Ms. Brunner Luse received an MPA in Public Administration and a BSN in Nursing from Northern Illinois University. She is currently an Adjunct Instructor in the Global Health Studies Program.

Her global health interests include the intersection of politics and health on a micro and macro level, technology and innovation as a tool for reaching the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and "storytelling" as a method of promoting global health programs, goals, education, and policy. During the pandemic she has been investigating the potential risks and benefits of what she calls "new world-global health." Following the example of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs priority programs, "Space 4 SDGs" and "Space for Health," she believes that technology is changing so quickly that we need to look forward, now, to when space travel and living off-Earth will be common rather than fictional. 

As a management consultant and public health professional, Ms. Brunner Luse has worked with a variety of organizations such as the March of Dimes Iowa Chapter Public Affairs Committee, Ryan White Care Act (AIDS) Title I Grant Application Review Panel, and the Illinois McHenry County Domestic Violence Advisory Council. As a veteran educator, she has developed both semester-length and weekend conference courses on a range of topics which are popular not only with Global Health Studies students but with other majors such as engineering, finance and journalism as well.

At the University of Iowa she teaches courses on global health promotion, technology to improve global health, and working in global health. GHS:4002 Working in Global Health was designed to give students entering the global health workforce a background on the issues, techniques, politics and logistics they may encounter in their work. Her favorite comment from students includes "That's a global health job? I didn't know!"