Emily Wroe, M.D.

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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