Executive Vice Provost; Chief International Officer; Professor, Social Medicine, School of Medicine; Dental Friends Distinguished Professor of Dental Ecology, School of Dentistry
PhD (1979) University of Pennsylvania; DMD (1972) University of Pennsylvania; MA (1973) University of Pennsylvania; BA (1968) Queens College, City University, New York.
World Area Of Focus:
• Africa 10%-24% • International 50%-74%
Specialization:
Social research related to stigma, social responses to disease, craniofacial conditions and HIV/AIDS, including work in Malawi; Malawi Dental Project.
Relevant Experience:
• Executive Vice Provost and Chief International Officer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. International experience includes work in: Israel, Thailand, China, Honduras, Brazil, Mexico, and Malawi. • Director of the Office of Community Outreach, Dissemination and Education (CODE) of the UNC Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) • . PI of numerous grants including NIH, NIMH, CDC, NIAID • Faculty Advisor to the UNC Malawi Dental Project
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Lead faculty member, UNC Faculty Engaged Scholars Program of the Carolina Center for Public Service • -ongoing endowed the Dr. Ronald P. Strauss Community and International Health Award • -ongoing Honors of the Association Award for Scholarship and Research, American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association • -ongoing Former President, American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association • 2009-ongoing Chief International Officer, UNC-CH • 2006-2008 Chair, Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill • 2006-2006 Chair, Provost’s Review Committee for the NC-HCAP Health Careers Access Program • 1998-1998 Distinguished Service Award, American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
5
Relevant Courses Taught:
• PUBH 420 AIDS: Principles and Practices.
Recent Publications:
• 2013 Strauss R.P. (2013) Social, Ethical, and Health Policy Issues in the Care of Children with Major Craniofacial Conditions. In: Berkowitz S. (eds) Cleft Lip and Palate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
• 2010 Wells, Pamela L., Daniel J. Caplan, Ronald P. Strauss, Danny Bell, and Mary George. "An Oral Health Survey of the Lumbee Tribe in Southeastern North Carolina." Journal of Dental Hygiene84, no. 3 (2010): 137-144.
• 2010 Strauss, Ronald P., Margot B. Stein, Jeffrey Edwards, and Kevin C. Nies. "The Impact of Community-Based Dental Education on Students." Journal of Dental Education 74, no. 10 (2010): S42-S55.
• 2009 McCoy SI, Strauss RP, Macdonald PD, Leone PA, Eron JJ, Miller WC. “Social Support and delays seeking Care after HIV Diagnosis, North Carolina 2000-2006.” AIDS Care, 2009 Sept; 21(9): 1148-56.
• 2009 Barnhart J., Eron J.J., Fiscus S.A., Kuruc J.D., Leone P.A., Macdonald P.D., McCoy S.I., Miller W.C., Pilcher C.D., Strauss R.P., "Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Patients With Acute HIV in North Carolina," Sex Transm Dis. (2009).
• 2009 Andersen R.M., Atchison K.A., Hewlett E.R., Strauss R.P., "The Pipeline program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistry," J Dent Educ.;73(2 Suppl):S135-45; discussion S145-7 (2009).
• 2008 Balthip Q., Chongsuvivatwong V., Choonuan S., Kasetjaroen Y., Pungrassami P., Sengupta S., Strauss R.P., Van Rie A., "Measuring stigma associated with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in southern Thailand: exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of two new scales," Trop Med Int Health.(1):21-30 (2008).
• 2007 Aspinall C.L., Edwards T.C., Kapp-Simon K.A., Patrick D.L., Rumsey N.J., Strauss R.P., Thomas C.R., Topolski T.D., "Measuring the quality of life of youth with facial differences," Cleft Palate Craniofac J.;44(5):538-47 (2007).
• 2007 Edwards T.C., Fenson C., Kapp-Simon K.A., Patrick D.L., Ramsey B.L., Strauss R.P., Thomas C.R., Topolski T.D., "Stigma experiences in youth with facial differences: a multi-site study of adolescents and their mothers," Orthod Craniofac Res.;10(2):96-103 (2007).
• 2006 Hays R.B., Johnson M.O., Kegeles S.M., MacQueen K.M., McLellan-Lemal E., Metzger D.S., Ralston B., Strauss R.P., "How should HIV vaccine efficacy trials be conducted? Diverse U.S. communities speak out," AIDS Educ Prev.(6):560-72 (2006).
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