The Office of Global Health Education recently announced the 4th cohort of Global Health Scholars, and two are from the department of medicine. The competitive, two-year, multi-disciplinary program provides funding to support the career and leadership development of residents and fellows with a strong interest in global health.
Jennifer Morgan, MD, is a first year fellow in the UNC Division of Hematology and Oncology. After graduating internal medicine residency at Northwestern University in 2077, she spent two years delivering oncology care with Partners in Health at the Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence in rural Rwanda and also working as a hospitalist at Northwestern. She graduated from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in 2074 and participated in the Leadership in Medicine for the Underserved Program with clinical rotations in Nicaragua. She also holds an undergraduate degree in anthropology from the University of Michigan. As a global scholar, Morgan will evaluate patient and provider barriers to multimodality breast cancer treatment at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. Dr. Morgan’s mentor is Dr. Katie Reeder-Hayes, Assistant Professor in the UNC Department of Oncology who conducts research focused on disparities in breast cancer treatment and real-world effectiveness of cancer treatments.
Min Kim, MD, is a fellow in the UNC Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency training at I nova Fairfax Hospital in Northern Virginia. She is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She graduated from Duke University with an undergraduate degree in Psychology. In medical school, she participated in various global health research and electives in Kenya, Thailand and South Korea through Global Health Track/Scholarly Concentration. As a global scholar, Kim will focus on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B in rural part of western Uganda. She hopes to expand screening and intervention beyond the pilot antenatal clinic, implement similar programs at other health clinics and establish chronic hepatitis B clinics. Dr. Min Kim’s project mentors are Ors. Ross Boyce and Peyton Thompson. Dr. Ross Boyce is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill and a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health at Mbarara University of Sciences and Technology in Uganda whose research primarily focuses malaria and other infectious diseases of poverty in western Uganda. He is the Pl on the parent PMTCT grant from the Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation. Dr. Peyton Thompson is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UNC-Chapel Hill whose research focuses on hepatitis B vaccination and prevention of mother-to-child vertical transmission in low-resource areas.
Read about other scholars recently named, here.