Doctoral Student

Elizabeth Rowley, DrPH candidate, works with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, implementing the Security in Humanitarian Crises Study to document the mortality and morbidity risks of humanitarian workers. She began her work with the Center in 1999, when she went for two years to the West Nile districts of Uganda to collaborate with Save the Children (UK) to support district health teams to address the challenge of integrating refugee health services into district systems. She also has written on topics related to sexual violence, evaluated domestic violence prevention activities in Uganda, and conducted field-based research on HIV/AIDS in refugee and host populations in Tanzania. She has done other refugee-related work in Thailand, El Salvador, southern Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania, which includes program management, evaluation and research. Elizabeth earned a master of health sciences degree at Johns Hopkins University in Population Dynamics and a master of international affairs degree from Columbia University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the School’s Department of International Health, studying the forced migration experience and fertility of refugees in Uganda.

International Emergency Medicine Fellows

Lauren Cooper, MD (2006-present), has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Va. She has worked in medical projects in Chile, Azerbaijan and Mozambique. As part of her present fellowship, she also is working toward a master of public health degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Johnathan Sheele, MD, MHS (2007-present), graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry from Alma College in Alma, Mich., and then obtained a master of health science degree in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Sheele obtained his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Mich., and in 2007 completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va.  Dr. Sheele has worked in clinics in Haiti, India, Ecuador and Belize.  As the current International Emergency Medicine Fellow, Dr. Sheele is interested in humanitarian assistance as well as communicable disease outbreak prevention and control, particularly as it relates to disaster response and complex humanitarian and natural emergencies. His professional interests also include HIV, MRSA and other infectious diseases.  Dr. Sheele’s personal interests include running, camping, fishing and biking. He has competed in two MedWAR competitions, allowing him to combine his interests in wilderness medicine and adventure racing.