Title(s): Associate Professor
Department: Community and Behavioral Health
Office: N426 CPHB
Phone: (319) 384-1514
Dr. Story’s research focuses on better understanding household- and community-level factors that are critical to improving access to health care and reducing health inequities in resource-poor settings, and translating that research into effective interventions and policies. His research currently focuses on three specific areas:
- Families: Studying male involvement during childbirth and decisions to seek maternal and child health care using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
- Communities: Examining the effect of social relationships on care-seeking behaviors using multilevel methods, particularly the role of social capital as a resource that influences access to health care.
- Evaluation: Exploring the mechanisms through which health outcomes are sustained in community-based programs around the world using mixed-method approaches.
Courses Taught
- Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
- Global Public Health
- Maternal and Child Health Seminar
- Foundations of Maternal and Child Health
Research Interests
- Global health
- Maternal and child health
- Social determinants of health and health care utilization
- Design, evaluation, and dissemination of community-based health interventions
Background
Affiliations
- University of Iowa Prevention Research Center
- Steering Committee Member, HEAL - Health Equity Advancement Lab
In the News
- Story receives Associate Professor Advancement Award
- Maternal and child health Academic Practice Partnership highlighted
- Story honored with APHA Mid-Career Award in International Health
- New Iowa training program prepares students for maternal and child health careers
- Project studies masculine norms to reduce violence
- Story receives Fogarty funding to study intimate partner violence in India
- Partnership studies HIV stigma in western Kenya
- UI project awarded funds to study HIV/AIDS stigma in Western Kenya
- Story, Afifi connecting refugees in Eastern Iowa with mental well-being support
- CPH to establish Maternal and Child Health training program
- Videos inform immigrant, refugee communities about COVID-19
- Borders, Barriers, and Birth Outcomes
- Story co-leads study on intimate partner violence in India
- Video: Reducing intimate partner violence in India
- Will Story, Congolese Health Partnership honored with award
- Story, Golinghorst honored with awards at Finkbine Dinner
- CPH researchers contribute to case studies of NGO health programs
- UI, Congolese community create partnership to improve health outcomes
- Learn about health care in the DR Congo on Feb. 2
- Study examines how water access and sanitation affect birth outcomes
- Study looks at impact of water, sanitation, and social conditions on birth outcomes in India
- Crowdfunding for Health Care
- Video: Story’s work, CPH global health initiatives featured
- Study looks at role of social connections, socioeconomic inequalities in child nutrition in rural India
- Study looks at men’s roles in obstetric emergencies in Ghana
- Story to speak on crowdfunding and refugee health project April 24
- CPH researcher Will Story funds project via crowdfunding effort
- Study looks at HIV services, faith-based health facilities in Kenya
- UI researcher finalist in challenge to improve maternal, newborn health
- CBH students, faculty, alumni discuss social and behavioral change on World Canvass
- Story writes about global need for maternal, newborn care