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• Botswana-UPenn Partnership 

  other Programs & Partnerships   Capacity-building | Academic Partnerships | Clinical Rotation   Botswana BWA other

• Vingroup-Penn Alliance 

  other Programs & Partnerships   Capacity-building | International Medical Education | Academic Partnerships | Medical Education | Development | Faculty Development | Global Nursing | Graduate Medical Education | Simulation Training   Vietnam VNM other

• Princess Ruhama Acheampong, PhD 

  Princess Ruhama Acheampong, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Lecturer, Health Promotion and Education, School of Public Health | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science of Technology (KNUST)   Public Health | Maternal Child Health | Non-communicable disease | Nutrition | Informal settlements | M-health   Ghana GHA BIO STATEMENT: Princess Ruhama Acheampong (PhD) is a Lecturer at the School of Public Health of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. She teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Health Promotion, Public Health Nutrition, Community Health and Social and Behavioural Change Communication courses. She was currently listed as an International Scholar of the Centre for Global Health (CGH), University of Pennsylvania. Princess has been involved in research in malaria, Epidemiology, maternal and child health, public health nutrition, health interventions for disadvantaged communities, community mobilization, research uptake, health education and mHealth. Princess has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research. Princess is interested in the use of theories and models in the design and implementation of health interventions. For her PhD, she developed a theory-based nutrition intervention to improve the nutritional status of children under-5 in rural communities. Her interest in the use of models and theories received a boost, having received training in Implementation Science from the Implementation Science Institute as part of her summer fellowship with CGH. She is currently an awardee of the KNUST early career seed grant. This study employs a mixed methods approach to the assessment of the feasibility of an implementation science tool in an urban slum, Kumasi. Princess has coordinated several exchange programs in Ghana, including an exchange program between Penn Engineering and KNUST. She is interested in collaborative research and passionate about mentoring young women from disadvantaged populations person

• Maruf Adewole, PhD 

  Maruf Adewole, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Postdoctoral Research Fellow | University of Pennsylvania   Informatics | Artificial Intelligence | Medical Physics | Medical Imaging   Nigeria NGA BIO STATEMENT: Maruf Adewole, PhD, is a Medical Physicist and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He doubles as the Executive Director of the Medical Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MAI Lab) based in Lagos, Nigeria. His work focuses on advancing AI-driven medical imaging solutions for cancer diagnosis in resource-constrained settings. Through initiatives like BraTS-Africa, ABreast, and SPARK Academy, he promotes global health equity by curating inclusive datasets, developing ML models, and building local AI capacity. His research bridges radiomics, oncology, and open science, aiming to improve cancer care accessibility and outcomes across Africa. person

• Henrietta Audrey Ohenewaa Afari, MD 

  Henrietta Audrey Ohenewaa Afari, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Fellow, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Global Cardiovascular Disease | Women's health   Ghana GHA BIO STATEMENT: I am a first year cardiology fellow at UPenn. Throughout my training I have spent time providing clinical care and conducting research in rural and urban settings in Ghana and Uganda. Recognizing the growing and often disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease especially among vulnerable populations in these settings, I hope to pursue a career in global women’s cardiovascular health, with a focus on heart disease in pregnant women. My goal is to use clinical research and implementation science to inform policy and help transform the face of cardiovascular care for women with heart disease in sub-saharan Africa. person

• Nahreen H. Ahmed, MD, MPH 

  Nahreen H. Ahmed, MD, MPH

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Technology in Low Resource Settings | Critical care | Radiology   Bangladesh | Colombia | Yemen | United States | Peru BGD||COL||YEM||USA||PER BIO STATEMENT: I am a second generation Bangladeshi-American, born in the US but with close ties in Dhaka, Bangladesh where I have paired with Dhaka Medical College and Hospital in a teaching endeavor in the area of Critical Care Ultrasound and curriculum development. My current role at HUP is not only in the area of clinical activities in Critical Care but also the role of faculty instructor in the area of Critical Care Ultrasound. person

• Davis Elias Amani, MD 

  Davis Elias Amani, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Research Fellow and Tutorial Assistant | Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences   Disease Surveillance | Cancer epidemiology | Outbreaks | Road Traffic Injuries   Tanzania, United Republic of TZA BIO STATEMENT: A low uptake of research for policy changes fuelled my interests in my new niche, dissemination research where I envision to promote stakeholders’ engagement and collaboration in addressing contemporary health challenges through generating and utilizing local evidence. In Tanzania and at MUHAS in particular, I have been engaged in overseeing capacity building courses and workshops on scientific writing, grants applications and management, and research dissemination. I have also been coordinating the dissemination of research and innovation through institutional and national symposia, conferences, and roundtable discussions that engage different stakeholders. Surveillance systems for road traffic injuries and cancers remain poorly developed in Tanzania as in most LMICs. As a growing epidemiologist, I am looking forward to exploring and securing collaborations and opportunities that I can leverage on to identify gaps and establish more effective and reliable surveillance systems. person

• Marietta Ambrose, MD, MPH, MSEd 

  Marietta Ambrose, MD, MPH, MSEd

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Global Cardiovascular Disease   Haiti | Jamaica | Kenya HTI||JAM||KEN BIO STATEMENT: I am a cardiologist with additional training in advanced cardiovascular imaging and women’s health, and an interest in improving global cardiovascular health. I am the director of Penn Cardiology International (University of Pennsylvania Cardiology Division’s International Outreach Section), and I lead its effort to contribute to improving global cardiovascular health. We develop relationships with mutually aligned institutions, to create sustainable programs and infrastructure that are aimed at delivery of excellent cardiovascular care. Our active collaborations with our global community members occur through research, education, training and clinical activity. person

• Monika Arora, PhD, MSc 

  Monika Arora, PhD, MSc

  International Scholar International Scholar   Vice President - Research | Public Health Foundation of India   Non-communicable disease | Adolescent health | Implementation Science | Patient Engagement   India | Nepal | Timor-Leste | Bhutan IND||NPL||TLS||BTN BIO STATEMENT: I am a public health scientist working in the area of preventing and managing Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) through health promotion and health advocacy in India. I am Vice President (Research & Health Promotion) at PHFI and also President -NCD Alliance. Served as an Advocacy Committee Member- World Heart Federation and Co-Chair of the Global Research Network, Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Served as the Center for Advanced Study of India Spring 2023 Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Interested and experienced in Global Health and worked on multiple collaborative grants in NCD Prevention and Control, Community engagement, and Adolescent Health. mixed methods research, Policy Research, Implementation Science Research, and Impact Evaluation of Policies and Programs person

• Priya Arumuganathan, MD 

  Priya Arumuganathan, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Global Emergency Medicine Fellow | University of Pennsylvania   Health Equity | Rual Health | Emergency Care Capacity Building | EM Education and Training   Pakistan | Ghana | Botswana PAK||GHA||BWA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Arumuganathan is from Harpers Ferry, WV and completed her medical school and residency training at West Virginia University. While there, she completed the Global Health Track, served as a Chief Resident, and conducted telestroke research within rural critical access hospitals. Her rural background and training have helped her to build a foundation for working in low-resource environments. Currently, she is a Penn Global Emergency Medicine Fellow and an Instructor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Penn Medicine. Her work in Global Emergency Medicine involves creating curriculum and helping to build capacity to advance the specialty of Emergency Medicine worldwide. person

• Stephen Avery, PhD 

  Stephen Avery, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Radiation Oncology | Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania   Radiation oncology | Radiology | Quality Improvement | Artificial Intelligence | Medical Physics   Tanzania, United Republic of | Ghana | Bangladesh TZA||GHA||BGD BIO STATEMENT: My goal is to develop a USA/Africa Radiation Oncology Core (ROC) dedicated to Research Education/training in Radiation oncology in Africa and providing desperately needed quality assurance tools for patient safety and research collaborations for cancer control. The establishment of such an ROC will significantly increase research/education capacity and ensure radiation/patient safety. International collaboration is necessary for such a Core to build research/education capacity and address an ongoing silent crises which is undoubtedly causing significant loss of life and disability in Africa. A successful launch of this Core program will provide a hub for Radiation Oncology research/education in east Africa. person

• Sila Bal MD, MPH 

  Sila Bal MD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Cornea and Refractive Surgery Fellow | Harvard   Vision impairment | Eye care   Ecuador | Jordan ECU||JOR BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Sila Bal, MD, MPH is a cornea fellow at Harvard. She received her medical degree and Master's in Public Health from the University of Pennsylvania where she was awarded the United States Excellence in Public Health Award for her work on disparities in eye health both locally and globally. Her research interests include eye health disparities, the epidemiology of vision impairment, and the impact of social determinants on health outcomes. Next year, Dr. Bal will be a global ophthalmology fellow and hopes to continue her work in health equity through community-based service delivery models, advocacy, and capacity building. person

• Timothy Becker, MD 

  Timothy Becker, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Post-Doctoral Fellow - Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons | New York State Psychiatric Institute,Dept. of Psychiatry   HIV/AIDS | Mental health | Adolescent health | substance abuse   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: Tim Becker is a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow and post-doctoral research fellow at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia/Cornell/NYSPI. He completed psychiatry residency in the global mental health track at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he was involved in clinical collaborations with mental health professionals in Liberia and Grenada. During medical school at Penn, he spent two research blocks in Botswana, initially developing a head trauma database, and later qualitatively investigating explanatory models and stigma related to mental illness. His global health research has focused on describing, measuring, and addressing stigma across different cultural contexts. person

• Michael F. Beers, MD 

  Michael F. Beers, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Mayock-Cooper Professor of Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Healthcare Access | Immigrant health | Health Disparities | Healthcare Delivery   United States USA BIO STATEMENT: A native Philadelphian, Dr. Beers received BA and MD degrees from PENN with GME training in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1993 he joined the PENN faculty as a physician scientist and received tenure in 2001. Since 2019, he has served as Faculty Moderator of United Community Clinic, a med student run clinic that has partnered with the African Family Health Organization to open a clinic site in Southwest Philadelphia to improve access to care for the West African immigrant community. person

• Rinad Beidas, PhD 

  Rinad Beidas, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Science at Northwestern University   Implementation research | Evidence-based Practices   Mozambique | Zambia MOZ||ZMB BIO STATEMENT: Rinad S. Beidas, PhD, is Chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor of Medical Social Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Previously, Dr. Beidas served as founding Director of the University of Pennsylvania Implementation Science Center at the Leonard Davis Institute (PISCE@LDI) from 2017-2022. Dr. Beidas’s research leverages insights from implementation science and behavioral economics to make it easier for clinicians, leaders, and organizations to use best practices to improve the quality and equity of care and enhance health outcomes. She works across areas including mental health, firearm safety promotion, cancer, HIV, and cardiovascular disease and collaborates closely with key stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, health system leaders, payers, and policymakers. As an international leader in implementation science, Rinad has published over 250 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as JAMA, NEJM Catalyst, and Implementation Science. She has led two NIH centers on behavioral economics and implementation science (P50 MH 113840, P50 CA 244690) and has a strong record of NIH-funded implementation research serving as MPI or PI of 11 NIH grants totaling approximately 31 million dollars. She is an associate editor for Implementation Science, the flagship journal for the field. Dr. Beidas holds a bachelor of arts in psychology from Colgate University and a doctorate of philosophy in psychology from Temple University. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies President’s New Researcher Award; the American Psychological Foundation Diane J. Willis Early Career Award; the Perelman School of Medicine Marjorie Bowman New Investigator Research Award; and the Acenda Institute Research Pioneer Award. person

• Yaone Bogatsu, MD, MMed(Fam Med) 

  Yaone Bogatsu, MD, MMed(Fam Med)

  International Scholar International Scholar   Family Physician, Faculty of Medicine | University of Botswana   Diabetes | Chronic Diseases | Adolescent health | Palliative Care | Hypertension   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Yaone Bogatsu began her journey as a medical doctor with the strong conviction that this was the path laid out for her. It is this same conviction that continues to lead and guide her work to date, with over 10 years of experience as a doctor, nine of which were in public service. Her greatest reward lies in seeing people receiving the medical attention that they need so that through the care they receive, they may feel valued, and also be equipped to steward their health with a greater sense of awareness and education. Over the years, Dr. Yaone has been actively involved in activities both within the walls of medical facilities and outside, all in an endeavour to play her part in building a stronger health sector in the nation of Botswana and, ultimately, the world at large. Since officially beginning her journey as a medical doctor in 2013 after obtaining her professional degree in Medicine (MD) from the University of Tromsoe, Norway, Dr. Bogatsu has gone on to obtain a Master's Degree in Medicine in 2021 from the University of Botswana. Since 2021, Dr. Bogatsu has completed several Global Health courses at the University of Washington, USA. In December 2022, Dr. Yaone transitioned from Ngami DHMT in Maun to work as a Family Physician at Toro Clinic in Palapye, Botswana. In April 2023 she accepted a Family Physician and Lecturer position at the University of Botswana in the Faculty of Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health where she served in Mahalapye until July 2024, and transitioned back to Maun, still in the same role, in August 2024.In June 2024, she ttended the UPenn Implementation Science Institute Course and the Center for Global Health Summer Visiting Fellowship for Emerging Health Leaders in June 2024. Dr. Yaone is now a Center for Global Health International Scholar with University of Pennsylvania, USA. Sine 2020, she has been part of the team running the Community Oriented Primary Care Project in Ngami, a collaborative effort between the University of Botswana and the University of Pennsylvania. The project is aimed at bringing healthcare to the community and improving its socio-economic status. The project is currently running in Matsaudi and Phuduhudu. Dr Yaone is also engaged with the community of Family Physicians and is currently Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Botswana Association of Family Physicians. She has also been part of the of the Organising Committee of the Botswana Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Conference since 2024, for this year’s conference she is playing the role of co-chairing the committee. person

• Kent D. Bream, MD 

  Kent D. Bream, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health | University of Pennsylvania   International Medical Education | Community health | Non-communicable disease | Health Disparities | Diabetes | Community Engagement   Guatemala GTM BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Bream is a family physician who works in collaborative research, education, and clinical projects locally and globally with particular attention to underserved communities. He is known for productive and trusting professional relationships with the political, organizational, and social leaders building bridges between academia and communities. His approach focuses on the inter-professional solutions and respect for dual autonomies in improving health. He leads the Guatemala Penn Partners program and started the Guatemala Health Initiative with students in 2004. Clinically he has focused on non-communicable diseases, especially diabetes, with great respect for the role of personal agency in changing outcomes. person

• César Augusto Briceño, MD 

  César Augusto Briceño, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology | University of Pennsylvania   Medical Education | Surgical Instruction   Brazil | Chile BRA||CHL Bio statement: Dr. Briceño has set up educational collaborations with universities and professional societies in Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Peru. He has helped to train multiple students, residents and fellows from Latin America and has facilitated the formation of research collaborations. He is primarily interested in surgical education, and has been invited to speak and perform live surgery throughout Latin America. Dr. Briceño sits on the board of the Pan American Association of Ophthalmology and is interested in establishing and further strengthening educational collaborations between Penn and Latin America. person

• Merrian J. Brooks, DO, MS 

  Merrian J. Brooks, DO, MS

  Scholar Scholar   Director of Pediatrics and Research at Botswana UPenn Partnership; Attending Physician of Adolescent Medicine Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia   Health Equity | Health Disparities | global adolescent health | global health equity | professional research development   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Brooks is a graduate of the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and holds a master in clinical sciences on comparative research and health disparities from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed a residency in pediatrics from Cooper University Hospital and a clinical fellowship in adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. During her time in Botswana she has performed a multitude of critical tasks, such as working as a pediatrics specialist at Princess Marina Hospital, consulting in adolescent clinics, training and mentoring UB MMed and medical students, and advising on the health needs of adolescents in the policy making arena. Additionally, Dr. Brooks has focused her research and scholarship on the development and evaluation of interventions that seek to reduce anxiety and depression in adolescents living with HIV through counseling and peer support. Since her arrival in Botswana, Dr. Brooks has proved herself to be an outstanding clinician and educator, a disciplined and creative investigator, a devoted advocate for her patients, and a loyal partner to her Batswana colleagues. While living in Botswana, I have integrated my love of pediatrics and adolescent medicine with serving the underserved globally. I am a consultant in adolescent clinics, train/mentor UB MMed and medical students, and advise on policy about adolescent health needs. My research and scholarship focus on strengthening adolescent mental health services. I research the implementation of counseling and peer support interventions aiming to reduce anxiety and depression in adolescents living with HIV. I hope to support the development of academicians, build a support system with partners from Philadelphia, and support BUP research expansion and sub-specialty development in Botswana. person

• Erwin H. Calgua Guerra, MD, MSCE 

  Erwin H. Calgua Guerra, MD, MSCE

  International Scholar International Scholar   Director of Research | University of San Carlos’s School of Medicine   Epidemiology | HIV/AIDS | Malnutrition | Non-communicable disease | Medical ethics | Gender violence   Guatemala GTM BIO STATEMENT: Erwin’s collaborative research efforts cover a wide range of topics including non-communicable diseases (NCDs), violence, malnutrition, adolescent health, stem cells, HIV and medical ethics. He is a tenured research faculty member and Director of Research at the University of San Carlos’s School of Medicine (the largest Public University in Guatemala) and holds research management positions at Sanatorio El Pilar (the oldest Private Hospital in Guatamala) and Stem Care, a stem cell company in Guatemala. person

• Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, PhD, DVM, MSPH 

  Ricardo Castillo-Neyra, PhD, DVM, MSPH

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor | University of Pennsylvania   Epidemiology | Public Health | Tropical diseases | OneHealth   Guatemala | Peru GTM||PER BIO STATEMENT:I am an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, & Informatics in Perelman School of Medicine, and the scientific director of the Zoonotic Disease Research Lab (Penn and Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia). I study the eco-epidemiology of tropical diseases and use canine rabies as a system model to understand how the social and spatial features of cities influence the emergence and persistence of infectious diseases. Dog rabies threatens human health in the Americas and is expanding. Why can’t we get rid of the oldest known zoonotic disease? I conduct community-based studies in Peru to answer this question. person

• Grace Chan, MD, MPH, PhD 

  Grace Chan, MD, MPH, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania   Infectious disease | Data Science Training in Health Care | Perinatal Epidemiology | Pediatric Epidemiology   Bangladesh | Switzerland | Ethiopia | Indonesia | India | Kenya | Pakistan | Tanzania, United Republic of BGD||CHE||ETH||IDN||IND||KEN||PAK||TZA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Chan is a pediatrician and epidemiologist, with expertise in maternal and child health. Her work focuses on the development of health and disease over the life course, using research to discover and implement sustainable clinical and public health interventions. As a perinatal and pediatric epidemiologist, Dr. Chan has led international collaborations with the World Health Organization and Save the Children. She has trained healthcare workers, researchers, and policy makers in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Ethiopia; and mentored many talented students and fellows. person

• Rosa Chemwey Ndiema, MB ChB, MMed 

  Rosa Chemwey Ndiema, MB ChB, MMed

  International Scholar International Scholar   Physician | Kenyatta National Hospital   HIV/AIDS | Maternal Child Health | Reproductive health   Kenya KEN BIO STATEMENT: Maternal Health is my specialty and more specifically improving the quality of health care to women in Africa. Currently, as a chair of Reproductive Health Quality Assurance committee we regularly monitor both medical and non-medical processes that impact on quality maternal health and continuously brainstorm on ways to improve. Overall, this links with Global Health in an attempt to significantly reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in Kenya and Africa. person

• Youhai Harry Chen, Ph.D., M.Sc., M.B 

  Youhai Harry Chen, Ph.D., M.Sc., M.B

  International Scholar International Scholar   Emeritus Professor of Pathology | Shenzehen Institute of Advanced Technology   Medical Education | Pharmaceutical Education   China CHN BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Chen received his M.B. and M.Sc. from Shandong University, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada. After a postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. He was a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine until 2020. In 2021, he became Chair Professor and Dean of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China. He has authored more than 150 research articles, and chaired a number of academic and administrative committees at academic or pharmaceutical institutions. person

• Julio Alonso Chirinos-Medina, MD, PhD 

  Julio Alonso Chirinos-Medina, MD, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania   Epidemiology | Clinical Trials | Global Cardiovascular Disease | Aging | Cardiology | Global Cardiovascular Health   Argentina | Belgium | Brazil | Canada | Colombia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Japan | South Korea | Mexico | Netherlands | New Zealand | Peru | Singapore ARG||BEL||BRA||CAN||COL||GBR||JPN||KOR||MEX||NLD||NZL||PER||SGP BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Chirinos is a Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Clinical Research T32 Training Program in Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine. He is the President of the North American Artery Society. He is also an adjunct Faculty member at the University of Ghent in Belgium. His research program is focused on the role of arterial stiffness and pulsatile hemodynamics in cardiovascular disease and mechanisms of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. He co-leads a Global Heart Failure biomarker consortium investigating proteomics in heart failure. He has multiple international collaborations and has led international randomized trials. person

• Kenechukwu Chudy Onwugaje MBBS, MPH, MS, FACG 

  Kenechukwu Chudy Onwugaje MBBS, MPH, MS, FACG

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Gastroenterologist/Interventional Endoscopist | BJC Healthcare System   Health Systems Strengthening | Digestive Diseases | Global Endoscopy   Nigeria | Rwanda NGA||RWA BIO STATEMENT: Kenechukwu Chudy-Onwugaje, MBBS, MPH, MS, FACG is a gastroenterologist and interventional endoscopist with BJC Healthcare. He is passionate about the expansion of access to gastrointestinal endoscopy in sub-Saharan Africa through education and capacity building. He is a co-investigator of a project supported by the University of Maryland President’s Global Impact Fund to strengthen gastroenterology training in Rwanda. He completed his Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Maryland Medical Center and had further training in advanced endoscopy at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed an MPH degree with a concentration in Global Health and interned at the Global Health program at Chatham House, London. During his gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Maryland, he was supported by a T32 grant from the NIH person

• Susan Coffin, MD, MPH 

  Susan Coffin, MD, MPH

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Pediatrics | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia   Pediatrics | Infectious disease | Infection control | Pandemic influenza   Botswana | Dominican Republic BWA||DOM BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Coffin has served as an international consultant and trainer for infection prevention and control programs, including pandemic influenza preparedness, in various developing countries, including Egypt, China, Ghana, Greece, Botswana, and Vietnam. Dr. Coffin’s research focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of healthcare-associated infections in international and domestic settings. Current international projects active in Greece, Zambia, Nigeria, and India. person

• Jennifer Elizabeth Cohn, MD, MPH 

  Jennifer Elizabeth Cohn, MD, MPH

  Scholar Scholar   Clinical Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases | Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania   HIV/AIDS | Tuberculosis | Innovation | Access to health products | Market dynamics | Antimicrobial Resistance   India | Kenya | South Africa | Brazil | Switzerland IND||KEN||ZAF||BRA||CHE BIO STATEMENT - Dr. Jennifer Cohn is an infectious disease physician with a focus on improving access to and uptake of effective health products and models of care in low- and middle-income countries. She currently serves as the Global Access Leader for the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), and is a clinical associate professor of Infectious Diseases and Scholar at the Center for Global Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Before joining GARDP, Jennifer served as Senior Vice President for cardiovascular health at Resolve to Save Lives, Senior Director of Innovation at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and as the Medical Coordinator for the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Access Campaign. Jennifer has served on international advisory groups for TB, HIV, non-communicable diseases and viral hepatitis. She has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals. Jennifer received her MD from University of Pennsylvania, is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and earned her Masters in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. person

• Corrado Cancedda MD, PhD 

  Corrado Cancedda MD, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Former BUP Director   Capacity-building | Human Resources for Health | Health Systems Strengthening | Health Equity | Academic Partnerships | Sustainability | Antimicrobial Resistance   Botswana | Lesotho BWA||LSO BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Corrado Cancedda is the Former Director of the Botswana University of Pennsylvania Partnership and Strategic Advisor for Academic Partnerships at the Center for Global Health of the Perelman School of Medicine, at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his current position, he was Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr Cancedda has over twelve years of experience as a clinician, educator, researcher, implementer, and scholar in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Lesotho. His academic interest lies in the implementation and evaluation of large-scale and multi-disciplinary Global Health Initiatives. person

• Kumarasen Cooper, MD, PhD. 

  Kumarasen Cooper, MD, PhD.

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine   Medical Education | Teaching | Surgical Pathology   South Africa | Botswana ZAF||BWA BIO STATEMENT: I have spent two months/year since 2016 at University of Botswana (under umbrella of UB-Penn Partnership) teaching and training residents at UB. Since April 2017, seven Penn Pathology residents, one medical student and one pathology assistant, have accompanied me and teaching UB residents. In addition i have performed clinical work (signed out surgical pathology cases with residents) on a regular basis. My Penn residents have taught a broad range of subjects in surgical pathology with much enthusiasm. In return we have brought two Botswana residents (month each) to spend an elective at Penn Pathology. A third cancelled May 2020. person

• Torrey A. Creed, PhD 

  Torrey A. Creed, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor of Psychiatry | University of Pennsylvania   Evidence-based Practices | Mental health | Health Equity | Sustainability | cognitive behavioral therapy | fidelity   Rwanda | Haiti RWA||HTI BIO STATEMENT: As founder of the Penn Collaborative for CBT & Implementation Science, I lead a team of experts in the development and evaluation of strategies to implement and sustain evidence-based mental health practices (particularly cognitive behavior therapy) in under-resourced communities. Domestically, we focus on Medicaid-funded community mental health systems. Globally, I serve as Health Policy Advisor to Partners in Health, leading the implementation of Cognitive Processing Therapy in Haiti and broadening access to CBT in Rwanda. I've also led briefer projects with providers in Canada (focused on Indigenous people) and Inner Mongolia / China (funded by the World Health Organization). person

• Farouk Dako, MD, MPH 

  Farouk Dako, MD, MPH

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor of Radiology | University of Pennsylvania   Artifical Inteligence | Radiology Education | Enterprise Advancement | Imaging   Nigeria NGA BIO STATEMENT: I am a cardiothoracic radiologist and director of global and population health research in Radiology at Penn. I lead multiple community-engaged data-driven research projects in Philadelphia aimed at making health care delivery and cancer care more equitable. I led multiple research projects aimed at improving the understanding of cardiovascular disease and cancer manifestation in Africa. I am also the Nigeria Program Director and Board Member of RAD-AID International, a Radiology NGO. These roles have enabled my involvement in capacity building and education initiatives in Nigeria and other parts of Africa for almost a decade. person

• Khue Kim Dang, MD 

  Khue Kim Dang, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Senior Clinical Lecturer, College of Health Sciences| VinUniversity   Global Surgery | Trauma | Medical Education   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT: I have a profound interest in advancing medical education and healthcare systems in underserved regions. My affiliation with this esteemed program allows me to not only train the next generation of surgeons but also to contribute to the enhancement of surgical care in Vietnam. By fostering international collaboration, I aim to bridge gaps in medical education, promote best practices, and improve patient outcomes. My commitment to global health is an integral part of my mission as a medical educator. person

• Kassa Darge, MD, PhD,DTMP, FSAR, FESUR 

  Kassa Darge, MD, PhD,DTMP, FSAR, FESUR

  Scholar Scholar   Radiologist-in-Chief | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.   Pediatric Radiology   Brazil | Ethiopia | South Africa BRA||ETH||ZAF BIO STATEMENT: Since 1991, I have been involved in various international outreach activities. Initially, my focus was on tropical pediatrics, but later on I switched my work to pediatric radiology education. In 2008, I established the collaboration between the Departments of Radiology at CHOP and Addis Ababa University with the objective of supporting the radiology residency program in pediatric imaging education and conducting a pediatric radiology fellowship. In February 2017 the first 2 pediatric radiologists graduated from this 2-year fellowship program – the first ones in a country with a 100 million population with almost 60% in the pediatric age group. person

• Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez, PhD, MLS 

  Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez, PhD, MLS

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Director, Holman Biotech Commons | University of Pennsylvania Libraries   Libraries | Scholarly Communication | Information Literacy   Guatemala | Mexico GTM||MEX BIO STATEMENT:I am the director of the Holman Biotech Commons, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ branch supporting research, education, and patient care for the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), the Perelman School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and life sciences’ programs in the School of Arts and Sciences. I am interested in supporting the health enterprise, and in particular health sciences research, in the countries were Penn has a presence. Examples of this support includes access to and discovery of scholarly research, data visualization and literature searching training, and capacity building in health sciences libraries abroad. I am also a member of Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean, a multidisciplinary group dedicated to promote Penn’s work in and for this region. person

• Vanessa C. Denny, MD, MS 

  Vanessa C. Denny, MD, MS

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Pediatric Critical Care Fellow | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia   Healthcare Access | Child Health | Implementation Science | Sepsis   Ghana GHA BIO STATEMENT: Vanessa Denny, MD MS is a pediatric critical care fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is of Caribbean descent, first-generation Canadian. She has lived and worked on global health missions throughout the Caribbean, Central America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. As her mentored fellowship scholarly research project, she is studying the implementation of a novel “Hot key” simulation education intervention on pediatric septic-shock clinical outcomes in Kumasi, Ghana. This pilot work will set the stage for her mentored clinical-scientist K-Award application addressing innovations in Global Health Education and Implementation Science. person

• Nicholas J. Diamond, JD, LLM, MBE 

  Nicholas J. Diamond, JD, LLM, MBE

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Director and Global Health Practice Leader | Crowell & Moring International   Health and human rights | Law | Governance | Social determinants of health   United States USA BIO STATEMENT: Nicholas J. Diamond, J.D., LL.M., M.B.E. is an expert on global and U.S. health law, policy, and ethics. He currently works at Avalere Health, an advisory firm in Washington, DC, where his clients include biopharmaceutical companies, health insurers, advocacy organizations, and private equity firms. Concurrently, Nick is also: an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law, a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and Management at George Washington; and an Adjunct Fellow in Center for Public Health Initiatives and an Associate Scholar in the Center For Global Health, both within the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His research has appeared in law reviews, peer-reviewed journals, and popular media outlets. He has lectured in a variety of academic and non-academic settings, and appeared on a number of national news programs as an expert in public health law. Before joining Avalere, Nick led market strategy in the healthcare and life sciences sectors at MarkLogic, a global technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. Prior to MarkLogic, he held consulting roles at the MITRE Corporation and Booz Allen Hamilton, where in both instances he advised the U.S. government on policy and regulatory matters related to implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Nick trained as a lawyer in U.S., and also holds advanced degrees in bioethics and global health law. He currently resides in Washington, DC. person

• Tarig Sami Elhakim, MD 

  Tarig Sami Elhakim, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Hospitalist, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania   Health Disparities | global health equity | Artificial Intelligence | Global Health Policy | Geospatial Mapping   Sudan | Tanzania, United Republic of SDN||TZA BIO STATEMENT: Growing up in Sudan, I volunteered in underserved communities lacking basic essentials like water & electricity, let alone healthcare. After immigrating & pursuing medical training in the US, I was struck by a different yet equally troubling dimension of health disparities. Even in high-resource settings, inequities persist & disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. These deepened my understanding to global health & fueled my determination to dismantling disparities & creating a future where health is fair, consistent, & equitable for all. Let's work toward a world where healthcare access is not dictated by geography, resources, or privilege but is a fundamental right. person

• Brian Samuel Englander, MD 

  Brian Samuel Englander, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Robert E. Campbell Professor, Clinical Radiology, University of Pennsylvania & Chairman, Department of Radiology, Pennsylvania Hospital   Radiology | Medical Education | Breast cancer | Women's health | Global Radiology | Radiotherapy   Mongolia | Vietnam | Rwanda | Israel MNG||VNM||RWA||ISR BIO STATEMENT:Brian S. Englander, M.D. is the Robert E. Campbell Professor of Clinical Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine and serves as Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Medicine. He is a board certified, fellowship-trained diagnostic radiologist, with sub-specialization in breast imaging and intervention. He has a particular interest in addressing women's health inequities regionally and globally. As a 2018 Eisenhower Fellow (USA), he visited Mongolia and Israel to understand cultural, religious, and ethnic barriers to health care, in particular breast cancer, and opportunities to address these barriers in the United States. He established an NGO, Benek Global Health Project, which focuses on these same issues, as well as the impact of conflict upon healthcare. He has worked in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) to intersect with the accompaniment model to reduce barriers to breast and cervical cancer screening. He works with local physicians in Mongolia, Rwanda, Vietnam, India, and Israel to optimize breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and management, and to establish standardized breast cancer services. He also is involved in applying new technology globally and an inexpensive pre-screening device for breast cancer in LMIC. He currently is establishing mobile cancer and community screening program through Penn Medicine to address health inequities and access issues in the Philadelphia region and beyond. person

• Sabahat Fatima, MBBS,FCPS 

  Sabahat Fatima, MBBS,FCPS

  International Scholar International Scholar   Department Head, Emergency Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan Hospital | The Indus Hospital and Health Network   Disaster response | Emergency Care Systems | Emergency Care Delivery | Disaster Preparedness | Emergency Care Capacity Building | Emergency Medicine in LMICs   Pakistan PAK BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Sabahat Fatima completed her Emergency Medicine residency at Indus Hospital & Health Network, Karachi, where she served as Chief Resident and was honored with the Best Graduate Award. As a passionate Emergency Physician, she focuses on Emergency Care Quality Improvement, Trauma Care, and Emergency Medicine Capacity Building in LMICs. As a Basic Emergency Course Master Trainer (BEC - WHO/ICRC), she has facilitated numerous simulation-based courses in collaboration with Faculty from UPenn and Emory University. During her time at Penn as a Summer Visiting Fellow, she gained valuable experience in Implementation Science, further enhancing her expertise in Global Health. person

• Yevhen Filonenko, PhD 

  Yevhen Filonenko, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Orthopedic & Trauma Surgeon - Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery Center, Vinnytsia   Ukraine UKR BIO STATEMENT: 16 years experience in orthopedy and trauma surgery, 2017 PhD degre in trauma surgery. Main interests are in spine, recon trauma, flap surgery, joint replacement. Trainings in Germany, Austria, Poland and other European countries From 2022 main time working in surgical treatment of victims of war. 1.5 years online consultations with expert surgeons from Penn team. Flap course online and live. It's improving our skills and way of patients care in new, high level. person

• Gregory Ginsberg, MD 

  Gregory Ginsberg, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology | University of Pennsylvania   Medical Education | Education | Global Endoscopy | Gastroenterology   Tanzania, United Republic of | Ukraine TZA||UKR BIO STATEMENT: Gregory G. Ginsberg, MD is Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine where he is a member of the Gastroenterology Division, and the Abramson Cancer Center and Executive Director of Endoscopic Services for Penn Medicine. His clinical practice and research focus on the development, evaluation, and implementation of new techniques and technologies as they apply to endoluminal diagnosis and management of digestive tract and related disorders. He engages in in-person and remote teaching, training, demonstration and proctoring gastrointestinal endoscopy for physicians in resource-challenged regions person

• Michael Glick, DMD 

  Michael Glick, DMD

  Scholar Scholar   Executive Director for the Center for Integrative Global Oral Health   Oral Health   Israel ISR BIO STATEMENT: Michael Glick is Professor and Executive Director, Center for Integrative Global Oral Health, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Glick has authored more than 300 publications, including original research articles, editorials, and book chapters, and has written, edited and co-edited 10 textbooks. Dr. Glick is the immediate past Dean, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, past-President of the American Board of Oral Medicine, served as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the American Dental Association from 2005 to 2020 and was the primary author of FDI/World Dental Federation’s Vision 2020 and, most recently, Vision 2030. person

• Robert Gross, MD, MSCE 

  Robert Gross, MD, MSCE

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology   HIV/AIDS | STIs | substance use | smoking cessation | Delivery of Care   Botswana BWA Bio statement: Director, International Core, Penn CFAR. HIV clinical investigation and clinical research training. person

• Surbhi Grover, MD, MPH 

  Surbhi Grover, MD, MPH

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology | Director of Global Radiation Oncology | Oncology Lead Botswana-UPenn Partnership | University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine   Global Oncology | HPV | Radiation oncology | Cervical Cancer   Botswana | India | South Africa BWA||IND||ZAF BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Grover is interested in addressing the growing global cancer burden by focusing on public health endeavors and cost-effective clinical initiatives to improve access to care and outcomes of care in developing countries. Since 2011, she has been working with the Botswana-UPENN partnership, strengthening the oncology program in Botswana. She moved full-time to Botswana in 2014. In her current role at head of oncology at the Princess Marina Hospital, she is seeing cancer patients at the public hospital, conducting research and teaching. She is also leading the implementation of an ongoing U54-funded UPENN/UB study focused on cervical cancer. She is heavily involved with AORTIC, the African body on cancer research and education and leading educational efforts in Africa. She is also working closely with collaborators at TATA Memorial Cancer Center in India on various research projects and developing education initiatives for trainees in India and Africa. person

• Elane M. Gutterman, PhD 

  Elane M. Gutterman, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Adjunct Assistant Professor, Rutgers Global Health Institute, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey   Healthcare Delivery | Health outcomes | Oncology   Rwanda | Uganda | Botswana RWA||UGA||BWA BIO STATEMENT: As a health researcher, I conducted epidemiologic and health outcomes studies in US settings from academia and then as a pharma consultant. I transitioned to global health when I founded/directed a small consulting company engaged in data-based retrospective studies and prospective quality assurance assessments in several Eastern European and Latin American countries. In 2017, I joined the Rutgers Global Health Institute as an adjunct assistant professor focused on oncology care in sub-Saharan Africa. My commitment to patient outcomes reflects my prior experiences with breast cancer. It's galvanizing to support the expansion of effective and patient-oriented cancer care in sub-Saharan African countries. person

• Yoonhee Patricia Ha, MSc, MPhil 

  Yoonhee Patricia Ha, MSc, MPhil

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   MD-PhD Candidate | University of Pennsylvania   Public Health | Technology in Low Resource Settings   Ghana | Botswana GHA||BWA BIO STATEMENT: Yoonhee P. Ha, MSc, MPhil, is an MD-PhD candidate in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics. She completed her undergraduate studies at The Ohio State University and graduate studies at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research interests include public health in resource-limited settings, behavioral insights, and technology. person

• Ha Minh Thuy, MD, MHPE 

  Ha Minh Thuy, MD, MHPE

  International Scholar International Scholar   Curriculum Development Manager | VinUniversity   Medical Education | health sciences | internal medicine | clinical medicine   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT:Dr. Ha Minh Thuy currently holds the role of Curriculum Development Manager at MD Program VinUniversity College of Health Sciences, where she has been an integral part of the team since 2017. In her tenure, Dr. Ha has made a significant contribution in shaping the curriculum for the Medical Doctor training program. Her multifaceted contributions include needs assessment, competency establishment, curriculum framework creation, and the development of teaching and learning materials. Notably, she is also a team member in laying the groundwork for the strategic partnership between VinUni and the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Recognizing her dedication to advancing medical education, Dr. Ha was awarded a fully funded scholarship for the International Fellowship program at the FAIMER Institute in Philadelphia, USA. This program, supported by the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), focuses on enhancing health professional education. Building upon this experience, Dr. Ha has successfully pursued a Master's degree in Health Professional Education at Maastricht University, Netherlands, further refining her skills and expertise in educational leadership. Dr. Ha's commitment to her field extends beyond her professional roles, evident in her active membership in various professional associations such as AMEE (An International Association for Medical Education), TUFH (The Network: Towards Unity for Health), WMIA (The Medical Women’s International Association), International Global Scholar at Penn Medicine and IPE Interprofessional Education- WHO by Gunnam University person

• Muge Haseki, PhD 

  Muge Haseki, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Post Doc at Penn Law School   Technology in Low Resource Settings | Law | Telemedicine   United States | Nepal USA||NPL BIO-STATEMENT Müge Haseki is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at Penn Law, and working on a project that partially focuses on the evaluation and assessment of technology-based health initiatives in LMICs in the Global South. She is particularly interested in the structural inequalities in accessing to and using of technology-based interventions including mobile health use among pregnant women in Nepal, mobile phone use in health clinics in rural Rwanda, and the use of telemedicine network in Vanuatu. She also worked on other projects funded by USAID, GSMA Connected Women, United Nations, and UNESCO person

• Norrisa Adriana Haynes, MD, MPH 

  Norrisa Adriana Haynes, MD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor | Yale Medicine   Non-communicable disease | Golbal Cardiovascular Health   Haiti HTI BIO ATTACHED: Norrisa Haynes MD, MPH is a third year cardiology fellow at UPenn. Dr. Haynes attended Yale for undergrad and Columbia University for medical school and internal medicine residency. She obtained her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. Through Partners in Health (PIH), Dr. Haynes worked at Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (HUM), in Haiti. She worked as a junior attending for 2 years at HUM while also working as a Harvard instructor and Brigham hospitalist. Dr. Haynes is interested in pursuing a career in global cardiovascular health and continues to provide pertinent cardiovascular educational content to physicians-in-training in Haiti. person

• Ryan C. Henrici, MD, PhD 

  Ryan C. Henrici, MD, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Lecturer| University of Pennsylvania   Malaria | Capacity-building | Infectious disease | Sickle Cell Disease   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Uganda GBR||UGA BIO STATEMENT:Neglected diseases affect millions of people each year, inflicting enormous public health and economic cost to developing nations. In many cases, antimicrobial drug resistance and non-communicable comorbidities multiply these costs and complicate global efforts to improve child and adult health. I work at the intersections of biology, drug development, and clinical medicine with a special focus on malaria and Sickle Cell Disease. These diseases are pathophysiologically intertwined and disproportionately affect patients in tropical settings, causing considerable morbidity and mortality. In particular, I map the cellular mechanisms of malarial development and drug resistance, track the evolution of drug resistance in the field, and study the consequences of malarial infection and outcomes of treatment in children with SCD. I also work closely with biopharmaceutical partners to build and test new drugs for the treatment of infections, including malaria, and sickle cell disease, with an emphasis on equitable drug development. person

• Meredith Rose Hickson, MD 

  Meredith Rose Hickson, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Pincus Global Health Fellow | Global Health Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia   Health Systems Strengthening | Implementation Science | Pediatric Hospital Medicine | Pediatric Critical Care   Botswana | Uganda | Senegal BWA||UGA||SEN BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Hickson graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She started working in global health as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal, where she supported rural health facilities and community health workers as a Preventative Health Educator. During medical school, Dr. Hickson was an NIH-Fogarty Fellow in Uganda. Her research there focused on the impact of severe malaria infection and placental malaria on children’s neurodevelopment. Dr. Hickson is currently a CHOP-Pincus Global Health Fellow in Botswana where she is engaged in both inpatient care of children and neonates at Botswana’s national referral hospital and implementation research on a new Pediatric Early Warning System to improve outcomes for hospitalized children. Her role also includes mentorship and education of medical students and residents at the University of Botswana. Dr. Hickson’s global focus is on strengthening tertiary care—referral systems, inpatient care, and escalation of care—for children in low-resource settings. person

• Lisa M. Hilmi, MPH, BSN-RN 

  Lisa M. Hilmi, MPH, BSN-RN

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Executive Director, CORE Group   Refugee health | Global Health Security | Community health | Disaster Preparedness BIO STATEMENT: Lisa Hilmi is the Executive Director of CORE Group, based in Washington DC. CORE Group convenes the International Community Health Network, a community of practice fueled by more than 200+ member organizations and individual associates that are champions for community health. Lisa Hilmi has three decades of global health experience in over 25+ countries, addressing health disparities for women, children, adolescents and communities. She has worked in Peace Corps, WHO, non-profits, refugee, disaster, and conflict settings, as well as outbreaks and epidemics in multiple countries. As a nurse, Lisa has worked clinically in pediatric hospitals, community, academic, and crisis settings. person

• Ari Ho-Foster, BSc, MSc 

  Ari Ho-Foster, BSc, MSc

  International Scholar International Scholar   Senior Research Fellow (Epidemiology) | University of Botswana Faculty of Medicine   HIV/AIDS | Tuberculosis | Healthcare Access | Mental health | Gender violence | Intimate Partner Violence Prevention   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: My academic interests are in furthering the use epidemiological methods to improve the health of populations. This includes mentorship and practice in generating evidence to improve our understanding of risk factors for disease, access/linkage to diagnosis and care, program evaluation, and effective communication of evidence to improve program implementation. I have worked in 12 countries, supporting research on maternal child health, HIV prevention, TB-HIV diagnostics, cancer care, gender violence and mental health. I also managed a Data Acquisition Core team aimed at improving routine data collection for Non-Communicable Disease research, and served as Country Operations Officer for the Botswana-UPenn Partnership person

• John Holmes, PhD, FACE, FACMI 

  John Holmes, PhD, FACE, FACMI

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Medical Informatics in Epidemiology | University of Pennsylvania   Epidemiology | Capacity-building | Informatics | Injury Prevention | Disease Surveillance   Botswana | Italy | United States BWA||ITA||USA BIO STATEMENT: John H. Holmes, PhD, is Professor of Medical Informatics in Epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics. He is Associate Director of the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics and chairs the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology. He has mentored pre- and post-doctoral students at Penn, University of Botswana, and Universities of Pavia and Verona, Italy. Dr. Holmes is engaged with the Botswana-UPenn Partnership, assisting in building informatics and epidemiologic research capacity in Botswana. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the American College of Epidemiology, and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. person

• Ukraine Initiatives 

  other Programs & Partnerships   Public Health | Humanitarian assistance | Disaster response | Global Surgery | Orthopedics | Partnerships | Capacity-building | International Medical Education | Quality Improvement | Trauma | Emergency Medicine | Patient Experience | Medical Education | Peace and Conflict | Surgical Pathology | Laparoscopic Surgery | Emergency Care Systems | Global Endoscopy | Neurorehabilitation | Standardization of care across different health systems | Neurological Surgery | Head Injury | Triage | Strategic Planning | Quality Use of Medicine | Humanitarian Response | Neurocritical Care | Pediatric Plastic Surgery | Humanitarian Emergencies | Surgical Instruction | Pediatric Hospital Medicine | Pediatric Critical Care | Humanitarian Crises | Craniofacial Surgery | Structural Competency | Gastroenterology | Osteoplasty | Microsurgery | Pediatric Orthopedics | Soft Tissue Reconstruction | Surgical Systems Strengthening | Surgical Education | Simulation Training   Ukraine | Poland | Germany UKR||POL||DEU other

• Mohammad Jalloul, MD 

  Mohammad Jalloul, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Radiology Research Scholar, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia   Health Equity | Radiology Education | Global Radiology   Ethiopia | Botswana | Vietnam ETH||BWA||VNM BIO STATEMENT: I am a research scholar in the Radiology department and a member of the Global Radiology Outreach and Education team at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. After obtaining my MD from the Lebanese University, I worked at the country's busiest public hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. This experience exposed me to the challenges faced by refugees in accessing adequate healthcare and influenced my interest in global health, motivating me to work towards equitable medical access worldwide. I want to leverage my experience at CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania to advance radiology services and education through international collaborations. person

• Saurabh Jha, MBBS, MRCS, MS 

  Saurabh Jha, MBBS, MRCS, MS

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor of Radiology | University of Pennsylvania   Global Radiology | Artificial Intelligence | Access to Medical Imaging | Health Policy   Nepal NPL BIO STATEMENT: I'm a cardiothoracic radiologist. Formerly, I trained in surgery in Britain and worked in a remote outpost in Australia, before transitioning to radiology and moving to the US. I'm interested in creative writing, imaging adoption, artificial intelligence, and health policy. I have travelled extensively in the hills of India, Nepal, and Tibet. I work with private industry and NGOs to improve access to medical imaging in remote areas, particularly those at high altitudes. I also study the adoption of AI in LMICs person

• Winston Branscomb Joe, MD 

  Winston Branscomb Joe, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Diagnostic Radiology Resident | University of Pennsylvania   Diagnostic Imaging | Point of Care Ultrasound | Global Radiology   Botswana | Nepal BWA||NPL BIO STATEMENT: Winston B. Joe is a PGY-4 UPenn Diagnostic Radiology resident and member of the Diagnostic Radiology Global Health Equity Track. Winston’s global health involvement has included community-lead partnerships in Sierra Leone, Africa which focused on improving access to primary care services. He recently traveled to Gaborone, Botswana, where he worked at Princess Marina Hospital interpreting diagnostic imaging and performing basic procedures. Winston has spent time in rural Nepal where he and his Department of Radiology colleagues performed point of care ultrasound to identify high-risk pregnancies. Dr. Joe also completed the Rad-Aid Proficiency in Global Health Radiology course in 2023 person

• Michelle J. Johnson, PhD 

  Michelle J. Johnson, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor (PSOM) and Secondary Faculty Appointment - SEAS Bioengineering   Neurorehabilitation   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Michelle J. Johnson, Associate professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pennsylvania. She has secondary appointments as an Associate professor in Bioengineering and in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. She has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. She directs the Rehabilitation Robotic Lab and has spent over twenty years applying technology solutions to aid in the understanding of disability and impairment after brain injury. She was Fulbright Scholar to Botswana and a IEEE distinguished lecturer. person

• Vinay Kampalath, MD, DTMH 

  Vinay Kampalath, MD, DTMH

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor in Clinical Pediatrics | University of Pennsylvania   Humanitarian assistance | Refugee health | Emergency Care Delivery | Outbreak and Pandemic Response | Humanitarian Crises   Bangladesh | Botswana | India | Jordan | Greece | Sierra Leone | Poland | Pakistan BGD||BWA||IND||JOR||GRC||SLE||POL||PAK BIO STATEMENT: Vinay Kampalath is an Assistant Professor in Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and an emergency medicine physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Kampalath completed his clinical training at the CHOP, MD at Brown University, and a DTM&H at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Kampalath has worked with WHO, the Global Health Cluster, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the Syrian American Medical Society on improving systems of healthcare delivery globally. He has also worked and taught in ten countries, including several humanitarian settings, such as Bangladesh, Greece, Poland, Jordan, and Ukraine. person

• Vinay M. Nadkarni, MD, MS 

  Vinay M. Nadkarni, MD, MS

  Scholar Scholar   Professor, Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pediatrics | University of Pennsylvanian   Critical care | Emergency Medicine | Resuscitation Science   India | Ghana IND||GHA BIO STATEMENT: Professor of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pediatrics; President Society of Critical Care Medicine 2023-2024; International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation; World Health Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies; Founding Director of CHOP Academy for Resuscitation of Children and Pediatric Global Resuscitation Alliance. Recognized with AAP Distinguished Lifetime Award and AHA International Impact Award. person

• Jonathan Kantor, MD, MSCE, MA 

  Jonathan Kantor, MD, MSCE, MA

  Scholar Scholar   Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dermatology | University of Pennsylvania   Telemedicine | Medical Education | Artifical Inteligence   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United States GBR||USA BIO STATEMENT:Dr Jonathan Kantor is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine. Jonathan is editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology International, the author/ editor of four textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, and the author of over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. Born in South Africa and educated in six countries on four continents, his scholarship is focused on utilization and access to skin and cancer care. He has a long-standing interest in international education, outreach, telemedicine, and AI, leveraging international expertise for the betterment of global health in dermatology. person

• Daniel Kantor, MD, FAAN 

  Daniel Kantor, MD, FAAN

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   President Emeritus, Florida Society of Neurology   Health economics | Neurology | Standardization of care across different health systems | Health outcomes | Patient advocacy   Nigeria NGA BIO STATEMENT: Daniel Kantor, MD, FAAN is President Emeritus of the Florida Society of Neurology. After studying Literary Theory and Computer Science & Engineering at Penn, he enrolled in the charter class of the Ben-Gurion University -- Columbia University Collaboration in Global Health & Medicine. After completing Neurology residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, he chose to remain in the US to use global health skills to help urban and rural populations as the Director of the Comprehensive MS Center, University of Florida in Jacksonville. Most recently, he served as Director of the Division of Neurology and then as Inaugural Neurology Residency Program Director at Florida Atlantic University. person

• Vanesa Karamanian, MD, MPH 

  Vanesa Karamanian, MD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Director, Healthier Together | CHOP   Refugee health | Community health | Immigrant health | Child Health   Argentina | Dominican Republic ARG||DOM BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Karamanian trained at Universidad Favaloro in Argentina and holds a Master in Public and Global Health from the University of Pennsylvania. She integrates clinical, public health, and research expertise to improve the health of children both locally and globally. As Director of Healthier Together at CHOP, she leads the hospital's largest community health initiative, improving the social, economic, and environmental conditions for families in West Philadelphia. She serves as an Adjunct Faculty in the MPH program at the University of Pennsylvania and President of the Powelton Village Civic Association in West Philadelphia. person

• Megan Kassick, MD, MPH 

  Megan Kassick, MD, MPH

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology | University of Pennsylvania   Women's health | Implementation Science | Gynecologic Cancers | Cervical Cancer | Radiotherapy | Braachytherapy   Zambia ZMB BIO STATEMENT: Megan Kassick, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Perelman School of Medicine, with a dedicated focus in global oncology. She is a member of the Women's Health Service and primarily treats patients with gynecologic and breast malignancies, and specializes in brachytherapy. Her academic interests include addressing global disparities in cervical cancer treatment. She has collaborated with oncologists in Sub-Saharan Africa, and has completed an internship with the International Atomic Energy Agency. person

• Charles Kemmler, MD, PhD 

  Charles Kemmler, MD, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine   Emergency Medicine | Medical Education | Disaster Preparedness | Emergency Care Capacity Building | Disaster Medicine   Botswana | Pakistan | South Africa BWA||PAK||ZAF BIO STATEMENT: Charles Kemmler, MD, PhD, FACEP is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a Medical Officer in the U.S. National Disaster Medical System. His experience in global health has included Emergency Medicine training, clinical care, teaching and research in South Africa, Pakistan and Botswana. His current interests include Emergency and Disaster Medicine education and educational capacity building. person

• Iliana V. Kohler, PhD 

  Iliana V. Kohler, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Practice Professor, Department of Sociology | University of Pennsylvania   Mental health | Aging | Cognition | ADRD | Biomarkers   Malawi | Ghana MWI||GHA BIO STATEMENT: I am social demographer interested in the demographic, health and social aspects of aging in low and middle income contexts. My approach to study global health, aging and mortality is based on the life-course perspective and in several projects and publications in collaboration with other researchers we have shown the long legacy of early childhood factors on health outcomes in late life in different contexts. I am leading a portfolio of research projects that critically evaluates social, demographic and epidemiological theories of aging outside the realm of the transitional aging studies that are focused on upper-middle-income and high-income contexts. person

• Carrie L. Kovarik, MD 

  Carrie L. Kovarik, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Dermatology | University of Pennsylvania   HIV/AIDS | Healthcare Access | Telemedicine | Informatics   Botswana | Guatemala | Malawi | Tanzania, United Republic of | Peru | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) BWA||GTM||MWI||TZA||PER||VEN BIO STATEMENT: I have an interest in access to health care, telemedicine, informatics, and HIV-related skin disease. I have created the Penn Dermatology Global Health program, through which I work to provide clinical care and education in underserved communities. I have implemented numerous innovative telemedicine programs in underserved communities in the US and globally using mobile phones, electronic medical records, open source technology, and accessory medical devices. I am now also focusing on developing, sustaining, and advocating for new models of quality health care that can increase access through telemedicine and other means. person

• Kiran Kumbhar, MBBS, MPH, PhD 

  Kiran Kumbhar, MBBS, MPH, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for The Advanced Study of India | University of Pennsylvania   Medical Education | Health Policy | Healthcare History | Caste and Privilege | Health Inequity   India IND BIO STATEMENT: Dr Kumbhar is a historian and former physician studying medicine and public health in India and the Global South. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for the Advanced Study of India at Penn. His past research explored the histories of biomedicine and the biomedical profession in modern India, including their intersection with caste and privilege. Currently, he is working on a history of health policymaking and healthcare reform in 20th- and 21st-century India, particularly looking at how the originally ambitious postcolonial nation has failed to keep its early welfare promises in the healthcare domain. person

• Shaon Lahiri, PhD, MPH 

  Shaon Lahiri, PhD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor of Public Health, Department of Health and Human Performance | College of Charleston   Family Planning | PrEP uptake | Sanitation behaviors | tobacco use | intimate partner violence   Kenya | India | China | Oman KEN||IND||CHN||OMN BIO STATEMENT: I am an interdisciplinary social and behavioral scientist working on several global health issues. I approach the field from the lens of the social determinants of health, health behavior theory, and a focus on understanding common social processes across multiple health outcomes related to sanitation, mental health, tobacco use, family planning use, intimate partner violence, and HIV risk reduction. My expertise is on the influence of social norms on behavior. I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the PPE program at Penn, and a PPE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Penn Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics. person

• Priti Lal, MD 

  Priti Lal, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Director of GU Pathology, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Global Oncology | Medical Education | Prostate Cancer | Bladder and Kidney Cancer   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: As part of the CGH community, my primary interest is teaching and mentoring students from countries in Africa who have an interest in gaining a deeper understanding of the current diagnostic and molecular tools as applied to prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer. Dr. Lal is the Director of GU Pathology, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | University of Pennsylvania. She is the lead pathologist in applying the latest technology of 3D visualization of prostate cancer, focusing on men of African descent. She is also the lead pathologist from the USA for the MADCAP consortium, a collaboration between Harvard, Moffit, Penn, and ten countries in Africa. person

• Krzysztof Laudanski, MD, PhD, MA, FCCM 

  Krzysztof Laudanski, MD, PhD, MA, FCCM

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Senior Consultant | Mayo Clinic   Brain drain | Protocol development | Telemedicine   Brazil | China | Croatia | South Africa | Tanzania, United Republic of | Vietnam BRA||CHN||HRV||ZAF||TZA||VNM BIO STATEMENT: I have been interested in global health for several years. I participated on several clinical, research and supportive appointments in Brazil, South Africa, Vietnam, People Republic of China, Tanzania and Croatia. My research focus on the mechanism preventing "brain drain" from the low-income countries. I specifically study mechanisms how the transfer of knowledge occur and what are the barriers. I worked with several organization but most recently I collaborate with the Health Volunteers Overseas. person

• Linh Cu Le, MD, PhD 

  Linh Cu Le, MD, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Executive Vice Dean - College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity   Reproductive health | Injury Prevention | Cancer epidemiology | Adolescent health   China | India | Vietnam CHN||IND||VNM BIO STATEMENT: Dr Linh worked almost 17 years at Hanoi University of Public Health and dedicatedly contributed to the delivery of the very first Master and Doctoral program of Public Health in Vietnam as well as capacity building and health sciences education reform at national scale. Dr Linh joined Vinmec – the leading private healthcare system in Vietnam in 2014, and played an instrumental role to establish VinUniversity and its College of Health Sciences in 2019. Both Vinmec and VinUniversity are not-for-profit members of Vingroup - the largest private corproration in Vietnam. Dr Linh’s research and policy advocacy focused on road traffic safety, injury prevention, adolescent and population health. As a scholar, he provided technical support to numerous projects for EU, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, etc. in Vietnam, China, the Philippines, and India. person

• Joseph Leanza, MD, MPH 

  Joseph Leanza, MD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine & Director of Global Health, Boston University School of Medicine   Emergency Medicine | Medical Education | Humanitarian Response | Climate Change   Pakistan | Iraq | Ukraine | Mexico PAK||IRQ||UKR||MEX BIO STATEMENT: Joseph Leanza is an Assistant Professor ofEmergency Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine; with interest in emergency medicine systems, disaster and humanitarian response, education, and environmental health. Within the NGO Global Response Management, he is the project lead for emergency medicine specialty and EMS systems development in Federal Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. He also works in research and education with the Certification Program in Emergency Medicine in Pakistan and Bangladesh and with the Penn Center for Global Health developing simulation curricula at Vin University in Vietnam. He has previously worked in a clinical and research capacity with Global Emergency Care in Masaka, Uganda. person

• Thabo Lenneiye, MBA, MSc, MArch 

  Thabo Lenneiye, MBA, MSc, MArch

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Managing Director, Sustainable Agriculture Fund, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy - Weitzman School of Design | University of Pennsylvania   Implementation research | Evidence-based Practices | Informal settlements | Urban Planning   Kenya | Zimbabwe KEN||ZWE BIO STATEMENT: Thabo Lenneiye is the Managing Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Fund at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the Weitzman School of Design. In this capacity, Thabo is responsible for setting the research agenda, operationalizing the fund, and launching initiatives focused on sustainable and regenerative agriculture strategies and practices. Prior to this role, Thabo was the Managing Director of PennPraxis, where she oversaw operations, fundraising, business development, communications, and strategic planning for the organization. She spent 12 years before this at Gensler, where she held various design, project management, and leadership roles. Notably, she worked alongside the firm's leadership team to shape initiatives promoting justice, inclusion, and social impact, including the conceptualization and strategic planning of a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) studio in 2020. Thabo's commitment to societal impact extends beyond her professional roles. She served as the inaugural secretary of the Board for the African Union Pan-African Diaspora Women’s Association from 2017 to 2018. Thabo played a crucial role in establishing Gensler's Africa practice, working directly for CEO Diane Hoskins, and led the launch of the firm’s Africa Committee. Furthermore, she served as support staff for the Obama Administration’s Presidential Advisory Committee for Doing Business in Africa. An entrepreneur at heart, Thabo has founded a number of social ventures. Her multi-disciplinary background also includes co-teaching design studios at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland. She is an Associate Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Global Health, and holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge, where she was the recipient of the Africa Regional Scholarship. person

• Michael Z. Levy, PhD 

  Michael Z. Levy, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Biostatistics and Epidemiology | University of Pennsylvania   Chagas disease | Disease ecology   Peru PER I study the interface of insects, pathogens & people. I founded the UPenn/UPCH Zoonotic Disease Laboratory in Arequipa, Peru in 2004 and have led a number of studies on Chagas disease in that city. Recently I've begun studying bugs closer to home--bed bugs. person

• Pranee Liamputtong, PhD 

  Pranee Liamputtong, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Professor of Behavior Sciences | VinUniversity College of Health Sciences   HIV/AIDS | Mental health | Global Cardiovascular Disease | Breast cancer | Sexual Violence | Social aspects of the pandemic   Australia | Iraq | Jamaica | Japan | Malaysia | Thailand | United States | Vietnam AUS||IRQ||JAM||JPN||MYS||THA||USA||VNM BIO STATEMENT: I am a medical anthropologist and have interests in the health of women, children, immigrants, refugees, older people, and transgender individuals. I am interested in issues relating to motherhood, reproductive health, sexuality, sexual health, mental health, HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, and the global pandemic. I have undertaken many research projects with refugee and immigrant women in Australia and qualitative research with women living with HIV/AIDS and breast cancer in Thailand and Malaysia. I am a qualitative researcher and have written several textbooks on this approach. At VinUniversity, my focus will be on health behaviors and social determinants of health. person

• Christina Slaw Cheok Liew, MBChB, MSc, PGDip, PhD Canidate 

  Christina Slaw Cheok Liew, MBChB, MSc, PGDip, PhD Canidate

  International Scholar International Scholar   Assistant Professor, Assessments | College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity   International Medical Education | Telemedicine | Medical Education | Sleep Medicine   Vietnam | Malaysia VNM||MYS BIO STATEMENT: Dr Christina Liew, MBChB (UK), MSc (Mal), PGDip (Ire), PhD candidate (Med Education) is a medical simulationist with 15 years of teaching experience in clinical skills. Dr Liew is a Fellow of the International FAIMER Fellowship. She believes that medical simulation plays a vital role in addressing global health topics by offering a safe environment to train healthcare professionals for encounters in diverse global settings. She has initiated the development of a virtual consultation (telemedicine) training in Malaysia which addresses the pressing need for remote healthcare delivery. She supervises medical students in health education initiatives targeted for community-based research. person

• Renyu Liu, MD, PhD 

  Renyu Liu, MD, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania | Co-Chair of the World Stroke Organization Taskforce for Prehospital Care (WSOTPC)   Stroke   China | Nigeria CHN||NGA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Liu is a physician scientist in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine. One of Dr Liu’s primary interests is to reduce prehospital delays for stroke victims world-wide by working with a global multi-disciplinary team. After successfully implementing his novel Stroke education strategy, Stroke 120 in China (https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/internal-newsletters/system-news/2017/february/it-s-as-easy-as-1-2-0), in conjunction with Dr. Jing Zhao, a neurologist at Fudan University in Shanghai, Dr. Liu and his multi-disciplinary team also created Stroke 112 for other non-English speaking countries and regions. These educational strategies, based on the English program, FAST (Face, Arm, Speech, Time), for rapid stroke recognition and action, are currently being implemented in several countries or regions where English is not the primary language. Dr. Liu was appointed as Director of the Stroke 120 Special Task Force by the Chinese Stroke Association in 2017. Dr Liu is a current China Research Engagement Fund ($100K) recipient to promote and study Stroke 120 in China. If you are interested in joining his multi-disciplinary team in reducing prehospital delays for stroke victims worldwide, please contact him at liur@uphs.upenn.edu. Dr Liu has worked with Rosemary Polomano, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Joshua Atkins, MD, PhD, on a joint Penn Nursing and Medicine collaboration to improve post-surgical Pain management in China with funding support from the Penn Global. Dr. Liu also has an active basic research lab, funded by an NIH-R01, studying novel compound(s) as opioid receptor ligands for clinical usage through an understanding of the structural-functional relationships of opioid and opioid receptors. person

• Elizabeth Dawn Lowenthal, MD,MSCE 

  Elizabeth Dawn Lowenthal, MD,MSCE

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Epidemiology | University of Pennsylvania   HIV/AIDS | Pediatrics   Botswana | Dominican Republic BWA||DOM BIO STATEMENT: After living in Botswana from 2004-2008 and serving as the Clinic Director of the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence at that time, I came to Penn for Epidemiology training and stayed here as faculty of the medical school. I am now Research Director for Global Health at CHOP and I have active research in Botswana and the Dominican Republic. I mentor numerous students, faculty and in-country partners whose work is focused on the health of children in resource-limited settings. person

• Paul Lu, MD, MSEd 

  Paul Lu, MD, MSEd

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Capacity-building | International Medical Education   Botswana | Vietnam BWA||VNM BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Paul Lu’s clinical and research interests are focused on medical education and global health. Locally, he co-directs the PSOM Global Health Pre-Departure Training Course for health professional students interested in global health electives. Internationally, he supports the VinGroup-Penn Alliance and has helped develop both undergraduate and graduate medical education curriculum for VinUniversity, College of Health Sciences in Hanoi, Vietnam. In addition, he co-directs the Master Clinical Educator Academy (MCEA) faculty development training program at VinUniversity. Dr. Lu has been involved in various medical-related projects in China, Vietnam, Mexico, Botswana, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. person

• Kevin Ma, DDS, FRSPH, FRSM 

  Kevin Ma, DDS, FRSPH, FRSM

  International Scholar International Scholar   Lecturer, National Taiwan University   Epidemiology | Infectious disease | Environmental health | Diabetes | Immunology | Cancer epidemiology | Adverse drug reactions | Endocrine Disorders   Taiwan, Province of China | India TWN||IND BIO STATEMENT:Dr. Ma leads clinical studies at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, utilizing global networks of observational data and clinical trials. His research focuses on illustrating the global burden of endocrine disorders, allergic diseases, and malignancies and evaluating the safety and efficacy of medications for these diseases, with the goal of translating evidence into practical guidelines that improve patient outcomes worldwide. As a former Penn scholar, Dr. Ma collaborates closely with faculty at Penn. Dr. Ma's work on the global burden of disease and real-world evidence of treatment modalities contributes to disease burden mitigation and promoting global medication safety. person

• Anjeli Manam, MD 

  Anjeli Manam, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Internal Medicine Resident, University of Pennsylvania   Immigrant health | Disease Prevention | Subspecialty care in low resource settings | Cancer Screening   United States USA BIO STATEMENT: I am an internal medicine resident in the global health equities track. My interests in global health formed during my gap year where I studied public health and worked in clinical sites throughout Cape Town, South Africa. During my internship there, I provided vaccination education and administration in underserved areas without access to healthcare. In undergrad, I co-started our university’s GlobeMed chapter, built partnerships with organizations, and led monthly seminars on current events in global health for students. In medical school, I helped launch food delivery, telehealth, and interpreter services for communities heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently, I spent time working within the Indian Health Services in Navajo Nation, where I witnessed the barriers to both preventative and subspecialty care, and observed how community-based initiatives can create meaningful impact. I plan to pursue a career in gastroenterology with a focus on improving access to subspecialty care and advancing health equity within the domains of cancer screening and preventative medicine. person

• Susan Mandel, MD, MPH 

  Susan Mandel, MD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania   Diabetes | Cancer epidemiology | Thyroid Cancer | Endocrinology   South Africa ZAF BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Susan J. Mandel, MD, MPH—Sylvan H Eisman Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Her clinical practice focuses on thyroid neoplasia. Her research interests include sonography in the evaluation of patients with thyroid nodules and cancer. Dr. Mandel was on the writing groups for the 3 previous versions of the ATA Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer and is co-chairing the 2024 ATA Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid nodules. She also was on the writing group for the ATA and Endocrine Society guidelines on the Management of Thyroid Disorders during Pregnancy. Dr. Mandel initiated and directed the Ultrasound workshops for the ATA and Endocrine Society. Dr. Mandel has received the Endocrine Society's Distinguished Educator Award, the 2019 ATA WIT Woman of the Year award, and the AACE H. Jack Baskin Endocrine Teaching Award. She also received the Louis Duhring Outstanding Clinical Specialist Award from Penn Medicine. Dr. Mandel is past President of the Endocrine Society (2018-19) and of the Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism (2009-2011). She currently serves as Secretary of the International Society of Endocrinology. During her 21 year tenure as Program Director of the Fellowship program at Penn, she trained over 70 fellows, 8 of whom now serve as Endocrine Fellowship Program Directors. She has over 100 peer reviewed publications in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and the Annals of Internal Medicine. She has also authored chapters on thyroid disorders in Harrison’s Textbook of Medicine and thyroid nodules in Werner and Ingbar’s The Thyroid. person

• Shannon Marquez, PhD, MEng 

  Shannon Marquez, PhD, MEng

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Dean of Global Engagement & Professor | Columbia University   Maternal Child Health | Global water | sanitation & hygiene | gender equity and social inclusion | capacity building and health-systems strengthening | livelihood and resilience BIO STATEMENT: My research and practice has been in the field of global environmental health; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); sustainable solutions to address the environmental burden of disease and health disparities in developing countries; and health systems strengthening and capacity-building in global health. Currently, I serve as the Director of the Dornsife Global Development Scholars Program, which leverages an exciting global health partnership with World Vision International to provide global health training, support faculty/student research, and trainee field experiences in 36 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. I teach courses in WASH, and MCH, including field courses in Cuba and West Africa. person

• Yehoda Martei, MD, MSCE 

  Yehoda Martei, MD, MSCE

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor of Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Global Oncology | Breast cancer | Oncology   Botswana | Ghana BWA||GHA BIO STATEMENT: I am an attending physician in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at Penn. My research focuses on evaluating and improving access to cancer medicines and treatment outcomes in breast cancer patients in sub Saharan Africa, and assessing the impact of access to essential medicines for cancer treatment in low- and middle- income countries, on clinical outcomes among cancer patients. I have also worked on the WHO Steering Committee/ Union for International Cancer Control Task Team for updating the Model List of Essential Medicines for Cancer and the Steering Committee for the Medicine Patent Policy: “Feasibility of expanding the Medicines Patent Pool’s scope to include all patented essential medicines.” person

• Audrey Naledi Masizana, PhD 

  Audrey Naledi Masizana, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Senior Lecturer, Computer Science | University of Botswana   Data Science Training in Health Care   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: As a HOD Computer Science , I have successfully led research projects including Microsoft sponsored Digital Inclusion call of 2006 and 2008, a project in the Health sector that led to the establishment of the e-Health research unit in 2012. The unit continues to engage in Health Informatics research and has fostered wide-reaching collaboration within and beyond, NGO’s such as Botswana UPENN, Botswana Harvard Partnerships, CHOP and also with Government through the Ministry of Health I am also spearheading a number of health-related research projects providing digital solutions under themes of Data Warehousing, Mining, IOT's and Interoperability. person

• Paul J. Mather, MD 

  Paul J. Mather, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Clinical Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine   Community Engagement | Medical Education   Botswana | Vietnam BWA||VNM BIO STATEMENT: Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Physician Leader for Heart Failure Disease Management for the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the Director, Faculty Development, Division of Cardiology. He received the American Heart Association Lynn Smaha Award fo Excellence in 2019 and was named the American Heart Association Physician of the Year in 2020. He also received the Edward S. Cooper Award from the Philadelphia AHA in 2023. He has worked with Italian, British, Vietnamese and Botwanian Universities to help them expand their bandwidth of medical education person

• Monica Matsumoto, MD 

  Monica Matsumoto, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Resident Physician | University of Pennsylvania   Refugee health | Radiology Education | Interventional Radiology | Supply Chain Development   Jordan | Peru JOR||PER BIO STATEMENT: I am an interventional radiology resident and part of the Radiology Health Equity Track. I started working in international health as an undergraduate at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, followed by a Fulbright Fellowship in Jordan, and then decided to pursue medicine as a tool to make a positive impact on people around the world. I want to build upon my experiences working with refugee populations both in Chicago and Jordan, as well as collaborating with RAD-AID International, to foster the development of critical radiology services, education, and in under-resourced settings. person

• Kabelo Leonard Mauco, PhD, MSc 

  Kabelo Leonard Mauco, PhD, MSc

  International Scholar International Scholar   Lecturer & Researcher | Karolinska Institute, Sweden   Global Health Security | Digital Epidemiology   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: I have a PhD in digital health. My current research interests are on digital epidemiology and global health security. I am a Fulbright visiting scholar currently hosted by CHOP for the next 5 months. As a digital health researcher, my research interests focused on creating evidence and policies to guide the sustainable implementation of digital health in developing countries. Reviewer for the following academic journals; Journal of Medical Internet Research, Digital Health (SAGE journals) AND Frontiers in Digital Health. Senior lecturer and research fellow, department of Health Information Management, Botho University, Gaborone Botswana. person

• Jeffrey Mayne, MD 

  Jeffrey Mayne, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Director of Admissions, VinUniversity College of Health Sciences MD Program   International Medical Education | Medical Education | Faculty Development   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT: As part of the VinUniversity-UPenn alliance, Dr. Mayne is the director of admissions for the MD program at VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam, co-chair of the 4th year medical student class, and an instructor for the Internal Medicine residency program. Dr. Mayne graduated from New York University School of Medicine, where he also completed his residency in Internal Medicine. He worked as a clinical instructor at UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles following residency. His clinical experience is in hospital medicine, community-based medicine, and in medical education. He has previously worked internationally in Guatemala. person

• Ryan J. McAuley, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAP 

  Ryan J. McAuley, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAP

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Humanitarian assistance | Refugee health | Disaster response | Health and human rights   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT: Ryan's global health interests focus on vulnerable populations, refugee and migrant health, disaster response, and medical education in developing settings. From 2014-2018, Ryan completed several missions with Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders in South Sudan and Egypt. From 2019-2021, Ryan was based in Hanoi, Vietnam as part of the Vingroup-Penn Partnership and served as the first Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at VinUniversity. Ryan works clinically as an adult Oncology Hospitalist and serves as the Director of Operations for Global Graduate Medical Education with the Penn Center for Global Health. person

• Tomas E. Meijome, MD, MS 

  Tomas E. Meijome, MD, MS

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology | University of Pennsylvania   Sustainability | Preventable Blindness | Surgical Education | Sustainable Eyecare | Subspecialty care in low resource settings   Peru | Sierra Leone | Ecuador | Rwanda PER||SLE||ECU||RWA BIO STATEMENT: I am an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania Scheie Eye Institute. I have been actively involved in community and global health work throughout my education and training. My experiences working abroad inspired me to pursue a fellowship in Academic Global Ophthalmology at Wills Eye Hospital. Through the fellowship I had the opportunity to care for underserved patients in Philadelphia and abroad - including Jamaica, Peru, Ecuador, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and India. My interests include - surgical teaching, development of sustainable eyecare models, providing subspecialty eyecare in low-resource areas. person

• Rmaah Memon, MD 

  Rmaah Memon, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Global Emergency Medicine Fellow, Emergency Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Emergency Medicine | Medical Education | Digital Health | Emergency Medicine Training   Pakistan PAK BIO STATEMENT: Rmaah Memon, MD is a Global EM Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated from the 6-Year BA/MD Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she worked with refugee populations and piloted health fairs for resource- denied populations. While completing her emergency medicine residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she was involved with emergency medicine capacity building in Pakistan and Iraq. She has an interest in digital health and technology in the realm of global emergency medicine and is piloting a telemedicine initiative in Pakistan. person

• Suyash Mohan, MD 

  Suyash Mohan, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor of Radiology & Neurosurgery | University of Pennsylvania   International Medical Education | Health Equity | Health Disparities | Diagnostic Imaging   South Africa ZAF BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Mohan is a physician-scientist with a research focus on clinical and translational applications of advanced neuroimaging techniques in the development of noninvasive imaging-based biomarkers for assessing brain tumor metabolism and response to therapy. His current National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute funded clinical trial (R01 CA262584-01) is utilizing synergy of advanced metabolic imaging, computational modelling, with interdisciplinary collaborations and industrial partnership to transform the treatment of patients with brain tumors. Dr. Mohan is the recipient of numerous awards and honors and has been the brand ambassador for societies like the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and the American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR). He was awarded the 2018 Anne G. Osborn ASNR Outreach Professorship to South Africa and was awarded the esteemed RSNA International Visiting Professorship (IVP) to Kazakhstan in 2022. Dr. Mohan is a passionate educator and was the recipient of the Wallace T. Miller Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence in 2013, and then the ‘2015 Teaching Award’, for ‘Excellence in Teaching’ at the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently, he was awarded the Association of University Radiologists (AUR), 2019 Outstanding Teacher Award. Dr. Mohan has made important scientific contributions and has published over 135 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters, 3 books, presented over 250 abstracts in national and international meetings, and has delivered over 300 lectures locally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Mohan has had a number of roles in national organizations, American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and has been recently been appointed as the Assistant Editor for Radiographics. He has focused interest in advancing neuro-oncologic imaging and research, teaching and education, organizing CMEs, academic mentoring of trainees and junior faculty, as well as in multidisciplinary collaborations.. person

• Mooketsi Molefi, MB ChB, MSCE 

  Mooketsi Molefi, MB ChB, MSCE

  International Scholar International Scholar   Senior Lecturer | University of Botswana Faculty of Medicine   Epidemiology | Health Informatics | Biostatistics   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: As a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine & Public Health at the University of Botswana's Faculty of Medicine, my responsibilities are related to research, mentorship, and service. I have extensive research experience, including guiding students in research projects, serving as a Principal Investigator for NIH-funded trials, and conducting observational, quasi-experimental, and experimental studies. I contribute to shaping the research agenda through coordinating graduate specialist research training, mentor trainees pursuing various degrees, and co-lead an Injury and Trauma Research Training Program. I have developed keen interest in health-related outcome measurements, road traffic accidents, suicide Epidemiology in Botswana person

• Billy Morara Tsima, MD 

  Billy Morara Tsima, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Acting Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Public Health | University of Botswana   HIV/AIDS | Mental health | Maternal Child Health | Leadership | Basic Life Support/Resuscitation | smoking cessation   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: As a family physician, my practice of medicine involves providing medical care to a wide variety of people. Serving in primary care settings provides a unique opportunity to interact with undifferentiated patients from different backgrounds. It became evident early in my exposure to this situation that equity in health is important and addressing it is an ongoing effort requiring a strong understanding of the context in which diseases occur as well as collaboration with others with different experiences.As a medical educator and researcher, my work brings me in contact with many others in the global health space. person

• Papa Kwadwo Morgan-Asiedu, MD, MPH 

  Papa Kwadwo Morgan-Asiedu, MD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Resident Physician, PGY1, 2024 | Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters   Global Surgery | Pediatrics   Ghana GHA BIO STATEMENT: Having grown up in Ghana, I chose medicine in hopes of addressing global healthcare disparities. I have undertaken research geared toward development of pediatric HIV vaccines to prevent vertical transmissions of HIV in Sub Saharan Africa. In medical school I served as president of the Penn Global Surgery Group and on the Global Health Student Advisory Committee. I also earned an MPH in Global Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and served as a fellow of the Global Surgery Foundation. I hope to continue working toward improving the standard of care on my home continent. person

• Sununguko Wata Mpoloka, PhD 

  Sununguko Wata Mpoloka, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Associate Professor | University of Botswana, Department of Biological Sciences   Vaccines | Vaccine Research & Development   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Botswana, where I am involved in the teaching of both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as conducting research. My research is centered around Population Genetics, Vaccinology, and Molecular Genetics. I am currently the principal investigator in the H3Africa consortium under the auspices of CAfGEN (Collaborative African Genomics Network), which is an NIH-funded project looking at understanding the host genomic factors that determine the progression of HIV and TB in pediatrics. person

• Emmanuel Abraham Mpolya, PhD 

  Emmanuel Abraham Mpolya, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Senior Lecturer | Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology   Epidemiology | HIV/AIDS | Environmental health | Nutrition | Biostatistics   Tanzania, United Republic of TZA BIO STATEMENT: I have a Bachelor's degree in Nursing (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), a Masters of Medical Sciences (Tohoku University,Japan) and a PhD in Theoretical Epidemiology (Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan). Right after my first degree I was employed by the UW PEPFAR-funded International Training and Education Center for Health - ITECH in Tanzania as a Curriculum Assistant, my first involvement in Global Health. Currently I am a Lecturer at the Department of Global Health at NM-AIST and I'm working with several partners in Global Health. I have also just completed a Fellowship in Global Health Leadership with AfyaBora. person

• Victoria Mui, MD 

  Victoria Mui, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology   Global Surgery | International Medical Education | Bioethics | Medical Education | Maternal Health   Vietnam | Uganda VNM||UGA BIO STATEMENT: Victoria Mui, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her international experience includes midwifery collaborations in Guatemala, surgical projects in Guyana, and a year-long faculty appointment at Gulu University in northern Uganda. She is a former MGH Global Health Clinical Fellow through Seed Global Health-Peace Corps. She is currently the OB/GYN Curriculum Lead for the VinUni-UPenn partnership. She is interested in international projects that focus on medical education and advanced training in women's health and global surgery and excited to be a champion in the department. person

• Maham N. Munawar, DO, MS 

  Maham N. Munawar, DO, MS

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine | Baylor College of Medicine   Nutrition | Emergency Medicine | Women's health | capacity building and health-systems strengthening   Pakistan | Bangladesh | Iraq PAK||BGD||IRQ BIO STATEMENT: Maham is from Texas and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Texas in Austin and a Master of Science as well as her medical degree at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. She completed her Emergency Medicine residency training at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, Illinois. Her academic interests include, but are not limited to, healthcare access and health policy as well as nutrition, women’s health, and education/EM program development abroad. person

• Michelle Munyikwa, MD, PhD 

  Michelle Munyikwa, MD, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Resident Physician, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics | University of Pennsylvania   Refugee health | Mental health | Infectious disease | Health Equity   Ghana GHA BIO STATEMENT: Michelle Munyikwa is a current resident in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics in the global health track. She earned her PhD in cultural and medical anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 through the MSTP program. After graduating in 2021 with her MD, she continued on to Med-Peds residency, where she focuses on domestic and global health equity. In addition to existing work on social science in medical education, migrant health, and the use of race in medicine, she has an evolving research program on the lived experience of adolescents and young adults living with HIV/AIDS. person

• Mohan S. Narasimhamurthy, MD 

  Mohan S. Narasimhamurthy, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Resident, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Pathology | Oncology | Training Laboratory Professionals   Botswana | India BWA||IND BIO STATEMENT: I practiced pathology for nine years in Botswana in various capacities, including assistant program director of the pathology residency program at the University of Botswana and the National Health Laboratory. I was involved in developing a pathology residency program, laboratory accreditation, scaling up diagnostic services with the introduction of immunohistochemistry, and setting up multidisciplinary tumor board meetings. I also initiated rapid on-site evaluation in FNA clinics, which received the Best Public Service Initiative from the Ministry of Health, Botswana, in 2017. I have taught medical students, pathology residents, laboratory scientists, full-bright scholars, and MPhil students. In addition, I participated in several projects, including HPV genotyping and breast cancer-related studies, and published several papers. I was the informal technical committee member for WHO to develop a technical package on strengthening and scaling-up services for the management of invasive cervical cancer. I also contributed to drafting and reviewing the WHO Guide for establishing a pathology laboratory in the context of cancer control and WHO-IAEA Framework for Setting up a Comprehensive Cancer Centre, 2021. person

• Harrieth Peter Ndumwa, MD, MPhill 

  Harrieth Peter Ndumwa, MD, MPhill

  International Scholar International Scholar   Research Scientist, Directorate of Research, Publication and Innovation | Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)   Non-communicable disease | Emerging Infectious Diseases | Re-emerging Infectious Diseases | Health Care Financing   Tanzania, United Republic of TZA BIO STATEMENT: I am a scientist with a Doctor of Medicine degree from Muhimbili University (MUHAS), Tanzania, and a Masters of Philosophy (MPhi)l in Global Health from the University of Bergen, Norway. I have also completed a summer visiting fellowship on Implementation Science and Leadership training from the Centre for Global Health at the University of Pennsylvania, United States. As a researcher and academic in Global Health, my focus is particularly on Non-Communicable Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and health economics. Affiliated with MUHAS and Tanzania Health promotion Support (THPS), I am actively engaged in different research projects, with over 30 publications and four grants. My work integrates clinical practice, epidemiology, and biostatistics, aiming to advance global health knowledge and improve health outcomes through innovative research and collaborative initiatives. person

• Jackline E. Ngowi, MD 

  Jackline E. Ngowi, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Physician Scientist, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences   Tuberculosis | Non-communicable disease | Health economics | Sexual reproductive health   Tanzania, United Republic of TZA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Jackline Ngowi, a researcher at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), has interests in implementation science and health economics in Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and NCDs. She received the 2022 Early Career Research grant from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine. Dr. Ngowi serves as the program manager for the GROWNUTII/EPRENUT consortium at MUHAS and coordinates collaborative studies, including Tuberculosis case-finding, intrauterine hormonal device feasibility, and COVID-19 seroprevalence in pregnant women. Jackline attended the summer visiting fellowship in 2023 and received training in the Implementation Science course at the Penn Implementation Science Institute. person

• Nhung Thi Nguyen 

  Nhung Thi Nguyen

  International Scholar International Scholar   Physiology Faculty | VinUniversity College of Health Sciences   Mitochondrial-related disease | Metabolic disease | Vascular Calcification | Phosphate toxicity   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT: I am Dr. Nhung Thi Nguyen, currently I am a lecturer in Physiology of the College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity. I have spent for more than 5 years doing research in Physiology to discover the potential therapeutic target for several metabolic diseases. My research concentrates on the toxicity high serum phosphate, particularly in the development of vascular calcification in patients with chronic kidney diseases (CKD). With the increasing number of CKD patients globally, I believe that my research highly contributes to curing a lot of complications found in these patients. In capstone project, he created a survey to screen for vision-related quality of life in homeless populations. Dr Andersen also spent two months in Botswana with the local leadership team of an eye health organization called Peek Vision, focusing on visual acuity screening for schoolchildren. He hopes to continue to work with organizations locally and internationally to develop interventions to address preventable blindness. person

• Huyen Thi Hoa Nguyen, PhD, RN 

  Huyen Thi Hoa Nguyen, PhD, RN

  International Scholar International Scholar   Associate Professor | VinUniversity College of Health Sciences, Nursing   Mental health | Chronic Diseases | Women's health | Oncology | Digital Health | Smart Health   Australia | Vietnam AUS||VNM BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Huyen T. H. Nguyen currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Nursing Program at VinUniversity, Vietnam, where she oversees curriculum development and contributes to teaching and research activities. She also holds an appointment as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia, and is a scholar at the Global Health Center, University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on women's health, cancer care and mental health, with a particular emphasis on the application of smart technologies. With over 20 years of experience as a nurse researcher and lecturer, she seamlessly integrates her teaching responsibilities with active research. She has successfully secured several internal and external research grants to support vulnerable populations in the community. person

• Tu Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, MD 

  Tu Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Intergraded Clinical Faculty, Year 5 chair | Vin University, College of Health Sciences   Medical Education | Sleep Medicine | Patient Centered Care | Graduate Medical Education   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Tu Nguyen, a graduate of University of Medicine and Pharmacy Ho Chi Minh City, has joined VinUni as Chair of the 5th Year MD Program and faculty member for the Internal Medicine residency and Medical Professionalism & Medical Humanity courses. She also oversees the Sleep Medicine elective and contributes to curriculum development and assessment under the VinUni-UPenn alliance, focusing on years 5-6. With a residency at Weiss Memorial Hospital and fellowship at University of Illinois Chicago, Dr. Nguyen is dedicated to enhancing sleep health in Vietnam and promoting patient-centered care through personalized medical education reforms. person

• Abass M. Noor, MD 

  Abass M. Noor, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Director, of Global Radiology Outreach & Education, CHOP | Director, Health Equity Leadership Track Radiology Residency, University of Pennsylvania   International Medical Education | Health Equity | Health Disparities | Diagnostic Imaging | Medical Education   Botswana | Ethiopia | Nepal BWA||ETH||NPL BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Noor is an attending physician in the Departments of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He completed his undergraduate education at Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) and received his medical degree from the Alpert Medical School of Brown University (Providence, RI). Given his experiences as a refugee from Somalia, Dr. Noor has long held a passion for working toward a more equitable future for low and middle income countries (LMICs). His current interests are primarily in medical education and in implementing sustainable radiology services in resource-limited areas of the world. person

• Joseph Nwadiuko, MD, PhD, MPH, MSHP 

  Joseph Nwadiuko, MD, PhD, MPH, MSHP

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor, Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Refugee health | HIV/AIDS | Non-communicable disease | Health Systems Strengthening | Health Workforce | Migration   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: I am an internal medicine physician, health economist, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. My focus involves global health and health systems with a focus on immigration and incarceration. I have been published in JAMA, JAMA Network Open, The Lancet, and Health Affairs. I have spoken at the State Department, USAID, the Department of Homeland Security, and have been a consultant for the World Bank. person

• Obadia Venance Nyongole, MD 

  Obadia Venance Nyongole, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Instructor of Medicine - Infectious Disease | University of Pennsylvania   Health Systems Strengthening | Medical Education | Genitourinary Oncology   Tanzania, United Republic of TZA BIO STATEMENT: For the past fifteen years, my research focus has been on the delineation of dynamics of health systems, Medical education, surgical and urological conditions, developing evidence-based guidelines on improving quality of health services, prevention and control strategies. I have provided technical expertise and leadership roles in various programs/projects in Tanzania, and governance and implementation frameworks were fostered. I have worked and led teams to develop guidelines for clinical teaching. I have conducted a number of researches in health sciences. Am the Acting Director of Quality Assurance at the University. person

• Alvaro A. Ordonez, MD 

  Alvaro A. Ordonez, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Diagnostic Radiology Resident, PGY3,2024 | Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania   Health Disparities | Diagnostic Imaging | Medical Education | Access to Medical Imaging | Nuclear Medicine   South Africa | Colombia | Peru ZAF||COL||PER BIO STATEMENT: I am a diagnostic radiology resident and part of the Penn Radiology Health Equity Track. As a medical student at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia, I learned to identify and overcome the limitations of adopting new healthcare technologies in developing countries. My current research is focused on creating and implementing accessible imaging tools to improve the diagnosis and management of infections, cancer, and inflammatory diseases worldwide. person

• Kevin Osterhoudt, MD, MSCE, FAAP, FAACT, FACMT 

  Kevin Osterhoudt, MD, MSCE, FAAP, FAACT, FACMT

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Medical Director | The Poison Control Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.   Pediatrics | Environmental health | International Medical Education   United States USA BIO STATEMENT: As one of only 21 medical toxicologists certified by the American Board of Pediatrics since 2001, and as a former member of the Executive Committee of the AAP Council on Environmental Health, Dr. Osterhoudt is deeply committed to the environmental health of children worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that 26% of pediatric deaths are attributable to modifiable environmental factors. Having been recognized with hospital, university, and national teaching awards, Dr. Osterhoudt is also engaged in international medical education and pediatric care systems development. person

• Hansel J. Otero, MD 

  Hansel J. Otero, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Director of International Pediatric Radiology Education and Outreach | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.   Pediatric Radiology | International Medical Education   Ethiopia | Botswana | Malawi | Argentina | Peru ETH||BWA||MWI||ARG||PER BIO STATEMENT:Currently, I serve as the director of global education of outreach for the radiology department at CHOP and the Outreach lead of the World Federation of Pediatric Imaging and coordinate additional educational projects and teleradiology services for partners throughout the world. As a pediatric radiologist, I have also participated in educational pediatric radiology projects in Haiti, Ghana and Ethiopia among others. In the past, I practiced medicine in Venezuela and later as an emergency response physician with Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Liberia, Sudan, Angola, Pakistan and Yemen from 2002 to 2009. person

• Alex O. Otieno, MPH, ABD 

  Alex O. Otieno, MPH, ABD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Associate Professor and Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Arcadia University   HIV/AIDS | Global Health Policy | Social Development   Kenya | South Africa KEN||ZAF BIO STATEMENT: My interests in global health are in areas of health and human rights, peace and social and sustainable development with a particular focus on peacebuilding, HIV/AIDS, Black/African well-being, housing and disaster response. Specifically, I am interested in migration/mobilities and the role of policy in facilitating and enhancing human flourishing for those in the margins of society. Related to this I have been exploring the role of global health education in social transformation. person

• Michael Owens, MD 

  Michael Owens, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Emergency Physician | Naval Medical Center Portsmouth   Public Health | Disaster response | Infectious disease | Emergency Medicine | Medical Education   Angola | Vietnam | United States AGO||VNM||USA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Owens is an Emergency Physician at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Director of the Navy’s Global Health Fellowship, and Assistant Professor at the USU and EVMS. He received his MPH from the University of Massachusetts and CEM from IAEM. His is the current Medical Director for the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Medical Response Team. Dr. Owens recent duties include directing multiple workshops and response activities throughout Central America, Pacific, and Africa with a focus on LMIC. He supported the 2014 Ebola epidemic as Medical Coordinator for an ETU in Liberia. His work include multiple publications associated with this work. person

• Ruth Owusu-Antwi, MBChB, MSC, FGCP 

  Ruth Owusu-Antwi, MBChB, MSC, FGCP

  International Scholar International Scholar   Psychiatrist, School of Medical Sciences | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology   Mental health | substance use | Global Mental Health | Psychiatry   Ghana GHA person

• Ellis Owusu-Dabo, MB ChB, PhD 

  Ellis Owusu-Dabo, MB ChB, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Vice- Chancellor & Professor | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology   Tuberculosis | Infectious disease | Diabetes   Ghana GHA BIO STATEMENT: As a scientist, public health consultant, and lecturer, Prof. Ellis Owusu-Dabo’s expertise is mainly in population genomics of type II diabetes and Tuberculosis in low-income settings. Over the last decade, he has gained extensive experience in teaching and research at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi. He has successfully secured funding and led research into genetic and immunologic factors of pulmonary tuberculosis and type II diabetes in collaborative research. As the current Dean of the School of Public Health, Ellis’s passion is in training the next generation of scientist to develop solutions to solve Africa’s problems. person

• Giacomo Maria Paganotti, PhD 

  Giacomo Maria Paganotti, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Adjunct Assistant Professor, Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases | University of Pennsylvania   HIV/AIDS | Malaria | HPV | Breast cancer | Pharmacogenetics   Botswana | Cameroon BWA||CMR BIO STATEMENT: My role in Botswana is to lead the Botswana-UPenn Partnership molecular laboratory (2014 to date). The main stakeholders are faculties and students from the local University of Botswana (Health Sciences, Biology, Medicine). In addition, we have collaborations with Penn, University of South Carolina, Duke University, McMaster University, the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy) and many African institutions (in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Sudan, etc). While by background I am a malariologist, because of the health issues here, I have expanded my interests on pharmacogenetics of anti-infective treatments but also breast cancer, HPV, and other related fields, including HIV. person

• Brianna E. Parsons VMD, MSEd 

  Brianna E. Parsons VMD, MSEd

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Lecturer in Sustainable Agriculture | School of Veterinary Medicine - New Bolton Center   Maternal and Child Nutrition | Environmental and Planetary Health | Social Entrepreneurship   Gambia | Botswana GMB||BWA person

• Ranawaka A.P.M Perera, PhD, FRCPath, PDipID, PDipMDPath 

  Ranawaka A.P.M Perera, PhD, FRCPath, PDipID, PDipMDPath

  Scholar Scholar   Research Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Infectious disease | Emerging Infectious Diseases | Re-emerging Infectious Diseases   Saudi Arabia | United Arab Emirates | Senegal | Morocco | Ethiopia | Egypt | Mauritania | Sri Lanka | Hong Kong | Germany | Côte d'Ivoire SAU||ARE||SEN||MAR||ETH||EGY||MRT||LKA||HKG||DEU||CIV BIO STATEMENT: My interest centers on viruses that have the potential to cause epidemics/pandemics. It is important to understand how viruses persist in animal hosts, then successfully transmit to humans, resulting in severe disease. During the last influenza pandemic, I examined how the influenza virus evolved within swine populations, transmitted to humans, and vice versa. In the MERS-CoV epidemic, my research was among the first to identify camels as the reservoir transmitting it to humans that contributed to mitigating MERS-CoV infections. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I investigated the transmission of COVID-19 and the immune responses in both humans and animals. person

• Van Anh Thi Pham, MD, PhD, MPH, MIRB 

  Van Anh Thi Pham, MD, PhD, MPH, MIRB

  International Scholar International Scholar   Associate Program Director of MD Program, College of Health Sciences, VinUni   HIV/AIDS | Tuberculosis | Medical ethics | Health Equity | Medical Education | Oncology | Palliative Care | Medical Professionalism   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT: Pham Thi Van Anh, MD, PhD is a trained infectious disease and HIV/AIDS specialist. Since 2010, she was recognized by the Ministry of Health as a national Palliative Care (PC) trainer. She also was a contributor to the revised Vietnam National PC Guidelines and the section on PC in the WHO Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Testing, Treatment, Service Delivery, and Monitoring:Recommendations for Public Health Approach. She is currently a co-investigator and the in-country Project Manager for a validation study of the Vietnamese Palliative Outcomes Scale (VietPOS), a collaboration with King’s College London and Harvard Medical School. person

• Andriy Pohorilyak, MD,PhD 

  Andriy Pohorilyak, MD,PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Medical Doctor - Regional Adult Hospital | Zakarpattya, Ukraine   Critical care | Trauma | Emergency Care Delivery | Microsurgery   Ukraine UKR BIO STATEMENT: I am interested in microsurgery, orthopedics and traumatology. I have a hobby of active recreation, cycling, and mountain sports. person

• Jennifer Prah, PhD 

  Jennifer Prah, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Health Equity, Economics, and Policy | University of Pennsylvania   Health and human rights | Healthcare Access | Governance | Social determinants of health | Healthcare Financing | Healthcare Policy   India | Ghana | Indonesia | Malawi | Morocco | United States | South Korea | South Africa | Vietnam | Senegal IND||GHA||IDN||MWI||MAR||USA||KOR||ZAF||VNM||SEN BIO STATEMENT: Jennifer Prah is a leading scholar of global and domestic health policy and public health. She conducts theoretical and empirical studies of health equity to reduce global and national health inequities with a focus on the most impoverished populations worldwide, especially women and children. Dr. Prah’s scholarship has scrutinized the existing global health architecture to identify more effective global health policy responses linking public policy and law to global health theory at global and national levels. Her research is conducted internationally and nationally, including in Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Morocco, South Korea, South Africa, United States and Vietnam. person

• Madiha Raees, MD 

  Madiha Raees, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia   Malaria | Pediatrics | Brain Injury | Neurocritical Care | Implementation Science   Malawi MWI BIO:Madiha Raees, MD joined the Division of Critical Care Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as an attending physician and clinical instructor in summer 2021. Outside of her clinical work in pediatric intensive care unit, she has a deep interest in optimizing healthcare provision for children in variably resourced regions. She is currently studying proposed biomarkers of brain injury in the cerebral malaria population as potential surrogates for advanced imaging and predictors of neurological outcome. Her work is based in Blantyre, Malawi and she works closely with the Blantyre Malaria Project. person

• Karen Ramirez Suarez, MD 

  Karen Ramirez Suarez, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia   Environmental health | Women's health | Child Health | Climate Change   Colombia | Dominican Republic | Botswana COL||DOM||BWA BIO STATEMENT: Karen is an international medical doctor from Colombia, with a postgraduate degree in epidemiology. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study. This project investigates how brain development is influenced by exposure to substances, as well as environmental, social, and biological factors during pregnancy and after birth. She is passionate about public and global health, focused on community, women’s, and children’s health. She is committed to advocating for healthcare equity and is actively engaged with multiple organizations including "Puentes de Salud" and "Medicos Unidos," which provide resources to the Latinx community in Philadelphia. person

• Sarah Rapaport, MD 

  Sarah Rapaport, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Orthopedic Surgery Resident | University of Pennsylvania   Refugee health | Humanitarian Response | Surgical Systems Strengthening   Tanzania, United Republic of TZA BIO STATEMENT: I am an orthopedic surgery resident passionate about the intersection of surgical systems strengthening, sustainable international development, and refugee health. My current work is focused on assessing and improving access to surgery and musculoskeletal care among encamped refugees. I have previously worked on numerous projects aimed at improving neurosurgery outcomes in Uganda, co-developed a manual to assess pre-hospital care in limited resource settings, and advocated for the inclusion of surgery capacity building in international development plans. Additionally, I have taught several global health courses, created health equity curricula, and planned and/or hosted numerous global health equity conferences. person

• Kelsey Johnson Ripp, MD 

  Kelsey Johnson Ripp, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine & One Health | University of Global Health Equity   International Medical Education | Health Equity | Medical Education | One Health | Planetary Health | Point of Care Ultrasound   Rwanda RWA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Ripp is an assistant professor in the Divisions of Clinical Medicine and One Health at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda, as well as a hospitalist in the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Alaska. At UGHE, she leads the One Health/Planetary Health integration in the MBBS curriculum, co-directs the Internal Medicine clerkship, and is developing an integrated POCUS curriculum. She graduated from the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, followed by Med-Peds residency at UPenn/CHOP. She continues to be engaged in teaching Penn residents and students and facilitating collaboration between Penn residents and medical students at UGHE related to global medical education. person

• Michael N. Rubenstein, MD 

  Michael N. Rubenstein, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Clinical Neurology | University of Pennsylvania   Low-resource Settings | Medical Education | Neurology   Tanzania, United Republic of TZA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Michael Rubenstein has traveled to Northern Tanzania twice annually for the last decade to provide neurological education to community caregivers at a rural clinic as well as to provide care to neurological patients in the district of Karatu, Tanzania. He has worked with the Foundation for African Medicine and Education (FAME), a non-profit, NGO that provides healthcare to this region of Northern Tanzania. He currently brings four residents and a medical student from Penn/CHOP for each trip of a month in the spring and fall. person

• Megan Rybarczyk, MD, MPH 

  Megan Rybarczyk, MD, MPH

  Scholar Scholar   Global EM Fellowship Program Director, Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Education | Emergency Care Systems | Development   Pakistan | Botswana | Bangladesh PAK||BWA||BGD BIO STATEMENT:Dr. Megan Rybarczyk, MD, MPH, FACEP is the program director for the Penn Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship and faculty within the Department of Emergency Medicine at Penn Medicine, where she is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine. Throughout her career, her work in Global Emergency Medicine has involved research, education, clinical care, and/or disaster response in countries such as the Botswana, Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda. Her work is focused primarily on education and training and emergency care systems development. person

• Felipe Salgado Gil, MD 

  Felipe Salgado Gil, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   PhD Student & Ophthalmology Resident | University of Chile   Public Health | Implementation Science | Artificial Intelligence | Ophthalmology   Chile CHL BIO STATEMENT: Ph.D. in Medical Sciences student and Ophthalmology Resident at University of Chile. I was a student assistant in Surgery for 4 years under the tutorship of Dr. Stefan Danilla. Along with Dr. Marlene Vogel, I conducted studies on thyroid eye disease at University of Chile’s Clinical Hospital. Currently, I am a basic and clinical researcher at Laboratory of Ocular and Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, whose principal investigator is Dr. Cristhian Urzúa. In this laboratory, I have focused on uveitis biomarkers and artificial intelligence for AMD screening. I have presented this research at national and international high-impact congresses and journals. person

• Julia R. Schiff, MD,MPH 

  Julia R. Schiff, MD,MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Resident Physician | Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania   Infectious disease | Environmental health | Medical Education | Humanitarian Emergencies   United States | Ghana | Pakistan USA||GHA||PAK BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Julia Schiff is an Internal Medicine physician and current Emergency Medicine resident at the University of Pennsylvania and has an MPH in Global Health. Her interests include the intersections of complex humanitarian emergencies, climate change/natural disasters, and the impact on human health including infectious diseases and trauma burden. She has been involved in projects, clinical care, and educational endeavors related to refugee/immigrant health, HIV/TB/tropical medicine, wilderness, and culturally competent care strategies. She is additionally engaged in educational activities and the creation of materials related to the development of and training for global medical health systems. person

• Enrique Schisterman, PhD 

  Enrique Schisterman, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics | University of Pennsylvania   Epidemiology | Public Health | Reproductive health | Clinical Trials | Low Cost Interventions | Screening   Chile CHL BIO STATEMENT: I am Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania, and the editor in chief of the American Journal of Epidemiology. My focus is reproductive epidemiology and epidemiological methods working to improve study designs; to fuel new methods; and to solve analytical challenges in reproductive health. I am especially interested in the methodological components of exposure assessment, causal inference, and the etiologic study of reproduction. Previously I was the Senior Investigator and Epidemiology Branch Chief of the Division of Intramural Population Health Research National Institute of Child Health & Human Development at NIH. person

• Heather Schofield, PhD 

  Heather Schofield, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University   Social determinants of health | Health economics | Nutrition | Sleep   India | Bangladesh IND||BGD BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Schofield is an economist studying development, health, and behavioral economics. Two primary ongoing areas of research include the role of health human capital (nutrition, pain management, adequate sleep) in economic productivity, cognitive function, and decision-making and the role of financial and social incentives in promoting healthy behaviors. Dr. Schofield completed her Ph.D. in Business Economics, MS in Global Health and Population, and BA in Economics at Harvard University. person

• Valeria Katalina Sepulveda, MD 

  Valeria Katalina Sepulveda, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Resident PGY3 - Otorhinolaryngology | University of Chile   Medical Education | Implementation Science | Surgical Education | Simulation Training   Chile CHL BIO STATEMENT: Valeria K. Sepulveda, MD, is an Otorhinolaryngology resident at University of Chile. Her clinical practice and research focus on the development, evaluation, and implementation of surgical simulation training programs aiming to enhance surgical skills among residents while prioritizing patient safety in real-world medical settings. Since 2021, she has collaborated with multidisciplinary teams in the development and validation of diverse 3D-printed surgical simulation models and training programs for Otorhinolaryngology residents, aiming to optimize the adoption of these training models within healthcare institutions. Additionally, she participated in the Summer Visiting Fellows program at the Center for Global Health (CGH), as well as in the Implementation Science Institute at UPenn. These experiences have furthered her commitment to advancing healthcare quality and accessibility through innovative educational approaches and evidence-based decision-making. person

• Alex Shpenev, PhD 

  Alex Shpenev, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Senior Data research Scientist | Populations Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania   Social determinants of health | Non-communicable disease | Socioeconomic Inequality | Health Behavior | Social Networks   India IND BIO STATEMENT: A demographer and sociologist with a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Statistics from the Wharton School, Dr. Shpenev teaches the MBDS elective Statistical Reasoning for Behavioral Science. Since coming to Penn, his interests have included understanding the educational gradient in health and mortality, specifically at the intersection with the sociology of the family and social networks. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in PennSoNG, Dr. Shpenev investigates how social norms and social networks are linked to latrine use and better sanitation practices in India. person

• Lawrence Shulman, MD 

  Lawrence Shulman, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Global Oncology | Delivery infrastructure | Implementation research   Botswana | Greece | Haiti | Rwanda BWA||GRC||HTI||RWA BIO STATEMENT: I am Deputy Director for Clinical Services, and Director, Center for Global Cancer Medicine in the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn. I am a practicing medical oncologist with a specialization in breast cancer. I have worked with Paul Farmer's organization, Partners In Health, in Rwanda and Haiti since 2011, helping to lead the establishment of cancer programs at both sites. Since coming to Penn I have engaged in similar work in Botswana. I have also worked with WHO to update the Essential Medicines List for Cancer. I serve on the International Affairs Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. person

• Saad Siddiqui, MD 

  Saad Siddiqui, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Fellow, Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health | University of Pennsylvania   Maternal Child Health | Global Primary Care | Intimate Partner Violence Prevention   Guatemala | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) GTM||BOL BIO STATEMENT: My interest in global health began as a child observing two worlds and the inequity between them. Born in India, I moved to inner city Cleveland and then suburban Wisconsin. I studied biochemistry & South Asian Studies at UW-Madison, completed medical school at Loyola Stritch in Chicago with honors in bioethics, and trained in family medicine at Northwestern with a certificate in global health. I am starting the UPenn Global Health Fellowship in Comprehensive Care in the Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health. I will be working between Philly and Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. person

• Ian S. Soriano FACS, FASMBS, FPALES 

  Ian S. Soriano FACS, FASMBS, FPALES

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Associate Professor of Surgery & Directory of Robotic Surgery | University of California San Francisco   International Medical Education | Medical Education | Laparoscopic Surgery | Robotic Surgery   Philippines | Vietnam PHL||VNM BIO STATEMENT: I completed medical school in the Philippines and migrated to the US in 2000. After surgical residency and fellowship, I have collaborated with surgeons in the Philippines and Southeast Asia on education and training in laparoscopic and robotic surgery for the past 12 years. My joint appointment at the University of the Philippines since 2012 allowed me to participate in educational, clinical, and research projects at the university and affiliated Philippine General Hospital. More recently, my advocacy for a partnership between UPenn and UP Manila resulted in a formal agreement that encompasses clinical, research and other scholarly activities. person

• Juan Manuel Sotelo, MD, PhD, MPH 

  Juan Manuel Sotelo, MD, PhD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Director a.i. Caribbean Subregion - PAHO/WHO   Strategic Planning | Resource Mobilization | Universal Health | Multilateral and Bilateral Technical Cooperation   Argentina | Barbados | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Brazil | Chile | El Salvador | Guatemala | Honduras | Mexico | Tunisia ARG||BRB||BOL||BRA||CHL||SLV||GTM||HND||MEX||TUN BIO STATEMENT:Juan Manuel Sotelo is a senior international public health professional who has devoted his career to promoting equity, development, and universal health. An experienced director of national and cross-national programs throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean, he has overseen the political, technical, and managerial aspects of PAHO/WHO operations in Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. He held similar directorships for the Eastern Caribbean and recently completed an assignment to coordinate the PAHO/WHO eight-country Sub-Regional Program for Central America. He has been head of the Department of External Relations, Resource Mobilization, and Partnerships. He has an MD, Ph.D., MPH. person

• David A. Spiegel, MD 

  David A. Spiegel, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Orthopedic Surgery | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia   Global Surgery | Orthopedics | Pediatrics   Iraq | Pakistan | Nepal IRQ||PAK||NPL BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Spiegel has been active in surgical care in LMICs for > 20 years, mainly in Nepal at the Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre for Disabled Children. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Basra In Basra, Iraq. He has served on national committees (POSNA, AAOS) concerning service/teaching in LMICs. He served as a consultant for WHO in Mongolia/Somalia, was on the steering committee for the WHO’s Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care, and has delivered more than 300 lectures including Nepal, Iran, Iraq, China, Pakistan, Tanzania, Mongolia and Somalia. He has also co-edited a textbook “Global Orthopaedics: Caring for Musculoskeletal Conditions and Injuries in Austere Settings”. He has been the recipient of five 5 national/international humanitarian awards. person

• Lucía Isabel Stavig, PhD, MS, MA 

  Lucía Isabel Stavig, PhD, MS, MA

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society & Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University   Women's health | Reproductive Justice | Indigenous Health   Peru PER BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Lucía Isabel Stavig Postdoctoral Fellow “Dispossessions in the America" in CLALS I am broadly interested in Indigenous health, reproductive health policy, reproductive justice, and Indigenous futures. Currently, I am involved in the rehabilitation of Mosoq Pakari Sumac Kawsay/A New Dawn for Good Living, an Indigenous women-run healing center outside Cusco, Perú, that serves Quechua women who were forcibly sterilized in the 1990s. I am a member of three international research and legal teams supporting the efforts of sterilized Indigenous women in Peru, Canada, the United States, South Africa, and Indonesia to seek justice and reparations in health. person

• Andrew P. Steenhoff, MBBCh, DCH 

  Andrew P. Steenhoff, MBBCh, DCH

  Scholar Scholar   Medical Director, Global Health | Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania   HIV/AIDS | Tuberculosis | Pediatrics | Partnerships | Global Child Health'   Botswana | Dominican Republic | Cameroon | Ghana | South Africa BWA||DOM||CMR||GHA||ZAF BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Andrew Steenhoff MBBCh, FAAP trained at the Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. After completing pediatric residencies at Chris-Hani Baragwanath Hospital & Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, he did Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), then was based in Botswana for 7.5 years as Associate Country Director & Research Director, Botswana-UPenn Partnership. In 7/2015, he was appointed Medical Director of CHOP’s Global Health Center. Andrew combines clinical, public health and research skills to improve pediatric outcomes in low and middle-income countries. His research focuses on pediatric infectious diseases with a particular interest in tuberculosis, HIV, pneumonia and gastroenteritis. Andrew is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters. He teaches and mentors students, residents and fellows in Botswana, the Dominican Republic and Philadelphia. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UPenn, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana, and a member of the American Board of Pediatrics Global Health Task Force. person

• Melissa Ann Stockton, PhD, MSPH 

  Melissa Ann Stockton, PhD, MSPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania   HIV/AIDS | Mental health | Stigma   Malawi | South Africa MWI||ZAF BIO STATEMENT: I am a social epidemiologist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. I am an expert in stigma-reduction research whose work focuses on implementing and evaluating evidence-based interventions that both address stigma and deliver high-quality psychological care in low-resource settings. I am based in Lilongwe Malawi, where I currently lead research on stigma-reduction and suicide prevention as part of mental health programming for people living with HIV. person

• Boris Striepen, PhD 

  Boris Striepen, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Mark Whittier and Lila Griswold Allam Professor of Microbiology and Immunology | University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine   Tropical diseases | OneHealth | Diarrheal disease | Malnutrition   United States USA BIO STATEMENT:Boris grew up in Ruhrort where the German rivers Rhine and Ruhr meet, an industrial area then dominated by coal and steel. He studied biology at the universities of Bonn and Marburg and conducted undergrad research on liver flukes in Bonn and Nagana in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. Boris earned a PhD summa cum laude for work on parasite biochemistry with Ralph Schwarz, was a postdoc with David Roos studying parasite cell biology, prior to starting his laboratory at the Center for Tropical & Emerging Global Diseases at the University of Georgia in 2000, where he last was a Distinguished Research Professor. In 2017 he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Boris studies the cell and molecular biology of apicomplexan parasites. His current research focus is the parasite Cryptosporidium, a leading global cause of diarrhea and mortality in young children. His lab pioneered molecular genetics for this important infection and leads a range of interdisciplinary efforts to understand fundamental parasite biology and to advance translation towards drugs and vaccines. Boris is also engaged in education and training. He taught undergraduate and graduate classes, directed NIH training grant programs in parasitology, and served as faculty and director of the Biology of Parasitism summer research course at the Marine Biology Laboratories in Woods Hole, MA. Boris is married to a social worker with remarkable patience for scientists and has three children, two are scientists – all are awesome. person

• Tausi Suedi, MPH 

  Tausi Suedi, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Adjunct Professor of Global Health | Towson University   Maternal Child Health | Community health | Reproductive health | Adolescent health | Child Health   Rwanda | Somalia | Tanzania, United Republic of | Uganda | United States RWA||SOM||TZA||UGA||USA BIO STATEMENT: Professor Suedi is a dedicated, culturally diverse, and respected global health leader with more than 15 years of experience. She currently teaches global health at Towson University. She cofounded Childbirth Survival International, a global nonprofit charged with reaching the unreached with services, resources, and information. Her contributions in global health are rooted in purposeful and strategic collaborations resulting in: (1) improved access to resources, skilled care, and information; (2) increased utilization of quality health services; (3) strengthened lower tier health facilities to reduce travel burdens and overcrowding in urban facilities; (4) elevated the social status of women and girls. person

• Rachel Laadi Sulla, MBChB 

  Rachel Laadi Sulla, MBChB

  International Scholar International Scholar   Medical Doctor, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology   Mental health | Infectious disease | Non-communicable disease | Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health   Ghana GHA BIO STATEMENT: Rachel Laadi Sulla, a Ghanaian medical doctor, has vast experience in both rural and urban healthcare settings. In October 2022, she led a team that screened and educated over 200 women for breast cancer in Ghana's Bono region. Rachel currently works at KNUST-IVI Collaborative Center on a multinational multi-center study focusing on the epidemiological and economic impact of typhoid in Africa. Rachel also attended the Implementation Science course hosted by the Penn Implementation Science Institute and will be using the skills acquired to conduct research that will contribute to improved health outcomes for individuals living with NCDs in LMICs. person

• Michelle Sun, MD, MPH 

  Michelle Sun, MD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology   Clinical care | Community health | Community Engagement | Ophthalmology | Surgical Training | Glaucoma | Diabetic Retinopathy | Cataract   Kenya | Guatemala KEN||GTM BIO STATEMENT: I am currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. As a global ophthalmology fellow at the University of Michigan, I worked in India, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Eswatini, and Jamaica, where I taught and supervised local trainees and provided clinical and surgical care. Prior to medical school, I received the Whitaker International Fellowship to pursue biomedical engineering research at the University of Cape Town and lived in Cape Town for two years. I received my BA in physics from Cornell, MD from UCLA, MPH from Johns Hopkins, and did residency at Weill Cornell. During my MPH, I also worked on testing a device for the detection of trachoma in Nepal. Part of my role at Scheie will be to build the global involvement of our department.  person

• Bruno Fokas Sunguya, MD, MSc, PhD 

  Bruno Fokas Sunguya, MD, MSc, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Professor & Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Consultancy   HIV/AIDS | Maternal Child Health | Non-communicable disease | Nutrition   Tanzania, United Republic of TZA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Sunguya is an Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Consultancy at MUHAS, Visiting Associate Professor (Kumamoto University Japan), and Honorary Senior Fellow (Oxford University). His research areas include Nutrition, Adolescent, Maternal and Child Health, and HIV/AIDS, conducted and disseminated widely in more than 100 papers, and book chapters. He serves as an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and BMC nutrition journal; a member of number of national committees; the WHO Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group-Subgroup on Diet and Health; and a contact person for research and consultancy for MUHAS person

• JaBaris Demond Swain, MD, MPH 

  JaBaris Demond Swain, MD, MPH

  Scholar Scholar   Clinical Associate Surgeon   Public Health | Global Surgery | Cardiothoracic Surgery   Haiti | Rwanda HTI||RWA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Swain is a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon-scientist and global health scholar with a dedicated focus on humanitarian cardiac surgery, cardiology education and global public health. His work focuses exclusively on augmenting access to clinical education and care delivery for cardiovascular diseases within resource-limited settings such as Rwanda and Haiti. He has lived in these areas and provided support to a number of projects designed to strengthen health care infrastructures for critically vulnerable populations in resource constrained settings as well as participated in the provision of surgery and critical care to patients in these regions. person

• Jordan W. Swanson, MD, MSc 

  Jordan W. Swanson, MD, MSc

  Scholar Scholar   Linton Whitaker Endowed Chair of Craniofacial Surgery | Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia   Global Surgery | Evidence-based Practices | Human-Centered Program Design   Guatemala | Honduras | Indonesia | Nicaragua | Madagascar | Jordan | Paraguay | Philippines GTM||HND||IDN||NIC||MDG||JOR||PRY||PHL BIO STATEMENT: My innovation and research initiatives are focused principally on how surgical care can be better adapted to low-resource settings, through design of clinical devices and techniques, locally-driven leadership and team capability strengthening, and reorienting care pathways appropriate to local contexts and resources. I previously worked and lived in Nicaragua, collaborating with Operation Smile and the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health to build a joint Comprehensive Cleft and Craniofacial program, and am the primary investigator of the Cirugia Para el Pueblo (Surgery for the People) pilot program to advance the access to and impact of rural surgical care in Nicaragua. person

• Jessica Taaffe, PhD 

  Jessica Taaffe, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Global Health and Science Consultant   Public Health | OneHealth | HIV/AIDS | Malaria | Tuberculosis | Global Health Security | Capacity-building | global health diplomacy   Azerbaijan | Belarus | Georgia | Moldova | Romania | South Africa AZE||BLR||GEO||MDA||ROU||ZAF BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Jessica Taaffe is on a mission to advance global health through science. A microbiologist by training, her biomedical expertise is in infectious disease, with a focus on HIV and malaria immunopathogenesis in human and non-human primates. After earning her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and post-doctoral work at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Taaffe started her career at the intersect of science and global health. She works with researchers and policymakers alike to evaluate, interpret, communicate, and apply scientific evidence in global health programs and policy. She has done so on diverse projects and topics, including HIV implementation science, social protection programs, global health advocacy, and building research capacity. Her work has included projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia, and with government, academia, and non-governmental and multilateral organizations such as WHO, UNAIDS, and World Bank. In 2016, Dr. Taaffe served as a Scientific Program Planning Committee Member for the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. Dr. Taaffe is also passionate about strengthening the scientific community’s voice on public platforms. She uses social media to share her opinions on science and global health and has been featured in podcasts like The Circus Life and Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria. She was a science correspondent and host of the YouTube show This Week in Global Health. Her opinion pieces have been published in leading science and health media outlets such as PLoS Blogs and Global Health Now. Dr. Taaffe has also given seminars and guest lectures on global health topics at local universities, including University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and Virginia Tech. She was named among 100 Women Leaders in Global Health in 2014 by The Graduate Institute Geneva and is currently an IF/THEN Ambassador, serving as a Women in STEM role model for girls. person

• Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson, PhD 

  Andrew W. Taylor-Robinson, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Professor of Microbiology and Immunology | VinUniversity College of Health Sciences   Epidemiology | Malaria | Infectious disease | Immunology | Dengue | Antimicrobial Resistance | Infection Control & Prevention | Arboviruses | mosquito-transmitted diseases   Australia | Bangladesh | Ethiopia | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Indonesia | India | Iraq | Sri Lanka | Malaysia | Nigeria | Nepal | Pakistan | Philippines | Vietnam AUS||BGD||ETH||GBR||IDN||IND||IRQ||LKA||MYS||NGA||NPL||PAK||PHL||VNM person

• Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD 

  Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy | University of Pennsylvania   HIV/AIDS | Non-communicable disease | Health economics | Nutrition   India | Kenya | Uganda | South Africa IND||KEN||UGA||ZAF BIO STATEMENT: Harsha Thirumurthy is an economist and Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. His research interests are at the intersection of economics and public health. Dr. Thirumurthy has led numerous studies in Africa and South Asia. At Penn, Dr. Thirumurthy co-directs the Behavioral Economics and Global Health Insights Lab and holds several leadership roles. In 2020, he co-founded the Indlela nudge unit in South Africa. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and previously served on the faculty at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. person

• Agin G. Thomas, MD 

  Agin G. Thomas, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Resident Physician | University of Pennsylvania   Mental health | Wellness Programs   United States USA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Agin Thomas is currently a fourth year chief resident in the Penn Department of Psychiatry. He is interested in exploring global mental health initiatives and establishing programs that would allow other trainees to address the global mental health crisis.  Dr Thomas has a strong interest in wellness, as well. He is the co-founder of Penn’s Psychiatry Residency Wellness Committee, co-facilitator of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course at Penn CAPS for Penn undergraduate and graduate students, and a certified yoga instructor.  Dr Thomas is a captain in the United States Air Force and will be an active duty psychiatrist in July 2020. person

• Duong Thi Bich Thuan 

  Duong Thi Bich Thuan

  International Scholar International Scholar   Senior Lecturer, Biochemistry | VinUniversity College of Health Sciences   Global Cardiovascular Disease | Cancer epidemiology | Oxidative Stress | Herbal Medicine   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Biochemistry, College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity, Hanoi Vietnam person

• Sarah A. Tishkoff, PhD 

  Sarah A. Tishkoff, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Director, Center for Global Genomics and Health | David and Lyn Silfen University Professor   Genomics | Population Genetics   Ethiopia | Kenya | Tanzania, United Republic of | Botswana | Cameroon ETH||KEN||TZA||BWA||CMR person

• Etsegenet Fetene Tizazu, MD, MS 

  Etsegenet Fetene Tizazu, MD, MS

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Neurologist | ChristianaCare, Department of Neurology   International Medical Education | Telemedicine | Global Neurology | Health Care Delivery   Ethiopia ETH BIO STATEMENT: r. Tizazu is a first-generation Ethiopian-American working to advance the treatment of epilepsy in Ethiopia. She is an adult epileptologist and completed her neurology residency and epilepsy fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current work includes expanding access to neurologists via tele-neurology, forming a countrywide epilepsy curriculum and treatment guidelines as well as working with national and international partners to increase access to diagnostics and safe antiseizure medications. person

• Uamunovandu Tjinjeka, MD 

  Uamunovandu Tjinjeka, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Lecturer | University of Botswana, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery   craniosynostosis | Pediatric Plastic Surgery | Cleft Palate & Lip   Botswana BWA Bio:A cleft lip and palate programme doesn't exist in Botswana. Children born with these conditions go untreated or rely on humanitarian surgeons for help, which is often discontinuous and insufficient. As Botswana's first plastic and reconstructive surgeon, I'm compelled to start a comprehensive cleft unit. Given the magnitude of this problem, it is an issue I cannot address alone. Therefore, I wish to collaborate with well-established programs. Through the Penn CGH, I can connect and learn from global surgery experts as I work toward setting up a cleft care unit for children in Botswana and the rest of Africa. person

• Objoon Trachoo, MD, PhD, FIBMS 

  Objoon Trachoo, MD, PhD, FIBMS

  International Scholar International Scholar   Clinical Associate Professor cum Chair of Medical Genetics | College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity   Medical Genetics | Genetics | Neurogenetics | Fetal Medicine | Rare Disease   Vietnam | Thailand VNM||THA BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Objoon Trachoo is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and Chair of Medical Genetics at VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is responsible for overseeing Medical Genetics and Genomics at VinUniversity and all its teaching hospitals. With 15 years of experience in delivering clinical genetics services to patients and families affected by or at risk of genetic disorders, Dr. Trachoo has a special interest in rare and undiagnosed conditions. His passion is to develop robust medical genetics and genomics programs in Vietnam, Thailand, and other Southeast Asian countries, as well as to implement genomic technology to improve healthcare outcomes. person

• Maurizio Trevisan MD, MS 

  Maurizio Trevisan MD, MS

  International Scholar International Scholar   Professor - Universita Campus BioMedico | Roma, Italy   Epidemiology | Chronic Diseases | Disease Prevention   Italy ITA BIO STATEMENT: Dr Maurizio Trevisan is a Professor at Universita Campus Biomedico. He is a cardiovascular disease epidemiologist interested in ways to prevent CVD through changes in life style habits. He has been engaged in a number of international epidemiological collaborative studies. In his current position in Vietnam, he is focused on Chronic Disease prevention in a country in transition with a significant shift in the leading causes of mortality and morbidity. As a researcher, he has authored more than 250 publications, which have appeared in such high-impact journals as the "Journal of the American Medical Association," "Annals of Internal Medicine" and "The New England Journal of Medicine." He has extensive experience directing and conducting multi-center and international collaborative studies, as well. person

• Quynh Truong, PhD, MSW, MPH 

  Quynh Truong, PhD, MSW, MPH

  International Scholar International Scholar   Senior Lecturer, Health Policy | College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity   Mental health | Health Systems Strengthening | Health Equity | Palliative Care   Vietnam | Thailand VNM||THA BIO STATEMENT: Passionate about global health, Dr. Quynh Truong, MPH, MSW, PhD is an esteemed educator and co-lead of MD program's research theme at VinUni, specializing in Health Policy, Palliative Care, and Clinical Social Work. With a PhD and a clinical-health-focused second Master's degree, Quynh is a pioneering figure in medical social work in Vietnam. She employs evidence-based public health interventions to develop impactful health strategies. An advocate for palliative care and mental health, particularly for vulnerable populations, Quynh is deeply committed to addressing mental health challenges in low and middle-income countries, contributing significantly to the global health landscape. person

• Leah Rose Turner, MSN 

  Leah Rose Turner, MSN

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Senior Clinical Manager, Clinical Nurse Practitioner, Division of Infectious Disease | University of Pennsylvania   Humanitarian assistance | Disaster response | Global Nursing   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT: Leah is currently serving as the Senior Clinical Manager and a Clinical Nurse Practitioner at the MacGregor Infection Medicine and Travel Program affiliated with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She sees patients departing for international travel and returned travelers for infectious diseases evaluation. Leah's global experience includes time as a Community Health Volunteer in the Peace Corps, where she lived and worked at a rural hospital in Southwestern Uganda. She is also on the Medical Teams International Humanitarian Response Team and deployed to Bangladesh in 2018 to support humanitarian relief efforts for Rohingya refugees. person

• Cesar Ugarte-Gil, MD, MSc, PhD 

  Cesar Ugarte-Gil, MD, MSc, PhD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Assistant Professor, Epidemiology | University of Texas Medical Branch   HIV/AIDS | Tuberculosis | Tropical Medicine | COVID-19   Peru PER BIO STATEMENT: In the last 15 years, after finishing medical school at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), I worked in Tuberculosis (TB) research, participating at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt (IMTAvH) at the UPCH in several TB diagnostic and epidemiological studies. I hold a MSc in Epidemiology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Global Diseases Epidemiology and Control from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. My main research interests in Tuberculosis are non-communicable comorbidities (including diabetes mellitus and depression) and diagnostic trials. Other research interests include HIV/AIDS, tropical diseases and COVID-19. person

• Phuoc Van Le, MD, MPH 

  Phuoc Van Le, MD, MPH

  International Scholar International Scholar   Vice Dean, Medical Education | College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity   Health Disparities | Medical Education | Global Health Fellowship | Structural Competency   Vietnam VNM BIO STATEMENT: Prof. Le Van Phuoc graduated from Dartmouth College in 2000 with a double major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures. He then matriculated at Stanford Medical School where he earned his MD and MPH from UC Berkeley. He completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Global Health Equity at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Currently, Dr. Le is the Vice Dean for Medical Education at VinUniversity College of Health Sciences in Hanoi, Vietnam. person

• Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH 

  Amelia Van Pelt, PhD, MPH

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Postdoctoral Fellow in Implementation Science | Northwestern University   Epidemiology | Infectious disease | Vaccines | Low-resource Settings   United States | Nigeria | Zambia USA||NGA||ZMB BIO STATEMENT: Amelia E. Van Pelt, Ph.D., MPH, is a postdoctoral fellow in Implementation Science at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. She holds additional appointments as an Associate Scholar in the Penn Center for Global Health and at the Center for Public Health Initiatives. Dr. Van Pelt holds a BA in Spanish & Global Health, Culture, and Society, a certificate in Leadership, and an MPH in Global Health from Emory University as well as a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has experience in research and applied work in Latin America and Africa, as well as surveillance on a global scale. Her skills extend from laboratory sciences to statistical analyses, and she has collaborated with interdisciplinary teams in academic, government, and not-for-profit organizations. Her research interests include global health, infectious diseases, and outbreak response. She is building a research program at the intersection of epidemiology and implementation science in resource-limited settings. Specifically, she aims to collaborate with stakeholders to increase the uptake of evidence-based practices for infectious diseases in humanitarian emergencies. Amelia was selected as the 2021 recipient of the Penn GGEB Tom TenHave Student Leadership Award. Amelia was recognized for her exceptional contributions to the leadership of the graduate program and the local and international community. Amelia was one of five trainees awarded The Distinguished Research Trainee Award person

• Angel Velarde Lopez, MD, MSCE 

  Angel Velarde Lopez, MD, MSCE

  International Scholar International Scholar   Department Director of Research | Liga Nacional Contra el Cáncer   Epidemiology | Global Oncology   Guatemala GTM BIO STATEMENT: Dr. Velarde’s medical expertise areas include epidemiology, statistics, pneumonia, and vitamin D. He received his medical degree from University of San Carlos School of Medicine. Through a scholarship from the NIH, he received a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania where he was mentored by Dr. Brian L. Strom. He has worked for AbbVie and assisted in presenting the AbbVie’s pipeline drugs protocols for phase 1- 3 studies. He also working with infectious diseases and cancer, and is the Department Director of Research at Liga Nacional Contra el Cáncer in Guatemala. person

• Dillan Villavisanis, MD 

  Dillan Villavisanis, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Resident | University of Pennsylvania   Cleft Palate & Lip | Craniofacial Surgery   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: Dillan is a Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery resident at Penn and Co-Chair of the Young Leadership Board at Smile Train. His previous work has focused on cleft and craniofacial surgery epidemiology in Botswana supported by a grant from the Center for Human Appearance; development of a sustainable ambulatory surgery center in Jinja, Uganda; and cleft community engagement in Mexico City. Dillan completed his MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with a Distinction in Global Health and BA at Johns Hopkins University. person

• Dmytro Vinnytskyi, MD 

  Dmytro Vinnytskyi, MD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Orthopedic Surgeon - Mukachevo Military Hospital   Orthopedics | Trauma | Osteoplasty | Microsurgery | Arthroscopy   Ukraine UKR BIO STATEMENT: During the tragedy that befell Ukraine, its people and the entire democratic world, namely, the unprovoked attack of Russia on a peaceful country until recently, it forces doctors from the entire civilized world to unite to treat the terrible injuries and mutilations of Ukrainians who suffered in the war. As a military orthopedist and traumatologist, I directly face extremely difficult challenges after the injuries of our defenders. Therefore, I greatly appreciate the help of American colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, who make a significant contribution to the recovery of our soldiers and the acceleration of our victory. Slava Ukraini! person

• Rebecca E. Ward, MD 

  Rebecca E. Ward, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Diagnostic Radiology Resident | University of Pennsylvania   Radiology | Diagnostic Imaging | Global Radiology   Botswana | Nepal BWA||NPL BIO STATEMENT: Rebecca E. Ward, MD is a PGY-4 UPenn Diagnostic Radiology resident. She is a current member of the Diagnostic Radiology Global Health Equity Track. Dr. Ward has worked within the radiology department at Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana, interpreting diagnostic images and performing basic procedures. She has traveled to Nepal where she and colleagues performed portable ultrasound exams in high-risk pregnancy patients in remote rural villages. Dr. Ward completed the Rad-Aid Proficiency in Global Health Radiology course in 2023. person

• Debra Sevinea Whorms, MD 

  Debra Sevinea Whorms, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Diagnostic Radiology Resident (PGY 5, 2023) | University of Pennsylvania   Health Equity | Medical Education | Oncology | Global Radiology   Rwanda RWA BIO STATEMENT: I am a resident in Diagnostic Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, with focus in Abdominal Imaging. I have long interest in health equity and sustainable health care delivery in low-resource settings, stemming from my upbringing in rural Jamaica. I hope to build a career in global radiology focused on education outreach and sustainable capacity building in developing countries. person

• Victoria Leigh Williams, MD 

  Victoria Leigh Williams, MD

  Scholar Scholar   Assistant Professor of Clinical Dermatology | University of Pennsylvania   HIV/AIDS | Healthcare Access | Technology in Low Resource Settings | International Medical Education | Telemedicine | Albinism   Botswana | Tanzania, United Republic of | Nepal | South Africa | Congo, Democratic Republic of the BWA||TZA||NPL||ZAF||COD BIO STATEMENT:Dr. Williams is a dermatologist with a broad interest in public health, HIV, neglected tropical diseases, albinism, healthcare access, medical education, and eHealth. She has worked in a variety of global health settings in Central/South America, Africa and Asia since 2008. She worked full-time in Botswana from 2016 – 2018 as the Site Director for Botswana UPenn Partnership’s Dermatology Program and Head of Dermatology at Princess Marina Hospital. From 2018 – 2020 she was an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, Co-Director of the Penn Dermatology Global Health Track and Director of the Botswana UPenn Parnership’s Dermatology Program. Her desire to make a long-term impact on public health has lead to her current position as a Director in Global Regulatory Affairs for Vaccines and Infectious Disease at Merck, where she works on the development of HIV and small molecule antiviral therapeutics. Dr. Williams continues her global health work through clinical, research and educational collaborations and global health organizational roles including Co-Directing the American Academy of Dermatology’s Resident International Grant Program. person

• Matthew Winterton, MD 

  Matthew Winterton, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Resident Physician | University of Pennsylvania   Global Surgery | Healthcare Access | Technology in Low Resource Settings | Orthopedics   Madagascar MDG BIO STATEMENT: I am a faculty member as a Lecturer in Foreign Languages at the Penn Language Center, where I founded and have taught Malagasy, the indigenous language of Madagascar, for the past 5 years. Our program has grown to 2 faculty members and about 70 students across 5 classes, spanning Beginning through Advanced Malagasy; we recently had 3 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellows named from our students. Additionally, I am a resident in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery here at Penn. I am working to bridge the global surgery/orthopedics gap mainly in Africa through technology. person

• Sharon Wolf, PhD 

  Sharon Wolf, PhD

  Scholar Scholar   Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education | University of Pennsylvania   Maternal Health | Early Childhood Development | Maternal Mental Health | Stress and Child Development   Botswana | Côte d'Ivoire | Ghana | Malawi | Nigeria BWA||CIV||GHA||MWI||NGA BIO STATEMENT: I work at the intersection of developmental psychology and global health, with expertise in early childhood health and development; maternal mental health; and the evaluation of education and social protection programs. Using both large-scale secondary data and primary data, I study the links between poverty, social policies, education, parenting, and child development through descriptive, experimental, and quasi-experimental methods. person

• Lina Yagan, MD 

  Lina Yagan, MD

  Associate Scholar Associate Scholar   Resident, Internal Medicine | University of Pennsylvania   Infectious disease | Diarrheal disease | Gastroenterology   Botswana BWA BIO STATEMENT: I am a PGY2 Internal Medicine resident. I had the privilege of living in Europe, US, and the Middle East. My diverse experiences framed my training in a tertiary medical center in Qatar where I attended medical school. Expatriates and migrant workers, who come from low resource countries, formed a significant subset of the patient population. Due to the lack of preventative care from their home countries, they often presented with advanced disease pathologies. Responding to their diverse medical needs while navigating language and cultural barriers proved to be both challenging and extremely rewarding. person

• Demyan Yuriy, PhD 

  Demyan Yuriy, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Pediatric Orthopedist, Regional Children Hospital, Zakarpattia   Trauma | Pediatric Orthopedics | Soft Tissue Reconstruction   Ukraine UKR BIO STATEMENT: Traumatology and Orthopedics is my greatest interest, especially congenital and acquired limb deformities in children and adults. Lately I have defended my PhD on the “flexible flat foot in children with hypermobility of joints” theme. I am looking forward to getting a new knowledge in the field of pathology of hip joint. Discovering new methodologies of treatment and implementing it on treating the children of my homeland. also in connection with the war in Ukraine, I am interested in the treatment of blast trauma our military patients. person

• Jing Zhao, MD, PhD 

  Jing Zhao, MD, PhD

  International Scholar International Scholar   Chief Attending and Professor, Department of Neurology| Minhang Hospital of Fudan University   Stroke   China CHN BIO STATEMENT: I am a neurologist at the Minhang Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University. I am mainly engaged in the acute treatment of stroke. Stroke is still the leading cause of death and disability in China. Ischemic stroke consists of about 80% of the all the stroke victims. While tPA and thromboectomy are available for ischemic stroke, however, thrombolytic therapy rate remains very low, one of the major causes is pre-hospital delay. Such pre-hospital delay is largely due to poor awareness and poor usage of emergency medical system. Because of the language barrier, it is difficult for the Chinese to master FAST, the most commonly used in the United States. To address this, I am working with closely with PSOM's Dr. Renyu Liu, MD, PhD, an outstanding physician scientist to create novel strategies to deal with this global medical problem. person