Dr. Julie Sullivan-Detheridge
Board Member
Julie Sullivan-Detheridge, PhD (WMC Volunteer Edson College Faculty) is a Barrett Honors Faculty, ASU University Senator and Clinical Assistant Professor. Prior to ASU, she was president of a Phoenix-based global nonprofit called the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH). IFESH supported child-centered health and education reform projects in over 20 sub-Saharan African countries, including conflict demobilization projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria. Through its teacher-training programs, it impacted over 2 million children and adults. She has extensive experience working on USAID, Unicef and CDC-funded projects, including a Nigeria based Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS project.. In her present academic role, she has directly taught over 1,000 ASU undergraduate Edson College students (Healthcare Ethics, Community and Public Health, Culture and Health) over her 7 years with ASU. She is an author of two books and the recipient of awards for her education and health reform work in Africa with IFESH. She recently completed a scientific article on empathy in healthcare with co-authors at ASU, Addis Ababa University (AAU) and a university in Hungary. She is a board member of the AZ-OIC and a Trustee of the Leon H. Sullivan Charitable Trust.