William K Pan

William Pan, PhD, William Pan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Health, joined the faculty at Duke in 2011. He holds a joint appointment at DGHI and the Nicholas School of Environment, and is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Pan’s research interests focuses on Population, Health, and Environmental interactions in developing countries, with particular interest in translational research directed toward sustainable development activities and global environmental health. He has worked in countries throughout Latin America and Africa on topics ranging from land use change, reproductive health, migration, tuberculosis, HIV, enteric infections, and childhood nutrition. Pan received his doctoral training in Biostatistics from UNC-Chapel Hill with a focus on demography and spatial analysis. He also received a Master of Public Health from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Contact Info 

Location: Room 227 Trent Hall and A355 LSRC

Office Phone: 919-684-4108

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Mailing Address: 310 Trent Drive P.O. Box 90519 Durham, NC 27708

Education:

• DrPH, UNC-Chapel Hill
• MS, Department of Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill
• MPH, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. W.K. Pan, Comparative effects of vivax malaria, fever, and diarrhea on child growth, International Journal of Epidemiology (2012) [full]  [abs].
2. with Farley, J., M. Ram, SM Waldman, GH Cassell, RE Chaisson, K Weyer, J. Lancaster, M. Van der Walt, Outcomes of Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Among a Cohort of South African Patients with High HIV Prevalence, PLOS ONE, vol. 6 no. 7 (2011) .
3. with Villaran, M., SM Montano, G Gonzalvez, LM Moyano, JC Chero, S Rodriguez, AE Gonzalez, VCW Tsang, RH Gilman and H. Garcia, Epilepsy and Neurocysticercosis: an Incidence Study in a Peruvian Rural Population, Neuroepidemiology, vol. 33 (2011), pp. 25-31 .
4. W.K. Pan, Infant and child mortality in India in the last two decades: A Geospatial Analysis, PLOS ONE, vol. 6 no. 11 (2011), pp. e26856 [available here] .
5. C Erlien, RE Bilsborrow, Morbidity and mortality disparities among colonist and indigenous populations in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Social Science and Medicine, vol. 70 no. 3 (2010), pp. 401-411 .