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

  • DEC 10, 2018

    Duke Global Health Initiative

    A Century Later: Are We Better Prepared For the Next Influenza Pandemic?

  • 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

  • Academic Articles

    • Puffer, Eve S., Eric P. Green, Kathleen J. Sikkema, Sherryl A. Broverman, Rose A. Ogwang-Odhiambo, and Jessica Pian. “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): 511–25. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000076.
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    • Green, Eric P., Virginia Rieck Warren, Sherryl Broverman, Benson Ogwang, and Eve S. Puffer. “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): 583–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2016.1170178.
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    • Matthews, E. J., E. S. Puffer, C. S. Meade, and S. A. Broverman. “IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCHOOL-BASED HIV PREVENTION CURRICULUM FOLLOWING NATIONAL DISSEMINATION IN NYANZA PROVINCE, KENYA..” East Afr Med J 91, no. 5 (May 2014): 152–60.
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    • Puffer, Eve S., Jessica Pian, Kathleen J. Sikkema, Rose A. Ogwang-Odhiambo, and Sherryl A. Broverman. “Developing a family-based HIV prevention intervention in rural Kenya: challenges in conducting community-based participatory research..” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics : Jerhre 8, no. 2 (April 2013): 119–28. https://doi.org/10.1525/jer.2013.8.2.119.
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    • Puffer, Eve S., Anya S. Drabkin, Allison L. Stashko, Sherryl A. Broverman, Rose A. Ogwang-Odhiambo, and Kathleen J. Sikkema. “Orphan status, HIV risk behavior, and mental health among adolescents in rural Kenya..” Journal of Pediatric Psychology 37, no. 8 (September 2012): 868–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jss077.
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    • Puffer, Eve S., Melissa H. Watt, Kathleen J. Sikkema, Rose A. Ogwang-Odhiambo, and Sherryl A. Broverman. “The protective role of religious coping in adolescents' responses to poverty and sexual decision-making in rural Kenya..” Journal of Research on Adolescence : The Official Journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence 22, no. 1 (March 2012): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2011.00760.x.
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    • Puffer, E., J. Pian, S. Broverman, R. Ogwang Odhaimbo, and K. Sikkema. “Developing a community-based HIV prevention intervention in rural Kenya: Ethical challenges of community-based participatory research.” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2012.
    • Puffer, Eve S., Christina S. Meade, Anya S. Drabkin, Sherryl A. Broverman, Rose A. Ogwang-Odhiambo, and Kathleen J. Sikkema. “Individual- and family-level psychosocial correlates of HIV risk behavior among youth in rural Kenya..” Aids Behav 15, no. 6 (August 2011): 1264–74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-010-9823-8.
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    • Matthews, E. J., E. S. Puffer, C. S. Meade, and S. A. Broverman. “. Implementation of a of a school-based HIV prevention program in rural Kenya after national dissemination.” East African Medical Journal, 2011.
    • Broverman, S. A. “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.
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    • Ogwang Odhimabo, R., and S. A. Broverman. “Globalizing the Microbiology Curriculum.” Asm News 71, no. 10 (2005): 448–49.
    • Broverman, S. A., and G. D. Prestwich. “Fast ion-exchange membrane purification of a microsomal protein..” Biotechniques 19, no. 6 (December 1995): 874–75.
    • Broverman, S. A., and P. M. Meneely. “Meiotic mutants that cause a polar decrease in recombination on the X chromosome in Caenorhabditis elegans..” Genetics 136, no. 1 (January 1994): 119–27.
    • Broverman, S., M. MacMorris, and T. Blumenthal. “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 (May 1993): 4359–63. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.90.10.4359.
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    • MacMorris, M., S. Broverman, S. Greenspoon, K. Lea, C. Madej, T. Blumenthal, and J. Spieth. “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 (April 1992): 1652–62. https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.12.4.1652.
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    • Shepard, S. B., S. A. Broverman, and M. A. Muskavitch. “A tripartite interaction among alleles of Notch, Delta, and Enhancer of split during imaginal development of Drosophila melanogaster..” Genetics 122, no. 2 (June 1989): 429–38.
    • Spieth, J., M. MacMorris, S. Broverman, S. Greenspoon, and T. Blumenthal. “Regulated expression of a vitellogenin fusion gene in transgenic nematodes..” Developmental Biology 130, no. 1 (November 1988): 285–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-1606(88)90434-4.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • BIOLOGY 154: AIDS and Other Emerging Diseases 2020
  • GLHLTH 154: AIDS and Other Emerging Diseases 2020
  • ICS 103: AIDS and Other Emerging Diseases 2020
  • BIOLOGY 180FS: Global Diseases 2019
  • FOCUS 195FS: Special Topics in Focus 2019
  • GLHLTH 393: Research Independent Study in Global Health 2019
  • BIOLOGY 293: Research Independent Study 2018
• 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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