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.

Office Location:	Room 227 Trent Hall and A355 LSRC
Office Phone:	919-681-1021
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Teaching (Fall 2024):

ENVIRON 201.01, INTEGRATING ENV SCI/POL Synopsis
Grainger 2112, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
GLHLTH 573D.001, ONE HLTH: PHILOSOPHY/PRACTICE Synopsis
Trent 040, M 04:55 PM-06:55 PM
GLHLTH 573D.01D, ONE HLTH: PHILOSOPHY/PRACTICE Synopsis
Trent 142, Th 08:00 AM-09:00 AM
GLHLTH 771.001, ONE HLTH: PHILOSOPHY/PRACTICE Synopsis
Trent 124, M 04:55 PM-06:55 PM
GLHLTH 771.01D, ONE HLTH: PHILOSOPHY/PRACTICE Synopsis
Trent 142, Th 08:00 AM-09:00 AM

School(s):: Nicholas School of the Environment

Topical Interests:: environmental health
global climate change
land use and sprawl
landscape dynamics
population growth
statistics

Geographical Interests:: Africa; Latin America

Areas of Interest:: International Health
Population-Health-Environment
Spatial Analysis
Multilevel Models
Global Environmental Health

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications (More Publications)

Janko, MM; Recalde-Coronel, GC; Damasceno, CP; Salmón-Mulanovich, G; Barbieri, AF; Lescano, AG; Zaitchik, BF; Pan, WK, The impact of sustained malaria control in the Loreto region of Peru: a retrospective, observational, spatially-varying interrupted time series analysis of the PAMAFRO program., Lancet Regional Health. Americas, vol. 20 (April, 2023), pp. 100477 [doi] [abs]
Fernández, D; Giné-Vázquez, I; Morena, M; Koyanagi, AI; Janko, MM; Haro, JM; Panagiotakos, D; Molassiotis, A; Pan, WK; Tyrovolas, S, Government interventions and control policies to contain the first COVID-19 outbreak: An analysis of evidence., Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (March, 2023), pp. 14034948231156969 [doi] [abs]
Berky, AJ; Robie, E; Navio Chipa, S; Ortiz, EJ; Palmer, EJ; Rivera, NA; Maria Morales Avalos, A; Meyer, JN; Hsu-Kim, H; Pan, WK, Risk of lead exposure from wild game consumption from cross-sectional studies in Madre de Dios, Peru., Lancet Regional Health. Americas, vol. 12 (August, 2022), pp. 100266 [doi] [abs]
Bonnet, G; Pizzitutti, F; Gonzales-Gustavson, EA; Gabriël, S; Pan, WK; Garcia, HH; Bustos, JA; Vilchez, P; O'Neal, SE; Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru,, CystiHuman: A model of human neurocysticercosis., Plos Computational Biology, vol. 18 no. 5 (May, 2022), pp. e1010118 [doi] [abs]
Pettigrew, SM; Pan, WK; Harrington, J; Berky, A; Rojas, E; Feingold, BJ, Adult Exposures to Toxic Trace Elements as Measured in Nails along the Interoceanic Highway in the Peruvian Amazon., International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19 no. 10 (May, 2022), pp. 6335 [doi] [abs]