Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery

Maria Puspa Kartika, MD, MMSc ‘25 was one of the authors of this piece, “Protecting the Mental Health of Asians from Climate Change.” Maria is conducting her thesis work for the MMSc in Global Health Delivery on climate change. https://www.mhinnovation.net/blogs/protecting-mental-health-asians-climate-change

Oluchi Ndulue, MD, MMSc ‘23, is first author on an article “Digital interventions for alcohol use disorders: A narrative review of opportunities to advance prevention, treatment and recovery” in Psychiatry Research Communications. Oluchi wrote this article with John Naslund, PhD, Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine. (September 2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772598724000291

Comfort Ogar MMSc ‘22, was elected President of the Africa Chapter of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance. Comfort brings many years of experience in this field, and her master’s thesis was "Monitoring Adverse Events to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccines and Understanding Policy Considerations that Inform the Funding of Safety Surveillance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." (Announcement)

Comfort Ogar, MMSc ‘22, published an article on her thesis work: “Patient-reported outcomes of adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination in Nigeria: A mixed methods study” which is published in the October 4, 2024 issue of Vaccine.   https://www.linkedin.com/posts/comfort-ogar_patient-reported-outcomes-of-adverse-events-activity-7232891173172846592-mRMN?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Egbe Enobakhare, MD, MMSc ‘24 is one of the authors of the article “Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnancy: Sustainable Development Goals Impediment” in the West African Journal on Sustainable Development in 2024 https://journals.unizik.edu.ng/wajsd/article/view/3937

Moses Dixon, PhD, MMSc ‘24  was selected as one of the Presidential Leadership Scholars for 2024. The presidential centers of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson bring together leaders from across the non-profit, military, public, and private sector fields to learn first-hand from these four presidencies. The bipartisan Presidential Scholars program produces bold and principled leaders who are committed to solving our greatest challenges, both domestically and across the world.

Patrisha Lazatin, MD, MMSc ’25 (expected) and Pradish Poudel, MD, MMSc ’25 (expected), are part of a team that reached the finals of the Spark Design Awards for student concept design. Their proposal is called “Belly Buddy”, and it is a non-invasive solution for detecting breech pregnancies before 36 weeks using advanced thermal imaging technology. 

Jude Beauchamp MD, MMSc ‘17 was recognized with the award of Outstanding First Year Resident 2023-2024 by the One Brooklyn Health/Interfaith Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program: Announcement (June, 2024).

Helena Franco MD, MMSc ‘23 was selected for the 2024 Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list. During her time at Harvard, Helena participated on a team for the Harvard President’s Innovation challenge. Her team won the health and sciences grand prize for their idea of “In Confidence”. Helena founded the company Australis Scientific, which has continued work on the "In Confidence" project (May 2024).

Afom Andom, MD, MMSc ‘21 and his team are featured in this photo essay on providing access to health care in Lesotho https://www.pih.org/article/photo-essay-journey-health-care-rural-lesotho

Christoph Wippel, MD, MMSc ‘23 is first author on an article based on his thesis work during the Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery program. The article is “Exploring the Role of the Private Sector in Tuberculosis Detection and Management in Lima, Peru: A Mixed-Methods Patient Pathway,” which was recently published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (May 2024).

Renato Errea, MD, MMSc ’20 and his thesis mentor Molly Franke, SD gave a talk "Leveraging Partnerships to Improve the Health of Young People Living with HIV in Peru" as part of the Harvard Global Health Institute Global Coffee Session. Molly, an Associate Professor in the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, was Renato’s thesis mentor during the program, and they have continued working together: Recording (May, 2024).

Anahí Venzor Strader, MD, MMSc ’23 published an article on her thesis research, “A biosocial analysis of perinatal and late neonatal mortality among Indigenous Maya Kaqchikel communities in Tecpán, Guatemala: a mixed-methods study” in BMJ Global Health on April 17, 2024.

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc ’19 published a book on his approach to palliative care in Africa in the book The Safari Concept: An African Framework for End of Life Care.

Farizal R. Muharram MD, MMSc ’25 (expected) was awarded the Paul Dudley White award for best research from Indonesia at the 2023 American Heart Association conference in Philadelphia for the paper "Explaining the Increase Mortality From Cardiovascular Disease in Indonesia: Unraveling the Trends in the Influence of Metabolic and Behavioral Risk Factors (2000-2019)." (Announcement) 

Afom Andom, MD, MMSc '21, published his thesis "Understanding barriers to tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment completion in a low-resource setting: A mixed-methods study in the Kingdom of Lesotho" in PLOS One. (May 2023)

Afom Andom, MD, MMSc '21, and Melino Ndayizigiye, MD, MMSc '14, were co-authors of the article "The Impact of COVID-19 on Tuberculosis Program Performance in the Kingdom of Lesotho" published in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. (March 2023)

Helena Franco, MD, MMSc '23, was a co-author on the article "Scaling Surgical Resources: A Capacity Analysis of C-arm Machines in Haiti Following the 2021 Earthquake” published in the World Journal of Surgery. (March 2023)

Helena Franco, MD, MMSc '23, was a co-author on the article "An assessment of the impact of developmental dysplasia of the hip on patients' wellbeing" in The Bone & Joint Journal. (February 2023)

Comfort Ogar, MPH, MMSc '22, published her thesis "Adverse Events to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Vaccines and Policy Considerations that Inform the Funding of Safety Surveillance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Mixed Methods Study" in Drug Safety. (February 2023)

Egberanmwen Enobakhare, MBBS, MMSc '24, was co-author on the article "Birth preparedness and complication readiness: Evaluating the “know-do” gap among women receiving antenatal care in Benin City, Nigeria", published by the Journal of Biosocial Science. (January 2023)

Christian Ntizmira, MD, MMSc '19, was co-author on the chapter "Staff Support" in the book Psycho-Oncology in Palliative and End of Life Care, published by Oxford University Press. (December 2022)

Theogene Ngrinishuti, Ana Cristina Sedas, and Manami Uechi spoke at the MMSc-GHD 10th Anniversary Panel "Migrant and Refugee Health," with Program Director Joia Mukherjee. (December 2022)

Ginger Ramirez, Aneel Brar, and J. Reginald Fils-Aime spoke at the MMSc-GHD 10th Anniversary Panel "Mental Health as Global Health," with Dr. Vikram Patel. (November 2022)

Shawna Novak, MD, MMSc 23 (expected) gave a talk titled "A novel approach to point of care imaging and global health delivery in limited resource and conflict settings" at the Canadian Conference for Global Health. (November 2022).

Janine Robredo, MD, MMSc '24 (expected), was first author on the article "Out on a limb: living with diabetes in the Philippines during the pandemic," published by The Lancet: Diabetes & Endocrinology. (November 2022)

Theogene Ngrinishuti, Ana Cristina Sedas, and Manami Uechi spoke at the MMSc-GHD 10th Anniversary Panel "Migrant and Refugee Health" with Program Director Joia Mukherjee. (November 2022)

Remy Pacifique Ntirengaya, Comfort Ogar, and Sheriff Bangura spoke at the MMSc-GHD 10th Anniversary Panel "The Central Role of Procurement and Management in Global Health" with Program Director Joia Mukherjee. (October 2022)

Christoph Wippel, MD, MMSc ’23 (expected) is an author on the paper “Excess resource use and costs of physical comorbidities in individuals with mental health disorders: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis European neuropsychopharmacology” accepted for publication by European Neuropsychopharmacology. (October 2022)

Maria Cellina Wijaya, MD, MMSc '24 (expected), wrote the op-ed "Minister, please don’t let more children die," which was published in The Jakarta Post. (October 2022)

Yassah Lavelah, BSN, MMSc ‘20, and her work stocking "comfort closets" in Liberia was written about in the article, "'Comfort Closet' helps Liberians overcome an obstacle to delivering in a hospital," published with NPR. (October 2022)

Moses Dixon, PhD, MMSc '24 (expected), was a  Massachusetts Health Council 2022 Champion of Health and Wellness award recipient. (October 2022)

Marise Stuart, MD, MMSc '23 (expected), was mentioned in a news report after working with her own indigenous group the Māori to help build houses for those in the community who need them. (September 2022)

Melino Ndayizigiye, Bailor Barrie, and Hannah Sehn spoke at the MMSc-GHD 10th Anniversary Panel "Theory into Practice: Stories of Leadership in Global Health" with Program Director Joia Mukherjee. (September 2022)

Vanessa Dor, MD, MMSc ’23 (expected) is first author on the paper "COVID-19 vaccine wastage in low-income countries: What is the starting point?” in the Annals of Medicine and Surgery. (September 2022)

Christophe Millien, MD, MMSc '20, was first author on the article "Uterine fibroid: a socially malignant illness in Haiti," which was published with Anthropology and Medicine. (August 2022)

Renato Errea, MD, MMSc '20, was selected to present an oral abstract at the AIDS 2022 conference "Urban Mobile Testing in key population as a strategy to reduce the HIV diagnostic gap in Lima, Peru." (August 2022)

Afom Andom, MD, MMSc '21, presented an oral abstract at the AIDS 2022 conference "Expanding role of village health workers in Lesotho: from supporting HIV patients to COVID-19 contact tracing" (August 2022)

Ifrah Abdi, CNM, MMSc '22, was selected as one of the HSPH LEAD Fellows to Promote Women in Global Health in 2022-2023. (August 2022)

Barthalomew Wilson, MMSc '21, was accepted into a PhD program in Global Health at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He will begin his studies in 2022. (July 2022)

Michelson Padovany, MD, MMSc ’18, is first author on an article on his MMSc-GHD thesis which was just accepted for publication in BMJ Open “Impact of Out-of-Pocket Expenses for Surgical Care on Households in Rural Haiti: a mixed-methods study.” (May 2022)

Sandeep Nanwani, MD, MMSc '18, and his project for menstruation education for students with intellectual disabilities with the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) was recently profiled. (May 2022)

Afom Andom, MD, MMSc '21, published the article "Understanding reasons for suboptimal tuberculosis screening in a low-resource setting: A mixed-methods study in the Kingdom of Lesotho," which was based on his thesis research, in PLOS Global Public Health. (March 2022)

Christian Ntizmira, MD, MMSc '19, along with his mentor Eric Krakauer, MD, PhD, presented his talk "Decolonizing End-of-Life Care: A Trans-Cultural Approach to Ensure Global Access to Palliative Care" at the MMSc-GHD Alumni in Action Seminar Series. (March 2022)

Melino Ndayizigiye, MD, MMSc '14, was a part of the article "Disruptions in maternal health service use during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: experiences from 37 health facilities in low-income and middle-income countries" published by BMJ Global Health. (February 2022)

Jude Beauchamp, MD, MMSc '17, along with his mentor Carole Mitnick, ScD, presented his talk "A biosocial lens on comprehensive services for COVID-19 in Immokalee, FL: Applying lessons learned from MDR-TB care in Cange, Haiti" at the MMSc-GHD Alumni in Action Seminar Series. (February 2022).

Melino Ndayizigiye, MD, MMSc '14, was first author on the article "Integrating an early child development intervention into an existing primary healthcare platform in rural Lesotho: a prospective case–control study" in BMJ Open: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/2/e051781. (February 2022)

Ginger Ramirez, MD, MMSc '22 (expected) was an author on the article "What Does “Good” Community and Public Engagement Look Like? Developing Relationships With Community Members in Global Health Research" in Frontiers in Public Health: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.776940. (January 2022)

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19, was named the winner of the 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Emerging Global Leaders Award. (December, 2021)

Melino Ndayizigiye, MD, MMSc '14, was a part of the article "Childhood immunization during the COVID-19: experiences in Haiti, Lesotho, Liberia and Malawi" published by the World Health Organization Bulletin. (November, 2021)

Christophe Millien, MD, MMSc '20, won the Education 2.0's Outstanding Leadership Award. This award will be conferred at the Education 2.0 USA Conference 2022 on April 6-8, 2022 in The Mirage, Las Vegas, USA. (December, 2021)

Maureen Luba, MMSc '23 (expected), was first author on the article "HIV prevention today: do we still need a vaccine? A community perspective" published by the Journal of the International AIDS Society. (November, 2021)

Susana Orrego, MMSc '23 (expected), and her husband were recently featured by CNN, Boston.com, 7 News Boston, CBS Boston, (among many other media outlets), after posting on NextDoor and asking if anyone in Boston would share Thanksgiving with them. (November, 2021)

Ifrah Abdi, BSN, MMSc '22 (expected) won an award for Best Midwife and was promoted to Dean of Nursing at Edna Adan University Hospital in Somaliland. (October, 2021)

Remy Pacifique Ntirenganya, BSc, PGDip, RPh MMSc '22 (expected) was the featured speaker for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's Annual Meeting. (October, 2021)

Sandeep Nanwani, MD, MMSc '18, was a featured speaker for the MMSc-GHD Alumni in Action series, which is part of the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine's Department seminar. (October, 2021)

Anahi Strader, MD, MMSc '23 (expected) presented her abstract for the project "Improving the care for newly arrived immigrant children in primary care" at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. (October, 2021)

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19 was named a finalist for the 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Emerging Global Leaders Award. (October, 2021)

Mercedes Aguerrebere, MD, MMSc ’18, had a paper on her thesis research "Intimate partner violence types and symptoms of common mental disorders in rural Chiapas, Mexico: Implications for global mental-health practice" accepted for publication in PLOSOne. (September, 2021)

Sandeep Nanwani, MD, MMSc '18 was a featured speaker for the seminar “COVID in Indonesia: The Global Response and the Betrayal of Global Health?” hosted by the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine's Friday Morning Seminar series. (September, 2021)

Cokorda Raka Danjanya, MD, MMSc '23 (expected) was a discussant for the seminar “COVID in Indonesia: The Global Response and the Betrayal of Global Health?” hosted by the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine's Friday Morning Seminar series. (September, 2021)

Ana Mariana, MD, MMSc '23 (expected) was a discussant for the seminar “COVID in Indonesia: The Global Response and the Betrayal of Global Health?” hosted by the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine's Friday Morning Seminar series. (September, 2021)

Helena Franco, MD, MMSc '23 (expected) received the "'Best Oral Paper Presentation" award at the Western Pacific Regional Conference of the Medical Women's International Association (MWIA), which she attended as a delegate of The Australian Federation of Medical Women (AFMW). (August, 2021)

Nada Abu Kishk, MSc, MMSc '20 published her MMSc-GHD thesis project "Under-­five malnutrition among Palestine refugee children living in camps in Jordan: A mixed-­methods study" in BMJ Global Health. (August, 2021)

Yassah Lavelah, BSN, MMSc '20 was accepted into the Temple University Master of Social Work program. (July, 2021)

Jude Beauchamp, MD, MMSc '17 published an article on his MMSc-GHD thesis research “Ambulatory Treatment for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Rural Haiti: A Mixed-Methods Study of Social and Economic Factors Affecting Timely Diagnosis and Treatment Success” in Global Journal of Health Science. (June, 2021)

Valeria Macias Fernandez, MS, MMSc ‘17, was on the panel "Strategies to Maintain Essential Health Services in the Time of COVID-19" for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (June, 2021)

Ana Cristina Sedas, MD, MMSc '21 was profiled by Harvard Medical School in the article "Making It Personal: Master’s grad Sedas working to improve health for migrants." (June, 2021)

Mohamed Bailor Barrie, MD, MMSc '16 was recently profiled by Bill Gates in Bill Gates's Heroes in the Field. (June, 2021)

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19 was recently profiled in The Lancet Oncology. (June, 2021)

Aneel Brar, MA, MMSc '16 was first author on the article "Mixed Methods Lot Quality Assurance Sampling: A novel, rapid methodology to inform equity focused maternal health programming in rural Rajasthan, India" published by PLOS ONE. (April, 2021)

Evrard Nahimana, MD, MMSc ‘17 was first author on the article "Sustainability Assessment of a District-Wide Quality Improvement on Newborn Care Program in Rural Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study" published by Annals of Global Health. (April, 2021)

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19 was awarded the Kofi Annan Fellowship in Global Health Leadership at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). (April, 2021)

Ana Cristina Sedas, MD, MMSc '21 co-authored the article "The need for protecting and enhancing TB health policies and services for forcibly displaced and migrant populations during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic" published by the International Journal of Infectious Disease. (March, 2021)

Valeria Macias, MD, MMSc '17 was interviewed about her experiences as the executive director of Compañeros En Salud by Ekip Solid at Partner In Health. (March, 2021)

Barthalomew Wilson, MMSc '21 was first author on the article "Beyond recruitment: good participatory practice enhances the impact of research in a pandemic" published in Nature Medicine. (March, 2021)

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19 was a panelist for the talk "Aftermath of COVID Pandemic on Cancer Control in Africa: Losing the Gains and Widening the Disparities, an Urgent Call to Action" at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference. (March, 2021)

Kumar Rana, MMSc ’17 was interviewed in a news report on the topic of “West Bengal: Know the condition of tribal from researcher Kumar Rana | Ground Report” available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpg9UglIW2Q. (March 2021)

Lisa Parvin, MMSc '19 presented work based on her thesis "A Mixed-Methods Study to Assess Vaccination Coverage and Access-Barriers Among Nomadic Bedey Children of Bangladesh" at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health conference's poster session. (March, 2021)

Comfort Ogar, MPH, MMSc '22 co-wrote this piece with Javier Guzman. It was published in Think Global Health: "The Urgent Need to Better Monitor Vaccine Safety in the Real World" https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/urgent-need-better-monitor-vaccine-safety-real-world. (March, 2021)

Sandeep Nanwani, MD, MMSc '18 was a panelist for the Australian National University's Indonesian Institute's podcast "Indonesia in 2020: Looking back at a year of crisis." (December, 2020)

Odell Kumeh, MD, MMSc '18 is first author on the article "Literacy is power: structural drivers of child malnutrition in rural Liberia" published in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. (December, 2020)

Ana Cristina Sedas, MD, MMSc '21 has helped coordinate a series of student-led COVID-19 talks with the World Health Organization. (November, 2020)

Christophe Millien, MD, MMSc ’20 was selected as one of the Top 100 Visionaries in Education for the year 2020 by the Global Forum for Education and Learning (GFEL). (November, 2020)

Christophe Millien, MD, MMSc ’20 is first author on an article “Assessing burden, risk factors, and perceived impact of uterine fibroids on women’s lives in rural Haiti: implications for advancing a health equity agenda, a mixed methods study” which was accepted for publication by the International Journal for Equity in Health. (November, 2020)

Aneel Brar, MA, MMSc '16 was again featured on the podcast Angelika Love's Conversations to discuss the maternal health clinic Mata Jai Kaur in Rajastan, India, of which he is the co-founder and Chief Executive. (November, 2020)

Nada Abu Kishk, MMSc '20 was first author on the article "Anaemia prevalence in children newly registered at UNRWA schools: A cross- sectional study" in BMJ Open. (September, 2020)

Evrard Nahimana, MD, MMSc ’17  was promoted to be the Africa Region Policy and Partnerships Advisor at Partners In Health. (September, 2020)

Sandeep Nanwani, MD, MMSc '18 was second author on the article "Understanding the challenges faced in community-based outreach programs aimed at men who have sex with men in urban Indonesia" in the journal Sexual Health. (August, 2020)

Ana Cristina Sedas, MS, MMSc '21 co-authored a joint memo with Pr. Jacqueline Bhabah and the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights which was published by the United Nations High Commissioners Office for Human Rights titled: Protecting Human Rights During and After COVID-19: Q Child’s Rights Perspective. (August, 2020)

Mercedes Aguerrebere, MD, MMSc ’18 is first author on an article “Intimate-partner violence types and symptoms of common mental disorders in a rural community of Chiapas, Mexico: Implications for global mental-health practice” which was accepted for publication by PLOS One. (August, 2020)

Maxi Raymonville, MD MMSc' 19 published his thesis research "Barriers and facilitators influencing facility-based childbirth in rural Haiti: a mixed method study with a convergent design" with BMJ Global Health. (August, 2020)

Ana Cristina Sedas, MS, MMSc '21 co-moderated the webinar "Multilateral conversation between academic institutions, Pan-American Health Organization/ World Health Organization, International Organization for Migration, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and United Nations Women" for Lancet Migration. (August, 2020)

Elizabeth Campa, MS, MMSc '20 has been named Director of the University of Global Health Equity-Haiti. She will work closely with the UGHE team in Rwanda as the Haiti team establishes the university's first satellite site. (July, 2020)

Ana Cristina Sedas, MD, MMSc '21 has been named a Lancet Migration Regional Research Fellow (June, 2020).

Ana Cristina Sedas, MD, MMSc '21 and Mercedes Aguerrebere, MD, MMSc '18 are the first two authors on the publication: Situational Brief: Migration in Mexico during the COVID-19 Pandemic published in Lancet Migration. Please find a PDF of the briefing here (May, 2020).

Christophe Millien, MD, MMSc '20 was featured in a profile by the Harvard Gazette "Christophe Millien Returns to Haiti on a New Mission" (May, 2020).

Marise Stuart, MD, MMSc '21 (anticipated) leads Takahitia Korowira, or Stamp Out COVID19, is a Ngāpuhi pandemic response strategy in New Zealand. Her work was mentioned in the article "Northland iwi establish coronavirus testing centre" put out by New Zealand Radio (April, 2020).

Gloria Prado Pino, MD, MMSc '19, leads State Committee for Prevention, Control and Mitigation of COVID-19 in Chocó, Columbia. (April, 2020)

Yassah Lavelah, BSN, MMSc '20 was recognized by the K&G Global Initiative for her contribution in providing healthcare services for women and advocating for better healthcare services in Liberia (March, 2020).

Danta Bien-Aimé, BSN, RN, MMSc '20 was recognized by the Midwest Association Of Haitian American Women in collaboration with K&G Global Initiative for her contribution in tackling cervical cancer among women in Haiti, and for creating a path to higher education for Haitian Nurses to follow (March, 2020).

Kumar Rana, MMSc '17 was first author on the report "Living World of the Adivasis of West Bengal: An Ethnographic Exploration" put out by The Asiatic Society. (February, 2020)

Reginald Fils-Aimé, MD, MMSc '16 was an author on the article "A validation study of the Zanmi Lasante Depression Symptom Inventory (ZLDSI) in a school-based study population of transitional age youth in Haiti" in BMC (February, 2020).

Sandeep Nanwani, MD, MMSc '18 co-authored the article  "Providing Hope" for Inside Indonesia (January, 2020).

Elsie Ballah, MD, MMSc '18, is first author on the article Maternal mortality and the metempsychosis of user fees in Liberia: A mixed-methods analysis, in Scientific African (March 2019).

Elsie Ballah, MD, MMSc '18, and her work in Liberia, was featured in imagine, the 2018–2019 Dean's Report.

Elsie Ballah, MD, MMSc '18, and her work in Liberia, was featured in the HMS News in an article titled Shaping Global Solutions (January 2019).

Yusupha Dibba, MD, MMSc '20 (anticipated), gave a talk My Story/Journey in Global Health, State of Health in Sierra Leone, and An Overview of PIH's Work in Sierra Leone, at Partners In Health Engage at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. on July 14, 2019.

Renato Errea, MD, MMSc '20 (anticipated), is first author on the article Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis in Children from a Rural Community Taking Part in a Periodic Deworming Program in the Peruvian Amazon in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (July 2019).

Ghenjezo Gonani, MMSc '19, presented his research project Family Caregiving in Mental Health, at the Partner In Health's office in Boston, Massachusetts on April 30, 2019.

Nada Abu Kishk, MMSc '20 (anticipated), is first author on the article, Model to improve cardiometabolic risk factors in Palestine refugees with diabetes mellitus attending UNRWA health centers, in the in the BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care (August 2019).

Christophe Millien, MD, MMSc '20 (anticipated), contributed to a chapter in the second edition of the AFEM Handbook of Acute and Emergency Care (February 2019).

Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and MMSc-GHD program director delivered a keynote address, Sustainable Development Goals and Health as a Human Right, at the Unite for Sight conference in New Haven, CT on April 13, 2019

Christine Mutaganzwa, MD, MSc, MMSc '20 (anticipated), presented on The Warp and the Weft: Interweaving Child Development into Health Programs in Resource-poor Settings panel at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health 2019 on March 10, 2019.

Christine Mutaganzwa, MD, MSc, MMSc '20 (anticipated), presented on the Pediatric Development Clinic for the Boston Children's Hospital staff at the Martha Eliot Health Center on January 20, 2019

Melino Ndayizigiye, MD, MMSc '14, led a Department of Global Health and Social Medicine seminar titled, Impact of integration of an early childhood development intervention into an existing community-based primary health care platform in rural Lesotho on April 10, 2019.

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19, presented a talk titled, From crisis to sustainability: Building palliative care with limited resources in the plenary session at the 16th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care on May 25, 2019.

Miao Xue, MMSc '20, Chenjezo Gonani '20, and Edith Gahlietner, MD, MMSc '20 were profiled in this Harvard Medical Magazine issue on people workin gin mental health (May 2019) https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/global-health-graduates-improving-care-delivery 

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19, presented on Palliative Care: The Neglected Global Health Priority, as part of a panel at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health 2019 on March 9, 2019.

Gloria Prado Pino, MD, MMSc '19, served on the organizing committee for the Sixth Annual Conference, Shaping Colombia: Towards Sustainable Development held April 5-7, 2019 at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Martha Vega, MD, MMSc '18, is first author on the article, Improving global emergency and essential surgical care in Latin America and the Caribbean: A collaborative approach in Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons (March 2019).

Martha Vega, MD, MMSc '18, had her paper Improving global emergency and essential surgical care in Latin America in the Caribbean: A collaborative approach, published by Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons (March 2019).

Nadege Belizaire, MD, MMSc '15, was one of only eight from more than 100 physicians selected to participate in a pediatric residency. This residency is a partnership between Project Medishare, St. Damien Pediatric Hospital, Haiti, L’Hopital Bernard Mevs, Haiti, and Université Notre Dame d'Haïti

Danta Bien-Aime, BSN, MMSc '20 (anticipated), was quoted in an announcement celebrating the Fulbright Program in Haiti (June 2018).

Danta Bien-Aime, BSN, MMSc '20 (anticipated), presented a talk titled, The role of Nurses in addressing the burden of Cervical Cancer in Haiti: Advocacy to reduce mortality from a preventable disease at the Global Nursing Caucus in Boston, Massachusetts on October 26, 2018.

Elizabeth Campa, MSc, MMSc '20 (anticipated), presented in the course, Preparing for Global Health Work at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Ms. Campa spoke on the topics of global health advocacy and participated in a panel discussion on understanding the stakeholders involved in global health. (February 20, 2019).

Paul E. Farmer, MD, PhD, chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School which hosts the MMSc-GHD program, was interviewed as part of The Harvard Gazette’s Experience series (May 2018).

Yassah Lavelah, BSN, MMSc '20, (anticipated), was profiled in a Front Page Africa article titled, Liberia: From the Slums of Wood Camp, Paynesville to Harvard University (August 2018)

Valeria Macias, MD, MMSc '17, presented the results of her thesis research, Rethinking referral systems in rural Chiapas: a mixed methods study, at the Bethune Roundtable Surgical Conference on May 26, 2018 in Toronto, Canada.

Evrard Nahimana, MD, MMSc '17, was promoted to chief medical officer of Partners In Health Rwanda.

Evrard Nahimana, MD, MMSc '17, is first author on the article A low cost, re-usable electricity-free infant warmer: evaluation of safety, effectiveness and feasibility in the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (December 2018).

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19, was named policy/advocacy champion by the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance for his work on palliative care in October 2018. “The WHPCA is delighted to announce the winners of the inaugural Palliative Care Champions Awards, announced today on World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. These extraordinary individuals are making a significant contribution to developing palliative care in low- and middle-income countries.” 

Lisa Parvin, MS, MMSc '19, is an author on an opinion piece, Dispelling myths about drug procurement policy, in The Lancet Global Health, Volume 6, Issue 6, e609-e610. Read the full piece here.

Kumar Rana, MMSc '17, wrote an op-ed piece, One who does not question is less than blind: Health is not just prevention or cure: it's a right, in Anandabazar Patrika, the largest selling Bengali daily in India. This piece mentions the MMSc-GHD program director Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH. (March 2018)

Dimitri Suffrin, MD, MMSc '16, presented a poster on his thesis research at the 18th Harvard University CFAR Annual Symposium titled, The Importance of Reproductive Health in Ending HIV. His thesis mentors were Arlene Katz, EdD, Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, Hannah Gilbert, PhD, and Christina Lively, EdM. (April 2018)

Martha Vega, MD, MMSc '18, gave an invited "Quick Shot Presentation" as part of the Annual Academic Surgical Congress, held in January 2018 in Jacksonville, Florida. Her talk titled, Access to Surgical Care in Rural Ecuador the Role of Cinterandes Mobile Surgery in Addressing Barriers and Delays: a Qualitative and Biosocial Research Analysis, was based on Martha's thesis work from the MMSc-GHD program with authors and affiliates: M.P. Vega, M.F. Franke, R. Riviello, H.N. Gilbert.

Martha Vega, MD, MMSc '18, had her research, Access to Surgical Care in Rural Ecuador the Role of Cinterandes Mobile Surgery in Addressing Barriers and Delays: a Qualitative and Biosocial Research Analysis, accepted for an e-Poster presentation in the Scientific Forum program at the American College of Surgeons. The meeting was held at the Boston Convention Exhibition Center in October 2018.

Jafet Arrieta, MD, MMSc '16, is first author on an article on her MMSc-GHD thesis research titled Validity and Utility of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)‐2 and PHQ‐9 for Screening and Diagnosis of Depression in Rural Chiapas, Mexico: A Cross‐Sectional Study in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. (February 2017).

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19, presented a talk at the AORTIC conference in Kigali, Rwanda in November 2017 and another talk at Les Congres Francophones des Soins Palliatifs held in November 2017.

Sandeep Nanwani, MD, MMSc '18, was featured in an NPR article titled Transgender Women Of Indonesia Have A Champion In A 26-Year-Old Doctor. Faculty member Byron Good, PhD, is also mentioned in the article. (January 2017)

Christian Ntizimira, MD, MMSc '19, presented a talk at the 5th International Public Health & Palliative Care conference held in Ottawa in September 2017.

Evrard Nahimana, MD, MMSc '17, is one of the authors on an article titled, Health worker attrition at a rural district hospital in Rwanda: a need for improved placement and retention strategies, The Pan African Medical Journal. (April 2017).

Sandeep Nanwani, MMSc '18, published an article with co-author Clara Saigian titled, Falling Through the Cracks in Inside Indonesia. (February 2017).

Lisa Parvin, MS, MMSc '19 and Chenjezo Gonani, MMSc '19, discussed their research in progress at the Global Health Graduate Student Research Seminar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School on November 13, 2017.

Martha Vega, MD, MMSc '18, was invited to present on to "Lancet Commission for Global Surgery 2030" in March 2017 at the XXII Latin American Congress of General Surgery.

Bailor Barrie, MD, MMSc '16, had his research featured in a Harvard Gazette article on the Ebola pandemic titled, Lessons from a Pandemic. Barrie conducted ethnographic research with Ebola survivors and wrote his thesis based on this research, advised by mentors Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD and Paul Farmer, MD, PhD.

Bailor Barrie, MD, MMSc '16, served as an invited member on a committee of Ebola experts that produced a report, Ethics considerations for the Implementation of Public Health containment of Ebola and Other Infectious Disease Outbreaks in LMICs. (September 2016)

Phenide Beaussejour, MD, MMSc '16, was featured in imagine, the 2015–2016 Harvard Medical School Dean’s Report, page 7. A full-length story about Phenide, Walking Together: Strengthening community partnerships to build equity, may be found here.

Phenide Beaussejour, MD, MMSc '16, presented the results from her thesis research Accessing Health Care in a Fragmented Health System: A Mixed Methods Study of Short-term Health Insurance in Urban Haiti, to members of the team who implemented the insurance, the Haiti Ethics Committee, and two directors of the Haitian Ministry of Health in August 2016.

Aneel Brar, MA, MMSc '16, was featured in a March 2016 article in the Huffington Post written by Kiran Kumbhar titled, This Harvard student Has Dedicated Years to Making Life Better for Rural Women.

Aneel Brar, MA, MMSc '16, chief operating officer of the Mata Jai Kaur Maternal and Child Health Centre in Rajasthan, India and Head of Global Programs for Prominent Homes Charitable Organization, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, extended his MMSc-GHD training in the department for the year of 2016-2017. With mentoring from Mary-Jo Good, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Giuseppe Raviola, and others, he will revise his thesis for publication, conduct geospatial analyses, and develop a maternal mental health intervention in Rajasthan.

David Brown, JD, MMSc '16, served on the Massachusetts Getting To Zero Data Evaluation Committee, a group that seeks to set priorities for reducing the HIV/AIDS infection rate in Massachusetts to zero.

Evrard Nahimana, MD, MMSc '17, is first author on the article Race to the Top: Evaluation of A Novel Performance-Based Financing Initiative to Promote Healthcare Delivery in Rural Rwanda in Global Health Action. (November 2016).

Evrard Nahimana, MD, MMSc '17, gave an invited talk on Social determinants of childhood vulnerability at the Rwanda Pediatric Association's annual conference in September 2016.

Martha Vega, MD, MMSc '18, gave an invited "Quick Shot Presentation" as part of the 11th Annual Academic Surgical Congress held in February 2016, in Jacksonville, Florida. Her talk, Comparing access to surgical care between Sweden and Zambia using geospatial mapping tools, was based on a paper written by Dr. Vega and others who are affiliated with the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. A link to the abstract is here.

Martha Vega, MD, MMSc '18, presented the Lancet’s Global Surgery 2030 key messages at the Socios en Salud TB-Global Health Symposium in September 2016.

Bailor Barrie, MD, MMSc '16, had his research featured in a Harvard Gazette article on the Ebola pandemic titled, Lessons from a Pandemic. Barrie conducted ethnographic research with Ebola survivors and wrote his thesis based on this research, advised by mentors Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD and Paul Farmer, MD, PhD.

Bailor Barrie, MD, MMSc '16, served as an invited member on a committee of Ebola experts that produced a report, Ethics considerations for the Implementation of Public Health containment of Ebola and Other Infectious Disease Outbreaks in LMICs. (September 2016)

Phenide Beaussejour, MD, MMSc '16, was featured in imagine, the 2015–2016 Harvard Medical School Dean’s Report, page 7. A full-length story about Phenide, Walking Together: Strengthening community partnerships to build equity, may be found here.

Phenide Beaussejour, MD, MMSc '16, presented the results from her thesis research Accessing Health Care in a Fragmented Health System: A Mixed Methods Study of Short-term Health Insurance in Urban Haiti, to members of the team who implemented the insurance, the Haiti Ethics Committee, and two directors of the Haitian Ministry of Health in August 2016.

Aneel Brar, MA, MMSc '16, was featured in a March 2016 article in the Huffington Post written by Kiran Kumbhar titled, This Harvard student Has Dedicated Years to Making Life Better for Rural Women.

Aneel Brar, MA, MMSc '16, chief operating officer of the Mata Jai Kaur Maternal and Child Health Centre in Rajasthan, India and Head of Global Programs for Prominent Homes Charitable Organization, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, extended his MMSc-GHD training in the department for the year of 2016-2017. With mentoring from Mary-Jo Good, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Giuseppe Raviola, and others, he will revise his thesis for publication, conduct geospatial analyses, and develop a maternal mental health intervention in Rajasthan.

David Brown, JD, MMSc '16, served on the Massachusetts Getting To Zero Data Evaluation Committee, a group that seeks to set priorities for reducing the HIV/AIDS infection rate in Massachusetts to zero.

Evrard Nahimana, MD, MMSc '17, is first author on the article Race to the Top: Evaluation of A Novel Performance-Based Financing Initiative to Promote Healthcare Delivery in Rural Rwanda in Global Health Action. (November 2016).

Evrard Nahimana, MD, MMSc '17, gave an invited talk on Social determinants of childhood vulnerability at the Rwanda Pediatric Association's annual conference in September 2016.

Martha Vega, MD, MMSc '18, gave an invited "Quick Shot Presentation" as part of the 11th Annual Academic Surgical Congress held in February 2016, in Jacksonville, Florida. Her talk, Comparing access to surgical care between Sweden and Zambia using geospatial mapping tools, was based on a paper written by Dr. Vega and others who are affiliated with the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. A link to the abstract is here.

Martha Vega, MD, MMSc '18, presented the Lancet’s Global Surgery 2030 key messages at the Socios en Salud TB-Global Health Symposium in September 2016.

Jafet Arrieta, MD, MMSc '15, presented a talk in Bogota, Colombia at the conference "23rd Foro Internacional Oes Mejoamiento de Resultados en Salud: estrategias, herramientas y experiencias existosas," in June 2014. She presented her talk, "CLICSS. La colaboración como motor de la mejora. Campaña Adiós Bacteriemias," with Ezequiel Garcia-Elorrio, MD, MSc.

Kobel Dubique, MD, MMSc '14, was interviewed about his experience advocating for internally displaced persons with Partners In Health in Camp Jean Marie Vincent after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. You may view The Abundance Foundation video here.

Reginald Fils-Aime, MD, MMSc '16, spoke at Partners In Health about his work in Haiti. The article titled, Working in Mental Health Gives Me Hope, describes Dr. Fils-Aime’s efforts to bring mental health care into the community-based health system. (September 2014)

Enrique Valdespino, MD, MMSc '17, participated in an interview at the Partners In Health Boston office where before he even applied to the program, mentions his hope of earning his Master of Medical Science in Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School. Please read a transcript of this interview on the PIH website.

We invite you to learn more about the MMSc-GHD program on this website. Many answers to questions can be found on our Frequently Asked Questions page. If you have additional questions, please email the MMSc-GHD Program.