Richard Oberhelman

Professor and Chair - Global Community Health & Behavioral Sciences

School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/41160103/?sort=date&direction=descending
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Region
  • Africa
  • General Latin America
Richard Oberhelman

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:

3

Research

Global Community Health and Behavorial Sciences, Tuberculosis, Pediatric Health, Gastrointestinal Infections in Children, Peru, Africa

Degrees

  • B.A., Rice University, Spanish, 1977
  • M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical, 1981

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor and Chair, Tulane University, Dept. of Global Community Health & Behavioral Sciences, 2012-
  • Professor, Tulane University, Departments of Tropical Medicine and Pediatrics, 2008-
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Tulane University, Departments of Tropical Medicine and Pediatrics, 1997-2007
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, Departments of Tropical Medicine and Pediatrics, 1990-1997
  • Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1988-1990

Distinctions

  • Columbia University Faculty Mentoring Award, 2019-2020
  • Distinguished Greenleaf Scholar in Residence Award, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2016
  • Alan Merriam Book Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology, 2015
  • Certificate of Recognition of Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring, Tulane SPHTM, 2012
  • President, Delta Omega (Public Health Honor Society), 2011-2012
  • Teaching and Research Incentive Award, SPHTM Dean’s Office, 1995
  • Gorgas Memorial Institute Fellowship Award, 1993
  • Honorary Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1993
  • Honorary Professor, Universidad Cayetano Heredia, 1988

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French

Overseas Experience

  • Peru
  • Cambodia
  • Argentina
  • Mexico
  • China

Related Experience

  • Principal Investigator, Inter-American Training Program for Innovations in Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATIEID)
  • Principal Investigator, Tulane-Xavier Minority Health International Research Training (MHIRT) Grant, 2005-
  • Pediatric Consultant, Tulane University Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic, 1991-
  • Clinical Pediatric Infectious Disease Consultant; Tulane Health Sciences Center, Charity Hospital of New Orleans, Children’s Hospital of New Orleans, Ochsner Hospital and Clinic, 1990-

Selected Publications

  • 2020. “Recycling audibility as sound design for life.” Special volume on Amateurism and the Arts edited by Ben Piekut and Julia-Bryan-Wilson, Third Text, 34 (1), 88-92.
  • 2020. “Epilogue: the Audibility of Brazilian Sound Art.” In Rui Castro and Fernando Iazzetta, Making it Heard: A History of Brazilian Sound Art. New York, London: Bloomsbury.
  • 2019. “Política alimentaria, ecologías de la sonoridad y diseño de politicas de vida: una reflexión a partis de Lévi-Strauss”, Special Volume on music and climate change after María, Conciencias Sonoras Reflexiones Pos-María desde la Música y el Arte al C
  • 2019. “Sonic Cartographies.” In eds. Gavin Steingo and Jim Sykes, Remapping Sound Studies. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
  • 2013. With Martinez, Arman, Gilman et. al. “Changes in Tuberculin Skin Test Positivity Over 20 Years in Periurban Shantytowns in Lima, Peru.” Am J Trop Med Hyg 89(3): 507-515.
  • 2013. With Martinez, Cabrera , Bernabe-Ortiz et. al. “Free-ranging Chickens in Households in a Periurban Shantytown in Peru — Attitudes and Practices 10 Years after a Community Based Intervention Project.” Am J Trop Med Hyg 89(2): 229-31.
  • 2013. With Paz-Soldán, Dimos-Jones, Alban et. al. “The provision and need of social support among adult and pediatric patients of Tuberculosis and TB/HIV in Lima, Peru: a qualitative study.” BMC Health Serv Res 13: 290.
  • 2013. With Lee, Pan, and Kosek et. al. “Symptomatic and asymptomatic Campylobacter infections associated with reduced growth in Peruvian children.” PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 7(1): e2036.
  • 2013. With Rath, Castillo ME, Soto-Castellares et. al. “Antiviral resistance and correlates of virologic failure in the first cohort of HIV-infected children gaining access to structured antiretroviral therapy in Lima, Peru: a cross-sectional analysis.” B
  • 2010. With Soto-Castellares and Gilman et al., “Diagnostic approaches for paediatric tuberculosis by use of different specimen types, culture methods, and PCR: a prospective case-control study,” Lancet Infect Dis 10(9): 612-20.
  • 2009. With Cleary. “Bacillus cereus.” In Textbook of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, 6th Edition. (Feigin, Cherry, Demmler, and Kaplan, eds.). New York: Saunders Elsevier, 1407-1412.
  • 2009. With Carrion, Laguna Torres, Soto-Castellares, Castillo, Salazar, Negron, Kolevic, Montano, Sanchez, Bautista, Kochel TJ. “Molecular characterization of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 among children in Lima, Peru.” AIDS Res Hum Retro 25:833
  • 2008. With Nicholls, Kozarsky. “Special Hosts: Children, Pregnant Women, and the Elderly.” In Traveler‘€™s Diarrhea (Ericsson, DuPont, and Steffen, eds., 2nd Edition). Hamilton, Ontario: BC Decker, Inc., 105-113.
  • 2007. With Kosek. “Unraveling the contradictions of Vitamin A and infectious diseases in children.” J Infect Dis 196:965-967.