Our Team

Erin Mann, PhD, MPH, is the program director of the Migration Health Initiative at the Task Force for Global Health. She previously served as the principal investigator and program manager for the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants, the program from which MHI evolved. In this role, she also co-led a long-term partnership between the CDC, the UN Migration Agency/International Organization for Migration, and the University of Minnesota to strengthen the continuum of care for refugees resettling to the US.

Prior to these roles, Erin managed global and public health projects focused on emergency preparedness and response, global medical supply chains, biosurveillance, and workforce development. These projects were supported by a range of funders, including the CDC, USAID, Skoll Global Threats Fund, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, FDA, and DOD.

Erin received her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota and her master’s in public health from Boston University. Her doctoral research portfolio examined hepatitis B vaccination, epidemiology, and linkage to care among refugees resettling to the US.

Dr. Stauffer is a professor in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine and holds appointments in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and in the School of Public Health. He founded and acts as the director for the United Nations –University of Minnesota Collaborative Project, and founded and acts as co-principal investigator of the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants.

From 2005 to 2019 he served as lead medical advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Global Migration and Health (Immigrant, Refugee, Migrant Health Branch) where he worked on issues of human mobility and how it affects human health. He has also acted as an advisor to the European Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization.

Dr. Stauffer co-founded the University of Minnesota Global Medicine Program and founded the UMN/CDC Global Health Course and other leading global health online courses. He has worked extensively overseas in clinical medicine education, research, and in public health in more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. His research areas have included refugee and immigrant health issues, infectious disease surveillance, diagnostics, neglected tropical diseases, evaluations of public health programs, and examining drug costs and impact on patients.

Syreeta is a senior technical consultant with the Migration Health Initiative at the Task Force for Global Health, where she directs the health promotion efforts, serves as the technical lead for human-centered design initiatives, and leads the dissemination strategy for MHI resources. She also serves in a leadership capacity for strategic planning, program monitoring and evaluation, and stakeholder engagement. She previously served as a public health advisor and communications strategist for the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NRC-RIM), the program from which MHI evolved.

She has led strategic communications in public and nonprofit settings since 2010, and has expertise in language justice, health promotion, and engaging with diverse and multilingual communities. Before working in public health, Syreeta was a school district administrator.

Syreeta holds a master’s in public health from the University of Minnesota, where she focused on global and immigrant health. She holds a master’s in linguistics from New York University, where she explored socioeconomic influences on Spanish-speaking immigrants’ speech patterns.