Professor from Germany is the Health Sciences Visiting International Scholar/Lecturer

Maria (Magdalena) Stuelb is the Health Sciences Visiting International Scholar/Lecturer from Hochschule Koblenz, Rhein Ahr Campus in Germany. She is being hosted by the Department of Health Sciences in the College of Science, and the opportunity is made possible through the collaborative efforts of the Center for Global Engagement and the Erasmus+ Faculty Exchange program.

Stuelb is a professor of communication and intercultural competence at Hochschule Koblenz (the University of Applied Sciences), RheinAhrCampus in Germany. She is the co-founder and managing partner of the Institute of Migration, Culture and Health (AMIKO), an organization that provides development and implementation of training and education programs in “transcultural nursing” and “managing cultural diversity in health care professions. She is a cultural anthropologist by training, who works with migrant populations. Her research interests include migration and health, maternal and child health, global labor migration, global mobility of health care professionals, transcultural and intercultural competence, as well as transnational social networks.

"It is a very exciting opportunity to teach here at CCU and to collect enriching experiences!" she said. "In addition, I am very much looking forward to the exchange with colleagues about their research fields and interests and I am very open to discuss joint project options."

Stuelb's research interests are in the fields of international health care migration and transnational social networks.

Stuelb's Coastal email address is mstuelb@coastal.edu and her office is in Swain 140A. She will be teaching PUBH 401*S5 Issues in Health Services and Public Health Practice and PUBH 455*S5 Special Topics: Health and Society. 

She will be giving a Scholar Talk on Monday, April 15, at 4 p.m. in the Alford Ballroom, Atheneum Hall, Room 105 that is open Universitywide.