Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Indiana University at Indianapolis 1990
  • B.A., Cornell University 1984
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor of the Practice of Biology, Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2006
  • Lecturer, University, Biology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 - 2003
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • APR 20, 2017

    Trinity College Honors Faculty, Staff for Teaching, Advising and Leadership

  • MAY 1, 2016

    Honoring Teaching, Leadership in Trinity College

  • SEP 1, 2015

    Broverman Wins Citizen Science Award

  • OCT 2, 2014

    Ebola Discussions Pervade Global Health Classrooms

  • APR 17, 2014

    The Huffington Post

    The Girl Effect in Action

  • APR 17, 2014

    The Huffington Post

    WISER: The girl effect in action

  • MAR 5, 2014

    A Landmark Graduation Ceremony in Kenya
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Adolescent
  • Adolescent Behavior
  • Advisory Committees
  • Affinity Labels
  • Biological Evolution
  • Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Child
  • Child, Orphaned
  • Community Networks
  • Community-Based Participatory Research
  • Female
  • HIV Infections
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Health Promotion
  • Health Resources
  • Kenya
  • Preventive Health Services
  • Questionnaires
  • Risk-Taking
  • Rural Health
  • Rural Population
  • Self Efficacy
  • Sexual Behavior
  • Sexual Partners
  • Social Support
  • Socioeconomic Factors
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Kenya (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Kenya (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Do Linked International Curricula in Biology Enhance Science Literacy and Engagement in Non-Science and Pre-major Studen awarded by  National Science Foundation 2005 - 2009
  • HIV and Obstacles to Girls' Education in Kenya awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2006 - 2007
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Journal Articles

    • Puffer, ES, Green, EP, Sikkema, KJ, Broverman, SA, Ogwang-Odhiambo, RA, and Pian, J. "A church-based intervention for families to promote mental health and prevent HIV among adolescents in rural Kenya: Results of a randomized trial." Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 84, no. 6 (June 2016): 511-525.  Full Text
    • Green, EP, Warren, VR, Broverman, S, Ogwang, B, and Puffer, ES. "Participatory mapping in low-resource settings: Three novel methods used to engage Kenyan youth and other community members in community-based HIV prevention research." Global public health 11, no. 5-6 (May 2016): 583-599.  Full Text
    • Matthews, EJ, Puffer, ES, Meade, CS, and Broverman, SA. "IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCHOOL-BASED HIV PREVENTION CURRICULUM FOLLOWING NATIONAL DISSEMINATION IN NYANZA PROVINCE, KENYA." East African medical journal 91, no. 5 (May 2014): 152-160.
    • Puffer, ES, Pian, J, Sikkema, KJ, Ogwang-Odhiambo, RA, and Broverman, SA. "Developing a family-based HIV prevention intervention in rural Kenya: challenges in conducting community-based participatory research." J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics 8, no. 2 (April 2013): 119-128.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Puffer, ES, Drabkin, AS, Stashko, AL, Broverman, SA, Ogwang-Odhiambo, RA, and Sikkema, KJ. "Orphan status, HIV risk behavior, and mental health among adolescents in rural Kenya." J Pediatr Psychol 37, no. 8 (September 2012): 868-878.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Puffer, ES, Watt, MH, Sikkema, KJ, Ogwang-Odhiambo, RA, and Broverman, SA. "The protective role of religious coping in adolescents' responses to poverty and sexual decision-making in rural Kenya." J Res Adolesc 22, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 1-7.  Full Text  Open Access Copy  Link to Item
    • Puffer, E, Pian, J, Broverman, S, Ogwang Odhaimbo, R, and Sikkema, K. "Developing a community-based HIV prevention intervention in rural Kenya: Ethical challenges of community-based participatory research (Submitted)." Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (2012). (Academic Article)
    • Puffer, ES, Meade, CS, Drabkin, AS, Broverman, SA, Ogwang-Odhiambo, RA, and Sikkema, KJ. "Individual- and family-level psychosocial correlates of HIV risk behavior among youth in rural Kenya." AIDS Behav 15, no. 6 (August 2011): 1264-1274.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Matthews, EJ, Puffer, ES, Meade, CS, and Broverman, SA. ". Implementation of a of a school-based HIV prevention program in rural Kenya after national dissemination (Submitted)." East African Medical Journal (2011). (Academic Article)
    • Broverman, SA. "AIDS Research: Global Understanding & Engagement." This is a curricular model published and disseminated on the website of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (August 2008). (Academic Article)  Link to Item
    • Ogwang Odhimabo, R, and Broverman, SA. "Globalizing the Microbiology Curriculum." ASM News 71, no. 10 (2005): 448-449. (Academic Article)
    • Broverman, SA, and Prestwich, GD. "Fast ion-exchange membrane purification of a microsomal protein." Biotechniques 19, no. 6 (December 1995): 874-875.  Link to Item
    • Broverman, SA, and Meneely, PM. "Meiotic mutants that cause a polar decrease in recombination on the X chromosome in Caenorhabditis elegans." Genetics 136, no. 1 (January 1994): 119-127.  Link to Item
    • Broverman, S, Macmorris, M, and Blumenthal, T. "Alteration of Caenorhabditis elegans gene expression by targeted transformation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 90, no. 10 (1993): 4359-4363.
    • MacMorris, M, Broverman, S, Greenspoon, S, Lea, K, Madej, C, Blumenthal, T, and Spieth, J. "Regulation of vitellogenin gene expression in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans: Short sequences required for activation of the vit-2 promoter." Molecular and Cellular Biology 12, no. 4 (1992): 1652-1662.
    • Shepard, SB, Broverman, SA, and Muskavitch, MA. "A tripartite interaction among alleles of Notch, Delta, and Enhancer of split during imaginal development of Drosophila melanogaster." Genetics 122, no. 2 (June 1989): 429-438.  Link to Item
    • Spieth, J, MacMorris, M, Broverman, S, Greenspoon, S, and Blumenthal, T. "Regulated expression of a vitellogenin fusion gene in transgenic nematodes." Developmental Biology 130, no. 1 (1988): 285-293.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • BIOLOGY 154: AIDS and Other Emerging Diseases 2018
  • BIOLOGY 180FS: Global Diseases 2018
  • BIOLOGY 293: Research Independent Study 2018
  • FOCUS 195FS: Special Topics in Focus 2018
  • GLHLTH 154: AIDS and Other Emerging Diseases 2018
  • ICS 103: AIDS and Other Emerging Diseases 2018
  • HOUSECS 59: House Course 2017
  • GLHLTH 393: Research Independent Study in Global Health 2016
  • GLHLTH 791: Independent Study in Global Health 2016
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Teaching and Solving “Wicked Problems”: the need for interdisciplinarity. Case Western Reserve University. April 2015  2015
  • Access without equity: challenges to gender parity in educational outcomes in rural Kenya. December 5, 2013  2013
  • TEDxDuke, A Shrinking World. April 1, 2013  2013
  • TEDnJNJ, Caring for the Future: Girls' Education. December 12, 2012  2012
  • Developing and Assessing the Impact of Science Courses with Humanitarian Components. August 5, 2012  2012
  • From Strategic Partnerships to a Culture of Commitment —Global Issues in Science and Civic Engagement. August 4, 2012  2012
  • WISER:Educating Girls, Improving Health. February 11, 2011  2011
  • The Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research, or WISER. October 29, 2010  2010
  • International Collaborative Learning and Social Action Linking Students in the US and Kenya. October 23, 2010  2010
  • Is Science Global? HIV and "Post-Colonial Pathologies". October 1, 2010  2010
  • The Right to Health: Effecting Change from a University. March 13, 2010  2010
  • Global Science, Global Citizens.. March 12, 2010  2010
  • Multimedia Mapping for Community Development in Muhuru Bay, Kenya. November 5, 2009  2009
  • Global Science, Global Citizens: international collaborative learning and social action linking students in the US and Kenya studying HIV/AIDS. June 11, 2009  2009
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Unknown. Appalachian College Association. December 17, 2010  2010
  • Unknown. Leadership Council, Center for Innovation, UNC Asheville. 2008  2008
  • Instructor. DukeEngage in Kenya - WISER. WISER. 2007  2007
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  Service to the Profession

  • Ad Hoc Reviewer for professional journals. 2013  2013
  • Article Editor For SAGE Open. December 20, 2012  2012
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer for professional journals. December 30, 2009  2009
  • NSF proposal reviewer. December 15, 2008  2008
  • SENCER Leadership Fellow : Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities, SENCER. 2008  2008
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  Service to Duke

  • Report Chair. External Review Committee, WPI, Biology and Biotechnology Dept.. December 18, 2013 - December 18, 2013  2013

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