Year 5: 2016-2017

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Global Health Fellows Program Orientation and Training National Institutes of Health

July 4-9, 2016

The Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars* provides supportive mentorship, research opportunities and a collaborative research environment for early stage investigators from the U.S. and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), as defined by the World Bank, to enhance their global health research expertise and their careers. Five Consortia (funded in part by the Fogarty International Center [FIC] through competitive grants) identify postdoctoral Fellows and doctoral Scholars:

Global Health Equity Scholars (GHES) University of California, Berkeley Florida International University Stanford University Yale University University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) GloCal Health Fellowship Program UC San Francisco UC San Diego UC Los Angeles UC Davis The Northern Pacific Global Health Research Fellows Training Consortium (NPGH)

University of Washington University of Hawaii University of Michigan University of Minnesota The UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Consortium The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Johns Hopkins University Morehouse School of Medicine Tulane University The VECD Global Health Fellowships Consortium Vanderbilt University Emory University Cornell University Duke University

The following NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices are collaborating with Fogarty on this program:

 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Child Health and Human Development and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) (NICHD)  National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)  National Cancer Institute (NCI)  National Institute of General Medical Sciences  National Eye Institute (NEI) (NIGMS)  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute  National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (NHLBI)  National Institute of Neurological Disorders  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious and Stroke (NINDS) Diseases (NIAID)  National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)  National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskel- etal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)  Office of AIDS Research (OAR)  National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and  Office of Research on Women’s Health Bioengineering (NIBIB) (ORWH)  National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial  Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Re- Research (NIDCR) search (OBSSR)

*The Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars is based on the success and experience of the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows FICRS-F Program.

Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows (FICRS-F) Program

The FICRS-F Program offered one-year mentored clinical research training experience for doctoral students and post-doctoral candidates in health-related professions from the U.S. and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), as defined by the World Bank. All research training sites were established NIH-funded research sites in LMICs, especially in Africa, Asia and South America.

The Scholars Program was designed for doctoral students who demonstrated a strong potential for a career in global health activities and/or clinical research. Eligible applicants were to have advanced standing in a U.S. medical, veterinary or osteopathic school; or enrollment in a doctoral level program at a U.S. school of public health, nursing, dentistry or other school in the health sciences; as well as the support of their home academic institution, including a mentor committed to working with the student after return to the home institution. The Fellows Program was for post-doctoral candidates from the U.S. and LMICs in active health- related programs, including medical residencies and fellowships as well as health scientists with doctorate degrees. The Fellows Program was based on mentored clinical research and orientation towards global health research.

Fulbright-Fogarty Awards in Public Health Fulbright-Fogarty Grants: Postdoctoral Research Grants in Public Health

The Fulbright-Fogarty Awards are offered through a partnership between the Fulbright Program and the Fogarty International Cen- ter of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. These awards were established to promote the expansion of research in public health and clinical research in resource-limited settings. The Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships were inaugurated in July 2011 with four fellows in sub-Saharan Africa (Botswana, Malawi, and South Africa). Fulbright-Fogarty Awards carry the same benefits as the traditional Fulbright Study/Research grants to the host country. The Fogarty International Center, NIH, will provide support to the research training site and may provide orientation for the fellows at the NIH. The basic requirements and process for applying for the Fulbright-Fogarty Program are the same as for any Fulbright U.S. Student Study/Research Grant.

Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship

The Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship (ICRF) is designed to encourage medical students to pursue clinical research careers by exposing them to exciting research opportunities in developing countries. The ICRF program is a year-long opportunity for current medical students to conduct international clinical research in a resource-constrained country. Students who are matriculated at any U.S.-based medical school are eligible for the ICRF. Students who participate in the ICRF program will take a year off from medical school to conduct international clinical research under the direction of a mentor working in global health. The student takes primary responsibility for initiating and conducting the study.

UNC Global Women’s Health Fellowship Based in the University of North Carolina Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, UNC Global Women’s Health (GWH) brings together a faculty with diverse expertise in the health issues facing women and their families in developing world settings. GWH’s mission is to advance the health of women and their families in resource-limited settings through research, service delivery, and training, with a major focus on raising the profile of global health within the OB-GYN specialty and training the next generation of OB-GYN leaders in global health. This unique fellowship opportunity provides early career training to OB-GYNs aspiring to an academic career in global women’s health. The fellowship leverages the strengths of the UNC School of Medicine, the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and UNC-affiliated institutions in Zambia and Malawi to provide world-class training in clinical research and service delivery. Trainees will receive mentorship from seasoned UNC faculty members and will be based at either the University of Zambia (Lusaka) or the UNC Project-Malawi (Lilongwe).

Global Health Equity Scholars (GHES) Fellowship Program Program Description 7 Year 5 Trainees 8

UCGHI GloCal Health Fellowship Program Program Description 13 Year 5 Trainees 14

Northern/Pacific Global Health (NPGH) Fellowship Program Program Description 21 Year 5 Trainees 22

UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Program Program Description 31 Year 5 Trainees 32

VECD Fellowship Program Program Description 41 Year 5 Trainees 42

Clayton-Dedonder Mentorship Fellow Alumni and GHF Alumni GHES 49 GloCal 51 NPGH 53 UJMT 56 VECD 57

Additional Participants Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellows 61 UNC OB/GYN Global Women’s Health 65

Trainee and Alumni Index Year 5 Trainees by Last Name 67 Year 5 Trainees by Research Interest 72 Alumni by Last Name 78 Alumni by Research Interest 80

*Global Health Fellows (GHF) Program: “Fellows” are post-doctoral trainees; “Scholars” are doctoral degree candidates Fulbright-Fogarty Awards & Grants: “Scholars” are post-doctoral trainees; “Fellows” are doctoral degree candidates

The Global Health Equity Scholars (GHES) program brings together a consortium that includes the University of Cal- ifornia, Berkeley; Florida International University; Stanford University; and Yale University; and 20 affiliated international sites across 16 countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nicara- gua, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine and Zimbabwe). The main objective of the program is to generate a new and young cadre of global health researchers, educators, and professionals who will be prepared to address the new challenges in global health. These may include health challenges that arise from the world's burgeoning human settlements, known as slums, that have developed in urban and rural communities of many low- and middle-income countries. Factors associated with chronic, noncommunicable, as well as infectious diseases, environmental health hazards, risks specific to women and children, intentional and unintentional injuries, and mental disorders are potential areas of research that will be supported under this program. Additionally, the program will support research on the challenges of providing accessible and high quality health care services at all levels in resource-limited settings. Interventions that seek to address the management of scarce resources and identify innovative solutions to improving health services, and the evaluation of these interventions, will be supported under this program.

UC Berkeley Director: Lee W. Riley, MD Professor of Epidemiology & Infectious Diseases Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology

FIU Director: Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Stanford Director: Michele Barry, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine

Yale Director: Albert Icksang Ko, MD Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine

GHES Program Manager: María Teresa Hernández, MPH : [email protected] Stanford Program Coordinator: Rachel Leslie, PhD: [email protected] Yale Program Coordinator: Elsio A. Wunder Jr., DVM, PhD: [email protected]

BANGLADESH

Dr. Bradshaw will spend her fellowship year at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Dis- ease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) in Dhaka under the mentorship of Glenn Chertow, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on AKI in diarrheal illness: Identifying risk factors and prevention strategies. After completing medical school at the University of Louisville in 2012, Dr. Bradshaw moved to New York City to pursue a residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. Dealing with the diverse patient population of Manhattan allowed her to draw upon her experiences helping challenging and disadvantaged sects of the community in places abroad like Morocco and India. Dr. Bradshaw found a source of fulfillment not only in providing her medical expertise in such complex situations, but also in learning about different walks of life. These experiences encouraged her to use her career to contribute to the advancement of global health. Using her specialized training in nephrology as a background, she hopes to improve kidney disease outcomes and overall disease burden in low- and mid- Christina BRADSHAW, MD dle-income countries abroad where preventive care interventions and dialytic therapies are U.S. Fellow less commonly utilized.

BRAZIL

Mr. Aromolaran will spend his fellowship year at Fiocruz Foundation in Salvador, Bahia under the mentorship of Mitermayer Reis and Albert Ko, MD. His research will focus on Leptospirosis: Immune response as a protective factor against reinfection. Mr. Aromolaran is a rising 4th year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine who hopes to become a physician scientist. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Neurobiology in 2012 from the University of Maryland. While at UMD, he conducted basic science research as a Percy Julian Fellow studying biofilm formation in bacteria. More recently, he has been interested in the impact of infectious diseases on middle- and low-income countries. As a Wilbur Downs Fellow at Yale, he studied tuberculosis transmission in prisons in the central- west region of Brazil. While passionate about global health disparities, he is also cognizant of the disparities here in the U.S. He is a member of the Student National Medical Associa- tion (SNMA) – the largest student run organization dedicated to the health needs of the black Adeolu AROMOLARAN community. He recently served as the National Treasurer for the organization during the Fulbright Fogarty Fellow 2015-2016 year. Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Research Fellow

Dr. Douglass-Jaimes will spend his fellowship year at Fluminense Federal University in Rio de Janeiro under the mentorship of Lee Riley, MD. His research will focus on interpolating social and spatial gradients of health: Combining point data, HIV/AIDS, TB, ID for 100 million Brazilians and areal data from the national census. Dr. Douglass-Jaimes earned his PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management in 2016. He earned his master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. His work focused on global health equity and examines how conceptions of place and identity can produce social marginalization and health disparities, as well as become sources for community resilience. Mr. Douglass-Jaimes’ mixed methods research approach combines geospa- tial analysis and qualitative research methods. As a first generation college graduate, he is committed to empowering other first generation college students to succeed in academic and professional careers. He seeks to continue collaborating with environmental health scien- Guillermo DOUGLASS- tists, social scientists, and epidemiologists as well as community-based organizations work- JAIMES, PhD, MA ing on environmental health and environmental justice issues. Mr. Douglass-Jaimes will be joining the faculty of Pomona College in the fall of 2017, as Asst. Professor of Urban Geog- U.S. Fellow raphy and Environmental Justice, where he will continue to examine the social and spatial determinants of health. 8

INDIA

Dr. Desai will spend his fellowship year at Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai under the mentorship of Kirk Smith, MPH, PhD. His research will focus on the relationship between Penetration of LPG and Childhood Pneumonia: A natural experiment within Greater Chennai. Dr. Desai aspires to an academic career that extends the purview and impact of global environmental health by leveraging theoretical and applied research to inform policies and programs. His overarching interest is to help understand − and ultimately influence − how envi- ronmentally-mediated determinants of children’s health manifest as the aggregated influence of seemingly isolated practices reverberate throughout a community, region, or the world. Consequently, his doctoral work focused on three areas: (1) climate justice and public health; (2) regional environmental change and re/emerging infectious diseases; and (3) coverage effects from interventions to mitigate high-burden illnesses – particularly insecticide- Manish DESAI, PhD treated bednets to prevent malarias and clean cooking technologies to prevent pneumonias. Dr. Desai has extensive overseas experience, including research and/or employment in Aus- U.S. Fellow tralia, Costa Rica, Mexico, India, Kenya, Singapore, and California. He has held numerous competitive fellowships, published in leading journals and presses, and enjoys teaching from the secondary to post-graduate levels.

Dr. Leonardson-Placek will spend her fellowship year at the University of Mysore in My- sore under the mentorship of Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD. Her research will focus on a Biocultural Investigation of Substance Use and HIV Sexual Risk Behavior Among the Jenu Kuruba of Mysore, India. Dr. Leonardson-Placek completed her PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology in 2016. She has been working in South India since 2011 on maternal health research informed by evolutionary and cultural anthropological theories. Specifically, she investigates reproductive health, diet, and substance use; and the extent to which these behaviors may be culturally and/or biologically evolved responses to environmental conditions. Her research has been supported by competitive internal and external grants and has been published in the American Jour- nal of Human Biology, Human Nature, and Proceedings of the Royal Society. Her overarching career goal is to understand how evolved human tendencies contribute to maternal and reproductive health behaviors and outcomes. Findings from her research will be applied to Caitlyn LEONARDSON- public health initiatives that aim to improve reproductive health. PLACEK, PhD, MA U.S. Fellow

Dr. Siddaiah will spend his fellowship year at the University of Mysore in Mysore under the mentorship of Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD. His research will focus on Influ- ence of postnatal mental health on mother-infant relationship in rural India: A pilot explora- tory study using mixed methods. Dr. Siddaiah’s career goals are to advance the area of child mental health development, to help children with mental health issues, and to promote psychological well-being among parents and children. Over the last six years, his interest has increased greatly as he has been working on several research projects in the area of SLD and child development with the aim of understanding acquisition of academic skills and specific patterns of development. Dr. Siddaiah has received a Master in Psychology (2007), Master in Philosophy (2008), and Doctorate in Psychology (2015) from University of Mysore. He has volunteered at Samveda Research and Training Centre in Davanagere, Karnataka, India. He was awarded Junior Re- Anand SIDDAIAH, PhD, search Fellow (JRF) and Senior Research Fellow (SRF) in a Development of Science and MSc, MPhil Technology (DST), New Delhi, India funded project, entitled “Screening for dyslexia pheno- types and their molecular genetic analysis in south Indian population” (2009). LMIC Fellow

SOUTH AFRICA

Dr. Cudahy will spend his fellowship in Medicine at Tugela Ferry under the mentorship of Theodore Cohen, DrPH, MD, MPH. His research will focus on biomarkers of early response to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and composition of multi-drug resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis strains during treatment. As a medical student, Dr. Cudahy first worked in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa at an NGO focused on education and research in HIV and tuberculosis coinfection. He was able to return to the area twice during his internal medicine residency for clinical rotations. He is now working in the lab of Dr. Ted Cohen at the Yale School of Public Health and preparing a study looking at both biomarkers of treatment response, as well as multi-strain TB infection in MDR-TB in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. In the future, he hopes to continue working in clinical research of TB/HIV coinfection.

Patrick CUDAHY, MD U.S. Fellow UGANDA

Dr. Katagira will spend his fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of J. Lucian Davis, AB, MD, MAS. His research will focus on sustaining increased physical capacity after pulmonary rehabilitation of post-TB patients with breathless- ness. Dr. Katagira’s career goals include continuously expanding his research knowledge and ac- quiring new research skills to help him become a senior researcher at a global level. He enjoys networking with people from different countries and cultures to discuss future research collaborations. Throughout his career and professional connections, Dr. Katagira aspires to contribute towards improving lung health in Uganda. For his master’s thesis, he studied post- tuberculosis pulmonary hypertension. He has local and international mentors working with him on his career path. Educational and career accomplishments and awards include his ab- stract which won a travel award to the 2012 ATS conference in San Francisco, California. He has authored four peer-reviewed journals. His Master in Internal Medicine thesis won a Winceslaus KATAGIRA, travel award to the 2016 PATS conference in Nairobi, Kenya. He finished a four-month elec- MBChB, MMED tive period (February to June 2016) in internal medicine at the McMaster School of Medi- cine, Niagara Regional Campus, Canada. LMIC Fellow Dr. Kizito will spend his fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of J. Lucian Davis, AB, MD, MAS. His research will focus on home-based Active Source-case Finding and Contact Investigation for Index Pediatric TB Patients in Kampala Uganda. Dr. Kizito is an epidemiologist working with the Uganda Tuberculosis Surveillance Project (UTBSP) at Makerere University. He holds a MBChB and a MSc in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Makerere University. His research interest is in pediatric tuberculosis in resource-limited settings. His master’s thesis assessed pediatric TB diagnostic process and delay in initiating treatment in Kampala. He received a scholarship from University of Cali- fornia San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley, and Makerere University (UCSF- UCB-MU) under Fogarty, through the AIDS/HIV International Training Research Program (PART) for research training on TB and other pulmonary complications of HIV/AIDS, to Samuel KIZITO, MBChB, pursue master’s degree training; a distinguished student’s award as the most outstanding undergraduate medical student; a scholarship for an undergraduate students’ exchange pro- MSc gram to Yale University in 2011; and the Medical Education for Equitable Services to all LMIC Fellow Ugandans-Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MESAU-MEPI) research grant. He won a government scholarship for outstanding academic performance to study medicine.

UKRAINE

Ms. Azbel will spend her fellowship year at the Ukranian Institute on Public Health Policy in Kiev under the mentorship of Frederick Altice, MD. Her research will focus on a mixed- methods approach to researching HIV, incarceration, and substance use in prisoners of the former Soviet Union. Ms. Azbel graduated with an M.Sc. in Control of Infectious Disease from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where she is now a PhD candidate in Public Health & Policy. For the past five years, she has been a post-graduate associate at the Yale Univer- sity School of Medicine where she completed the first nationally representative biobehavior- al surveys of prison populations in Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine.

Lyuba AZBEL, MSc

U.S. Scholar

ZIMBABWE

Dr. Fitzpatrick will spend her fellowship year at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare under the mentorship of Benjamin Pinsky, MD. Her research will focus on subtype distribution of Human Papillomavirus in HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative women in Zimbabwe. Dr. Fitzpatrick became interested in global health while volunteering for public health projects in Costa Rica and Ecuador as an undergraduate student at the University of New Mexi- co. Following these experiences, she founded and ran a nonprofit organization focused on public health outreach in El Salvador. During medical school at UNM, she completed a research project on malnutrition in Kenya, a medical Spanish course in Guatemala, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Fogarty Global Health Fellows. She participated in projects focused on a typhoid outbreak intervention and evaluation in Uganda and economic interventions to improve antenatal care in Kenya. Dr. Fitzpatrick is currently a pathology resident at Stanford where she has further cultivated her interests in global health Megan FIZTPATRICK, MD diagnostics. Her long-term career goals are to pursue pathology and public health training via the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship and develop cost effective and mean- U.S. Fellow ingful global health diagnostics.

Dr. Gambahaya will spend her fellowship year at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare under the mentorship of James Gita Hakim, MBChC, MMed. Her research will focus on peripartum cardiomyopathy: maternal and infant outcomes in a Zimbabwean cohort. Dr. Gambahaya is an internist who is based at Parirenyatwa hospital in Zimbabwe. She completed her training in internal medicine at the University of Zimbabwe in 2014. Dr. Gamba- haya has been greatly influenced by her mentors in the department of medicine at the Uni- versity of Zimbabwe. Her research interests include the study of cardiac disease associated with pregnancy, particularly peripartum cardiomyopathy. She helped to establish a registry of patients with this condition at Parirenyatwa hospital and has presented papers at confer- ences as well as articles for publication detailing the findings from the registry. She wishes to continue recruiting patients and expanding the registry which will create a large cohort of patients suitable for further research into the condition. Dr. Gambahaya hopes to pursue fur- Ellise GAMBAHAYA, MBChB, ther training in clinical cardiology to complement the only two trained cardiologists in Zim- MMed babwe. She hopes to establish the first cardiology unit in Zimbabwe. LMIC Fellow

Dr. Manasa will spend his fellowship year at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare under the mentorship of Benjamin Pinsky, MD, PhD. His research will focus on leveraging the advances in sequencing and genomic technologies to investigate the evolution of HIV drug resistance in patients on antiretroviral therapy and development of low cost molecular diagnostics. Dr. Manasa is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University. He received his doctorate in virology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. He worked on HIV drug resistance, covering molecular virology, bioinformatics and public health. He also received an MPhil from the University of Zimbabwe, also working on HIV drug resistance. Between his MPhil and PhD, Dr. Manasa has been involved in building regional capacity in monitoring drug resistance. His work resulted in numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals such as Jove, Databases, PlosOne, AIDS Research and Human Justen MANASA, PhD, MPhil Retroviruses, describing the resources he developed and the evolution of HIV drug resistance in high HIV incidence communities experiencing accelerated access to antiretrovi- LMIC Fellow ral therapy.

The UCGHI GloCal Health Fellowship Program is managed and supported by the University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI). UCGHI supports interdisciplinary research and training across the UC campus network. As a UC-wide initiative, UCGHI focuses on producing leaders and practitioners of global health, conducting innovative and relevant research, and developing international collaborations to improve the health of vulnerable people and communities around the world. UC's strength in a range of disciplines such as veterinary medicine, pharmacy, nursing, health sciences, oceanography, and economics gives the UCGHI GloCal Health Fellowship Program a vast and unique research portfolio that is used to train the next generation of global health researchers. The UCGHI GloCal Health Fellowship Program includes four UCs from the UCGHI (UC San Francisco, UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, and UC Davis), as well as international partners who are outstanding research institutions based in 17 low- and middle-income countries, including: Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, Panama, Peru, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. All sites have been conducting federally-supported research and training for at least three years, have published extensively in major journals and are committed to training the next generation of global health researchers from within their own country as well as the program's collaborating UC campuses.

UCSF Director: Craig Cohen, MD, MPH Co-Director, UC Global Health Institute

UCSD Director: Steffanie Strathdee, PhD Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences Chief, Division of Global Public Health

UCLA Director: Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH Professor of Medicine

UCD Director: Patricia Conrad, PhD, DVM Professor, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology

Program Assistant Director: Kimberly Bale, MPH: [email protected]

BANGLADESH

Dr. Siddiqua will spend her fellowship year at ICDDR,B in Bangladesh under the mentorship of Marjorie Haskell, PhD, Shaikh Meshbahuddin Ahmad, MSc, PhD and Tahmeed Ah- med, MBBS, PhD. Her research will focus on the potential for impaired gut health and systemic estimates of total body vitamin A stores as assessed by the retinol isotope dilution technique. Dr. Siddiqua received her BS and MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Uni- versity of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She then obtained her PhD from the University of California, Davis in Nutritional Biology with a Designated Emphasis in International and Community Nutrition in 2013. During this time, she received the Nestle Foundation pilot grant to perform her doctoral research at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangla- desh (ICDDR,B). Dr. Siddiqua is currently an assistant scientist at the Nutrition and Clinical Services Division, ICDDR,B. As one of the five female scientists from the developing Towfida SIDDIQUA, PhD, world, she received the “Gro Brundtland Award 2016” for her academic performance and MSc commitment in the field of sustainable development and public health nutrition. Her long- LMIC Fellow term career goal is to study nutrition interventions and global health strategies to improve nutritional status, with a specific focus on micronutrient nutrition among children and wom- INDIA en in low-income countries.

Dr. Fathima will spend her fellowship year at The St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences in Bengaluru (SJRI) under the mentorship of Jim Kahn, MD, MPH, Maria Ek- starand, PhD and Srinivasan K., MD. Her research will focus on economic evaluation of screening and care for mental illness in rural South India. Dr. Fathima completed her MD degree in Community Medicine in 2006, and was the university gold medalist for her batch. She is a diplomate of the National Board of Examina- tions (DNB), and holds a post-graduate diploma in Health & Hospital Management. Her career is focused on the design and implementation of cost-effective, sustainable, and repli- cable programs for the prevention and control of NCDs. Dr. Fathima has over 9 years of experience in teaching community medicine to undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and in training various cadres of health personnel including community health workers, government medical officers, and students studying health administration. She Farah FATHIMA, MBBS, leads the outreach, service-based, primary care CVD clinics in the field practice areas of the MD, DNB, PGDHHM institution. She has authored modules for training community health workers and school children in CVD. Her other areas of interest include economic evaluation and medical edu- LMIC Fellow cation. KENYA

Dr. Njuguna will spend her fellowship year at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kisumu under the mentorship of Elizabeth Bukusi, MBChB, MMed, MPH, PhD, PGD, Craig Cohen, MD, MPH and Cynthia Harper, PhD. Her research will focus on acceptability and demonstration of use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among fisherfolk along the shore of Lake Victoria in Kenya. Dr. Njuguna is a trained pharmacist and epidemiologist. Her goal is to use her training and research experience to improve the health of Kenyans. She has interests in HIV prevention care and treatment, access to care and socio-behavioral research in key populations such as HIV-discordant couples, male and female sex workers, and fisherfolk. She has experience in conducting large clinical trials such as the PrEP Study, HIV-HSV-2 study and the Sustaina- ble East Africa Research in Community Health (SEARCH) study, as well as a number of socio-behavioral studies. In addition, Dr. Njuguna has completed her fellowship in Research Stella NJUGUNA, BPharm, Ethics at Fordham University, New York, where she conducted a study on post-trial access MPH to Truvada amongst couples formerly enrolled in the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) study LMIC Fellow in Kisumu, Kenya. That fellowship was an excellent opportunity for her to widen her knowledge base of research ethics and build capacity for the Institute. 14

Dr. O’Hara will spend her fellowship year at the University of Nairobi in Kenya under the mentorship of Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, Tim Rhodes, PhD and David E. Bukusi, MBChB, MMed. Her research will focus on exploring female people who inject drugs’ (PWID) perceptions and experiences of methadone Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) and barriers to linkage in care: a qualitative study. Dr. O'Hara completed her pharmacy training at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2012, and has since completed four years of post-graduate training – first with the VA, then with Purdue University, and most recently through UW as an Afya Bora Fellow. She has been based in Kenya for three years and involved in clinical care, teaching, and research, having worked extensively in NCDs, MNCH, and community-based group care. As an Afya Bora Fellow she worked with healthcare providers across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Botswana on pressing topics in clinical care, leadership, and policy affecting the region. Dr. Elizabeth O’HARA, PharmD O’Hara’s primary research interest is in strategies that shift the current provider-centric model of care to more patient-centric community and public health approaches. Her goal is to U.S. Fellow address the unique barriers and vulnerabilities seen in marginalized populations in East Afri- ca, with specific interest in improving care strategies for women who use heroin.

Dr. Madadi will spend his fellowship year at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kisumu, under the mentorship of Craig Cohen, MD, MPH, Susan Fisher, PhD and Elizabeth Bukusi, MBChB, MMed, MPH, PhD, PGD. His research will focus on correlation of maternal HIV Viral Load Suppression with Placental Syncytiotrophoblast and Hofbauer Cells Structure among Women with Preterm Deliveries in Kenya. Dr. Madadi is a clinician-scientist with interest in obstetrics-translational research. He is a specialist obstetrician and gynecologist, and a basic scientist with a PhD degree in Human Anatomy. Dr. Madadi is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Human Anatomy and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has special interest in the field of complicated pregnancies and placental biology where he intends to leverage his basic science skills to elaborate possible mechanisms of complicated pregnancies and especially the mechanistic pathway of preterm birth in HIV/AIDS. He was a proud recipient of an Interna- tional Mentored Scientist Award in HIV/AIDS from the Resource Allocation Program of the Moses MADADI, MBChB, PhD University of California, San Francisco under the mentorship of Prof. Craig Cohen and Prof. LMIC Fellow Susan Fisher. Dr. Madadi has an impressive publication record and supervises students at both master and PhD levels.

Dr. Ong’wen will spend her fellowship year at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kisumu under the mentorship of Craig Cohen, MD, MPH, Elizabeth Bukusi, MBChB, MMed, MPH, PhD, PGD and Hilary Wolf, MD. Her research will focus on social network recruitment strategy for improvement of HIV testing among adolescents in the Nyanza region of Kenya. Dr. Ong’wen is a medical doctor and a research officer working with KEMRI - Research, Care and Training Program (RCTP). She received her MBChB from Moi University and MPH from University of California, Berkeley. Her research work has been around adolescents and HIV. She has evaluated adherence to clinic appointments among HIV infected adolescents in the Nyanza region of Kenya, and worked as a co-investigator in a study that investigated the patterns of disclosure, levels of stigma and social support among HIV infected adolescents in Kenya. She has also worked on a project that seeks to adapt a success- Patricia ONG'WEN, MBChB, ful intervention for youth and their social networks to build social support and improve dis- MPH closure, ultimately improving health outcomes. Beyond the fellowship training, she would like to continue working with adolescents and design more innovative interventions to pre- LMIC Fellow vent HIV infection and improve the outcomes of adolescents living with HIV.

MEXICO

Dr. Bristow will spend her fellowship year at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) in Tijuana under the mentorship of Sheldon Morris, MD, MPH, Adriana Carolina Vargas Ojeda, MD, PhD and Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on active surveillance of antimicrobial resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae among HIV infected and HIV uninfected female sex workers in border cities in Mexico. Dr. Bristow is an epidemiologist focused on evaluation, development, application, and implementation of innovative screening strategies and updated diagnostics for sexually transmitted infections (STI). From 2009 – 2012, Dr. Bristow was a senior research associate for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination and the Global AIDS Program in South Africa. More recently, Dr. Bristow’s research focused on dual elimination of HIV and syphilis. In this work, Dr. Bristow has conducted comprehensive evaluations of dual rapid tests for the simultaneous detection of HIV infection and syph- Claire BRISTOW, PhD, MPH, ilis. Dr. Bristow's goal is to become a successful independent researcher of STI with exper- MSc tise in molecular epidemiological research. Dr. Bristow has focused her current research efforts on controlling the emergence and spread of drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, U.S. Fellow which is a major and accelerating global health threat with a shrinking therapeutic arsenal.

Dr. Cepeda will spend his fellowship year at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) in Tijuana under the mentorship of Natasha Martin, DPhil, Gudelia Rangel, PhD and James Kahn, MD, PhD. His research will focus on a costing analysis of a police education program in Tijuana.

Dr. Cepeda's long-term career goal is to become an independent public health investigator, whose primary line of research focuses on understanding the public health impact of HIV prevention strategies on the intersection of infectious disease, substance use, and incarceration in resource-limited settings. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Cepeda has been influenced by clinicians, epidemiologists, basic scientists, and activists. Dr. Cepeda recently co- authored a landmark report published in The Lancet that reviewed 50 years of prohibitionist international drug policy and its impact on public health. The purpose of the report was to advise delegates at the Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Drugs. Dr. Cepeda is Javier CEPEDA, PhD, MPH interested in finding innovative and creative solutions to solving complex health problems in resource-limited settings. His research has expanded to three continents that are directly im- U.S. Fellow pacted by epidemics of HIV, substance use, and criminal justice.

Dr. Haack will spend her fellowship year at Universidad de Sinaloa in Tijuana under the mentorship of Linda Pfiffner, PhD, Ambrocio Mojardín, PhD and Marlene Celía Solís Pérez, PhD. Her research will focus on reducing mental health disparities via culturally sensitive and feasible mental health services for at-risk and underserved youth. After her doctoral training at Marquette University and predoctoral internship at the Univer- sity of California, San Francisco (UCSF) specializing in evidence-based psychosocial services for youth with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Dr. Haack received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows with a project, entitled “Culturally Sensitive School-Home Behavioral Program for Latino Children with ADHD,” funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In her spare time, Dr. Haack enjoys hiking and backpacking around northern California with her husband, exploring the countless restaurants and food trucks in San Francisco, and keep- ing up with her favorite Clemson, Wisconsin, and Bay Area sports teams. Lauren HAACK, PhD, MS U.S. Fellow

Ms. Salazar will spend her fellowship year at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) in Tijuana under the mentorship of Elizabeth Reed, ScD, Judy Hahn, PhD, MA and Gudelia Rangel, PhD. Her research will focus on the role of a microfinance intervention to reduce occupational alcohol use and related HIV risk behaviors among female sex workers in Tijua- na. Ms. Salazar received her master’s degree in psychology from San Diego State University. She is currently a NIDA predoctoral fellow in the UCSD-SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Global Public Health. Her main research interests include gender-based violence, structural interventions, HIV/STI risk, and substance use among vulnerable populations such as female sex workers and adolescents. Ms. Salazar has conducted research among female sex workers in Mexico, using both qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate the intersection of substance use, economic vulnerability, and HIV/STI risk among this population. Upon ob- taining her PhD, Ms. Salazar hopes to apply her research to design, implement, and evaluate Marissa SALAZAR, MA structural interventions aimed to reduce substance use, violence, and HIV/STI risk among U.S. Scholar vulnerable populations.

Dr. West will spend her fellowship year at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) in Ti- juana under the mentorship of Steffanie Strathdee, PhD, Ietza Bojorquez-Chapela, MD, PhD and Shari Dworkin, PhD, MS. Her research will examine how the characteristics of venues predict HIV risk among female injection drug users, using place-based and network data to design HIV prevention interventions. Dr. West is a medical sociologist whose research focuses on the social determinants of HIV/ STI among marginalized populations. Dr. West has a MA in Sociology from Cornell Univer- sity and a joint PhD in sociology and public health in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University. Past research examined HIV risk environments for substance-using fishermen in Malaysia; structural interventions among female sex workers in India; and has looked at the intersection between gender, water/sanitation, and HIV health outcomes in Sub-Saharan Af- rica. She also worked as Principal Research Associate on a NIDA-funded study assessing Brooke WEST, PhD changes over time in the HIV epidemic among injection drug users in 96 large US cities. U.S. Fellow

MOZAMBIQUE

Dr. Mocumbi will spend her fellowship year at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Maputo under the mentorship of Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, Simon Stewart, PhD and Sam Patel, MD. Her research will focus on the burden of cardiovascular diseases in Mozam- bique. Dr. Mocumbi graduated from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Mozambique, trained as a cardiologist at Hopital Necker Enfants Malades (Paris) and Instituto do Coração (Maputo), and obtained her PhD from Imperial College London, England. She has been carrying out research on underserved populations, studying mainly neglected cardiovascular diseases. As a professor of clinical cardiology at UEM, she is involved in both pre- and post- graduate training. Since 2011, she has been the head of the NCD Division at the National Public Health Institute in Mozambique, a position that builds logically on her previous clinical, research, and teaching experience. She is part of several networks within Sub-Saharan Ana Olga MOCUMBI, MD, Africa, and consortia linking Africa to USA, UK, and Australia. She is currently the vice PhD president of PASCAR (South), co-chair of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (Sub- Saharan Africa), scientific advisor for Rheumatic Heart Disease at the World Heart Federa- LMIC Fellow tion, and co-chair of the Lancet Commission for poverty-related Non-communicable Diseas- es and Injuries.

PERU

Ms. Beam will spend her fellowship year at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima under the mentorship of Hector Garcia, MD, PhD. Her research will focus on community Mobilization for T. solium control and prevention. Ms. Beam is a fourth-year medical student at Oregon Health & Science University. She graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a degree in microbiology in 2010 and UC Berkeley with a Master in Public Health in Infectious Disease and Vaccinology in 2013. While in Berkeley she worked for the PAHO and WHO and she discovered a love of teaching and medical anthropology. The public understanding of science and scientific capacity building at the community level are two of her core interests. At OHSU, she helped develop a collaborative student-led structural competency curriculum for all medical students and helped established OHSU’s Health Equity Circle. She hopes to continue to combine passions for community health and clinical medicine in a career that supports individual and commu- Michelle BEAM, MPH nity health. Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow TANZANIA

Dr. Mtatiro will spend her fellowship year at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam under the mentorship of Karin Gaensler, MD, Stephan Menzel, MD and Julie Makani, PhD. Her research will focus on detailed investigation of genetic patterns in sickle cell disease patients with extreme fetal hemoglobin levels. Dr. Mtatiro is a scientist and an academician who has a vision of building capacity in genetic research in Tanzania. She works with other scientists in the field of genetics of sickle cell disease with the aim of establishing a model for translating genomic research into improved healthcare. As a scientist and an academician, Dr. Mtatiro has an opportunity to mentor young scientists in Tanzania so that the critical mass of scientists is increased in Tanzania and Africa. Being a female scientist, Dr. Mtatiro is role model for young girls who wants to pursue scientific careers. She has been trained in Microbiology and Chemistry (BSc), Molec- ular Biology (MSc), and Human Genetics (PhD). During her PhD, Dr. Mtatiro received a Siana MTATIRO, PhD, MSc commonwealth split side award to spend one year at King’s College London for genetic re- LMIC Fellow search training. Dr. Mtatiro is keen to see the translation of genomic research in improving health care in Tanzania. UGANDA

Dr. Chang will spend her fellowship year at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) in Kampa- la under the mentorship of Toby Maurer, MD, Jeff Martin, MD, MPH and Andrew Kam- bugu, MBChB, MMed. Her research will focus on improving the diagnosis and treatment of Kaposi sarcoma in Uganda. Dr. Chang is an early career dermatologist interested in HIV-related dermatology, Kaposi- sarcoma, socioeconomic determinants of health, and the role of technology in bridging gaps. In Botswana, Dr. Chang led the creation and implementation of a mobile learning project that increases access to health information at point-of-care, now fully adopted by the Univer- sity of Botswana, and has helped to provide regionally relevant dermatology training modules for medical students – this work was supported by the National Library of Medicine. As a 2010-2011 Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow, Dr. Chang studied cutaneous lupus treatment outcomes. She has clinical experience in Botswana, India, China, and Navajo Nation – these opportunities were supported by awards from the American Academy of Dermatology, Aileen CHANG, MD Women's Dermatologic Society, and Sjögren's Syndrome Foundation. Dr. Chang received U.S. Fellow her master degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 and completed her training in dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016.

Ms. Sileo will spend her fellowship year at the Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) in Tororo under the mentorship of Susan Kiene, PhD, MPH, Jennifer Wagman, PHD, MHS, Rhoda Wanyenze, PhD, MBChB, MPH and Glenn Wagner, PhD, MA. Her research will focus on substance use and engagement in HIV care among Ugandan fishermen: A syndemic approach. Ms. Sileo is a doctoral student in the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program (JDP) in Global Health. She has worked on NIH and PEPFAR-funded behavioral research on HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa for more than seven years. This experience has developed her expertise in research design and the implementation and evaluation of theory-driven interventions to increase engagement in HIV care and reduce HIV risk behaviors. She has consulted for UNICEF, and is a NIDA T32 Pre-Doctoral Fellow in HIV/AIDS and substance abuse. Using both quantitative and Katelyn SILEO, MPH qualitative research methods, Ms. Sileo’s independent research explores psychosocial and structural barriers to HIV and reproductive health services for underserved populations. She U.S. Scholar aspires to work in an academic or research-intensive institution on research related to the syndemic of substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and gender inequity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Swanson will spend her fellowship year at the Infectious Diseases Research Collabora- tion (IDRC) in Tororo under the mentorship of Megan Huchko, MD, MPH, Miriam Na- kalembe, MD and Jeff Martin, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on identifying barriers and facilitators to optimal cervical cancer care at Mulago Hospital, Kampala. Dr. Swanson received her Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berke- ley, in the Maternal and Child Health program. She received her MD degree from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2011. She then stayed at UCSF for residency in obstetrics and gynecology, which she completed in 2015. Her previous research projects have focused on optimizing reproductive health care for low-income women, both in the United States and abroad. Her current research interests are epidemiology of cervical cancer and improving equity in global cancer care. Dr. Swanson hopes to pursue a career in gynecologic oncology with a niche in international advocacy for women with cervical cancer. Megan SWANSON, MD, MPH U.S. Fellow VIETNAM

Mr. Dong will spend his fellowship year at Hanoi Medical University in Hanoi under the mentorship of Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH, Le Minh Giang, MD, PhD and Nguyen Vu Trung, MD, PhD. His research will focus on antimicrobial resistance in commensal Neis- seria. Mr. Dong recently completed his 2nd year of medical school at Charles R. Drew University/ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He started his academic journey at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, where he double majored in Integrative Biology and Theatre- Performance Studies. He also holds a Master of Science degree from the Institute of Human Nutrition of Columbia University. Coming from a health education and promotion background, Mr. Dong has an interest in the prevention and management of sexually- transmitted infections and HIV. His current research interests and personal-professional concern involves global antimicrobial administration practices and antimicrobial resistant organisms, Huan DONG, MS notably Neisseria gonorrhea. He aspires to acquire the technical and academic capacity to slow the imminent tide of resistant organisms and to contribute to global policies regarding U.S. Scholar antimicrobial stewardship.

The Northern Pacific Global Health Research Fellows Training Consortium is a partnership between the Universities of Washington, Hawaii, Michigan, and Minnesota; with international partnerships in Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, Ghana, Peru, Thailand, and China. Research and training themes currently addressed by Consortium members range across a wide spectrum of health themes, including infectious diseases (HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, herpesviruses, HPV, HTLV), key noncommunicable and chronic health problems (cancer, pulmonary and cardiovascular disease, child development and mental health, women’s health, genetics, and nutrition), environmental (built environment, tobacco use, lead tox- icity, slum upgrading), trauma, policy, nursing, oral health, engineering and implementation science—making these Consortium partnerships ideal locations to mentor trainees from a wide variety of disciplines and provide an interdisciplinary training environment for the next generation of Global Health researchers.

Director: Joseph Zunt, MD, MPH Professor, Departments of Global Health, Neurology, Medicine (Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology Associate Director, International Core, Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Co-Director, Program in Education and Research in Latin America (PERLA)

Co-Director: Vivek R. Nerurkar, DMLT, MSc, PhD Chair, Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Phar- macology (TMMMP) Director, Technical Core, Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE), Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Re- search (PCEIDR)

Co-Director: Joseph C. Kolars, MD Senior Associate Dean of Education and Global Initiatives

Co-Director: Shailey Prasad, MD, MPH Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health Associate Director, North Memorial Medicine Residency Director, Global Family Medicine Residency

Program Manager: Nicole Hobbs: [email protected] Program Coordinator: Mallory Erickson: [email protected]

CAMEROON

Dr. Ngwafor will spend his fellowship year at University of Yaounde I in Yaoundé under the mentorship of Cecilia Shikuma, MD, and Rose Leke, PhD. His research will focus on hel- minth co-infection upon toxoplasma encephalitis in HIV-infected patients. Dr. Ngwafor's dream is to become a leader in clinical research for diseases like malaria and HIV. He is a general practitioner with a Medicinae Doctorae (MD) degree from the Univer- sity of Yaounde I and is currently Head of Research and Training at the National Malaria Control Program. Prior to this position, Dr. Ngwafor was Clinical Monitor at the Biotechnol- ogy Center, and participated in a malaria-drug trial in the Northern Region of Cameroon. He also worked at the Bertoua Regional Hospital as head of the emergency unit and head of the anti-corruption committee. He served briefly as interim director in the same hospital. Ran- dolph is a Novartis Next Generation Scientist 2015 Fellow. He is a member of the Cameroon Society of Epidemiologists and the Cameroon Medical Council. He is completing his mas- Randolph NGWAFOR, MD ter’s degree in Public Health Biotechnology in Yaounde, Cameroon. He is fluent in both English and French. LMIC Fellow CHINA

Dr. Wang will spend his fellowship year at Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC) in Beijing under the mentorship of Rajiv Saran, MBBS, DTCD, MD, MS. His research will focus on chronic kidney disease prevalence & risk factors. Dr. Wang completed his training in epidemiology and bio-statistics in the school of public health at Peking University Health Science Center in 2013. He started his career as an assistant professor at the Institute of Nephrology, Peking University First Hospital. He has been engaged in the studies of chronic kidney disease, as well as providing support in methods of epidemiology and statistics to the institute. He is participating in two large studies – one is focused on the prevalence, risk factors, and prognosis of chronic kidney disease in the general population in China; the other is focused on the cohort of chronic kidney disease patients in China. He has published two papers since starting work. His career goal is to become an excellent epidemiologist and statistician, whose major interests are on chronic non- Jinwei WANG, PhD communicable diseases. LMIC Fellow GHANA

Dr. Gaskill will spend his fellowship year at Kwame Kkrumah University of Science & Technology in Kumasi under the mentorship of Charles Mock, MD, PhD and Peter Donkor, MDSc, MSc, FWACS. His research will focus on referral patterns for newly diagnosed HIV- infected trauma patients. Dr. Gaskill is a resident in general surgery and research fellow at the University of Washing- ton (UW). He attended UW for undergraduate (BS in Physiology) and medical school, and is now completing a MPH in the Department of global health. His research interests include global health, health systems, and trauma surgery – specifically improving trauma care ca- pacities in active conflict areas.

Cameron GASKILL, MD U.S. Fellow

Dr. Richter will spend her fellowship year at Kwame Krumah University of Science & Tech- nology in Kumasi under the mentorship of Peter Donkor, MDSc, MSc, FWACS and Charles Mock, MD, PhD. Her research will focus on advancing prehospital EMS trauma care, access, & patient outcomes. As a postdoctoral disaster researcher, frontline Emergency Medical Technician, and Red Cross Disaster Health Services provider, Dr. Richter has spent 17 years researching disparities in EMS access, treatment, and outcomes in mass emergencies, pandemics, forced migra- tions, and disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, and the United States. Since 2006, Dr. Richter has been honored by the crowned Queen Mother in Ghana, and her Fulbright- Fogarty Public Health Award will focus on advancing pre-hospital patient injury care, EMS capacity building, and Mass Casualty Contingency Planning and Deployment in Ghana. In 2014, Dr. Richter received her doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johan- Roxane RICHTER, PhD, MA nesburg, South Africa, researching and documenting female forced migrants’ emergency healthcare access in host nations. Her future goals are to develop her “Gender-Aware Disas- Fulbright-Fogarty Scholar ter Care” program, research injury care innovations in low-resource EMS systems, and to collect field data on gender issues in pandemics at research or academic institutions.

KENYA

Dr. Bahiru will spend her fellowship year at the University of Nairobi in Kisumu under the mentorship of Mark Huffman, MD, MPH, Tecla Temu, MD, PhD and Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on acute coronoary syndrome. Dr. Bahiru is a third-year resident physician in internal medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. During her residency training, Dr. Bahiru developed a passion for academic global cardiology, and her goal is to pursue a research-based career in global cardiovascular health services research. Dr. Bahiru's region of interest is Sub-Saharan Africa. The goals of Dr. Bahiru's projects are to create a pilot acute coronary syndrome registry at Kenyatta Nation- al Hospital to assess the presentation, management, and outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndrome; and to identify facilitators and barriers to optimal acute coronary syndrome care and quality improvement interventions in Kenya through focus group discussions and in-depth inter- views with Kenyan patients and healthcare providers. The ultimate goal of this work is to create the necessary training, data collection, relationships, and research-infrastructure development to develop, implement, and evaluate a quality improvement intervention for Kenya. Ehete BAHIRU, MD U.S. Fellow

Ms. Flynn will spend her fellowship year at the University of Nairobi in Nairobi under the mentorship of John Kinuthia, MBChB, MPH, MMed and Alison Drake, MD, MSc. Her research will focus on Evalution of mHealth Strategies to Optmize Adherence and efficacy of PMTCT/ART. Ms. Flynn is finishing her third-year of medical school at the University of Louisville and will graduate with a Distinction in Global Health. She plans to pursue a residency in obstetrics/ gynecology upon completion of her MD in 2018. She is a student member of the American Con- gress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Ms. Flynn was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in 2012 following graduation from the University of Louisville with a B.S. in Biol- ogy. She taught English to university freshmen at Cumhuriyet University in Sivas, Turkey prior to beginning medical school.

Mackenzie FLYNN Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow

Dr. Kaggiah will spend her fellowship year at the University of Nairobi in Kisumu under the mentorship of John Kinuthia, MBChB, MPH, MMed and Alison Roxby, MD, MSc. Her research will focus on HIV Prevention Interventions and Viral Load Monitoring among HIV -discordant couples desiring pregnancy in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Kaggiah’s career in research began in 2012 as a lead clinician for a clinical trial (PreP Study). Currently she is study the Doctor for Life course study. Her mentors, and working with HIV-discordant couples, have led to her interest in research aimed at preventing HIV, and sexually transmitted infections in this population. Her career goals are to contribute to research, health-policy formulation, and program implementation, and evaluation to alleviate the burden of HIV in her country. She also wants to be a mentor for those interested in HIV research.

Anne KAGGIAH, MD, MPH

LMIC Fellow

Dr. Monroe-Wise will spend her fellowship year at Kenyatta National Hospital in Kisu- mu under the mentorship of John Kinuthia, MBChB, MPH, MMed and Carey Far- quhar, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on HIV & Hep B in injection drug users. Dr. Monroe-Wise is a third-year infectious disease fellow at the University of Washing- ton. She has been involved in various HIV-prevention studies throughout Africa, Asia, and South America for over ten years. Recently, she also contributed to several medical education programs in Kenya, and has also conducted an operational assessment in a clinic in Nairobi. She is increasingly interested in key populations, viral hepatitis and planetary health and hopes to combine these interests in an academic research career at the end of her fellowship. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and playing capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art.

Aliza MONROE-WISE, MD, MSc U.S. Fellow

Dr. Wagner will spend her fellowship year at the University of Nairobi in Kisumu under the mentorship of Grace John Stewart, MD, MPH, PhD and Laura Oyiengo, MMed. Her research will focus on projects related to pediatric and adolescent HIV testing and linkage to care, including interventions using financial incentives, continuous quality improvement, and standardized patient actors. Dr. Wagner has undergraduate training in Community Health and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University. She completed her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Washington in December 2015. Her interests within global health include maternal and child health, HIV, and implementation science. Dr. Wagner's master’s work focused on the mortality associated with late pediatric HIV diagnosis in Kenya. Her doctoral work deter- mined the acceptability, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness of a targeted pediatric HIV testing model in Kenya. Dr. Wagner hopes to build a career in implementation science research, Anjuli WAGNER, PhD, MPH working directly with ministries of health to identify and address relevant questions related to the scale and performance of HIV services within public health systems. U.S. Fellow

Mr. Warr will spend his fellowship year at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi under the mentorship of John Kinuthia, MBChB, MPH, MMed and Grace John Stewart, MD, MPH, PhD. His research will focus on pediatric tuberculosis in children of HIV-infected mothers living in western Kenya and the potential immunologic protection gained from breast milk in preventing primary infection. Mr. Warr completed his undergraduate degree in religion at Wake Forest University, where he gained his first exposure to global health while taking a semester off to work at a rural clinic in Haiti. His experiences there completely changed his career goals and directed him towards medicine in hopes of preventing under-five mortality. After college he worked for an NGO in Haiti on maternal child health before enrolling at the University of Washington School of Medicine. While in medical school he has worked with his mentor, Dr. Grace John -Stewart, conducting research on determinants of infant mortality in western Kenya. His Alex WARR career interests continue to revolve around child health, particularly pediatric infectious disease. Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow PERU

Ms. Andrews will spend her fellowship year at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) in Lima under the mentorship of Ben Spencer, PhD, Joe Zunt, MD, MPH, and Jorge Alarcon, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on the impact of garden technologies on human and environmental health in floating slum communities in the Amazon Rainforest. Ms. Andrews is a professional landscape architect, and PhD candidate in the University of Washington (UW) Built Environment Program, and leads design/build/research projects in UW’s Informal Urban Communities Initiative and the Green Futures Research and Design Lab. Her work focuses on understanding the measurable impacts that landscapes can have on human, ecological, and environmental health, primarily for vulnerable populations and species. Ms. Andrews received a Master of Landscape Architecture with a Certificate in Global Health from the University of Washington in 2013 and is the 2013 National Olmsted Scholar. Her work has been nationally and internationally recognized for its mindful, sus- Leann ANDREWS, MA tainable solutions and interdisciplinary design and research. She hopes to continue a career investigating the intertwined relationships between health of humans and non-human species U.S. Scholar and their shared environment; and designing preemptive, productive, artful, and engaging interventions to improve health and well being for all.

Dr. Illanes-Manrique will spend her fellowship year at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) and the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas in Lima under the mentorship of Pilar Mazetti, MD, MBA and Silvia Montano, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on depression and anxiety in a Quechua speaking rural population from the Ande- an highlands of Peru, a mixed methods study. Dr. Illanes-Manrique is a psychiatrist currently consulting on patients with neurological diseases psychiatric symptoms at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurologicas. Her career goals are to combine psychiatry practice with research and advocacy related to mental health in the Peruvian population, to be open for other future research fields. Dr. Illanes-Manrique has attended on patients suffering from infections and tropical diseases during her vacations from university. When she finished her medical degree, she worked with a doctor in a rural village to design and organize a community health agent program to raise support for com- Maryenela ILLANES- munity health monitoring. MANRIQUE, MD LMIC Fellow

UGANDA

Dr. Abassi will spend her fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of David Boulware, MD, MPH and David Meya, MMed, MPH. Her research will focus on the utilization of mobile health technology to improve cryptococcal antigen screening.

Dr. Abassi completed her training in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota, Min- neapolis in 2013. She then began her Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of Min- nesota. During her first two years as an Infectious Disease Fellow she has been working at the Infectious Disease Institute in Kampala, Uganda. Her current research activities focus on HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis. Dr. Abassi will continue spending her third-year as an Infectious Disease Fellow in Uganda working on incorporating mobile technology into HIV clinics to help improve linkage and retention into care. Her long-term goals are to transition into implementation-science research focusing on improving the delivery of HIV care. Mahsa ABASSI, DO U.S. Fellow

Ms. Hickson will spend her fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of Chandy John, MD, MS and Betsy Lozoff, MD. Her research will focus on iron supplementation on neurobehavioral development in young children with malaria.

Ms. Hickson is a student at University of Michigan Medical School, where she is planning to pursue pediatrics. Prior to medical school, she was a health educator with the Peace Corps in Senegal, and a policy research intern with Children’s Health Watch at Boston University. She is a UMMS Health Equity Scholar and a student leader in global health education at Michigan. She is interested in the medical, economic, and social determinants of human developmental potential in early life. Her research at Michigan focuses on how infant nutrition and maternal mental health impact children’s social and emotional development.

Meredith HICKSON U.S. Scholar

Dr. Lofgren will spend her fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of David Boulware, MD, MPH and David Meya, MMed, MPH. Her research will focus on Xpert MTB/RIF for TB meningitis in HIV-infected patients.

Dr. Lofgren majored in Chemistry/Biochemistry at the University of Minnesota, Morris. During medical school at Duke University, she spent a year doing global health research in Moshi, Tanzania. She researched the use of dried blood spots in early infant diagnosis and viral load monitoring, and patients with Histoplasmosis in Northern Tanzania. During her Internal Medicine Residency at Emory, she also completed two studies – one was an evaluation of cervical dysplasia in women with HIV; the other was an investigation into the inte- gration of palliative care medicine as adjunctive supportive treatment in HIV treatment. All of these resulted in first-author publications in peer-reviewed journals. In 2015, she began as an Infectious Disease Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Her research is with David Sarah LOFGREN, MD Boulware in Uganda working on tuberculosis diagnostics, Cryptococcal screening, and fac- U.S. Fellow tors relating to late presentation or poor adherence of treatment for HIV.

Ms. Isquith-Dicker will spend her fellowship year at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) in Lima under the mentorship of Benjamin Spencer, MA, MLA and Jorge Alarcon, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on Food Security & Social Networks in Urban Informal Settlements & HIV-infected individuals on ART in Peru. After completing her undergraduate thesis on nutrition among Latino children, Ms. Isquith- Dicker was inspired to learn about health and international development firsthand as an Eng- lish instructor in Ecuador. In addition to teaching, she volunteered at a community garden and children’s hospital. Upon returning to the U.S., she worked as a researcher at a healthcare agency for homeless individuals in Boston, MA. She returned to academia to pursue her interests in food security, nutrition, and urban health, and to learn how anthropological approaches can inform public health policy and programs. Ms. Isquith-Dicker is working toward achieving her career goal of leading community-based research projects that provide Leah ISQUITH-DICKER, MPH solutions to the challenges presented by urbanization and obesity in LMIC. She earned a BA with highest honors in Anthropology and Global Health, Culture, and Society from Emory U.S. Scholar University, and a MPH in Global Health from the University of Washington.

Dr. Prochazka will spend his fellowship year at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima under the mentorship of Joseph Zunt, MD, MPH, Eduardo Gotuzzo, MD and Larissa Otero, MD, MPH. His research will focus on HIV retention to care. Dr. Prochazka obtained his medical degree from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Perú in 2013. Since then, he has participated in conducting research on leishmaniasis, tuberculosis, and HIV at Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Hum- boldt. Dr. Prochazka's current research, including his thesis for his master’s degree in Epide- miology at UPCH, involves using mixed-methods approaches to optimize the HIV care continuum in Peru through evidence-based interventions. Additionally, since 2013, he has participated as Junior Professor of Parasitology at the School of Medicine at UPCH and for the Gorgas Courses of Clinical Tropical Medicine. His goal is to establish himself as an independent researcher who conducts and leads rigorous research in global health. Mateo PROCHAZKA, MD LMIC Fellow

Dr. Quistberg will spend his fellowship year at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima under the mentorship of Charles Mock, MD, PhD and Jaime Miranda, MD, MSc, PhD, FFPH. His research will focus on pedestrian injury prevention. Dr. Quistberg spent a year as a NICHD funded T32 fellow at the Harborview Injury Preven- tion & Research Center (UW) in 2015 under the mentorship of Drs. Frederick Rivara, Brian Saelens, and Anne Moudon. His research focused on the relationship between walking and pedestrian collision risk. Dr. Quistberg is an injury epidemiologist whose career goal is to develop a research lab focused on measuring and promoting safe and active transportation globally. His research uses spatiotemporal methods to examine the intersection of pedestrian injury, walking, transportation, and the built environment. He graduated with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 in Health and Societies and later completed MPH and PhD degrees in epidemiology at the University of Washington (UW) in 2010 and Alex QUISTBERG, PhD, MPH 2012, respectively. His dissertation examined pedestrian collisions in Lima, Peru with Drs. Beth Ebel and Jaime Miranda. He has been published in the American Journal of Epidemiol- U.S. Fellow ogy, Injury Prevention, Accident Analysis & Prevention, and elsewhere.

Dr. Rondan will spend her fellowship year at Hosptial Nacional Dos de Mayo in Lima under the mentorship of Eduardo Ticon, MD and Felicia Chow, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on assessing cardiovascular risk factors & metabolic syndrome in a cohort of ART-naïve HIV-infected patients. Dr. Rondan is a medical doctor from Lima, Peru. She graduated from Universidad de San Martin de Porres, and has a Master of Epidemiological Research from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Over the past year, she has worked as a researcher at the Department of Infectology and Tropical Diseases, at Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo, where she has conducted clinical trials and research studies about HIV and tuberculosis. Dr. Rondan’s main interests are the study of cardiovascular risk factors in HIV and the epidemiology of HIV coinfections. In 2015, she was awarded the “Fernando Porturas” research scholarship from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia for her project about dyslipidemia and HIV. Her Paola RONDAN, MD, MSc career goals are to become an HIV research specialist and to generate evidence that can improve Peruvian and global public health. LMIC Fellow

Dr. Salmón-Mulanovich will spend her fellowship year at the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6) in Lima under the mentorship of Jorge Alarcon, MD, MPH and Silvia Montano, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on HIV infection among Peruvian armed forces. Dr. Salmón-Mulanovich has a PhD in International Health. Her career goals are focused on developing a strong research career in her native country, Peru. Her research interests are related to infectious diseases, particularly disease transmission dynamics. She has worked in the past on dengue, leptospirosis, rabies and rodent-borne diseases. Dr. Salmón-Mulanovich has had the mentorship of several dedicated researchers, Peruvian and from the US. She has worked closely with physicians, public health specialists, veterinarians, and sociologists; and enjoys a multidisciplinary network and environment. Since the beginning of Dr. Salmón- Mulanovich's research career, she has been working in areas of Peru where the common trait Gabriela SALMÓN- is the lack of resources, absence of the local or national government and weak local authori- MULANOVICH, PhD, MSc ties. In the past years, her work has been located in Madre de Dios, in the southern Amazon Basin in Peru. LMIC Fellow THAILAND

Ms. Laws will spend her fellowship year at Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Bangkok under the mentorship of Alexandra Schuetz, PhD and Lishoma Ndhlovu, MD, PhD. Her research will focus on the association between neurocognitive disorders and mucosal myeloid inflammation in chronic HIV infection. Highlights from Ms. Laws’ undergraduate research efforts include both recognition as an enterprising young female scientist through the Melva Jean Kinch Breffeilh Memorial Schol- arship, and "Outstanding Presentation" at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS 2011). Ms. Laws completed the first year of her doctoral program at the University of Hawaii in Dr. Ndhlovu’s HIV immunology laboratory. The group focused on host-viral interactions and understanding how HIV affects the immune system. The research will inform potential clinical applications in balancing strategies to control or eliminate HIV infection, optimize immune function and improve quality of life. Ms. Laws’ Elizabeth LAWS more immediate career goals are to publish first-author manuscripts and to cultivate skills towards being a successful independent researcher. She is inspired by the accomplishments U.S. Scholar of her fellow coworkers, and looks forward to the new collaborations afforded by the Fogarty Global Health Program.

Dr. Namusisi will spend her fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of Katey Pelican, PhD, DVM and Dominic Travis, DVM, MS. Her research will focus on human-wildlife interaction, hunting and threats to health among communities around the fragmented forests of Hoima Western Uganda.

Dr. Namusisi is currently finishing her MPH, and completed her first degree in veterinary medicine from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda in 2001. In 2002, she got her first job at a research lab trying to develop a vaccine for sleeping sickness in humans and Nagana in cattle. In 2003, she joined FARM-Africa, a British NGO that was helping poor smallholder farmers on the slopes of Mt. Elgon in Eastern Uganda. In 2013, she joined the One Health residency program funded by USAID, and managed by Makerere University and University of Minnesota, under the Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) project. She has been a part of several grants funded by University of Minnesota, in which the One Health approach is em- Shamiilah NAMUSISI, MBChB phasized while working closely with nurses. Ms. Namusisi’s goal is to become a medical anthropologist, and the Fogarty fellowship is a step in the right direction. LMIC Fellow

Dr. Taylor will spend her fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of David Boulware, MD, MPH and David Meya, MMed, MPH. Her research will focus on macrophage migration in neural tissue of HIV-Infected patients co-infected with TB.

Dr. Taylor will complete her training in Anatomic Pathology at University of California, San Francisco in June 2016. After a year in Kampala, she will begin a fellowship in Forensic Pathology at the New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Her interest in death may stem from her will to live. During college, Dr. Taylor began volunteering in clinics serving U.S. foreign-born after spending a year abroad in Barcelona during high school. After college, she was a research assistant in projects benefiting U.S. foreign-born. Although pathologists are few in Sub-Saharan African countries like Uganda, Dr. Taylor hopes to raise awareness for their need through various projects. She knows that understanding more about Jonee TAYLOR, MD, MA why people die is a powerful epidemiological tool. At Mulago Hospital, she will perform U.S. Fellow autopsies, and gain insight through surveys on the families beliefs about autopsy.

The UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Consortium provides an opportunity in global health research training for selected fellows, and scholars. Based in over 20 years of research and training collaboration, this consortium brings together 26 primary research training sites in Africa, Asia and Latin America. There are over 65 U.S.-based mentors across the universities’ disciplines in medicine, public health, and the basic sciences. Seventy-six specified in country faculty mentors are available across the international sites, many of whom were trained through Fogarty International Center programs.

PI and FGHF Program Director: Benjamin H. Chi, MD, MSc Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology

JHU Program Director: Yukari C. Manabe, MD Professor, Medicine JHU Program Co-Director: William N. Checkley, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Medicine

MSM Program Director: Kofi Kondwani, PhD Assistant Professor, Community Health and Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine MSM Program Co-Director: Jonathan K. Stiles, PhD Professor, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology

FGHF Program Director: Pierre Buekens, MD, PhD Dean, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine W.H. Watkins Professor of Epidemiology Professor, OB/Gyn FGHF Program Co-Director: Geetha Bansal Associate Professor, Department of Tropical Medicine

Program Manager: Kathryn Salisbury: [email protected] Project Coordinator: Jessie Hardison: [email protected]

ARGENTINA

Dr. Gulayin will spend his fellowship year at the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) in Buenos Aires under the mentorship of Aldolfo Rubinstein, MD, MSc, PhD. His research will focus on cardiovascular risk prediction models. Dr. Gulayin is a cardiologist who graduated with honors from the School of Medicine of the National University of La Plata (UNLP) in 2008. He completed the masters program in Clin- ical Effectiveness at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Through this program he started working at the South American Center of Excellence for Cardiovascular Health, at the Insti- tute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS). Currently he is a PhD candidate at a joint program developed by IECS at UBA and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also works as assistant professor at the Department of Public Health, where in 2014 the UNLP gave him the annual award for his achievements. He has been involved in several research and teaching activities related to public health and noncommunicable chronic diseases and his overarching goal is to advance his research career in cardiovascular epidemiol- Pablo GULAYIN, MD ogy and prevention to contribute to the improvement of cardiovascular health in Argentina LMIC Fellow and Latin America.

Ms. Rivo will train at the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) in Buenos Aires under the mentorship of Jose Belizan, MD, PhD. Her research will focus on patient and provider perceptions of vaginal delivery vs. cesarean section in a public and private hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ms. Rivo is a medical student at Duke University and a member of Duke's Primary Care Leadership Track. She is from Miami, Florida and graduated from Duke University with a self-designed major, “Global Health in the Americas: Determinants, Systems and Interven- tions.” In college, she conducted maternal/child health research in Leogane, Haiti and in Arica, Chile. She published several peer-reviewed journal articles evaluating a diabetes care management model within community health centers. Before medical school, Ms. Rivo served for a year in AmeriCorps as a bilingual HIV tester/counselor for transgender and gay Latino youth at La Clínica del Pueblo in Washington, DC. She has had bilingual clinical Julie RIVO training with the innovative CenteringPregnancy® prenatal care model and at a local Latino U.S. Scholar mental health clinic. As an aspiring primary care physician, she is passionate about person- centered, holistic, prevention-based healthcare. She is excited to embark on maternal/child health research in Buenos Aires, Argentina. CHINA

Ms. Wang will spend her fellowship year at the Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CICAMS) in Beijing under the mentorship of You-Lin Qiao, MD and Jennifer Smith, PhD. Her research will focus on HPV persistent infection and HPV genotype distribution in women in China. Ms. Wang is a medical student at the University of Chicago. During her time in medical school, she organized the first annual Chicago-area conference for Women in Medicine; served as the Community Coordinator for the Maria Shelter Clinic, organizing the Eng- lewood Health Fair in Chicago; traveled to Pine Ridge, South Dakota to learn about the Indi- an Health Services system; and to Cusco, Peru, to provide pap spears for native, indigent women. She is interested in primary care, public health, women's health, and global health disparities.

Margaret WANG Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow

GHANA

Dr. Wilson will spend his fellowship year at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra under the mentorship of Michael Wilson, PhD. His research will focus on saliva-based diagnostic for testing, treating, and tracking Malaria. Dr. Wilson completed his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Morehouse School of Medicine in 2013. He also has a Master of Public Health and a Master in Clinical and Translational Re- search degrees from Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Wilson's career goal is to become a biomedical scientist with expertise in global health research and with the skills required to promote and advance the health of communities living in low- and middle-income countries.

Nana WILSON, PhD, MPH, MSCR U.S. Fellow INDIA

Dr. Robinson will spend his fellowship year at BJ Medical College in Pune under the mentorship of Vidya Mave, MD, MPH. His research will focus on in reducing uncertainty for the diagnosis of acute febrile illness in resource-limited settings. Dr. Robinson is most interested in the challenge of diagnosing arboviruses, which often cause symptoms that overlap with other infectious diseases. He has been working at BJ Medical College in Pune, India during his infectious-disease fellowship on determining the etiology of acute febrile illness in patients hospitalized at Sassoon Hospital. He is excited to continue this work during his Fogarty year. Previously, he has worked as a clinician educator in Uganda, has done HIV research in China and dengue research in Peru.

Matthew ROBINSON, MD U.S. Fellow

Dr. Tornheim will spend his fellowship year at BJ Medical College in Pune under the mentorship of Vidya Mave, MD, MPH. His research will focus on exploring the application of new technologies to improve diagnosis and treatment of resistant tuberculosis among adults and children in India. Dr. Tornheim is an Infectious Disease Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He studied Inter- national Development and Economics at Brandeis University before moving to East Africa where he learned public health working in South Sudan and in Western Kenya with the CDC. He completed a joint MD/MPH at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, studying the impact of Bolivian water policy on pediatric diarrhea and working at the NYC Bureau of TB Control. As a Fogarty International Clinical Scholar, he established a Chagas Disease treatment cohort in Bolivia, then returned to the U.S. to complete Internal Medicine and Pediat- rics residencies at Yale University. His interest in outcomes for underserved populations has Jeffrey TORNHEIM, MD, led him to work in Bolivia, Peru, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, and MPH the U.S. U.S. Fellow

LIBERIA

Dr. Bastien will spend her fellowship year at the Carter Center – Liberia Mental Health office in Monrovia, Liberia under the mentorship of Janice Cooper, PhD, MPA. Her research will focus on examining psychosocial health and resiliency in individuals and communities recovering from Ebola in Liberia. A clinical psychologist and Haiti native, Dr. Bastien’s interests in disaster mental health and global mental health capacity building were largely influenced by her involvement in the mental health response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. A subsequent practicum experience with The Carter Center's mental health initiative in Liberia further strengthened her interest in global mental health capacity building. Through the FGHP experience, Dr. Bastien hopes to be better equipped to address mental health disparities affecting underserved populations globally. She aspires to contribute to the reduction of mental health related stigma as well as Gilberte (Gigi) BASTIEN, the development and evaluation of programs designed to provide culturally responsive ser- PhD, MA vices to diverse and historically underrepresented populations, particularly in LMIC's. U.S. Fellow MALAWI

Ms. Bhushan will spend her fellowship year at UNC Project-Malawi in Lilongwe under the mentorship of Nora Rosenberg, PhD. Her research will focus on how social support im- proves adherence to modern contraceptives and HIV prevention methods. Ms. Bhushan is pursuing a PhD in Health Behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her long-term career goal is to secure a faculty position in a school of public health where she conducts research on global reproductive health service utilization in low resource settings. She is interested in drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative methods to increase understanding and inform interventions of the ways in which the social environment shapes health service utilization. She is particularly interested in examining the mechanisms through which positive characteristics of social relationships buffer the negative effects of individual risk factors. Ms. Bhushan received a master’s degree in International Development Studies from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in Nivedita BHUSHAN, MA Economics and International Politics from Pennsylvania State University. U.S. Scholar

Dr. Chinula will spend his fellowship year at UNC Project-Malawi in Lilongwe under the mentorship of Jennifer Tang, MD, MSCR. His research will focus on cervical cancer control. Dr. Chinula earned his medical degree from the University of Malawi. He is a fellow of the College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of South Africa, and has a Master of Medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the University of Cape Town, attained in 2013. Dr. Chinula has research interests in reproductive health, particularly cervical cancer and HIV. He is a Research Assistant Professor at UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s Division of Global Women’s Health and a Lead Clinical and Technical Advisor for the UNC's Gates funded Safe Motherhood Initiative Program in Malawi. He successfully applied as Co-PI for UNC Project-Malawi to become a site for the AIDS Malignancy Consortium. He was also awarded a Malawi Cancer Consortium pilot grant (NIH U54CA190152 PI: Gopal). He is a competent surgeon in radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy. His long-term goal Lameck CHINULA, MBBS, is to become an international researcher in Cervical Cancer Control. FCOG, MMed LMIC Fellow

Dr. Coates will spend her fellowship year at UNC Project-Malawi in Lilongwe under the mentorship of Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on immune development in healthy & malaria infected infants.

Dr. Coates currently works for the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) within the National In- stitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH. In this role she supports the VRC's clinical trials program where novel vaccine products are tested in phase I human trials. She helps plan immunology data collection from the trials as well as analyze results and work with collaborators to analyze collected subject data. The trials focus on studying the response of adults to new vaccines. Dr. Coates is excited to shift her focus to studying infant immunology and response to administered vaccines. In Malawi, she will be studying infant immune system development and response to routine vaccines under exposure to Malaria. The broad goal of the work is to inform vaccine delivery timelines and understand the impact of Emily COATES, PhD Malaria infection on infant immune development. Fulbright-Fogarty Scholar

Ms. Eaton will spend her fellowship year at the UNC Project-Malawi in Lilongwe under the mentorship of Anthony Charles, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on the burden and outcomes of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ms. Eaton is a third-year medical student at the University of Louisville (UoL) in Kentucky. As an undergraduate at UofL, she was a member of the inaugural class of James Graham Brown Fellows, giving her opportunities for scholarly travel to Panama, Greece, India, Thai- land, and Nigeria, which sparked her interest in global health. She plans to pursue a residency in Neurosurgery and incorporate global health into her practice. Her husband, a professional marathon runner and amateur birder, is thrilled to have the chance to join her in Mala- wi during her Fulbright-Fogarty Award.

Jessica EATON

Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow

Ms. Harrington will spend her fellowship year at UNC Project-Malawi in Lilongwe under the mentorship of Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on the effect of stressful events and depression on HIV outcomes in pregnant women in Malawi. Ms. Harrington grew up in coastal Maine, graduated from Yale in 2009, and has been in the MD-PhD program at the University of North Carolina since 2012. She has conducted research in the Caribbean and France, and has worked in public health research in east Africa since 2009. She is excited about pursuing her research this year in Malawi at the intersection of HIV, reproductive health, and mental health. Long-term, she plans to incorporate global health research and clinical work throughout her career as a clinician-epidemiologist.

Bryna HARRINGTON Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow

PERU

Ms. Jensen will spend her fellowship year at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima under the mentorship of Robert Gilman, MD. Her research will focus on the evaluation of reactivated chagas disease in people living with HIV. Ms. Jensen is currently in her 4th year of medical school at Tulane University. She is part of a combined MD/MPH program. Her interest in global health was sparked by a trip to Bolivia to play soccer through the Tahuichi Way program during high school. Since then she has met many amazing research mentors during college and medical school that have supported and guided her passion for research. During college, she became involved with several HIV related research projects and has continued to have an interest in working with people living with HIV. Ms. Jensen gained some clinical trial experience working at Group Health Re- search Center before beginning medical school. Her career goals include advancing surgical practices through research. She also hopes to work with Latin American populations and Kelly JENSEN expand their access to healthcare. Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow

Mr. Naik will spend his fellowship year at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima under the mentorship of Valerie Paz Solda, PhD. His research will focus on exploring innovative and cost-efficient solutions for addressing tuberculosis in health outreach, which can then be applied in global settings. Mr. Naik aims to improve acute care medical infrastructure, particularly in low- and middle- income countries. He is motivated in part by his personal experience of healthcare deficiencies in India, which have directly impacted his family. He is also inspired by his colleagues and mentors in Ecuador, with whom he has helped improve emergency and trauma communication, and who are dedicated to improving their nation’s health overall. He is currently the Chair of Student Subcommittee of the Pan-American Trauma Society, where he engages students in promoting the expansion of emergency care throughout Latin America. Mr. Naik is a medical student at Virginia Commonwealth University and completed his BA in Molec- Nehal NAIK ular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. U.S. Scholar

Ms. Rothstein will spend her fellowship year at AB PRISMA in Lima under the mentorship of Dr. Lilia Cabrera and Robert Gilman, MD. Her research will focus on qualitative study on complementary food hygiene to prevent child malnutrition.

Ms. Rothstein is a third-year PhD student in the Department of International Health – Social and Behavioral Interventions program at Johns Hopkins. She is a qualitative researcher and focuses on behavior change related to household-level water, sanitation, and hygiene practices. Ms. Rothstein has spent significant time in the Peruvian Amazon, where she conducted a study on the barriers and facilitators to point-of-use water chlorination, published last year in AJTMH. Ms. Rothstein is now gearing up to begin her dissertation research on complementary food hygiene in the shantytowns of Lima, with support from the Fulbright-Fogarty Fel- lowship and additional funding from Procter & Gamble. Jessica ROTHSTEIN, MSPH

Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow

SIERRA LEONE

Dr. Grant will spend his fellowship year at Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema under the mentorship of Dr. Sahr M. Gevao and John S. Schieffelin, MD. His research will focus on the immunologic and behavioral correlates of Ebola Virus Disease in the Kenema district. Dr. Grant is the Chief Physician of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) ward at the Kenema Government Hospital. Trained in Sierra Leone, he is also a lecturer in the Community Health Department of the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone. Along with his clinical work in the Lassa ward, he has been an investigator for a wide range of NIH-sponsored research studies. With the upcoming ground-breaking of the new VHF ward, Dr. Grant looks forward to his continued involvement in research and understanding the transmission and infection of the virus that causes Lassa fever, and the basis for susceptibility and resistance to Lassa fever, Ebola virus, and other pathogens. In further advancement of his career, he has completed his MPH program at Tulane University where Donald GRANT, MD he has been nominated into Eta Chapter of the Delta Omega National Honorary Society in Public Health. LMIC Fellow

SOUTH AFRICA

Ms. Shearer will spend her fellowship year at Clinical HIV Research Unit in Johannesburg under the mentorship of Ian Sanne, MBBch, MMed, PhD. Her research will focus on TB/ HIV co-infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ms. Shearer received her MPH in Global Epidemiology from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health in 2010. She then spent four years living and working in Zambia and South Africa, conducting research on programmatic (mortality and loss to follow-up), treatment (virologic suppression and failure), and clinical (opportunistic infections) outcomes of HIV and/or TB-infected individuals. Ms. Shearer recently completed the second year of the PhD program in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloom- berg School of Public Health. Her dissertation research will focus on the use of routinely collected laboratory data to characterize the spatial-temporal evolution of the TB epidemic in South Africa, with a focus on the role of HIV and ART coverage. After completing her de- Kate SHEARER, MPH gree, she intends to pursue a career in academic research with a focus on TB/HIV co- infection in Sub-Saharan Africa. U.S. Scholar

Ms. Thakkar will spend her fellowship year at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town under the mentorship of Bhakti Hansoti, MBChB, MPH. Her research will focus on integrated management of acute illness. Ms. Thakkar is currently finishing her medical education at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. She has a keen interest in pursuing a career in Global Emergency Medicine. Her career goals include alleviating health disparities in international settings. Through various travels across the globe and research endeavors including working at the Carter Presi- dential Center, Loyola University Chicago, Emory University School of Medicine, and Morehouse School of Medicine, she has fostered a deep interest in global health.

Pankti THAKKAR U.S. Scholar

Dr. Vogt will spend her fellowship year at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU) in Jo- hannesburg under the mentorship of Dr. Neil Martinson. Her research will focus on the in- terface between cutting edge molecular diagnostics and a growing global health/HIV-related tumor burden in a LMIC. Dr. Vogt is currently a clinical fellow at the Sydney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her current research interests include oncogenic viruses, HIV/ AIDS associated malignancies, and global health. She has previous experience researching the epidemiology of HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer in the US and globally. Through a competitive institutional travel award for global health investigation, she recently traveled to South Africa to gauge local support for a project on AIDS lymphoma.

Samantha VOGT, MD, MPH U.S. Fellow

Ms. Yimer will spend her fellowship year at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town under the mentorship of Bhakti Hansoti, MBChB, MPH. Her research will focus on the effect of Integrated Infectious Disease Training (IMID) on symptomatic screening of HIV patients in primary clinic. Ms. Yimer is a third-year medical student at Morehouse School of Medicine. She is currently interested in pursuing a career in medicine or surgery. She is originally from Ethiopia where she first became interested in global health.

Nadia YIMER U.S. Scholar

UGANDA

Dr. Kayongo will spend his fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of William Checkley, MD. His research will focus on COPD among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda. Dr. Kayongo finished his medical training at Makerere University College of Health Scienc- es in 2014, and graduated as a member of the prestigious Dean’s List. After an internship training at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in 2015, Dr. Kayongo enrolled in the post- graduate research fellowship program in HIV genomics and microbial pathogenesis at Yale University School of Medicine Section of infectious diseases. There, he worked with Asso- ciate Professor Richard Sutton in his laboratory investigating host genetic factors responsible for HIV control in elite controllers. As a J1 scholar, Dr. Kayongo participated in the exchange program at West Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) under Professor Sadigh Majid where he completed a global health hands-on training in general internal medicine at Alex KAYONGO, MBChB Danbury Hospital and critical care medicine at Norwalk Hospital. His career goal is to conduct noncommunicable disease-related research among people living with HIV/AIDs LMIC Fellow (PLWHA) in Uganda and Sub-Saharan Africa.

ZAMBIA Ms. Davis will spend her fellowship year at the University of Zambia in Lusaka under the mentorship of Drs. Elwyn Chomba and Musaku Mwenchanya. Her research will focus on the impact of syphilis testing during HIV testing among pregnant women.

Ms. Davis is seeking her doctoral degree in Epidemiology at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Currently, she is a research assistant for an ongoing implementation trial, Preventing Congenital Syphilis. She is interested in becoming a skilled investigator who identifies health disparities and uses that data to develop innovative interventions to improve reproductive health care access and outcomes for underserved populations.

Rindcy DAVIS, MS, MPH

U.S. Scholar

Dr. Pinder will spend her fellowship year at the University of Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia under the mentorship of Groesbeck Parham, MD. Her research will focus on cervical cancer screening

Dr. Pinder, a Board Certified Ob/Gyn, endeavors to create change as a Gynecologic Oncolo- gist. The prevention of deaths due to gynecologic malignancies has always been the reason that she embarked on a career in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Her experiences in medical school, residency, private practice, and global health impressed upon her that the deaths of women from gynecologic malignancies stretches beyond our borders, and that every wom- an’s life is worth saving. For this reason, she transitioned from private practice to complete a Global Women’s Health Fellowship with Massachusetts General Hospital/Boston Medical Center and obtained a Master of Public Health from Harvard University, directly supporting Leeya PINDER, MD, MPH her long-range career interests of finding ways to radically reduce the burden of women’s cancers (breast and cervix) in Africa. She believes that public health approaches to solving U.S. Fellow problems, particularly when led by sound evidence from clinical and molecular-based research, create vistas for large-scale transformational change.

The VECD Consortium comprises four outstanding institutions—Vanderbilt (V), Emory (E), Cornell (C), and Duke (D) —with decades-long global partnerships with premier LMIC research institutions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Collectively, VECD’s well-funded research portfolio encompasses diverse and complementary topics in all relevant communicable and non-communicable diseases. VECD institutions and faculty have a long history of global engagement, investigative accomplishment and mentoring excellence, as demonstrated by high-impact global health dis- coveries by VECD trainees. The VECD international partners are themselves outstanding research institutions based in both low-income (Haiti, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, Rwanda) and middle-income countries (Brazil, Mexico, China, India). All sites conduct NIH-supported research and training and have published extensively in major journals. The VECD Global Health Consortium represents 115 faculty members from our four U.S. universities and international collaborating institutions who serve as potential mentors for fellows.

Director: Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) Co-Director: Douglas C. Heimburger, MD, MS Associate Director for Education and Training, VIGH Co-Director: Xiao Ou Shu, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology Director: Daniel Fitzgerald, MD Co-Director, Center for Global Health Co-Director: Warren D. Johnson, Jr., MD Director, Center for Global Health Co-Director: Jean Wm. Pape, MD Director, GHESKIO Director: K. M. Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA Ruth and OC Hubert Professor of Global Health & Epidemiology Co-Director: Carlos del Rio, MD Chair, Department of Global Health Co-Director: Usha Ramakrishnan, PhD Director, T32 Doctoral program in Nutrition & Health Sciences Director: Nathan Thielman, MD Director, Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway Co-Director: Eric J. Velazquez, MD Director, Echocardiography Labs & Cardiac Diagnostic Unit Co-Director: Kathleen Sikkema, PhD Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

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BRAZIL

Mr. Page will spend his fellowship year at Universidade Federal da Bahia in Salvador under the mentorship of Edgar Carvalho, MD, PhD. His research will focus on the effects of hel- minth load on the severity of Leishmania Braziliensis infection. Mr. Page is based in New Orleans where he is a fourth-year MD/MPH student at Tulane University. He hopes to incorporate clinical medicine and public health into his career working with infectious diseases, as he believes both approaches are important for fostering healthy communities. His research interests include pathogen emergence, clinical conse- quences of coinfections, and barriers to clinical access. Mr. Page is inspired by the patients he works with in New Orleans, who constantly remind him why he is lucky to be able to pursue a career in medicine. Mr. Page sits on the ASTMH Student/Trainee Leadership Coun- cil where he seeks out ways for medical students and trainees to become more involved in Brady PAGE the field of tropical medicine. He is a member of Tulane's Junior AOA Honor Society and Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow was recently awarded a Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in tropical Medicine for a project he completed in Papua New Guinea. HAITI

Dr. Camblart will spend his fellowship year at The Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) in Port-au-Prince under the mentorship of W. Jean Pape, MD, Daniel Fitzgerald, MD and Warren Johnson, MD. His research will focus on validating a novel biomarker for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. Dr. Camblart completed his studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Cuba, which culminated in a specialization in family medicine. He has always wanted to help people and was especially interested in cardiothoracic surgery, but after reflecting on the reality of his country and how people of low means and their access to healthcare is precarious, he decided instead that it would be more useful for him to focus on viral and bacteriological infections. He believes that researching virology will be the key to solving the current need of the low-income population. The goal will be to overcome such deadly viruses.

Mario CAMBLART, MD LMIC Fellow

Dr. Petion will spend his fellowship year at year at The Haitian Group for the Study of Ka- posi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) in Port-au-Prince under the mentorship of Daniel Fitzgerald, MD, W. Jean Pape, MD and Molly McNairy, MD. His research will focus on demography and population health in urban Haiti: TB incidence and clustering. Dr. Petion, is an infectious disease/HIV-care specialist, who graduated from the medical school of the University of Haiti in 2009. He has volunteered for one year at Albert Schweit- zer Hospital in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti, helping victims of the January 12, 2010 earthquake. When the cholera outbreak occurred in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti, in October 2010, he played an important role in coordinating healthcare delivery for affected communities, training healthcare professionals and traditional healers, and managing the newly identi- fied infectious disease in Haiti. He continues his career goal working for international child care in Haiti, coordinating HIV/TB clinic for 2 years. After his certification in global health delivery at Harvard School of Public Health in 2014, Dr. Salomon Petion started his career Jacky SALOMON PETION, MD research at GHESKIO, the largest Caribbean HIV/TB research center, conducting ACTG LMIC Fellow research protocol and trying to improve care delivery for the HIV/TB patients.

Ms. Tymejczyk will spend her fellowship year at The Haitian Group for the Study of Kapo- si’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) in Port-au-Prince under the mentorship of Denis Nash, PhD, MPH and Daniel Fitzgerald, MD. Her research will focus on hypertension among adult residents of four slums in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Ms. Tymejczyk is a second-year DrPH student in Epidemiology at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health. Her fellowship project will examine the prevalence of hypertension and its risk factors in four largely healthcare-naïve, urban slum communities in Port-au-Prince, and among HIV+ area residents enrolled in an HIV-care program. Born and raised in Eastern Europe, Ms. Tymejczyk is interested in identifying health priorities, and design and implementation of interventions in resource-limited settings. To date, her research in this area has focused on the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment in East Africa, and she looks forward to extending and applying her experience in HIV epidemiology to the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases in populations with substantial Olga TYMEJCZYK, MPH background prevalence of HIV. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Harvard U.S. Scholar College and a MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from CUNY Hunter.

HONDURAS

Dr. Urrutia will spend his fellowship year at Hospital Regional de Occidente (HRO) in Santa Rosa de Copán under the mentorship of Douglas Morgan, MD, MPH and Ricardo Dominguez, MD. His research will focus on strengthening an existing gastric cancer research platform in Western Honduras: Building capacity surrounding cancer screening and mHealth technology. Dr. Urrutia completed his medical program in Honduras with honors. He has co-authored national research including intestinal parasitology and its public health impact. He is co- founder to several student-based university educational programs and he directed the patho- physiology and pharmacology student laboratory for two years. He is currently pursuing an international career involving internal medicine, cancer, and public health.

Samuel URRUTIA, MD LMIC Fellow

INDIA

Ms. Johnson will spend her fellowship year at Public Health Foundation of India in New Delhi under the mentorship of Mohammed Ali, MBChB, MSc, MBA, Nikhil Tandon, MD, PhD and Vikram Patel, PhD. Her research will focus on evaluating the impacts of integrated depression and diabetes treatment in India: A process evaluation of the INDEPENDENT Study. Ms. Johnson is a second-year doctoral student at Emory University in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. Having completed a master’s in Theology at the University of St. Andrews prior to starting her public health career, Ms. Johnson’s work ini- tially focused on the intersection of religion and health. Through participation in research projects in India and Kenya exploring the role of religion as a social determinant of health, she has developed a passion for global mental health and qualitative research methods. Based on her experience in the field, Ms. Johnson is interested in how mental illness impacts one’s experiences and management of co-morbid conditions, particularly in low-resource Leslie JOHNSON, MPH, MLitt settings. At Emory, she worked with Project UPLIFT, a distance-delivered program de- U.S. Scholar signed to prevent or reduce depression in people with epilepsy, to train mental health professionals across North America. She plans to pursue a research career in global mental health.

Dr. Parikh will spend her fellowship year at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in New Delhi under the mentorship of Rahul Sidhaye, MD, MHS and Mohammed Ali, MBChB, MSc, MBA. Her research will focus on analyzing India’s National Mental Health Policy and its implications for equitably providing integrated care for mental disorders in low-resource settings. Dr. Parikh is a medical doctor and a public health researcher at the Public Health Foundation of India in New Delhi, India. She is presently involved in research related to improving mental health care and outcomes for adolescents and adults in low-resource settings. She was recently awarded the VECD Fogarty Global Health Fellowship to undertake analysis of mental health policies in India. She has contributed to reviews on mental health treatment gaps in India and China, and Universal Health Coverage in India that were published in The Lancet. She has also worked with the Government of India on health system strengthening as Rachana PARIKH, MBBS, MPH a consultant, for the flagship program, National Rural Health Mission. LMIC Fellow

Ms. Rhodes will spend her fellowship year at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in New Delhi under the mentorship of Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA, Mary Beth Weber, PhD, MPH and Prabhakaran Dorairaj, MD, DM, MSc. Her research will focus on an evaluation of social network-related intervention effects of a lifestyle intervention in India. Ms. Rhodes is a PhD student in the Nutrition and Health Sciences Program at Emory Uni- versity. Her goal is to develop, test, implement, and scale up nutrition interventions and translate research into practice. Through her dissertation, and as a member of the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, she is involved in implementation research to address diabetes in India. Her interest in implementation research grows out of her experience implementing public health interventions and recognizing the gap between what is known to improve health and what is actually done. Most recently, Ms. Rhodes was an ORISE Fellow in CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity where she managed a national initiative to increase the adoption of evidence-based practices to prevent early childhood Elizabeth RHODES, SM obesity. She has an AB in Sociology from Brown University and a SM in Social and Behav- U.S. Scholar ioral Sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Ms. Sarma will spend her fellowship year at the Centre for Chronic Disease Control in New Delhi under the mentorship of Mark Huffman, MD, MPH and Sivadasan Harikrishnan, MD. Her research will focus on improving tobacco cessation rates among heart attack survivors in India. Ms. Sarma is a third-year medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is interested in the research and implementation of behavioral health interventions in low- and middle-income countries as a means of addressing the burden of noncommunicable disease. She studied biology and global health as an undergraduate at Northwest- ern and had the opportunity to study public health in Stellenbosch, South Africa; and conduct research in Lausanne, Switzerland as a ThinkSwiss scholar. During medical school, she has participated in several global health case competitions, through which she developed an interest in tobacco control. A first generation Indian immigrant, she is excited to collaborate Smitha SARMA with local researchers to address healthcare problems specific to this population. Upon her return, she hopes to complete her clinical training and pursue a career as a physician- U.S. Scholar researcher focused on international preventive medicine.

Dr. Shaikh will spend her fellowship year at Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) in Chennai under the mentorship of Viswanathan Mohan, MD, PhD, DSc, Mohammed Ali, MBChB, MSc, MBA and Venkat Narayan, MD, MSc, MBA. Her research will focus on long-term effects of an individualized coordinated care intervention on dietary patterns and cardiovascular risk factors in individuals with co-morbid diabetes and depression: the INDE- PENDENT study. Dr. Shaikh is a nutrition epidemiologist who recently received her PhD from Emory Univer- sity. She received a Master in Health Sciences (Dietetics) from the University of Pune and a Master in Nutrition from Georgia State University, where she also trained to become a Reg- istered Dietitian. Her dissertation focused on measuring nutrition transition, including shifts in diets accompanying globalization, among adolescents in India. She was a 2013-14 VECD Fogarty Global Health Fellow (pre-doctoral) at Public Health Foundation of India where she Nida SHAIKH, PhD, MS developed and evaluated diet assessment instruments for youth. Her research interests lie at the intersection of chronic diseases, mental health, and nutrition. LMIC Fellow KENYA

Dr. Ng’eno will spend his fellowship year at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret under the mentorship of Nathan Thielman, MD, MPH, Gerald Bloomfield, MD, MPH and Peter Kussin, MD. His research will focus on feasibility of cardiac rehabilitation in patients with heart failure at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Dr. Ng'eno graduated from the University of Nairobi, Kenya and is currently an internal medicine resident and a Master of Global Health Science student at Duke University. He has a passion for noncommunicable disease and cardiovascular health research. His research interests include rheumatic heart disease, heart failure, diagnostic imaging, and cardio- pulmonary rehabilitation. Dr. Ng'eno is also a strong advocate for providing sustainable, quality health care with interests in health policy and health system design in East Africa and the U.S.

Gedion NG’ENO, MBChB LMIC Fellow

Dr. Paul will spend his fellowship year at Moi University in Eldoret under the mentorship of Peter Kussin, MD, Nathan Thielman, MD, MPH, Loretta Que, MD, David Murdoch, MD and David Lagat, MD. His research will focus on assessment of obstructive airway disease in Western Kenya. Dr. Paul completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Vanderbilt University, and is currently finishing his final year of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Duke University. He is simultaneously completing a Masters of Science in Global Health from the Duke Global Health Institute. His prior research includes a study validating spirometry prediction equations for western Kenya, as well as a domestic study investigating the linkage between HIV and asthma in North Carolina. He will be traveling to Eldoret, Kenya to continue his research in chronic airway disease during his Fogarty Global Health Fellowship. His research interests include chronic airway disease, with a special focus on HIV-associated Devon PAUL, MD lung disease. He hopes to develop a career in global health that leverages his interests in clinical research and epidemiology to improve patient care and outcomes for individuals U.S. Fellow suffering from chronic lung disease.

Dr. Pekny will spend her fellowship year at Moi Schools of Medicine and Public Health in Eldoret under the mentorship of Peter Kussin, MD, Timothy Mercer, MD, MPH, Sonia Pas- takia, PharmD, MPH and Imran Manji, BPharm. Her research will focus on the impact of a peer-enhanced delivery model into the multidisciplinary care team on inpatient diabetes management on the adult medicine wards at a large referral hospital in western Kenya. Dr. Pekny completed her PharmD and community and global health pharmacy residencies at Purdue University. She is currently finishing her global health pharmacy fellowship with Purdue and Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH). AMPATH is based in western Kenya and provides comprehensive care for more than 140,000 HIV- infected patients throughout a catchment area of more than 3.5 million people. Her prior research includes an evaluation of inpatient diabetes management and implementation of family planning services for chronic disease patients at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital Chelsea PEKNY, PharmD (MTRH) in western Kenya. She will return to MTRH to continue her research in implementation of peer assisted inpatient diabetes management for her Fogarty Global Health Fellow- U.S. Fellow ship. Her research interests include non-communicable diseases, specifically diabetes, and advancement of clinical pharmacy in low-resource settings. During her time in Kenya, she also developed a strong interest in multidisciplinary approaches for opportunities for street youth in developing countries. SOUTH AFRICA

Ms. Hanson will spend her fellowship year at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannes- burg under the mentorship of Aryeh Stein, MPH, PhD and Shane Norris, PhD. Her research will focus on the role of maternal obesity, HIV, and gestational diabetes on infant health, body composition, and abdominal fat distribution in urban South Africa. Ms. Hanson is a PhD student in Nutrition and Health Sciences at Emory University. She is interested in the links between early-life exposures, childhood growth, and noncommunicable diseases. Previously, she received a BS in Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise from Virginia Tech; and a dual MS in Nutritional Sciences and Exercise Physiology from San Diego State University. She developed an interest in global health while interning at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland where she worked with the WHO Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group to develop a new recommendation for potassium. Upon finishing school, Ms. Hanson plans to apply for the Epidemic Intelligence Sara HANSON, MS Service and hopes to pursue a career with the CDC. U.S. Scholar

TANZANIA

Dr. Goodman will spend his fellowship year at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University in Moshi under the mentorship of Gileard Masenga, MD, Nathan Thielman, MD, MPH, John Schmitt, MD and Frank Miller, MD. His research will focus on examining the role of fetal scalp stimulation as an adjunct to fetal monitoring in low-resource settings: Experience with implementation in Moshi, Tanzania. Dr. Goodman is currently a Global Health fellow at Duke University Medical Center. He completed an MD/MPH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and trained as an OB/GYN resident at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. David aspires to be involved in implementation science research improving the care of women in obstetric referral centers in low-resource settings and aims to be part of addressing the global surgical burden of disease. His goal is to be a teacher and mentor to future American and African doctors. He also wants to be a great husband and father and sees his global health activities as a mutual calling to be a family that blesses the world. David GOODMAN, MD, MPH U.S. Fellow

Dr. Jeremiah will spend his fellowship year at National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), in Mwanza under the mentorship of George PrayGod, MD, PhD, MSc, Douglas Heimburger, MD, MS and Suzanne Filteau, MSc, PhD. His research will focus on prevalence of and risk factors for prediabetes and diabetes, and characterization of insulin resistance and beta-cell function in adults on antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania. Dr. Jeremiah is a research scientist, employed with the National Institute for Medical Re- search since 2006. He holds a MD degree from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; an MPhil in International Health from the University of Bergen, Norway; and a PhD in Health Science from the University of Southern Denmark. He completed an internship at Bugando Medical Centre in Mwanza. Dr. Jeremiah's main research interest has been TB/ HIV, nutrition, and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as type II diabetes.

Kidola JEREMIAH, MD, MPhil, PhD LMIC Fellow

Dr. Meier will spend his fellowship year at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University in Moshi under the mentorship of Blandina Mmbaga, MD, PhD, Nathan Thielman, MD, MPH and Catherine Staton, MD, MSc. His research will focus on challenges in assessing and treating acute pain in a Tanzanian emergency department. Dr. Meier is the current Duke Emergency Medicine Global Health Fellow. His research focus is on pain control in trauma patients. His upcoming project will involve developing a pain scale in Kiswahili and comparing the perceptions of pain between providers and patients in Moshi, Tanzania. He hopes this project will provide data in order to develop an intervention to more adequately treat the pain of acute injury. He will be working closely with his mentor Dr. Catherine Staton who is a previous Fogarty Fellow. Dr. Meier attended the Medical College of Wisconsin, prior to completing his Emergency Medicine residency at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA. He currently works clinically in the Duke Emergency De- Brian MEIER, MD, MA partment, while working towards his Master's in Global Health at the Duke Global Health U.S. Fellow Institute.

Mr. Mzombwe will spend his fellowship year at Weill Bugando Medical Center in Mwanza under the mentorship of Douglas Heimburger, MD, MS, George Hill, MS, PhD and Robert Peck, MD, MS. His research will focus on diabetes in HIV-infected adults: Pathogenesis and timing, a prospective analysis. Mr. Mzombwe is a second year medical student at Vanderbilt Medical School. He completed his undergraduate degree at UAB where he received a BA in Philosophy. His career interests include a future in global health with a geographic focus of Sub-Saharan Africa. He is curi- ous about the role that exercise can serve as an intervention for chronic medical conditions in Sub-Saharan African countries. Mr. Mzombwe has done research at UAB in the REGARDS study as well as completing an ethnographic film study in Birmingham, Alabama. He enjoys riding bikes, drinking tea, and is proud to be Burundian.

Majaliwa MZOMBWE U.S. Scholar

Mr. Tabb will spend his fellowship year at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University in Moshi under the mentorship of John Bartlett, MD, Dorothy Dow, MD, MSc, Blandina Mmbaga, MD, PhD and Kristen Sullivan, PhD, MSW, MBA. His research will focus on evaluating a mental health intervention to improve mental health and HIV outcomes among HIV-infected Tanzanian youth. Mr. Tabb is a fourth-year medical student at Alpert Medical School of Brown University. He received a BS in Psychology from Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, in 2008, and then served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uganda from 2008-2010. His primary role centered on implementing and managing the Uganda Ministry of Health flagship community- based healthcare initiative to train community health workers, called Village Health Teams, in Mukono District, the experience responsible for his decision to pursue a career in medicine. Since, Mr. Tabb has continued to stay involved in global health serving as Assistant Zachary TABB Director of Omni Med from 2011-2012, having been accepted as a Global Health Scholarly U.S. Scholar Concentrator at AMS, and having conducted research in Apam, Ghana examining HIV testing practice and knowledge. Mr. Tabb’s goal is to become a leading global health clinician- scientist with a particular focus on health systems strengthening, clinical education, and implementation science to improve the research-to-practice continuum. VIETNAM

Dr. Nguyen will spend his fellowship year at Danang Psychiatric Hospital in Danang under the mentorship of Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, Lam Trung, MD and Bahr Weiss, PhD. His research will focus on risk factors associated with tobacco initiation among Vietnamese youth.

After graduating from University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engi- neering, Dr. Nguyen worked for a year in oil rigs off the Gulf of Mexico where the lack of access to healthcare was prominent. Upon completing his medical school training and PGY- 1 year in Internal Medicine at Meharry Medical College, he sought out his main passion with the Preventive Medicine Residency at the same institution. During that time, Dr. Nguyen completed coursework for a Master of Science in Public Health and successfully defended his thesis discussing the effect of electronic cigarettes on the intention to smoke in adolescence. Recognizing the detrimental health effect tobacco has on not just the individual’s Tam NGUYEN, MD health, but also on public and global health, Dr. Nguyen’s long-term goal is to acquire U.S. Fellow broader research experience in the U.S. and oversea to further his development as a global health researcher and clinician.

ZAMBIA

Ms. Ahmed will spend her fellowship year at Rwanda-Zambia HIV Research Group (RZHRG) in Lusaka under the mentorship of Fern Terris Prestholt, PhD, Susan Allen, MD, MPH and Graham Medley, PhD. Her research will focus on HIV self-test optimal interventions by incorporating user preferences, the use of Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) in Zambia, Malawi, and Zimbabwe.

Ms. Ahmed is a doctoral student in health economics and infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine-London United Kingdom. Her career in global health was motivated by a lifelong pursuit to advance healthcare systems through systematic impact driven approaches. Ms. Ahmed received her BS in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her MPH in Global Health at Emory Univer- sity. After completing her MPH, Ms. Ahmed worked in Zambia and Rwanda, implementing health intervention programs. Ms. Ahmed aspires to expand her doctoral training to the scale -up of new infectious disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment technologies in low- Nurilign AHMED, MPH income countries. U.S. Scholar

GHES

Dr. Adsul spent her fellowship year at the University of Mysore in Mysore under the mentorship of Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD. Her research focused on health disparities, tribal and migrant communities, community-based participatory research, socio-cultural environments, and health assessments. Prior to her current position, Dr. Adsul was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cancer Prevention, Research and Outreach at Saint Louis University where she received her PhD in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education along with an MPH in Epidemiology and Behav- ioral Sciences. She is registered with the Medical Council of India and received her MBBS (MD equivalent) degree from the Maharashtra University of Medical Sciences, India in 2007. Dr. Adsul has also conducted a pilot study to assess the prevalence of high-risk HPV DNA and chronic disease risk factors among these women.

Prajakta ADSUL, MBBS, MPH, PhD Cancer Prevention Fellow NCI, NIH

Dr. Islam spent his fellowship year at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B ) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, under the mentorship of Dr. Alexandria Boehm, PhD. His research focused on determining the prevalence and spread of NDM-1- producing organisms in the Dhaka city environment along with characteristics of organisms. Dr. Islam is Associate Scientist and Head of the Enteric and Food Microbiology Laboratory at ICDDR,B . Dr. Islam completed his BSc (Hons) and MSc in Microbiology in 1999 and 2001, respectively, from the University of Dhaka, and his PhD in Food Microbiology in 2009 from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. His research interests lie in the area of molecular epidemiology of multi-drug resistant (MDR) foodborne pathogens, their transmission dynamics and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Islam is a member of the WHO Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance. He has recently been awarded an NIH R01 grant to work on the transmission dynamics of MDR E. Mohammad AMINUL ISLAM, coli causing urinary tract infection in Bangladesh. PhD, MSc Associate Scientist ICDDR, B

Dr. Mootz spent her fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, and Florence Muhanguzi, PhD. She facilitated a mixed methods research project on prevalence, predictors, and mental health outcomes of gender- based violence in conflict-affected communities in Northeastern Uganda. Dr. Mootz received her PhD in Counseling Psychology and is a Postdoctoral Research Fel- low with the Global Mental Health Program at Columbia University. Her career goals are to expand her global research on the prevention and intervention of interpersonal violence and its mental health sequela in low-resource, conflict-affected settings. She was honored to have been selected for the Emerging Psychologist Program with the International Congress of Psychology 2016, as well as awarded two American Psychological Association Awards for her dissertation research on gender-based violence and armed conflict in Northeastern Uganda. Jennifer MOOTZ, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Yale University

Dr. Subbaraman spent his fellowship year at the National Institute for Research in Tubercu- losis in Chennai under the mentorship of Lee Riley, MD. His research focused on studying pretreatment loss to follow-up of smear-positive TB patients. Dr. Subbaraman is an Associate Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has two different areas of research. First, he conducts implementation science research on strategies to improve delivery of tuberculosis (TB) care in India, which has the world’s largest TB epidemic. He is interested in identifying deficiencies across multiple points in the TB cascade of care—including case detection, linkage to treatment, and retention in care—to facili- tate the development of patient-centered interventions. He also studies social determinants of health in urban slums in conjunction with PUKAR, a Mumbai-based research collective.

Ramnath SUBBARAMAN, MD Associate Physican Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. Tamir spent his fellowship year at University of Mysore in Mysore under the mentorship of Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD. His research focused on STI/HIV among women, sexual and mental health, socioeconomic vulnerability, social support networks, HIV disclosure, and stigma. Dr. Tamir received his PhD in Developmental Psychology and a Master in Mental Health Counseling from Florida International University. His research is focused on the intersection of HIV/AIDS and mental health, specifically at how social networks can be harnessed to improve support and decrease stigma. As a GHES fellow (2015-16), he has implemented a research program in Mysore, India, aimed at helping women with HIV/AIDS improve their social networks and receive more support. Dr. Tamir will be continuing his work in HIV/ AIDS and mental health research at the International Center for AIDS Prevention (ICAP) as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University in New York City. Hod TAMIR, PhD, MS Postdoctoral Fellow Columbia University

GloCal

Dr. Balandya spent his fellowship year at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam under the mentorship of Julie Makani, MD, PhD, Teri Reynolds, MD, MS, PhD and Stephen Obaro, MD, PhD. His research focused on character- izing the phenotype of T and B lymphocytes in Tanzanian children with sickle cell anemia. Dr. Balandya is an Ivy league-mentored Physician Scientist. He holds a MD degree from the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, and a PhD from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He also has post-doctoral training from the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School, and is a former GloCal Health Fellow (2015-2016). Dr. Balandya’s expertise and interest in research focus on the areas of immunology, vaccinology, and advanced biomedical physiology. He is published in peer-reviewed journals and won several Young Investigator Awards, including one from CROI in 2011. Dr. Balandya is indebted to his PhD, post-doctoral, and GloCal mentors (Drs. Timothy Lahey, Fordham von Reyn, Dan Barouch, Teri Reynolds, Emmanuel BALANDYA, Stephen Obaro, Julie Makani, Kisali Pallangyo) for his success in science. His future goal is MD, PhD to establish an independent research group in biomedical sciences at the Muhimbili Univer- Faculty sity of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania where he is currently faculty. Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS)

Dr. Conrad spent her fellowship year at the Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) in Tororo under the mentorship of Philip Rosenthal, MD and Moses Kamya, MBChB, MMed, MPH, PhD. Her research focused on the impact of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance on malaria transmission. Inspired by her service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mozambique, Dr. Conrad obtained her doctorate from the Department of Medical Parasitology at New York University School of Medicine, investigating the population genetics of Trichomonas vaginalis. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Rosenthal Lab at UCSF where she studies molecular mediators of antimalarial drug resistance in Uganda. As a GloCal fellow, Dr. Conrad studied the impact of antimalarial resistance on malaria parasites in transmission stages.

Melissa CONRAD, PhD, MSc Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Harvey-Vera spent her fellowship year at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) in Tijuana under the mentorship of Victoria Ojeda, PhD, MPH and María Evarista Arellano García, MS, ScD. Her research focused on HIV/STI treatment cascade among the incarcerated. Dr. Harvey-Vera’s career goals include becoming a world-leading researcher in HIV prevention and treatment access among high-risk populations in resource-poor settings. Her global public health work will contribute to the knowledge base of historically underserved, underrepresented groups such as the incarcerated and drug users; and further prevention, treatment, and intervention science for vulnerable populations. Dr. Harvey-Vera obtained her PhD degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), México, with Honors (9.84 GPA). She has been a pre- and post-doctoral fellow under the AIDS Interna- tional Training and Research (AITRP), funded by the Fogarty International Center. Her Alicia HARVEY-VERA, PhD, doctoral research explored injection drug users’ fear of violence at drug rehabilitation cen- MPH ters in Tijuana, Mexico. Dr. Harvey-Vera is a part-time professor at the School of Medicine Part-time Professor and Master in Public Health program at Universidad Xochicalco, Tijuana Campus. Universidad Xochicalco

Dr. Mbae spent her mentorship fellowship striving to developing a culture of mentorship at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Center for Microbiology Research (CMR). Dr. Mbae’s work to strengthen mentorship at KEMRI CMR was recognized during the annual scientific and health conference in February 2016, which also led to many individuals from other departments expressing an interest in disseminating this initiative further. Dr. Mbae completed her PhD in 2014 at the Open University, UK, in which she investigated the genetic diversity of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in HIV + and HIV- children in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. She is currently a research officer at the Kenya Medical Research Institute. Her career goals include: to be a leading research scientist in emerging infectious diseases; detection, identification, and surveillance in relation to HIV infection; and to mentor up and coming scientists and students. Research interests include Cecilia MBAE, PhD, MSc emerging infectious diseases and opportunistic infections, molecular epidemiology of en- Clayton-Dedonder Mentorship teric parasites and other neglected infections. She has mentored students, young scientists, Fellow interns, and post-graduate students; and established a structured mentorship program that has elicited interest on mentorship and been considered for the entire institute. Last year, Research Officer she was awarded the scientist of the year category, Silver Award, influenced largely by the Kenya Medical Research Institute mentorship program within her department. (KEMRI)

Dr. Silva-Santisteban spent his fellowship year at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima under the mentorship of Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH and Ximena Salazar, PhD. His research focused on enhancing HIV/STI testing for transgender women in Peru. Dr. Silva-Santisteban is a physician and epidemiologist of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Health, AIDS, and Society at UPCH. He obtained a Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. Dr. Silva-Santisteban’s research has focused on HIV prevention among transgender women and on HIV surveillance among hard to reach populations. He has been a consultant for several UN Agencies such as UNAIDS, PAHO, UNODC, and WHO, working in various countries in Latin America. Dr. Silva- Santisteban co-directs the Project UNICXS, Transgender Persons for Social Inclusion a collaboration between UPCH, Fenway Institute, and Harvard University to document and re- spond to human rights violations in transgender persons. Alfonso SILVA- SANTISTEBAN, MD, MPH Physician and Epidemiologist Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

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Dr. Babakhanyan spent her fellowship year at Biotechnology Centre, University of Yaoundé 1 in Yaoundé, under the mentorship of Rose Leke, PhD and Diane W. Taylor, PhD. Her research focused on the role of monocytes in HIV and placental malaria co-infections. Dr. Babakhanyan competed her doctoral training in Tropical Medicine at the University of Hawaii in 2013, where she studied naturally-acquired immunity to a pregnancy-associated malaria vaccine antigen (VAR2CSA) in Cameroonian pregnant women. After earning her PhD, Dr. Babakhanyan spent one year conducting field-based research in Cameroon as a Fogarty Global Health Fellow. She studied the influence of HIV on transplacental transfer of antibodies to malaria. This was a great learning opportunity to design a stand-alone project and direct all aspects of the study. While collecting placental samples at the Yaounde Central Hospital, Dr. Babakhanyan learned about the clinical presentation of malaria/HIV in pregnant women, and additional social, economic, health system-related, and cultural risk factors Anna BABAKHANYAN, PhD, for maternal and fetal morbidity/mortality. MBT Postdoctoral Fellow Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Bangirana spent his fellowship year at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of Chandy John, MD, MS. His research focused on developing long-term neuropsy- chological interventions for survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in urban hospitals in Uganda. Dr. Bangirana is a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Makerere University. He graduated with a BSc, majoring in Psychology, from Makerere University in 2000; a MSc in Clinical Psychology from Makerere University in 2003; and joint PhDs in Neuropsychology from Makerere University and Karolinska Institute in 2011. Dr. Bangirana has served as a PI, co-investigator, and project manager in a number of NIH funded studies since 2004, looking at the neurocognitive effects of HIV/AIDS infection and cerebral malaria in Ugan- dan children. Other studies are focusing on providing rehabilitation and adjunctive therapies to treat/prevent these neurocognitive deficits. Paul BANGIRANA, PhD, MSc, Lecturer Makerere University

Ms. Fuhs spent her fellowship year at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas (INCN) in Lima under the mentorship of Angela Carbone, MD and Cody McDonald, PhD. Her research focused on post stroke rehabilitation in Lima, Peru. Ms. Fuhs was involved in a variety of research, focusing on stroke, rehabilitation infrastructure, trauma quality improvement, physicians’ use of evidence-based medicine, and accessi- bility of healthcare facilities for persons with physical disabilities. Along with a team of Uni- versity of Washington rehabilitation professionals, she also organized two interdisciplinary stroke rehabilitation workshops at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, a national stroke and neurology referral hospital in Lima. She is currently completing her fourth-year of medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine. She will be applying for residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and ultimately hopes to pursue a career in global rehabilitation in order to help reduce the burden of disability in LMICs. Amy FUHS 4th year Medical Student Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Menacho spent his fellowship year at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima under the mentorship of Patricia Garcia, MD MPH . His research focused on populations for high risk in Peru. Dr. Menacho is a physician and epidemiologist from Peruvian Cayetano University (UPCH) and University of Washington, respectively. He has worked in the HIV field focusing on key population. His research interests also include information and communication technologies for promoting HIV prevention and care. Mentoring has been crucial for enhancing and guid- ing his career. Currently, he is a researcher at UPCH and the Research Director of the NGO Via Libre, which is the largest non-governmental HIV clinic providing HAART and specialized medical care in the country. At Via Libre, Dr. Menacho is focusing on research and projects for improving the HIV continuum of care.

Luis MENACHO, MD, MPH Clayton-Dedonder Mentorship Fellow Physician and Epidemiologist

Dr. Oteng spent his fellowship year at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital/Kwame Nkru- mah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana under the mentorship of Ronald Maio, DO, MS. His research focused on the preventability of trauma related deaths and then created a trauma/injury database. This database and findings will be the basis for a trauma quality improvement program. Dr. Oteng is a Ghanaian-born, US-trained emergency physician and faculty at the University of Michigan (UM) Department of Emergency Medicine (EM). He was a co-investigator on NIH grants between the University of Michigan and Kwame Nkrumah University of Sci- ence and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. He played a key role in the development of Emergency Medicine (EM) as a specialty in Ghana. He is currently the lead clinician/ resident director in the ED at KATH. He believes that the only way to impart sustainable, systematic changes to address the enormous healthcare needs in Sub-Saharan Africa, is to Rockefeller OTENG, MD build local capacity in both clinical care delivery and clinical research. He has also begun Emergency Medical Physician working with partners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to create an EM training center. In 2014, he was awarded the Globalization and Advancement Award from the Global Emergency Medi- Clinical Instructor cine Academy of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. University of Michigan

Dr. Romanoff spent her fellowship year at Huancayo in Lima under the mentorship of Silvia M. Montano, MD, MPH and Kay Johnson, MD. Her research focused on identifying barriers in access to breast cancer care. Dr. Romanoff is an alumna of the Fulbright-Fogarty program and is currently a fifth-year general surgery resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Dr. Romanoff will pursue a fellowship in breast surgery and plans to remain active in global health research.

Anya ROMANOFF, MD General Surgery Resident Mount Sinai Hospital

Dr. Temu spent her fellowship year at the University of Nairobi in Eldoret under the mentorship of Carey Farquhar, MD MPH and Gerald Bloomfield, MD MPH. Her research focused on identifying outcomes of atrial fibrulation in Eldoret, Kenya. Dr. Temu’s research interests include cardiovascular health in the HIV population and the genetic determinants of atrial fibrillation in the African population. She received her MD/ PhD degree in Pathobiology from Brown University and a Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowship in Public Health in Kenya.

Tecla TEMU, MD, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Brown University

Ms. Vishnevetsky spent her fellowship year at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológi- cas (INCN) in Lima under the mentorship of Claire Creutzfeldt, MD and Mario Cornejo, MD. Her research focused on palliative care and quality of life in patients with neurologic diseases in Lima, Peru. Ms. Vishnevetsky is a fourth-year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She plans to pursue a career in neurology that uses the lens of global health to explore social and ethical issues in healthcare both within and outside the United States. Prior to medical school, she studied Brain and Cognitive Sciences and French at MIT and did research in the neuroscience of Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease while studying abroad in Switzerland and France. In medical school, she has been involved in founding a women's refugee clinic, as well as volunteering for a medical student-run asylum clinic that provides medical affidavits for asylees to use in asylum court. Anastasia VISHNEVETSKY 4th Year Medical Student University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

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Dr. Chasela is a 2014-2015 Clayton-Dedonder Fellow from the University of Witwatersrand School of Public Health (WSPH) in Johannesburg, South Africa under the mentorship of Laetitia Rispel, PhD, Head of the WSPH. His training focused on the evaluation of the current health sciences campus-wide intervention for graduate student retention -to-degree completion program, KITSO, at WSPH. He also assisted in the mentoring of U.S. global health fellows assigned to research units at Wits and mentored Wits Master's, PhD and postdoctoral students and fellows. Dr. Chasela is an infectious disease epidemiologist and is currently a research director for Epidemiology and Strategic Information at Human Sciences Research Council in South Afri- ca. He is an Honorary Associate Professor with University of Witwatersrand, supervising both Master and PhD students. He has a Master in Epidemiology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD from University College, Dublin in Ireland. Charles CHASELA, PhD Clayton-Dedonder Global Health Mentorship Fellow Research Director, Human Services Research Council Dr. Hansoti spent her fellowship year at the University of Cape Town (UCT), under the mentorship of Lee Wallis, MBChB, MD. Her research focused on the implementation of the WHO Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) tool in primary healthcare centers in low resource settings. Dr. Hansoti is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Emer- gency Medicine. She completed her IEM fellowship and MPH at Johns Hopkins, and a Fogarty fellowship at the University of Cape Town. Nationally and internationally, Dr. Hansoti holds several leadership positions in professional committees, most recently as the president for the Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) at SAEM and Vice-Chair of Research for the International Federation of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Hansoti’s primary research interest is evaluating emergency-care and acute care interventions in low resource settings internationally. Her current research portfolio includes implementing triage (Pune, Bhakti HANSOTI, MBChB, India), the development of SCREEN (a pediatric triage tool) (Cape Town, South Africa) and MPH the evaluation of ED-based HIV testing programs (East London, South Africa). She has Assistant Professor worked in a variety of clinical settings including Liberia, India, Ghana, Jamaica, China, Ne- Johns Hopkins University De- pal, Uganda and South Africa. partment of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Purohit spent his fellowship year at UNC Project-Malawi in Lilongwe under the mentorship of Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH and Steven E. Reis, MD. His research focused on investigating the role of aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in HIV patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in Malawi. Dr. Purohit is a 2014-2015 alumni of the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program. His research centered on cardiovascular risk in HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy in Malawi. As a cardiologist, he recently became the recipient of the 2016-2017 Ameri- can Academy of the Advancement of Science and Technology Fellowship (AAAS) where he was offered placement in the office of science and technology at the White House as a science and technology technical advisor. His career goal centers on bridging intersections between global cardiovascular disease and evidenced based research to steer the future direction of United States global health policy. Anil PUROHIT, MD Technical Advisor The White House

Dr. Sekaggya Wiltshire spent her fellowship year at the Infectious Disease Institute (IDI) at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of Yukari Manabe, MD. Her research focused on a systematic review in the context of a clinical trial of the correlation of pharmacokinetic parameters of anti-TB drugs with TB treatment outcome among TB/HIV co- infected patients. Dr. Sekaggya Wiltshire completed her master’s training in Internal Medicine in 2012. She is a physician in the Department of Medicine in Mulago National Referral Hospital and also a PhD student in the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University. She is an alumni of the UJMT Global Health Fellowship program where she is carrying a systematic review in the context of a clinical trial on pharmacokinetics of antituberculosis drugs. She won a training grant, the HIV research Trust fellowship, where she will carry out modeling of pharmacokinetic data. She is also a scholar under the Medical Education Partnership Initiative. Her Christine SEKAGGYA WILTSHIRE, goal is to be involved in clinical trials especially pharmacokinetic studies of antituberculosis MBChB, MMed drugs, which impact policy and practice in her country. Physician Mulago National Referral Hospital

Dr. Siddharthan spent his fellowship year at Infectious Disease Institute (IDI) at Makerere University in Kampala under the mentorship of William Checkley, MD. His research focused on assessing the role of urbanization in cohort characteristics and implementation of care in COPD among urban and rural populations in Uganda. Dr. Siddharthan is a fellow in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Johns Hop- kins Hospital and completing a Fogarty Global Health Fellowship based in Kampala, Ugan- da. Dr. Siddharthan completed his medical training and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital in the Primary Care Program during which time he conducted clinical work and research in Uganda as a Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar. His research interests include the prevalence, management, and economic burden of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Active sponsored investiga- tions include estimating the prevalence of obstructive lung disease among urban and rural Trishul SIDDHARTHAN, MD Ugandan populations; implementing novel, low-cost spirometry for the diagnosis of lung disease; and patient-centered approaches to NCD management. Fellow Johns Hopkins Hospital VECD

Dr. Chege spent his fellowship year at the Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret under the mentorship of Andrew Obala, PhD, MSc, and Dr. Wendy O’Meara, PhD. His research focused on assessing mentoring needs and structuring research mentorship. Dr. Chege finished his residency in family medicine in December 2008, having joined the program in 2005. In July 2008, he joined the faculty as a tutorial fellow. A Fogarty Interna- tional student in 2009-2010 with Dr. Jane Carter and Dr. Gerald Bloomfield as guides, Dr. Chege’s research focused on a population study on the WHO STEPwise approach to Cardio- vascular Disease Risk Factors in rural Kenya. Since April 2014, he has served as Senior lecturer at Moi University School of Medicine. Since December 2011, he has served as the Head of the Department of Family Medicine, at Moi University. He has served on numerous committees and consultancies, including as a member of the School of Medicine research committee since 2013. Since 2008, he has served as a member of the Scientific Steering Patrick CHEGE, MBChB, MMed Committee, Webuye Demographic Surveillance Site, at Moi University School of Medicine. Clayton-Dedonder Global Health Mentorship Fellow Senior Lecturer Moi University School of Medicine

Dr. Dow spent her fellowship year at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi under the mentorship of Coleen Cunningham, MD. Her research focused on evaluating the mental health difficulties among HIV-positive youth and the association of mental health on adherence and virologic outcomes. Dr. Dow completed her medical degree and pediatric residency at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She then completed a Master of Science in Global Health and Pediatric Infec- tious Diseases fellowship at Duke University. Dr. Dow has conducted clinical research in Moshi, Tanzania since 2011 and was a Fogarty Global Health Fellow in 2013- 2014. She is currently Assistant Research Professor at the Duke Global Health Institute and Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Duke University. She was awarded a Fogarty K01 to study the impact of an enhanced HIV curriculum and intensive mental health intervention to improve mental health, anti-retroviral adherence, and virologic outcomes among Dorothy DOW, MD, MSc HIV-positive youth in Tanzania. Assistant Research Professor Duke Global Health Institute

Dr. Lewandowski spent her fellowship year at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town under the mentorship of Nathan Thielman, MD, MPH. Her research focused on standardiz- ing care through the use of a checklist for pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus patients in South Africa (where SLE is understudied), and investigating the interaction of HIV and SLE by the study of coexisting cases in this setting of high HIV prevalence. Dr. Lewandowski completed a combined four-year pediatric rheumatology/ global health fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, during which time she characterized a pediatric lupus patient cohort in South Africa. She holds a Master in Global Health degree from Duke University. She was awarded a Fogarty Global Health Fellowship and a Lupus Foun- dation Early Career award for her work with pediatric lupus patients in South Africa. In 2015, she joined the NIAMS under Dr. Mariana Kaplan as a Lawrence Shulman Scholar in Translational Medicine. Her current research interests include clinical and translational re- Laura LEWANDOWSKI, MD, search in pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with a focus on markers of inflam- MS mation and gene expression profiling for pediatric SLE patients in varied cohorts around the world. Lawrence Schulman Scholar in Translational Medicine NIAMS, NIH

Dr. Love spent his fellowship year at Soddo Christian Hospital in Wolaita Soddo in Ethiopia under the mentorship of Jonathan D. Pollock, MD. His research focused on establishment of formal institutional breast cancer registries at four hospitals in urban and rural Ethiopia with retrospective registration of patients and training of cancer registrars for ongoing enrollment. Dr. Love completed his Medical Doctorate at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, his Master of Public Health at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health, a Wil- liam J. Von Liebig Vascular Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and he will complete his final year of residency training in general surgery this year at Emory University School of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Love is an alumnus of the NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellowship (2012-2013, VECD Consortium) and completed his fellowship in Addis Ababa and southern Ethiopia. His research focused on breast cancer epidemiology, and the establishment of sustainable cancer registration. In fulfillment of Ethiopian Ministry of Health Timothy LOVE, MD, MPH requirements, at the completion of his surgical training, Dr. Love will work for two years General Surgery Resident domestically before returning to Ethiopia long-term to engage in continued research, surgical practice, and surgical/medical education. Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Park spent his fellowship year at Moi University in Eldoret under the mentorship of Ger- ald Bloomfield, MD, MPH, and Jemima Kamano, MBChB, MMed. His research focused on improving diabetes management and cardiovascular risk factors through diabetes peer group education. Dr. Park is the Director of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) of Partners In Health (PIH) in Rwanda where he has been based for three years. He holds appointments in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Park’s research interest centers on the implementation science surrounding community- based integrated NCD care. He also continues to provide clinical care and education at Bu- taro and Rwinkwavu District Hospitals in Rwanda. Dr. Park received his MD from Indiana University and his MSc at Duke University. He completed his residency in Internal Medi- cine and Global Health at Duke University. Dr. Park’s prior field experience includes two Paul PARK, MD, MSc years in Eldoret, Kenya working for AMPATH with a focus on implementation research surrounding community-based delivery models in diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis. His Director of Noncommunicable policy experience includes serving on the Board of Directors of Universities Allied for Es- Diseases sential Medicines (UAEM). Partners In Health (PIH) Rwanda

Dr. Stanifer spent his fellowship year at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi, under the mentorship of Uptal Patel, MD. His research focused on a crosssectional survey of the general population for chronic kidney disease screening. He also screened for some of its common risk factors, such as diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. Dr. Stanifer is a fellow in the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine at Duke Uni- versity and a research fellow at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Global Health at Duke University and has a Master of Glob- al Health from Duke University. Dr. Stanifer’s research and clinical interests include CKD epidemiology in low-income settings both globally and locally. He has conducted research studies and practiced in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is now studying chronic kidney disease and health disparities in rural North Carolina. John STANIFER, MD, MScGH Fellow Duke University

DORIS DUKE INTERNATIONAL CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOWS

Mr. Braun will spend his fellowship year in Peru under the mentorship of Monica Gandhi, MD and Jesse Clark, MD. His research will focus on the identification of sexual partnership structures that influence HIV risk behaviors. Mr. Braun is a fourth-year medical student at UCSF, a graduate of Wesleyan University, and a native of Silver Spring, MD. At UCSF, he served on the Community Advisory Group of Bridge HIV and worked for SFDPH’s Transgender Health Services. He participated in developing and implementing the LGBT health curriculum at UCSF, and continues to research its effectiveness. He received the Vanderryn Award for underserved medical service and the Markowski-Leach Scholarship for LGBT leadership. Prior to medical school, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Medicine, focusing on Medicare payments for graduate medical education. He also led overnight street outreach teams, providing harm reduction services to DC’s sex workers and injection drug users. He spent a post-college year in Nag- Hannan BRAUN pur, India, assessing rural hospitals to improve their maternal HIV care. Upon graduation, he Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- hopes to develop both a research and clinical focus in underserved and LGBT patient care. search Fellow (GloCal)

Mr. Cichowitz will spend his fellowship year in Tanzania under the mentorship of Melissa Watt, PhD. His research will focus on studying the implementation of HIV care and Option B+ in three sites in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. The goal will be to understand factors at both the facility and patient levels that support or obstruct women’s engagement with HIV care following childbirth, and to identify opportunities to support the successful implementation of Option B+. Mr. Cichowitz is passionate about using research to reach out to disempowered populations and learn more about how critical moments in life or acute changes in health impact the course of HIV and other chronic diseases. He hopes to center his career as an academic clinician on global health disparities. Mr. Cichowitz developed this interest as a medical student at Johns Hopkins, where he has studied ways to improve care offered to adults living with Sickle Cell Disease in Baltimore and factors that impact post-discharge HIV-associated mor- Cody CICHOWITZ tality in South Africa. He is excited to spend next year working with Dr. Watt in Tanzania to Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- understand a critical aspect of the HIV-care continuum. search Fellow (VECD)

Ms. Krishnan will spend her fellowship year at UNC Project-Vietnam in Hanoi, Vietnam under the mentorship of Vivian Go, PhD. Her research will focus on HIV co-infection with her on-site mentor, Dr. Tran Ha. Ms. Krishnan is a rising fourth-year medical student at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. During medical school, she has spent her time working with the Hopkins Refugee Health Partnership, developing life-skills and employment workshops for newly-arrived refugees at the International Rescue Committee in Baltimore, MD, and as a Health Leads Pa- tient Advocate. She has been instrumental in developing her medical school's first Primary Care Leadership Track and was a Primary Care Leadership Program National Scholar in 2014. Prior to medical school and after completing her BS in Biology at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity in 2012, she spent a year at the Comprehensive Rural Health Project in Jamkhed, India as a Mabelle Arole Fellow. She continues to be passionate about working with under- Aparna KRISHNAN served minority populations, both internationally and domestically, and community-based primary health care. Ultimately, she hopes to incorporate patient advocacy and community Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- empowerment into her clinical career. search Fellow (UJMT)

Ms. Lai will spend her fellowship year in Uganda under the mentorship of Margaret Feeney, MD and Prasanna Jagannathan, MD. Her research will focus on the impact of in utero exposure to malaria on the development of antimalarial immunity during childhood. Ms. Lai is a medical student at the New York University School of Medicine. She has in- terned for the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and for UNICEF focusing on adolescent HIV needs. Her research interests include pediatric infectious diseases and pediatric health in low-resource settings. She wishes to become a pediatric specialist and clinical researcher after her medical training.

Christine LAI Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- search Fellow (GloCal)

Mr. Mallipudi will spend his fellowship year in Madre de Dios, Peru under the mentorship of William Pan, DrPH, MS, MPH. He will be investigating the effect of environmental changes on dietary habits and subsequent exposure to mercury in households near Peru's Interoceanic highway with a focus on maternal fetal health outcomes. Mr. Mallipudi studied molecular biology at Brigham Young University where he focused his research on analyzing genetic and morphometric variability in freshwater crustaceans in order to identify ecologically diverse regions of Patagonia and target them for conser- vation efforts. He is a third-year medical student at Johns Hopkins where he has been working as a David Satcher Fellow on a survey-based assessment of non-prescription an- tibiotic use in East Baltimore's Latino community. He is currently interested in becoming a family physician with the goal of working internationally and in his home state of Alas- ka. His career focus will be on utilizing preventive medicine tactics to address health dis- Andrés MALLIPUDI parities in traditionally underserved groups, particularly rural indigenous populations and immigrant communities. Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- search Fellow (VECD)

Ms. Melhado will spend her fellowship year at UNC Project-Malawi in Lilongwe, Malawi under the mentorship of Mina Hosseinipour, MD, MPH. Her research will focus on HIV co- infection. Ms. Melhado is a fourth-year year medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine. She was a Tisch Global Health Scholar and spent time researching NICU protocols in Haiti. Ms. Melhado spent a year during college in India studying home birthing practices and national childbirth policy. She worked as a national park ranger before medical school and was the program manager for Care Coordination Resources, a start-up in Philadelphia that helps Medicaid high utilizers. Ms. Melhado hopes to focus on maternal and child health for both her research and clinical career.

Caroline MELHADO Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- search Fellow (UJMT)

Ms. Rialem will spend her fellowship year at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, under the mentorship of Dr. Peter Kussin. Her research will focus on studying knowledge and perceptions regarding palliative care among religious leaders on Uasin Gishu county. Ms. Rialem is currently a second-year MD candidate at Duke University School of Medi- cine. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Sciences from Hofstra University, New York. Ms. Rialem grew up in Kenya, and attended high school in Nairobi before moving to the U.S. for college and medical school. She is passionate about healthcare, especially access to healthcare for medically underserved communities. This has led her to pursue global health research in a bid to give back to her community and other underserved communities. Her passion for medicine stems from first hand experiences growing up in rural Kenya, having witnessed the inefficiencies of the healthcare system. She is also interested in health Faith RIALEM policy and administration, and public health in general. Ms. Rialem has received numerous awards during her undergraduate and medical school, including the Zawadi Africa Scholar- Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- ship and Duke med Engage Award for summer research. search Fellow (VECD)

Mr. Tam will spend his fellowship year in Uganda under the mentorship of Diane Havlir, MD. His research will focus on the individual and household level predictors of incident tuberculosis infection in children and young adults. Mr. Tram is a medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his BA in Human Biology from Stanford in 2011. He has worked on HIV/AIDS policy in Wash- ington, DC as an Allan Rosenfield Public Policy Fellow at amfAR and as a Research Assis- tant for Global Policy at the ONE Campaign. He has also studied TB transmission in South Africa with the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, and health and human rights in the Western Cape for the Learning Network. His current research interests include infectious diseases epidemiology, mathematical modeling, and global health policy. Starting in September 2016, he will be investigating childhood tuberculosis in Eastern Uganda in collaboration with UCSF/Makerere University. Khai Hoan TRAM Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- search Fellow (GloCal)

Ms. Zhang will spend her fellowship year at UNC Project-China in Guangzhou, China under the mentorship of Joe Tucker, MD, PhD. Her research will focus on STI/HIV transmission and prevention effort. Ms. Zhang graduated magna cum laude from Duke University in 2012 with a BS in Biology and a Global Health certificate. Her research experience is diverse and includes environmental health in Kenya, indigenous health disparities in Australia, nutritional health in resettled refugees, and physiological stress in inner-city children. She is currently a third-year medical student at the University of Maryland and will be spending her upcoming year in Guang- zhou, China researching the social and ethical implications of HIV/AIDS cure. Ms. Zhang hopes to become a family medicine physician and continue conducting research on health disparities and social determinants of health.

Alice ZHANG Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- search Fellow (UJMT)

Mr. Zheng will spend his fellowship year in Uganda under the mentorship of Rochelle Dick- er, MD and Catherine Juillard, MD. His research will focus on implementing trauma surveillance at a regional hospital. Mr. Zheng is a fourth-year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco, who is interested in global surgery and injury prevention. With the support of a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship, he will be traveling to Uganda later this year to develop and implement a sustainable trauma surveillance instrument with partners at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital to collect demographic and clinical information, identify trends in injury, and inform the design of programs and policy to improve health outcomes. After graduating in 2012 from Harvard University, where he earned a BA in History of Art and Architecture, he spent a year in Johannesburg, South Africa, founding a non-profit organization dedicated to academic tutoring, mentorship, and basketball coaching for impoverished youth. The African Sports & Scholastic Initiative for Students in Townships (ASSIST) is Dennis ZHENG now led by local university students and continues to serve children there. Doris Duke Int’l Clinical Re- search Fellow (GloCal)

UNC OB/GYN GLOBAL WOMEN’S HEALTH

Dr. Fuseini is currently a Global Women's Health fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is completing a Master of Clinical Research and will move to Zambia in the summer to engage in research and clinical practice. Dr. Fuseini is an Ob/Gyn interested in Global Women's Health clinical practice, teaching and research, especially in obstetrics and infections. Nurain was born in Accra, Ghana, spent his childhood in the United Kingdom and adolescence in Ghana before moving to the U.S. for high school. His has been fortunate to spend time in Zambia in college and Thailand in medical school funded through Johns Hopkins University and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry respectively which have been experiences to stimulate his aspirations to work in international health.

Nurain FUSEINI, MD, MHS UNC Global Women’s Health Fellow

Dr. Price will spend her fellowship year in the Division of Global Women’s Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the mentorship of Jeffrey Stringer, MD and Benjamin Chi, MD, MSc. Her research will focus on HIV prevention, reproductive infectious disease, and cervical cancer screening in low-resource settings, and will involve a two-year field assignment in Lusaka, Zambia starting July 2016. Dr. Price is a board-eligible obstetrician/gynecologist with a Master of Public Health degree in Global Public Health. She completed residency training at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 2015.

Joan PRICE, MD, MPH UNC Global Women’s Health Fellow

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