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Dr. Roxanne Amerson is an associate professor at Clemson University, where she teaches global health nursing and graduate nursing education courses. She has completed certificates in international public health and transcultural nursing. Her research has focused on international service-learning and cultural competence of nursing students. She has worked in Ecuador, Guatemala, and Peru as part of her international service-learning projects with nursing students. Her publications relate to teaching cultural competence, working with homeless families and victims of intimate partner violence, developing promotora (community health worker) programs, and educational strategies for the nursing classroom. She is currently certified as a Nurse Educator by the National League of Nursing and as a Transcultural Nurse at the Advanced Level by the Transcultural Nursing Society. She has served as a member of the International Service Task Force for the honorary society of nursing at the national level. She has received funding from the NIH to conduct a research study focusing on preventing and reducing childhood mortality rates associated with diarrhea in Guatemala. Her most recent research focused on anemia screenings for infants and children in remote villages of the Andean Mountains in Peru.