Contacts
Our team has a wealth of experience covering research, strategic planning, education, program development, and clinical service. We are a small core group but are energetic advocates for global health.
Michele Barry
Senior Associate Dean of Global Health
Director of Global Health Initiatives in Medicine
Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health
Michele Barry is the founder of the Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program and has sent over 1,000 physicians overseas to underserved areas. Barry is a past More President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Science.
Her scholarly interests include tropical medicine, global health ethics, and globalization’s impact on health disparities. She served on the Obama Women’s Health subcommittee and is a current Paul Rogers Society Ambassador to the US Congress for global health research advocacy. Dr. Barry is also a recipient of the Ben Kean Medal.
Dr. Michele Barry can be contacted via her Administrative Assistant, Anna Liao.
Steve Luby
Director of Research
Steve Luby serves as the Director of Research of the Center for Innovation and Global Health. Between 2004 and August 2012, Dr. Luby served as the Bangladesh Country Director for the US Centers for Disease Control.
He was secunded from CDC and posted into the International Centre for Diarrhoeal More Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) where he directed the Centre for Communicable Diseases. In addition to earlier work at CDC, Dr. Luby also lived for five years in Karachi, Pakistan where he led the Epidemiology Unit of the Community Health Sciences Department at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. Dr. Luby has authored over 200 scientific articles, the majority concerning communicable disease epidemiology in low-income countries.
Steve can be contacted by researchers seeking input on implementing Stanford research activities in low-income countries, especially Bangladesh, and by trainees interesting in developing research skills in low-income countries.
Email: sluby@stanford.edu
Katherine Burke
Deputy Director
As Deputy Director, Katherine States Burke, MM, MSc, aims to foster interdisciplinary initiatives and partnerships across Stanford University and oversees all administrative operations of the Center. Prior to Stanford, Ms. Burke served as a Senior Fellow in Global Health Sciences at UCSF, where she More led the UCSF Centers of Excellence Project.
Educated at Harvard University, Ms. Burke began her career as a reporter, editor and publishing executive in legal and consumer publications. In the past decade, she returned to an early interest in health and earned a Master of Science in Global Health Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco. She also has a MM from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Her interests include building research, training and health leadership capacity in low-resource settings, and online education as a tool in training health workers in Africa. Ms. Burke serves on several boards, including the board of Accordia Global Health Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health Board of Dean’s Advisers.
Email: ksburke@stanford.edu
Yvonne A. (Bonnie) Maldonado
Academic Director of Global Child Health
Dr. Maldonado earned her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed Pediatrics internship Stanford, Pediatric Residency and ID Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. She then joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before joining the faculty More at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Maldonado’s research activities have included the epidemiology and prevention of viral infections such as rotavirus, measles, mumps, rubella, polio and pediatric HIV infection. Her research is conducted internationally in Zimbabwe and Mexico, as well as in the US. In 1989, Dr. Maldonado received the Epidemic Intelligence Service Alumni Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and she was inducted into the Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame at Stanford University in 2001. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Public Health Association.
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Bonnie can be contacted by researchers seeking input on implementing Stanford research activities in low-income countries, and by trainees interested in developing research skills in low-income countries.
Email: bonniem@stanford.edu
Gary L. Darmstadt
Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health
Professor & Department of Pediatrics Co-Director of Pediatric Global Health
Gary Darmstadt joined Stanford from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he was Senior Fellow for Global Development. In this role, he led the Foundation’s cross-foundation initiative on Women, Girls and Gender, assessing More how addressing gender inequalities and empowering women and girls leads to improved gender equality as well as improved health and development outcomes. Previously at the Gates Foundation, Dr. Darmstadt served as Director of Family Health, leading strategy development and implementation across nutrition, family planning and maternal, newborn and child health.
Dr. Darmstadt was formerly Associate Professor and Founding Director of the International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has trained in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, in Dermatology at Stanford University, and in Pediatric Infectious Disease as a fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he was Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine. He left the University of Washington to serve as Senior Research Advisor for the Saving Newborn Lives program of Save the Children-US, where he led the development and implementation of the global research strategy for newborn health and survival.
Email: gdarmsta@stanford.edu
Ami Bhatt
Director of Global Oncology
Dr. Bhatt is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University. An honors graduate of UCLA, she received her MD and PhD (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology) at UCSF. There she received More the Fineberg Award for Excellence in Teaching and was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha. She completed residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was a clinical fellow in Hematology/Oncology at the Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Center. Thereafter, she carried out her post-doctoral studies at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT in the laboratory of Matthew Meyerson.
Dr. Bhatt seeks to improve outcomes in patients with hematological malignancies by exhaustively characterizing the dynamics of the microbiome in immunocompromised individuals, and exploring how changes in the microbiome are associated with idiopathic diseases in this population. Her recent work, demonstrating the discovery of a novel bacterium using sequence-based analysis of a diseased human tissue, was first presented as a Late-breaking abstract at ASH 2012 and has subsequently been presented nationally and internationally.
In addition to her academic efforts, Dr. Bhatt is committed to improving cancer care, education and research in resource-limited settings. She is the Director of Global Oncology for the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University and has also served as a visiting lecturer at the University of Botswana. She, along with Franklin Huang, is a co-founder and co-president of the non-profit organization Global Oncology. This all-volunteer organization spearheads creative, multi-disciplinary projects focused on improving cancer outcomes in impoverished settings.
Contact info:
asbhatt@stanford.edu
269 Campus Dr, CCSR 1155b
Stanford, CA 94305
650-498-4438
Sherry Wren
Director of Global Surgery
Sherry Wren first started her work in global surgery as a surgeon working for Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières. She worked in multiple postings in conflict zones in Ivory Coast, Chad, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She then branched out into capacity building of a surgical workforce in Sub Saharan Africa. In that role More she participated in the MEPI grant with the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences and is the program lead for a joint program with the departments of surgery at Stanford and UZCHS. Trainee and faculty exchanges are now routinely occurring between the two institutions.
She has also developed a research relationship with Mbingo General Hospital in Northwest Cameroon where Stanford medical students are paired with surgical residents from that program to perform joint clinical research projects. Her contributions to the region have been recognized by fellowship in the College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa (COSESCA). She currently serves as a board examiner of surgical trainees for the COSESCA countries. Dr. Wren is also one of the founders of the International Humanitarian Surgery skills course, which has to date, trained over 200 physicians to be prepared for surgical service in low resource settings. She has also performed collaborative projects with the NGO Surgeons OverSeas as well as other surgical clinical projects in Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, and Nepal.
S. V. Mahadevan
Director of Stanford Emergency Medicine International
S.V. Mahadevan is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine/Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Mahadevan is the founding director of Stanford Emergency Medicine International (SEMI), and he More co-directs the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship. He has written, traveled, and taught widely, presenting over 400 invited lectures worldwide and authoring over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and multimedia publications.
He was instrumental in setting up India's first paramedic training institute (2007), India’s first prehospital research center (2009), Nepal's first EMS system (2010), Cambodia’s first EM strengthening program (2012) and Myanmar’s first public-private EM training program (2015). He is lead editor of the textbook, An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine, which was awarded the 2006 American Medical Writer’s Association Award: Physician’s Category. Dr. Mahadevan has received numerous teaching awards including the Council of Residency Director’s (CORD) National Faculty Teaching Award (2003), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) National Faculty Teaching Award (2012), California ACEP Education Award (2011), the Stanford-Kaiser Emergency Medicine Resident Bedside Teaching Award (2003), and the Arthur L. Bloomfield Award: Excellence in the Teaching of Clinical Medicine (2012).
Paul Costello
Global Health and Media Advisor
Paul Costello is chief communications officer of the Stanford University School of Medicine and brings his rich and varied professional background to further the institution’s endeavors in global health. More He hosts the award-winning podcast 1:2:1, a series of conversations about advances in healthcare policy and biomedical research, as well as CIGH's Conversations in Global Health seminar series.
Costello is a veteran communications strategist with a background in government, the corporate sector and academia. He joined Stanford from the University of Hawaii, where he served as the vice president for external affairs and university relations. Costello previously spent several years as a press spokesperson in the White House, the Ohio Governor's office and the Mayor's office in Washington, DC, as well as in the private sector where he held management positions at several of the nation's top public relations firms.
A social worker by training, Paul holds an MSW from the University of Illinois at Campaign-Urbana.
Email: paul.costelllo@stanford.edu
Rachel Leslie
Communications Officer
As the communications officer and webmaster, Rachel brings her professional experience in strategic communications, media relations and content development to promote the latest research and programs in global health at Stanford More University.
She joined Stanford after having spent several years in the healthcare industry working with advocacy organizations and leading corporations to publicize new medical breakthroughs, disease awareness programs and educational initiatives. Rachel holds a dual B.S. in Public Relations and Entrepreneurship from Syracuse University.
Rachel can be contacted regarding media inquiries, publicity opportunities, or web/newsletter content.
Email: rleslie@stanford.edu
Denishia Clark
Global Health Educational Program Coordinator
Denishia Clark manages global health curriculum and educational programs for students, fellows, residents and career faculty. A public health More advocate, Denishia is experienced in the improvement of health practices and systems for underserved communities.
She joined Stanford from the Black AIDS Institute where she served as the manager of training and capacity building programs. Denishia received her undergraduate degree in Kinesiology from San Diego State University, and holds a Master’s degree in Urban Public Health from Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
Denishia can be contacted regarding global health educational opportunities and programs.
Email: dclark13@stanford.edu
Anna Liao
Administrative Assistant for Dr. Michele Barry
Anna Liao's early career started with equity trading and analysis in Asia. After moving to the U.S. in 2005, she worked in the tech industry for several years prior to More joining Stanford University. She brings years of experience in executive support as well as project management and coordination to CIGH.
Anna holds a bachelors degree in economics from National Taipei University, Taiwan and a postgraduate diploma in finance from Cass Business School in London.
She can be contacted for assistance with arrangements for CIGH meetings and events, and requests for appointments with Dr. Barry.
Email: acliao@stanford.edu