Rate My Professor Sherri Porcelain

Porcelain's research specializations encompass global health policy and ethics, disasters, terrorism, humanitarian emergencies, and their effects on human health. Her academic interests include mosquito-borne illnesses, cholera outbreaks in Cuba, and parasitic diseases. She organized the 2014 World Health Day seminar titled 'Small Bite, Big Threat' at the University of Miami to investigate mosquito-borne illnesses. Key publications co-authored by Porcelain include 'Permethrin 5% dermal cream: A new treatment for scabies' (1986), 'Comparative Efficacy of Treatments for Pediculosis Capitis Infestations' (1987), 'Dengue in Costa Rica: the gap in local scientific research,' and contributions to studies on ivermectin resistance in Sarcoptes scabiei. She has published analyses on Cuba's public health challenges, such as 'U.S. & Cuba: a question of indifference?' in Cuba Insight (2017). Porcelain teaches graduate and undergraduate courses including INS 573: Disasters, Terrorism and Global Public Health, Global Health Policy & Ethics, and Public Health in Ticantiki (Panama). Her work supports education and research on ethical dimensions of national, regional, and global health policies, with emphasis on human rights issues.