OGHE Global Health Forum
Global Health Forum- our monthly global health speaker series
We are excited to return to in-person sessions and will include time for networking. Please join us!
The OGHE Global Health Forum is held monthly, every fourth Monday from 12:00-1:00pm. This speaker series on global health topics organized by the Office of Global Health Education was put together in order to focus on UNC resident, faculty and student involvement and expertise in global health initiatives and scholarly work. Through this series, we aim to foster an interdisciplinary learning community around global health issues.
Contact the OGHE team to be added to the Global Health listserv in order to receive updates and invitations on upcoming events.
Below you can find the schedule of past speakers for the forum as well as their biographies and recordings if available.
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Sahal Thahir – Global Health Forum – Monday, January 27, 2024, 12-1 pm, Roper 4302
Join us for the next monthly OGHE Global Health Forum on Monday, January 27 from 12-1 pm in Roper Hall (Room 4302) OR online on zoom (https://zoom.us/j/3111814366?omn=97728086196). RSVP by 12 noon on Thursday, January 23, for a boxed lunch – if joining the in person event. Sahal Thahir, MD: Immune Inequities: Addressing Malaria, Co-Infections, and … Read more
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Alyssa Tilly – Global Health Forum – Monday, November 25, 2024, 12-1 pm, Roper 4302
Join us for the next monthly OGHE Global Health Forum on Monday, November 25 from 12-1 pm in Roper Hall (Room 4302) OR online on zoom (https://zoom.us/j/3111814366?omn=97728086196). RSVP by 12 noon on Thursday, November 21, for a boxed lunch – if joining the in person event. Alyssa Tilly, MD: Doing a Lot with a Little: … Read more
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Michael Herce – Global Health Forum – Monday, October 28, 2024, 12-1 pm, Roper 4302
Join us for the next monthly OGHE Global Health Forum on Monday, October 28 from 12-1 pm in Roper Hall (Room 4302) OR online on zoom (https://zoom.us/j/3111814366?omn=97728086196). RSVP by 12 noon on Thursday, October 24, for a boxed lunch – if joining the in person event. Michael Herce, MD, MPH, MSCR: Integrating cardiometabolic non-communicable disease … Read more
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Dr. Anna Leone, MD, “Alignment of PrEP Use and HIV Exposure Risk Among pregnant and Lactating Women in Malawi” Monday, May 20, 2024, 12-1 pm, Roper 4302
Anna Leone is a resident in the UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2021. Her research while in medical school focused on barriers to contraceptive access, and the use of ketamine as a sole anesthetic agent in resource-limited settings. As a global health scholar, … Read more
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Dr. Nadia Hoekstra, MD, Aspiration Risk in Children with Pneumonia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Monday, April 22, 2024, Roper Hall 4302
Dr. Nadia Hoekstra is a pediatric pulmonary fellow. Nadia grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina but spent much of her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago where her mother’s family lives. Nadia attended Boston College where she graduated with a Master of Arts in Sociology and a minor in Hispanic Studies. Following her undergraduate studies Nadia … Read more
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Dr. Heather Frank, MD, Explorations of Reproductive Health and Palliative Care in Bolivia – Monday, March 25, 2024, Roper Hall 4302
Dr. Heather Frank is a PGY-4 resident in the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics program. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Cellular Neuroscience from Colgate University and spent two years as a Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Frank went on to earn her MD from Duke University School of … Read more
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February Global Health Forum Highlights Graduates of Scholarly Concentration Program, Monday, Feb 26, 12-1 pm, Roper 4302 and on Zoom
The February 2024 OGHE Global Health Forum will be highlighting all the 2024 graduating MD students enrolled in the Scholarly Concentration Program in Global Health. Come hear from the presenters what global health topics they explored during their medical school education on Monday, February 26 from 12-1 pm in Roper Hall (Room 4302) and online … Read more
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Dr. Jessica Lin, MD, MCSR Studying Malaria Transmission & Elimination in Sub-Saharan Africa – Monday, January 22, 2024, Roper Hall 4302
Dr. Jessica Lin is an NIH-funded physician-scientist and principal investigator in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab (IDEEL) at UNC. Her research lies at the interface of clinical and molecular studies on malaria. Earlier in her career, she studied multi-drug resistant malaria and relapses due to vivax malaria in Southeast Asia. Her current projects … Read more
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Dr. Lusajo Kajula “Using Implementation Science Research to Link Stakeholders and Vulnerable AGYW in Tanzania with HIV Prevention and Livelihood Training” November 27, 2023, Bondurant 2025, 12-1 PM
This fall, Lusajo Kajula, PhD, Tanzanian international scholar in health behavior and psychology for adolescents and families, has joined the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health as the school’s first Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence. In her role, Kajula will use her experiences in global health to educate students on an “ecological model,” which helps public health … Read more
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Amy Mackay, MD, – “Establishing a Newborn Resuscitation Registry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo” October 23, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM
Dr. Amy Mackay, a fellow in neonatology at UNC, is interested in newborn resuscitation practices in low- and middle-income countries. She graduated from University of Alabama School of Medicine in 2017 and completed pediatric residency and chief resident year at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (Eastern Virginia Medical School) in Norfolk, Virginia. Additionally, Mackay … Read more
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Christina Cruz, MD, EdM – “Task-Shifting Child Mental Health Care to Teachers Globally” September 25, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM
Christina M. Cruz, MD, EdM is a child global mental health and school mental health researcher, a practicing inpatient child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a mental health systems consultant. Her research program centers on increasing access to child mental health care through alternative systems. Currently, she is focused on task-shifting indicated mental health care to … Read more
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John Barber, MD, “A Quality Improvement Project on Reducing Stockouts in a Rural Ugandan Community Health Worker Program” May 22, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM
John Barber, MD is a 4th-year resident in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2019. Prior to medical school, John spent five years working on diagnostics for resource-limited settings, initially focusing on HIV diagnostics in East and Southern Africa, then Ebola rapid diagnostic tests in Sierra Leone … Read more
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Seth Morrison, MD, “Histo-Blood Group Antigens, Environmental Enteric Dysfunction, and Linear Growth in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort” April 24, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM
Seth Morrison, MD is a Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition clinical fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and North Carolina Children’s Hospital. He is completing Master of Public Health coursework at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is interested in enteropathies (small bowel … Read more
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Alessandra Angelino, MD, “A Mixed-Methods Study of the Relationship between Cultural Identity and Mental Health Outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents” Mar. 27, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM
Alessandra Angelino (she/her) is a 3rd-year pediatrics resident at UNC Children’s Hospital who earned her medical degree at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and her MPH in Global Health at the University of Washington. She is passionate about Two-Spirit and LGBTQ health and advocacy and has authored multiple publications and the “Celebrating Our … Read more
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April Evans, MD, “A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Pediatric and Adolescent Patients with Lymphoma in Malawi” Feb. 27, 2023, Bondurant 2020, 12-1 PM
Dr. Evans is a UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellowship Alumni and a third-year Pediatric Hematology-Oncology fellow at the University of North Carolina. Her UJMT Fogarty project resulted in the implementation of cutting-edge Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) measures in Malawi; ultimately harnessing the voice of vulnerable, and often silenced, patients across the globe. Dr. Evans has … Read more
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Dami Aladesanmi, “Anti-hypertensive Medication Management in Rural Western Uganda.” Jan. 23, 2023, 2020 Bondurant, 12-1 pm.
Dami Aladesanmi is a current PGY-3 in Internal Medicine at UNC. He earned a BA in History and Science (with a focus on Medicine and Society) from Harvard College, an MD at Duke School of Medicine, and an MPH in Health Care and Prevention at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He is … Read more
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Cameron Adams, PhD, October 24, 12-1 “Considerations for approval of the second live-attenuated, tetravalent dengue virus vaccine”
Abstract: The four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) are a global health burden with 100 million symptomatic infections per year focused in the tropics. Primary DENV infection leads to lasting immunity against the infecting serotype but the resulting antibodies put individuals at risk for worse clinical outcomes when subsequently infected with a different serotype. This phenomenon … Read more
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June 27: Global Health Scholar, Katelyn Rittenhouse, Maternal HIV, antiretroviral timing, and spontaneous preterm birth in an urban Zambian cohort
OGHE Research Presentation – Rittenhouse 2022.06.27Katelyn Rittenhouse is a fourth-year Resident Physician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Rittenhouse is from Lancaster, PA, and she completed her undergraduate studies in Philadelphia prior to migrating south to UNC for her medical training. During medical school, she completed a one-year … Read more
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Dr. Jenny Morgan, Global Health Scholar, Breast Cancer Treatment in Malawi and Subsaharan Africa
Jenny Morgan is a third-year UNC Hematology and Oncology fellow with research interests in global oncology, implementation science, and clinical outcomes. Her current research is focused on evaluating the breast cancer care continuum at UNC Project Malawi under the mentorship of Dr. Katie Reeder Hayes, UNC Associate Professor of Oncology and Dr. Tamiwe Tomoka, UNC … Read more
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Perspectives from the US/Mexico Borderlands: “Whose Crisis? Tracing the History of Border Enforcement and its Consequences for Sending Communities in Central America.” Dr. Liz Oglesby, University of Arizona, & Caleb Walker, Jesuit Volunteer Corps & UNC Alumn, Casa Alitas Welcome Center: “Stories of Tragedy and Triumph.”
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