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Global Health Forum- our monthly global health speaker series

We are excited to return to in-person sessions and will include time for networking. Please join us!

The OGHE Global Health Forum is held monthly, every fourth Monday from 12:00-1:00pm. This speaker series on global health topics organized by the Office of Global Health Education was put together in order to focus on UNC resident, faculty and student involvement and expertise in global health initiatives and scholarly work. Through this series, we aim to foster an interdisciplinary learning community around global health issues.

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Below you can find the schedule of past speakers for the forum as well as their biographies and recordings if available.

Christina Cruz, MD, EdM – “Task-Shifting Child Mental Health Care to Teachers Globally” September 25, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM

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 indicated mental health care to … Read more
John Barber, MD, “A Quality Improvement Project on Reducing Stockouts in a Rural Ugandan Community Health Worker Program” May 22, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM

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 diagnostic tests in Sierra Leone … Read more
Seth Morrison, MD, “Histo-Blood Group Antigens, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, and Linear Growth in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort” April 24, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM

Seth Morrison, MD is a Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition clinical fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and North Carolina Children’s Hospital. He is completing Master of Public Health coursework at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is interested in enteropathies (small bowel … Read more
Alessandra Angelino, MD, “A Mixed-Methods Study of the Relationship between Cultural Identity and Mental Health Outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents” Mar. 27, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM

Alessandra Angelino (she/her) is a 3rd-year pediatrics resident at UNC Children’s Hospital who earned her medical degree at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and her MPH in Global Health at the University of Washington. She is passionate about Two-Spirit and LGBTQ health and advocacy and has authored multiple publications and the “Celebrating Our … Read more
April Evans, MD, “A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Pediatric and Adolescent Patients with Lymphoma in Malawi” Feb. 27, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM

Dr. Evans is a UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Alumni and a third-year Pediatric Hematology-Oncology fellow at the University of North Carolina. Her UJMT Fogarty project resulted in the implementation of cutting-edge Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) measures in Malawi; ultimately harnessing the voice of vulnerable, and often silenced, patients across the globe. Dr. Evans has … Read more
Dami Aladesanmi, “Anti-hypertensive Medication Management in Rural Western Uganda.” Jan. 23, 2023, 2020 Bondurant, 12-1 pm.

Dami Aladesanmi is a current PGY-3 in Internal Medicine at UNC. He earned a BA in History and Science (with a focus on Medicine and Society) from Harvard College, an MD at Duke School of Medicine, and an MPH in Health Care and Prevention at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is … Read more
Cameron Adams, PhD, October 24, 12-1 “Considerations for approval of the second live-attenuated, tetravalent dengue virus vaccine”

Abstract: The four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) are a global health burden with 100 million symptomatic infections per year focused in the tropics. Primary DENV infection leads to lasting immunity against the infecting serotype but the resulting antibodies put individuals at risk for worse clinical outcomes when subsequently infected with a different serotype. This phenomenon … Read more
June 27: Global Health Scholar, Katelyn Rittenhouse, Maternal HIV, antiretroviral timing, and spontaneous preterm birth in an urban Zambian cohort

OGHE Research Presentation – Rittenhouse 2022.06.27Katelyn Rittenhouse is a fourth-year Resident Physician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Rittenhouse is from Lancaster, PA, and she completed her undergraduate studies in Philadelphia prior to migrating south to UNC for her medical training. During medical school, she completed a one-year … Read more
Dr. Jenny Morgan, Global Health Scholar, Breast Cancer Treatment in Malawi and Subsaharan Africa

Jenny Morgan is a third-year UNC Hematology and Oncology fellow with research interests in global oncology, implementation science, and clinical outcomes. Her current research is focused on evaluating the breast cancer care continuum at UNC Project Malawi under the mentorship of Dr. Katie Reeder Hayes, UNC Associate Professor of Oncology and Dr. Tamiwe Tomoka, UNC … Read more
Perspectives from the US/Mexico Borderlands: “Whose Crisis? Tracing the History of Border Enforcement and its Consequences for Sending Communities in Central America.” Dr. Liz Oglesby, University of Arizona, & Caleb Walker, Jesuit Volunteer Corps & UNC Alumn, Casa Alitas Welcome Center: “Stories of Tragedy and Triumph.”

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“A Bilateral Global Neurology Residency Rotation for Peru and UNC,” Clio Rubinos MD, MS and Monica Diaz, MD, MS.

With an increasing burden of neurological diseases worldwide, such as stroke and dementia, there is a growing need for educating trainees on recognition and assessment of neurological conditions in resource-limited settings. A scarcity of neurologists and diagnostic resources often limits timely and accurate diagnosis of neurological conditions in low-and-middle income countries. Existing experiences for US … Read more
Moira R. Rogers, Ph.D., “Global Disability Inclusion: Persisting Challenges, Sites of Hope and Possibility”

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November Global Health Forum: Sarah Rutstein, MD, PhD, “Syndemics: intersecting STI and HIV epidemics and the opportunity to improve diagnosis and prevention in Malawi.”

Dr. Rutstein is a physician scientist and senior clinical fellow in the UNC Division of Infectious Diseases. She completed her MD and PhD (Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health), as well as her Internal Medicine Residency at UNC. Areas of interest include implementation research, HIV prevention, and cost-effectiveness modeling. Dr. Rutstein began her work … Read more
October Global Health Forum: Dr. Sarah Ashley, presents “Exploring Global Health Medicine.”

Dr. Ashley is a physician and adjunct faculty in the UNC Emergency Medicine Department. She attended medical school at the University of California Davis, followed by an emergency medicine residency at East Carolina University, completed a fellowship in Global Health Leadership at University of North Carolina Department of Emergency Medicine, and earned an MPH at … Read more
Dr. Ashley Appiagyei presents “Unintended Pregnancy among HIV-infected Malawian Women on Efavirenz…”

June 17, 2021 12:00-1:00pm Ashley Appiagyei, MD, MPH UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology OGHE Global Health Scholar, 2019-2021 Dr. Appiagyei is a third-year Resident Physician at … Read more
Special guest speaker, Dr. Henry Perry discusses life’s work in Global Community-Based Primary Health Care

Co-sponsored by the UNC IGHID Office of Global Health Education & UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, we are excited to host Henry Perry to discuss his life’s work in global public health across several continents. Henry Perry, MD, PhD, MPH presents “A Career in Global Health: From a Medical Missionary Surgeon to an … Read more
Dr. Travis Wieland presents “The WHO’s Basic Emergency Care Course in Kenya”

April 15, 2021 12:00-1:00pm Travis Wieland, MD, MA, MSc Chief Resident, UNC Department of Emergency Medicine OGHE Global Health Scholar Dr. Wieland had a diverse educational background before … Read more
Dr. Amanda Kovacich presents “Ultrasound in Low Resource Settings: Project Development/Lung Ultrasound Findings in HIV and Pulmonary TB Coinfected Peruvian Patients”

March 18, 2021 12:00-1:00pm Amanda Kovacich, MD, MPH Pulmonary and Clinical Fellow, Division of Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine Dr. Kovacich is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Throughout fellowship she has had the opportunity to become engaged in research work in Peru with a … Read more
Dr. Heather Root presents “Implementation of UNC’s Own COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Program”

February 18, 2021 12:00-1:00pm Heather Root, MD Clinical Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases “The Implementation of UNC’s Own COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma (CCP) Program“ Dr. Root is an Infectious Diseases Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She did her Internal Medicine Residency at Emory University and received her medical degree from … Read more
Dr. Krysten North shares Multi-National Low-Birthweight Infant Feeding Exploration (LIFE) study

January 21, 2021 12:00-1:00pm Krysten North, MD, MPH Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow, Division of Neonatology “Low-birthweight Infant Feeding Exploration (LIFE) study: An assessment of growth and nutrition in India, Malawi, and Tanzania“ Dr. North is a third-year neonatal-perinatal medicine fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Throughout her fellowship, she has primarily worked on the … Read more