Dr. Meredith Gartin is an Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Department of Health Policy and Organization at the UAB School of Public Health. Dr. Gartin’s main area of expertise focuses on global environmental health and urbanization, with a particular focus on vulnerabilities related to food and water. Dr. Gartin is especially interested in how global and local processes of climate change converge on human health and development issues, like food security, water resources, human migration, and non-communicable disease (like obesity and mental health). For over 10 years, Dr. Gartin has conducted cross-cultural, climate-related health research in Central and South America, the South Pacific, and the US. She is currently establishing research partnerships to focus on climate-displaced refugees and migrant populations in Alabama and other US states.
Given her focus on general global health education and training, Dr. Gartin consults and evaluates the global health curriculum and programming in institutions of higher education. As the co-chair of the Sub-Committee on Master’s and Undergraduate Degrees in Global Health with the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, Education Committee, Dr. Gartin and fellow colleagues have published a series of peer-reviewed journal articles mapping global health programs in US institutions with CEPH and ASPPH competencies. She also leads and directs global health curriculum at UAB as well.
