Amy C. Blair, MS, PhD is a professor of Biology in the College of Health and Human Services. Blair is the author of The effects of heat stress and calorie restriction on impaired memory retention in the terrestrial slug Deroceras reticulatum (2023). With a PhD in Ecology from Colorado State University, Blair has research interests in invasive plant population ecology, and how invasive slugs and earthworms impact plant communities. Amy Blair teaches topics ranging from plant and animal anatomy and physiology to population and community ecology.
While her academic training focused largely on plant population ecology, she has more recently developed an interest in how slugs and earthworms impact plant communities.

Director | Associate Professor
Melissa Sharer, PhD, MPH, MSW
Contact Us
Contact Melissa Sharer for information on Master of Public Health
Center for Health Sciences Education
SharerMelissaJ@sau.edu
Education and Training
- PhD, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
- MSW, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- MPH, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- BS, University of Illinois
Recent Publications
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Melissa Sharer, Clara Haruzivishe, Augustine Ndaimani & Malia Duffy (2024) ‘The tablets make a certain noise’: uncovering barriers and enablers related to providing PMTCT services to adolescents and young women living with HIV in Zimbabwe, HIV Research & Clinical Practice, 25:1, 2371174, DOI: 10.1080/25787489.2024.2371174
- Posner, J., Duffy, M., Madevu-Matson, C., Casella, A., Tagoe, H., Sharer, M. (2023). Assessing the person-centered care framework and assessment tool (PCC-AT) in HIV treatment settings in Ghana: A pilot study protocol. PLOS One. (in press).
- Perkins, A. N., Nowakowski, A. “Xan” C. H., Alva, S., Rimal, N., Sharer, M., Davis, N., & LaFond, A. (2023). Expanding the Lens From Health Outcomes to Learn More About Key Stakeholders and the Structural Factors as a Pathway Toward Health Equity. American Journal of Evaluation, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10982140231190836
- Malia Duffy, Melissa Sharer, Nicole Davis, Sabrina Eagan, Clara Haruzivishe, Milly Katana, Ndinda Makina, Ugochukwu Amanyeiwe (2019). Differentiated antiretroviral treatment distribution models: Enablers and barriers to achieve universal HIV treatment in South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. September-October 2019 - Volume 30 - Issue 5 - p e132-e143.
- Melissa Sharer, Nicole Davis, Ndinda Makina, Sabrina Eagan and Malia Duffy (2019). Increasing Patients' Antiretroviral Treatment Availability While Reducing Nursing Workloads. An Evaluation of Barriers and Enablers to Implementation of Differentiated Treatment Distribution Approaches in South Africa. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. J 2019 Sep-Oct; 30(5):511-520.
- Duffy M. H., Sharer M., Berhan, A., Kose, J., Cornman, H., Pearson, J., & Eagan, S. (2017). HIV risk screening for high-yield community testing services for orphans and vulnerable children: a literature review. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 1-21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2017.1332399
- Sharer, M., Cluver, L., Shields, J. J., & Ahearn, F. (2016). The power of siblings and caregivers: under-explored types of social support among children affected by HIV and AIDS. AIDS Care, 28(sup2), 110-117.
- Sharer, M., Cluver, L. D., Shields, J. (2015). 'Mental health of youth orphaned due to AIDS in South Africa: Biological and supportive links to caregivers.' Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 10(2).
- Sharer, M., Eagan S., Valiyeva, S., & Duffy, M. (2015). Healthy Lifestyle Promotion - Training of Trainer's Manual. Boston, MA. USAID's Turkmenistan Together for Health Program.
- Sharer, M., & Fullem A. (2012). Transition of care and other services for adolescent living with HIV-Technical Brief. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
- Sharer, M., & Gutmann, M. (2011). Prioritizing HIV in Mental Health Services Delivered in Post-Conflict Settings: Uganda. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
- Duffy M. H., Sharer M., Cornman H., Pearson J., Pitorak H. & Fullem A. (2016). 'Integrating mental health and HIV services in Zimbabwean communities: A nurse and community-led approach to reach the most vulnerable,' Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
- Duffy, M. H., Bergmann, H., & Sharer, M. (2013). Toolkit for transition of care and other services for adolescents living with HIV. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
- Duffy, M. H., Sharer, M., & Fullem, A. (2013). Training manual for the toolkit for transition of care and other services for adolescents living with HIV-Training Manual. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
- Duffy, M. H., & Sharer, M. (2013). Workshop for integrating mental health services into HIV programs in Zimbabwean communities. Training of Trainer's Manual. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
- Pitorak, H., Duffy, M. H., & Sharer, M. (2012). "There is no health without mental health": Mental health and HIV service integration in Zimbabwe, situational analysis. Arlington, VA: USAID's AIDS Support and Technical Assistance Resources, AIDSTAR-One, Task Order 1.
- McGinn, T., Austin, J., Anfinson, K., Amsalu, R., Casey, S., Fadulalmula, I. S., Langston, A., Lee-Jones, L., Meyers, J., Mubiru, F. K., Schlecht, J. Sharer, M., Yetter, M. (2011). Family planning in conflict: Results of cross-sectional baseline surveys in three African countries. Conflict and Health. 5(1):11
Presentations
- “Punishment and Salvation: Prison Abolition and Barth’s Just Judge,” presented at the Karl Barth Conference, 2023