Dr. Robert M. Einterz ’77, associate dean for global health, director of the IU Center for Global Health and professor of clinical medicine at the IU School of Medicine, has been named the school’s first Donald E. Brown Professor in Global Health. Mr. Brown, co-founder of Indianapolis-based Interactive Intelligence Group Inc., recently gifted $1.5 million to establish the Center’s first endowed faculty position. Click here to read more about this new professorship.
Bob is also a co-founder of the IU-Kenya Partnership, a 22-year-old program that has used intercontinental resources to battle the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Eastern Africa. In 2009, he spoke at the prestigious Last Lecture Series near the end of the academic year at IUPUI.
In June, Wabash students unexpectedly met up with Bob while traveling on the Kenya Immersion trip. Wabash Magazine editor Steve Charles blogged, “A surprise meeting—first we encountered in the Indianapolis airport Susan Shepard, a linguist going to Eldoret in Kenya to do work connected with the IU/Kenya Partnership there co-founded by alumnus Dr. Bob Einterz ’77. Then we encountered Bob himself in the Amsterdam Airport, on his way to Eldoret for an unexpected meeting. A group of our students will journey from Nairobi to Eldoret Saturday to see the IU/Kenya Partnership clinic there and to do some work—they may get to see Bob again at this place whose work we’ve admired for so long.” Dr. Bob Einterz, Some Little Giant!
