Biography

Dr. Mary Beth Riner worked in community health both locally and globally. Beginning in 1998 she took students from nursing, medicine, dentistry, social work, and public health abroad. These international experiences included language/culture immersion, service-learning, and cross-cultural comparison courses. Her teaching expertise included online learning and problem-based pedagogy which she used in teaching graduate theory and a doctoral translational science methods course. Dr. Riner’s extensive experience in partnering with communities to conduct needs assessments and develop action plans helped to address priority concerns. Dr. Riner’s research centered around global health and how students develop global health perspectives. She conducted research in Liberia to explore strategies for improving clinical nursing practice at the tertiary health care center there.