such as corona ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Do Linked International Curricula in Biology Enhance Science Literacy and Engagement in Non-Science and Pre-major Students?

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2005 - 2009

HIV and Obstacles to Girls' Education in Kenya

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2006 - 2007

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Education, Training & Certifications


Indiana University at Indianapolis · 1990 Ph.D.
Cornell University · 1984 B.A.