Research Interests for Sherryl A. Broverman

Innovative pedagogies to engage non-science students in science education. How globalization of science teaching affects learning. Courses focus on HIV/AIDS and evolutionary biology. How inclusion of civic issues, international connections, and social engagement alters the cognitive and affective response of non-major science students to science education.

Keywords:

Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Advisory Committees, Affinity Labels, Biological Evolution, Caenorhabditis elegans, Child, Child, Orphaned, Community Networks, Community-Based Participatory Research, Female, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Health Promotion, Health Resources, HIV Infections, Kenya, Preventive Health Services, Questionnaires, Risk-Taking, Rural Health, Rural Population, Self Efficacy, Sexual Behavior, Sexual Partners, Social Support, Socioeconomic Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, Virology

Current projects:

Creating linked curricula on HIV/AIDS with Egerton University in Kenya.

Developing research service learning in the sciences.

Areas of Interest:

international public health
evolution and creationism

Recent Publications

1. Schmidt, CN; Puffer, ES; Broverman, S; Warren, V; Green, EP, Is social-ecological risk associated with individual HIV risk beliefs and behaviours?: An analysis of Kenyan adolescents' local communities and activity spaces., Global public health, vol. 17 no. 12 (December, 2022), pp. 3670-3685 [doi] [abs]
2. Liu, T; Broverman, S; Puffer, ES; Zaltz, DA; Thorne-Lyman, AL; Benjamin-Neelon, SE, Dietary Diversity and Dietary Patterns in School-Aged Children in Western Kenya: A Latent Class Analysis., International journal of environmental research and public health, vol. 19 no. 15 (July, 2022), pp. 9130 [doi] [abs]
3. Parker, W; Sarafian, JT; Broverman, SA; Laman, JD, Authors' response to Graham Rook's commentary., Evol Med Public Health, vol. 9 no. 1 (2021), pp. 206-207 [doi]
4. Parker, W; Sarafian, JT; Broverman, SA; Laman, JD, Between a hygiene rock and a hygienic hard place: Avoiding SARS-CoV-2 while needing environmental exposures for immunity., Evol Med Public Health, vol. 9 no. 1 (2021), pp. 120-130 [doi] [abs]
5. MUELLER, JL; DOTSON, ME; DIETZEL, J; PETERS, J; ASTURIAS, G; CHEATHAM, A; KRIEGER, M; TAYLOR, B; BROVERMAN, S; RAMANUJAM, N, Using Human-Centered Design to Connect Engineering Concepts to Sustainable Development Goals, Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 8 no. 2 (January, 2020), pp. 1-24 [doi] [abs]