“Overall, the speakers chosen for this bootcamp were not only masterful in their lines of work, but also incredibly inspirational.” – 2015 Bootcamper
2020 Speakers:
Bibhav (BEE-vub) Acharya, MD, is Assistant Professor at UCSF Department of Psychiatry, where he oversees a Global Mental Health Fellowship in partnership with HEAL Initiative (http://tiny.ucsf.edu/GMH). His research focuses on developing healthcare delivery models to improve access to mental health in resource-poor settings. His research identifies constraints in access to high-quality services in low-resource settings, and tests systems-level interventions to address them. He is currently leading two studies in rural Nepal: 1) adapting and implementing the collaborative mental health care model where mental health services are provided by non-specialists (primary care providers and other clinicians) under training and support from mental health specialists; and 2) training and supporting community health workers in using a digital health intervention to deliver motivational interviewing to improve treatment adherence and care engagement for chronic diseases (depression, COPD, hypertension, diabetes, and HIV).
He is the co-founder and mental health advisor of Possible, a non-profit organization that has been operating a health delivery system in rural Nepal since 2008 in partnership with the Nepali Government. The health system employs over 300 staff members and sees over 600 patients a day in Achham, a remote district in Nepal where the nearest psychiatrist and airport are 12 hours away, and in Dolakha, where 85% of the healthcare infrastructure was destroyed by the earthquake in 2015. He conducts implementation science research to inform national and international health policy at Possible
Bibhav was born and raised in Nepal and arrived in the United States to attend Haverford College. He was a Howard Hughes Science and Society Scholar in public health studying HIV interventions in Thailand. He has conducted research for the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute to improve the quality of care for federally-funded HIV services. He received his M.D. from Yale University and residency training in general adult psychiatry from University of California San Francisco. He has conducted research under NIMH-R25 and has completed a certificate program in Implementation Science from UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Cristina Rivera Carpenter, MSN, RN-BC, is a UCSF HEAL Initiative Alumni (2016- 2018) from Tsehootsooi Medical Center on the Navajo Nation. She received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from South Dakota State University, her Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Arizona, where she is a Nursing PhD Student, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar, Cohort 4, and 2018 American Indian Research Center for Health (AIRCH) fellow. Currently, she is a part-time faculty member at Northern Arizona University’s American Indian Nursing Program, among other employment, and holds certifications in Medical-Surgical Nursing and Gerontological Nursing. Her interest areas include strength-based cultural determinants of health, Indigenous knowledge and wellness, and adverse childhood experiences.
Robin Goldman, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UCSF. She works as an internal medicine hospitalist at the San Francisco VA and as a pediatric hospitalist at Washington Hospital. Prior to joining as faculty, she completed the Global Health and Hospital Medicine/HEAL Initiative fellowship working with Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health) at a hospital in rural Haiti and completed her MPH at UC Berkeley. She completed her Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at the University of Michigan and attended medical school at the University of Maryland. Currently in addition to her clinical work, she is the Assistant Director of Curriculum and Mentorship for the UCSF HEAL Initiative, is the co-founder of the San Francisco chapter of the Social Medicine Consortium, Her interests include clinical work with underserved populations in the U.S. and abroad, medical education with an emphasis on social medicine, health equity, and understanding systems.
Sujatha Sankaran, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine with the Division of Hospital Medicine. After her residency training in internal medicine, she worked as an Academic Hospitalist at Columbia University in New York City, where she was actively involved in resident education. Sujatha then worked in sub Saharan Africa and started a non-governmental organization, the International Cardiovascular Health Alliance, aimed at developing programs to decrease the burden of non-communicable diseases in resource-poor settings, with a focus on cardiovascular disease prevention. Sujatha subsequently worked in India on global tobacco policy and developed a long-standing partnership with an organization in a resource-poor setting in rural India, where she helped spearhead development of a hypertension intervention program.
In 2015, Sujatha was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study mechanisms for cardiovascular disease management in under-resourced areas of Southern India. As part of her Fulbright, she helped develop a tobacco cessation program at St. Johns National Academy of the Health Sciences in Bangalore, helped start a health worker teaching program in the urban slums of Bangalore, and helped develop strategies for quality improvement in rural and urban settings with a large burden on chronic diseases.
In addition to this global work, Sujatha serves as the Medical Director of Inpatient Substance Use at UCSF Medical Center, and has developed interventions to improve smoking cessation rates in inpatients and is piloting a new addiction medicine service aimed at providing targeted care for inpatients with substance use disorders. Sujatha also directs the Neurosurgery Quallity and Safety Program at UCSF Medical Center, focusing on improving the quality, safety, and equitable care provided for inpatients on the Neurosurgery service.
Ranu S. Dhillon, MD, is from the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School as well as a Senior Health Advisor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. For over 10 years, Dr. Dhillon has worked on primary and community level health systems as a clinician, implementer, manager, policymaker, and academic. He currently serves as an advisor to the President of Guinea and the National Ebola Coordination Cell in Guinea where he has helped lead the Ebola response. Previously, Dr. Dhillon led the development of a pilot for the national primary health system in Rwanda, which has since achieved one of the greatest improvements in health ever seen in history. In addition to designing programs, Dr. Dhillon provided day-to-day management of a health center, health post, and team of community health workers caring for about 25,000 people. As an advisor to the Ministry of Health in Liberia, he helped design the country’s health system and establish a national pilot in a county of about 110,000 people. With the Presidency in Nigeria, he created and administered a national program to bolster primary health systems and maternal and child care in each of Nigeria’s 774 districts and helped develop a national community health worker program. In India, Dr. Dhillon served as a member of the International Advisory Panel for the National Rural Health Mission, the government’s flagship health program, and led a project to develop ‘model’ district level health systems in five of the poorest states. In Rwanda and Liberia, Dr. Dhillon also provided direct patient care and lived in the rural communities where he worked. In 2010, he arrived in Haiti just days after a devastating 7.0Mw earthquake and helped manage emergency relief efforts at Partners in Health’s flagship hospital. Dr. Dhillon has done additional policy work in Mali, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Senegal, and Kenya. Dr. Dhillon is an authority on primary and community health systems and universal health coverage with published articles in several journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, and Harvard Business Review.
Ari Johnson, MD, is co-founder and CEO of Muso, a global health organization that designs proactive healthcare systems to stop preventable deaths in settings of poverty. Muso has been conducting operational research over the past decade with the Malian Ministry of Health to improve early access to care and child survival. Ari is a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Division of Global Health Sciences at the University of California San Francisco. He trained at Brown University and Harvard Medical School and then completed his residency at the University of California San Francisco. He has conducted research at the National Institutes of Health, the International Health Institute, the Medical Research Council of South Africa, Brown University, Harvard University, and the Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases. He has published peer-reviewed articles and essays in the fields of health system design, infectious disease, health policy, neurobiology, AIDS, and migration.
Mike Reid, MBBS, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF in San Francisco. He is also Associate Director of the Center for Global Health Diplomacy, Delivery and Economics at UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences. He is involved with policy analyses, research, and agenda-setting activities related to global TB control efforts. He ran the secretariat for the Lancet Commission on TB that was launched in March of last year. He is also project director for the STRIPE program, working with 20 nursing and medical schools in Africa to improve HIV and TB education.
Mike is an infectious disease physician within the Positive Health Practice “Ward 86” at ZSFG at San Francisco General Hospital.
Prior to joining UCSF, he spent five years working in PEPFAR funded programs in Africa and was the lead physician in the University of Pennsylvania’s Global Health program in Gaborone, Botswana for three years. Michael has published more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. He holds a Master’s degree in public health from Berkeley and completed his medical school training at Cambridge University and Imperial College, London.
Previous Speakers:
Evan Lyon, MD, serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and lead faculty for the Global Health Hospital Medicine Fellowship at the University of Chicago. Globally, Dr. Lyon has worked on building disease-focused preventative HIV and TB programs in Haiti since 1996. He has been with Partners in Health for over 10 years and his work focuses on not only providing care to the underserved, but also on advocacy to tackle issues of economic, social, and political inequalities.
Sangeeta Tripathi, MPP, has more than a decade of work in global health and a deep belief in the possibility of a more just world. She has worked on the rapid acceleration of pediatric HIV treatment and on strategies to scale the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (pMTCT) with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), UNICEF, and the WHO. She has focused on working with key stakeholders – especially Ministries of Health, partners, and local health workers, to build ever-more responsive and impactful programming at sub-national, national, and global levels to improve health systems. She is currently the Director of Strategy & Operations for the UCSF HEAL Initiative. Sangeeta earned her Bachelors in International Development Studies (Brown University) and a Masters in Public Policy (Harvard Kennedy School). She believes deeply in strengthening people, teams, and in innovating systems to transform what is possible in health.
Kelly Ray Knight, PhD, is Associate Professor in the UCSF Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine. Dr. Knight received a B.A. (Psychology, Philosophy, and Theology) from Georgetown University, a M.Ed. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the joint doctoral program in medical anthropology at University of California – San Francisco/Berkeley. She teaches in the UCSF/UCB medical anthropology graduate program and UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences, serves as curricular advisor and lecturer in addiction medicine and structural competency for the UCSF School of Medicine, and is faculty mentee in the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Knight’s work centers on the social construction of addiction in clinical and policy contexts, racialized health disparities, and health conditions produced or exacerbated by structural violence. She conducts National Institutes of Health-funded ethnographic research focused on the US opioid epidemic, the mental and physical health sequelae of housing insecurity, substance use, and reproduction. Dr. Knight has authored numerous publications in the fields of public health, social science and medicine. Her book-length ethnography, addicted.pregnant.poor (Duke University Press, 2015), was awarded the British Sociological Association’s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (FSHI) 2016 Book Award, was a finalist for the 2015 C. Wright Mills Award, and received an Honorable Mention for the Society of Medical Anthropology’s Eileen Basker 2016 Book Prize.
Josh Nesbit, BAH, is the CEO and founder of Medic Mobile, a organization that utilizes technology to improve health services in over 20 countries. Inspired by volunteer village health workers in rural Malawi, Josh is firmly committed to serving the global community. During his studies on international health and bioethics at Stanford, he focused his qualitative research skills on Pediatric HIV. He is an Echoing Green Fellow, PopTech Fellow, Rainer Arnhold Fellow, Strauss Scholar, and Haas Public Service Fellow. Josh’s role is to connect people, spearhead partnerships, and let the world know what Medic is all about.
Robin Tittle, MD, MS, is a hospital medicine attending at the Portland VA Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. She previously worked at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where she was the co-director of the residency global health pathway. She completed internal medicine residency at UCSF, after which she was a global health hospital medicine fellow in Haiti. Prior to residency training, she was a member of the inaugural class of the UCSF global health masters program, completing her fieldwork project in rural Kenya with Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES). She is a founding member of the UCSF HEAL Initiative and continues to serve as HEAL’s director of curriculum. She is passionate about leveraging social medicine as a tool for achieving global health equity.
Lady Neelam Feachem, MHA, has over 30 years of experience in health policy, financing, and management of health care systems. She served as a health financing a policy advisor at the World Health Organization from 2003-2007, where she provided technical and policy guidance to a wide range of countries on health financing, with a particular focus on private and public insurance, and methods to complement public financing with private funding instruments. Most recently, Ms. Feachem served as Senior Vice President for Global Access and Alliances at Napo Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical firm.
Trevor Jensen, MD, MS, is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF. Trevor is a graduate of UCSF medical school (2011), where he also pursued a masters degree in Global Health (2009), and completed his internal medicine residency training (2014). Trevor attends on the medicine teaching service, hospitalist procedures service, night hospitalist service, neurosurgery co-management service and the Goldman service. His clinical interests include point-of-care ultrasound, high value care, and medical education.
Kerling Israel, MD, MPH, currently serves as Senior Advisor for Medical Education at Zanmi Lasante /Partners in Health Haiti. She earned her medical degree from the State University of Haiti, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy. She completed her residency training in Family Medicine at the Hospital Justinien in Cap-Haitien and was a fellow in Pediatrics Infectious Disease at the University of Miami. As a Fulbright scholar, she attended the University of Kentucky where she earned a Master’s degree in Public Health. Dr. Israel opened several HIV/AIDS programs in many hospitals in Haiti. She is the founding director of the family medicine residency program at Hospital Saint Nicolas in Saint Marc, Haiti. She also served as the director of medical education at Zanmi Lasante overseeing several residency programs and assured leadership responsibilities in launching others at the University Hospital of Mirebalais including the first Emergency Medicine residency program of Haiti. In her current position, Dr. Israel is supporting efforts toward international accreditation of the residency programs of the Zanmi Lasante / Partners in Health network in Haiti.
Sebastian Kevany has conducted over 100 global health and development missions to Africa, the Middle East, the South Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Asia, with a focus on conflict and post-conflict settings, conducting monitoring and evaluation, diplomatic, and representative duties. Sebastian holds BA and MA degrees from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), an MPH degree from the University of Cape Town (South Africa), is a former adjunct assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin, an affiliate of the University of California, San Francisco, and is currently being awarded a doctorate by past research.
Graciela Cadet was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and attended the national nursing school (Ecole Nationale d’Infirmieres de Port-au-Prince). She has worked as a nurse for seven years and became the nurse manager of the Intensive Care Unit at Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais in 2013. Graciela has worked for Zamni Lasante (ZL), the sister organization of Partners in Health, for over three years, and has come to see the organization as a driving force in social justice and a key player in the promotion of equity in health. She is particularly interested in quality improvement, advocacy, and strengthening the Haitian health system, and has continued to pursue training in public health management. Graciela is a current HEAL site fellow at Zanmi Lasante in Haiti.
Quratulain Bakhteari, PhD, grew up in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Karachi after the creation of Pakistan in 1947. She earned a bachelor’s degree and worked providing basic health care and education to refugees coming from Bangladesh. Later, she earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. and established 2,000 government girls’ primary schools in rural Balochistan, resulting in the enrollment of 200,000 girls — a record in Pakistan’s history. Frustrated with a lack of efficacy in internationally sponsored development projects, she developed the blueprint for Institute for Development Studies and Practices and launched it in 1999 with support from The Asia Foundation. IDSP offers basic education, and training in literacy, human rights, and community organizing.
The Institute for Development Studies and Practices, IDSP-Pakistan, is her brain child. Based in Quetta, it’s a space which allows young people, to learn, reflect, and practice community development and understand the local-global nexus. IDSP has over 7,000 graduates from its community development courses, half of them are women from the traditional societies of Pakistan. 167 young women are trained as midwives , and now working in the communities as maternal health care activist. These young leaders are being prepared for national and international level of professionals in social development sector.
Quratulain created and led the concept of Community Support Process for girls education in Pakistan’s largest, yet most deprived province of Balochistan. The process helped establish over 2000 community supported girls schools and over 300,000 girls were enrolled in these schools a yield of 300% in less than five years. She introduced and operationalized the concept of community, NGO and government partnership by establishing three NGOs and strengthening of two NGOs in Balochistan to become partners with the government to promote girls education in Balochistan.
Besides these pioneering works for which she is nationally and internationally recognized through Skoll Fund for Social Entrepreneur in 2006, Ashoka’s in 1999, Pakistan Jaycees award for outstanding performance in the field of social work in 1984, in 1986 for outstanding performance for women’s development, Matushita Memorial Award for International Year of Shelter for the Homeless, Tokyo in 1987, Academy for Educational Development Washington awarded as best project development staff member in 1996. She was nominated for Nobel peace prize in 2007. She is awarded three months fellowship to teach her model in Dublin University Ireland in 2009.
Kimberly Baltzell, RN, PhD, FAAN, launched a Gates-funded study for a group of UCSF researchers in 3 districts in Zanzibar. Her quantitative study examined both the quality of rapid diagnostic tests used in rural health clinics and types of malaria species found using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Kim will continue her malaria work in Zanzibar with the Plasmotrack team, studying malaria transmission patterns as well as exploring diagnostic decision-making for febrile patients who test negative for malaria. She will also continue her work in Malawi as the malaria advisor for the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance. Kim is continuing as an Asst. Adjunct Professor at the UCSF School of Nursing. She is writing two grants for her malaria studies and will help develop global health curriculum for the School of Nursing.
Colin Boyle, MBA, has been appointed as the first Deputy Director of UCSF Global Health Sciences, dedicated to improving health and reducing disease worldwide. Colin joined UCSF after spending 15 years working with Boston Consulting Group, where he was a partner and managing director leading many of the firm’s social impact projects. Before his work with Boston Consulting Group, he worked at Partnership for Organ Donation in Boston as a site team specialist and for Corporate Decisions in Boston as an associate. Colin has extensive experience in global health, business management and strategy development.
Colin Boyle, MBA, Director of Global Health Sciences
Molly Cooke, MD, FACP, Professor of Medicine, is the inaugural director of education for Global Health Sciences across the five schools (Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing and the Graduate Division) at UCSF. Appointed in July 2012, her charge is to develop a portfolio of high impact educational programs for UCSF students, residents, fellows, post-docs and faculty members and to devise innovative and high value ways to share UCSF’s expertise in discovery science, health care delivery, professional education and basic science with international partners.
Dr. Cooke is a practicing internist with a special interest in HIV and other complex chronic illnesses. She has advised the AMA, the American College of Physicians (ACP), and the AAMC on clinical care and ethical and policy issues in the HIV epidemic, and was a founding co-director of the AIDS Task Force of the Society for General Internal Medicine. She testified before both National Commissions on AIDS (1988 and 1990). She was a Department of Health and Human Services Primary Care Health Policy Fellow in 2004 and has been repeatedly selected by her peers as one of “America’s Best Doctors.” Governor of the Northern California chapter of the American College of Physicians from 2004 to 2009, she currently serves as a Regent and President-elect of the College. She will become President in April 2013.
Sheila Davis, DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN, and Chief Nursing Officer at Partners In Health has worked in the field of HIV/AIDS since the mid-1980s and in global health since 2000. In 2004, she helped co-founded a non-profit that worked on nursing and feeding programs in South Africa and Boston through 2010. Davis is a frequent national speaker on global health, various clinical topics, and the role of nursing in human rights.
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, physician and anthropologist, is chief strategist and co-founder of Partners In Health, Kolokotrones University Professor and chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He also serves as U.N. Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Community-based Medicine and Lessons from Haiti. Dr. Farmer has written extensively on health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality.
Alice Johnson, RN, is a nurse whose passion is to promote health equity in Liberia. She is a top graduate of the prestigious Mother Pattern College of Health Sciences in Monrovia, Liberia. As a nursing student she became aware of the injustices in health care delivery especially the poor and delayed treatment offered to those living in rural areas. Her life perspective has been shaped by living through the Liberian Civil War and bearing witness to various refugee crises during conflict in Cote D’ Ivoire and Sierra Leone. Her career in nursing has spanned a variety of settings. She has provided nursing leadership for both rural and urban primary care clinics in Liberia. As an Emergency Department Nurse at a regional hospital she provided incisive and compassionate care to thousands of patients. Since 2012 she has worked with Last Mile Health as a Clinical Mentor that recruits, trains, and supervises community health workers to provide primary care in their villages. Alice has worked in many positions with last mile health in the implementation of the community health model. In the future she hopes to lead and expand Last Mile Health’s community health worker model in Liberia and beyond.
Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, currently serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine within
the Division of Global Health Equity, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She also serves as Associate Professor of Global Health and Medicine for Harvard Medical School. Joia has spent over a decade serving as Chief Medical Director for Partners in Health, an international medical charity, where she coordinates clinical programs in Haiti, Rwanda, Burundi, Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Russia. She also consults for the World Health Organization on HIV and MDR-TB resistance in developing countries.
Raj Panjabi, MD, MPH, is an Associate Physician for the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He is also Co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health, a non-profit medical organization whose mission is to increase access to healthcare services to rural populations in Liberia. Raj is transforming the quality of health in these communities by training community health workers into real professionals called “frontline health workers.” Last Mile Health emphasizes sustainability through increasing the existing human potential in last mile villages.
Pierre Paul, MD, serves as the deputy director of l’Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais in
Haiti. This is a new 300 bed facility built by Partners in Health that is providing primary care services to about 185,000 people in Mirebalais as well as others in neighboring communities. Dr. Pierre is also the Haitian leader of Zanmi Lasante, PIH’s sister organization and largest provider of healthcare in the small village of Cange, Haiti.
Sonya Shin MD, MPH, received her B.A. at Yale University, and her M.D. and M.P.H. at Harvard. She trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and she trained in Infectious Diseases in the Longwood Program at Harvard. She is currently Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician at the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Consulting Physician at Gallup Indian Medical Center.
Dr. Shin’s research and clinical experience has focused on health issues among underserved populations. She was worked for more than 20 years with the international social justice organization, Partners In Health, to develop and evaluate community-based programs to address chronic diseases in resource-poor settings. Over the past 20 years, her work has primarily focused on demonstrating the value of community health workers in a variety of settings.
She has worked in Navajo Nation since 2009 collaborating with tribal leadership and tribal health services to strengthen healthcare delivery by enhancing the quality and integration of community health worker outreach. She is the Executive Director and founder of a non-profit organization – Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment, COPE – which is dedicated to improving health outcomes in Native communities.
Sylvia Stoffella, Pharm.D, is a Pediatric Pharmacist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Benioff Children’s Hospital. She had completed her PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at Indian River Medical Center, her PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy Residency at UCSF Medical Center, and earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Duquesne University located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During her time at Duquesne University, she became involved with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists – Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) International Pharmaceutical Student Federation (IPSF) Student Exchange where she assisted in hosting international student pharmacists within our country as well as traveled abroad to Costa Rica to experience pharmacy outside of the United States. During her PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy Residency Program at UCSF, Dr. Stoffella completed a Global Health Scholars Research Project with her co-resident Dr. Navaneeth Narayanan to identify barriers to medication supply chain management in a public health hospital in Roatan, Honduras. She continues to remain involved with future Roatan global health projects related to pharmacy. Also, she remains active within the UCSF Global Health Sciences Faculty Affiliation Program as an Advisory Committee Member of the Work in Progress Forum.
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