Jill M. Barr served with the US Peace Corps in Zaire, Central Africa from 1990-1991 as an agricultural/health volunteer
Jill M. Barr
Lecturer - Health and Human Performance Department
Barr earned her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations in 1988 from San Francisco State University. She served with the US Peace Corps in Zaire, Central Africa from 1990-1991 as an agricultural/health volunteer.
In 1994, She returned again to Africa with the Peace Corps, this time as a community health volunteer in Togo, West Africa.
Barr earned her Masters in Health Science (community health) in 1998, from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Barr spent the summer of 1999, in Kenya, East Africa where she volunteered at an AIDS orphanage. Currently, Barr is a PhD candidate in Health Science (community/international health) at the U of A with a proposed graduation date of 2002.
During the last four years Barr worked as a graduate teaching assistant in the Health Science Department at the University of Arkansas. Her research areas encompass the following subjects: Complementary and Alternative medicine and their association with chronic diseases and pediatric AIDS, the efficacy of various forms of Ethnomedicine used in Africa for HIV/AIDS and the bioethical issues involved with persons who suffer with chronic and/or terminal diseases.
