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  • Global Health Track Leadership

    • Camille Brown, MD

      Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics; Affilicated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

      At the Pediatric Primary Care Center, Camille Brown, MD provides health care for children from birth to teen years and teaches pediatric residents. Dr. Brown also direct the Yale Pediatric Refugee Clinic, caring for children from various nations whose families have resettled in the city. She performs an initial health assessment, sees them frequently during their first year, and creates a medical home for them in the PCC. She interacts with a dedicated team of nurses, social workers, case managers and other staff. Dr. Brown loves being a pediatrician because she can create relationships with patients, and their families, and follow them as they grow and develop.
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    • Marietta Vazquez, MD, FAAP

      Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Pediatric Global Health Track Director; Associate Dean for Medical Student Diversity, Medical Education

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  • Pediatric Global Health Track Faculty

    • Michael Cappello, MD

      Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Microbial Pathogenesis; Interim Director, Yale Institute for Global Health; Associate Director, MD-PhD Program

      Michael Cappello MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health, and Professor of Pediatrics and Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale Medical School. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Biomedical Ethics and received his MD from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. After training in adult and Pediatric infectious diseases at Yale, Dr. Cappello joined the faculty in 1995, where he oversees a laboratory and field based research program focused on global health, tropical medicine and molecular parasitology. He is a 2007 recipient of the Bailey K. Ashford medal, awarded by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene “for distinguished work in tropical medicine.” In addition to research, Dr. Cappello provides clinical care as an Infectious Diseases specialist at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. He is co-founder of the Yale Partnerships for Global Health, an initiative that advances scientific knowledge, promotes international understanding, and builds human capacity through collaborative research and training. From 2007-15, Dr. Cappello directed the Yale World Fellows Program, a multi-disciplinary, campus-wide initiative whose mission is to cultivate and inspire a global network of leaders committed to positive change. From 2016-21, he chaired the Council on African Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and was faculty director of the Yale Africa Initiative. Dr. Cappello is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Academic Advisory Council of Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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    • Lei Chen, MD, MHS, BS

      Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine) and of Emergency Medicine; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

      My academic interests pertain to applying new technologies to improve the care of acutely ill and injured children, both here in New Haven and across the globe.  To that end I have taught trainees from Africa and Asia, often with a portable ultrasound in-tow.
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    • Isabel Theresia Gross, MD/PhD, MPH

      Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)

      Dr. Isabel Theresia Gross is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the founding chair of the Healthcare Distance Simulation Collaboration, she is on the executive board of INSPIRE, and she serves on the Board of Directors for the International Pediatric Simulation Society (IPSS). Dr. Gross is an established simulation-based researcher and research mentor for her international colleagues. Her simulation-based research focus is on distance simulation, international outreach simulations, and the explorations of new methods and technologies in simulation-based education.
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    • Elijah Paintsil, FAAP, MD

      Professor Adjunct in Pediatrics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Pediatrics; Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; Professor of Pharmacology, Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology; Professor of Management, School of Management

      The Paintsil laboratory focuses on increasing our understanding of the host determinants of individual differences in response to antiretroviral therapy; biomarkers and pathogenesis of increasing incidence of cancers in HIV treatment-experienced individuals.
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    • Marietta Vazquez, MD, FAAP

      Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Pediatric Global Health Track Director; Associate Dean for Medical Student Diversity, Medical Education

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  • Global Health Track Residents Year 2

  • Global Health Track Residents Year 3

    • Emma Taylor-Salmon, MD

      Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

      Dr. Emma Taylor-Salmon is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health.She is Board Certified in General Pediatrics and has completed her clinical fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. She is interested in the intersection of clinical medicine and public health, at both a local and national level, especially regarding vector-borne diseases and outbreak surveillance.
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