Dr. Emily Wroe is an internist and global and public health specialist, currently serving as the Director of Programs for the NCDI Poverty Network and the Center for Integration Science at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. She is also a Senior Health & Policy Advisor for Partners In Health (PIH). As Director of Programs, Dr. Wroe leads a clinical and technical team that supports the design, implementation, and quality of a clinical program called PEN-Plus, which cares for severe chronic disease in young people across Africa and south Asia. This program focuses on type 1 diabetes, sickle cell disease, and childhood cardiac conditions. She previously served as the Director of Implementation & Design for PIH’s work with the Massachusetts Community Tracing Collaborative (CTC), where she was responsible for training and M&E for a Massachusetts statewide contact tracing program for COVID-19, training more than 4,000 contact tracers. She was also the Chief Medical Officer for PIH in Malawi for four years, working closely with the Ministry of Health to strengthen health care delivery in the rural district of Neno. In this role, she led the team to redesign the HIV care delivery platform into an integrated approach to include NCDs, launched new community screening programs, and spearheaded a stepped-wedge study of a polyvalent community health worker program. She was the co-chair of Malawi’s National NCDs & Injuries of Poverty Commission and supported the launch of commissions in Zimbabwe and Zambia. Dr. Wroe graduated from Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health and completed residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. She currently is an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.
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Dr. Wroe’s academic interests center around implementation and evaluation of innovative health systems, specifically for chronic disease. Her work has evaluated a novel integrated HIV-NCD clinic in rural Malawi as well as several other operational research projects for chronic disease outcomes for HIV and NCD programs in Malawi. She also has research experience in Community Health Workers, serving as primary lead for a stepped wedge study of a CHW program in Malawi and other initiatives including development of a selection tool, launch of a digital health system, and novel approaches to community screening. Currently she continues to work on NCD delivery systems in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Lancet Glob Health
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BMJ Open
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BMJ Open
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BMJ Open Qual
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Lancet Glob Health
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BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
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J Med Ethics
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Hum Resour Health
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BMC Res Notes
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Glob Heart
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