qualifications: PhD
contribution: statistical analysis, original concept, contributed to drafts
position: Assistant professor and director of research
United States
Dr. Lutfiyya is a chronic disease epidemiologist and Senior Research Scientist at the University of Minnesota. One of her areas of expertise is large population database analysis. She has published widely on asthma education, knowledge of cardiovascular disease, obesity prevention and rural health issues.
qualifications: BS
contribution: original concept, literature review, contributed to drafts
position: Medical student
qualifications: MD
contribution: original concept, literature review, contributed to drafts
position: Resident physician
qualifications: MD
contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts
position: Assistant professor
qualifications: PharmD
contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts
position: Clinical assistant professor
qualifications: MS, FNP
contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts
position: Clinical instructor
Cynthia McGrath is a Family Nurse Practitioner, currently practicing at the University of Illinois at Chicago Clinic in Belvidere, Il. She is a clinical instructor to medical, nursing and pharm-d students and is a Doctoral Student at UIC. Research interests are health promotion, health behaviors, integrative medicine, health literacy, and health services.
qualifications: MD
contribution: original concept, contributed to drafts
position: Regional dean
United States
I am the Regional Dean for the UIC College of Medicine at Rockford and a family physician by training. Our campus has a robust rural medicine progran (RMED) and a center for rural health professions. I am interested in rural health and rural health disparities.
COVID-19 in endangered Indigenous groups from the Amazonia, Ecuador
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Experiences of rural Australian men with online SMART Recovery mutual-help groups
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Attraction and retention of nurses in rural, remote and isolated locations
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Obstetric outcomes across US urban and rural hospitals
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11th Biennial Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2024, 2–6 December 2024, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia
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Te Tāreitanga: Evolving understanding of health workforce research, 9 December 2024, Dunedin, NZ, and online
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4th International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2025, 16–19 June 2025, Adelaide Convention Centre, Kaurna Country, Australia
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