Category: OGHE in the News

Anna Leone is a resident in the UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2021. Her research while in medical school focused on barriers to contraceptive access, and the use of ketamine as a sole anesthetic agent in resource-limited settings....

Dr. Nadia Hoekstra is a pediatric pulmonary fellow. Nadia grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina but spent much of her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago where her mother’s family lives. Nadia attended Boston College where she graduated with a Master of Arts in Sociology and a minor in Hispanic Studies....

OGHE is now accepting applications for a ONE-YEAR Global Health Scholars Program for Medical Residents/Trainees/Fellows for 2024-2025. The application deadline is April 8 (now extended to April 15) with LORs due by April 15. Information on the Program, Requirements, Funding and a link to the application can be found on...

Dr. Heather Frank is a PGY-4 resident in the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics program. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Cellular Neuroscience from Colgate University and spent two years as a Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Frank went on to earn her MD...

The February 2024 OGHE Global Health Forum will be highlighting all the 2024 graduating MD students enrolled in the Scholarly Concentration Program in Global Health. Come hear from the presenters what global health topics they explored during their medical school education on Monday, February 26 from 12-1 pm in Roper...

Srijana and Sujata Bhattarai Chhetri, both MD class of 2026 and both part of the Scholarly Concentration in Global Health (cohort 5) were recently featured in the February 2024 Newsletter for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.  Click on the title to see the full article.

Dr. Jessica Lin is an NIH-funded physician-scientist and principal investigator in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab (IDEEL) at UNC. Her research lies at the interface of clinical and molecular studies on malaria. Earlier in her career, she studied multi-drug resistant malaria and relapses due to vivax malaria in...

This fall, Lusajo Kajula, PhD, Tanzanian international scholar in health behavior and psychology for adolescents and families, has joined the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health as the school’s first Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence. In her role, Kajula will use her experiences in global health to educate students on an “ecological...

The Office of Global Health Education (OGHE), through the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and the UNC School of Medicine, introduces learners to global health experiences that often inspire them to be agents of change. While the scope of these experiences may vary, students join local health teams...

Dr. Amy Mackay, a fellow in neonatology at UNC, is interested in newborn resuscitation practices in low- and middle-income countries. She graduated from University of Alabama School of Medicine in 2017 and completed pediatric residency and chief resident year at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (Eastern Virginia Medical School)...

Christina M. Cruz, MD, EdM is a child global mental health and school mental health researcher, a practicing inpatient child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a mental health systems consultant. Her research program centers on increasing access to child mental health care through alternative systems. Currently, she is focused on task-shifting...

John Barber, MD is a 4th-year resident in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2019. Prior to medical school, John spent five years working on diagnostics for resource-limited settings, initially focusing on HIV diagnostics in East and Southern Africa, then Ebola rapid...