Margaret Bourdeaux, MD, MPH

Margaret Bourdeaux, AB ’97, MD, MPH ’09, is the research director for the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change. Her research and fieldwork focus on health systems and institutions in conflict-affected states. She has worked with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Policy to analyze the US Department of Defense’s global health projects and programs. She led a joint Harvard-NATO team of analysts to evaluate the impacts, challenges, and opportunities international security forces have in protecting and rebuilding health systems in conflict-affected states. Dr. Bourdeaux earned her BA at Harvard University, her MD at Yale Medical School, completed her combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and completed her MPH at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was one of the first graduates of the Global Women’s Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Affiliations

• Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change

• Co-chair, Berkman Klein Center  Policy Practice: Digital Pandemic Response. Digital Pandemic Response (BKC PP: DPR) is an interdisciplinary program that works with public and private decision makers on urgent questions and policy decisions around the use of digital tools and data in order to help attenuate the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, please visit https://cyber.harvard.edu/programs/bkc-policy-practice-digital-pandemic-response.