Faculty | Infectious Diseases Division

Carol A McLaughlin, MD MPh DTMH MSCE

Instructor B of Medicine

Medical Staff, Philadelphia Veteran's Affairs Medical Center

Associate fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives

Affiliated Faculty, International Educational Development (IED) Program, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Instructor B, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Research Director, Center for High Impact Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania

Associate Director, Global Health Equities Track, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Department: Medicine

Contact information

School of Social Policy and Practice
University of Pennsylvania
3815 Walnut Street, r.402
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-898-4995

Email:
carolmc@upenn.edu

Links
Center for High Impact Philanthropy
Division of Infectious Disease

Education:
BA (Public and International Policy)
Princeton University - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 1995.
MPH (Public Health - International Health)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1999.
MD (Medicine)
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2000.
DTM&H (Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Peru , 2004.
MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2010.

Post-Graduate Training
Intern, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Combined IM and Pediatrics Residency, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital , 2000-2001.
Resident, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Combined IM and Pediatrics Residency, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital , 2001-2004.
Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2004-2006.
Post-doctoral research fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2007 .

Certifications
Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics, 2004.
Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health (CTropMed), American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2004.
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2004.
Infectious Diseases, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2006.

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Description of Research Expertise

global health, infectious disease epidemiology, community based interventions, impact measurement

Description of Clinical Expertise

HIV, tropical and travel medicine, immigrant health, maternal and child health

Selected Publications

McLaughlin, Carol : Global Child Health - Toolkit for Donors Center for High Impact Philanthropy, University of Pennsylvania 2013 Notes: (web and print) On-going series of case studies assessing the impact and cost of promising delivery strategies to address unmet needs in global child health. http://www.impact.upenn.edu/international-issues/toolkit-childsurvival-home/

Center for High Impact Philanthropy: High Impact Holiday Giving. \{Center for High Impact Philanthropy, University of Pennsylvania} November 2011.

Rosqueta K and McLaughlin C: Philanthropy and Its Impact on Urban Women's Health Women's Health and the World's Cities. Meleis A, Birch E, and Wachter S. (eds.). Page: 258-271, 2011 Notes: Book chapter.

Rosqueta K and McLaughlin C: Giving Donations that Transform Haiti As Country Transitions to Recovery and Rebuilding, Donors Can Make an Impact that Lasts CBS News Opinion Feb 2010.

McLaughlin C, Rosqueta K, Rao K, and Summers K: Haiti: How Can I Help? Models for Donors Seeking Long-term Impact-Health, Livelihoods, and Education. Center for High Impact Philanthropy, University of Pennsylvania 2010 Notes: http://www.impact.upenn.edu/international-issues/reports/category/haiti/

Rosqueta K, Rhodes H, McLaughlin C: High Impact Philanthropy in the Downturn – Focus on Housing, Health and Hunger. Center for High Impact Philanthropy, University of Pennsylvania 2009 Notes: http://www.impact.upenn.edu/economic-downturn/view-economicdownturn/

McLaughlin C, Levy J, Noonan K, Rosqueta K : Lifting the Burden of Malaria: An Investment Guide for Impact-Driven Philanthropy Center for High Impact Philanthropy, University of Pennsylvania 2009 Notes: http://www.impact.upenn.edu/international-issues/reports/category/malaria/

McLaughlin C, Bellamy JA, Kumanyika S: “Prenatal HIV testing by undocumented immigrant women in Philadelphia's Public Health Centers” American Public Health Association Conference October 2008 Notes: Poster presentation.

Sack D, Lyke C, McLaughlin C, and Suwanvanichkij V: Antimicrobial resistance in shigellosis, cholera, and campylobacteriosis. World Health Organization Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Page: WHO/CDS/CSR/DRS/2001.8. www.who.int/emc, 2001.

Manderson L, Kelaher M, McLaughlin C, and Sandberg M: “Security and Safe Havens: Health issues among mobile women” Women & Health 28(1): 83-96, 1998 Notes: Co-published in Australian Women`s Health: Innovations in Social Science and Community Research Binghamton: Haworth Medical Press, 1998.