The Global Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine is dedicated to finding evidence-based solutions to global health problems. An inter-departmental effort, we offer training and mentorship to students and physicians who are interested in pursuing global health projects, and are exploring global health as a career option.

 

ABOUT

Economically disadvantaged communities throughout the world are deeply affected by the health-related consequences of poverty. Few of the more than 16,000 students who earn medical degrees in the U.S. each year have been trained to address the health needs of these most vulnerable populations. The mission of the Mount Sinai Global Health Center is to improve the health care of the underserved around the globe by training tomorrow’s global health leaders. We emphasize the importance of well-designed research, evidence-based practice, and interventions that empower communities to produce lasting, positive change.

 
PROGRAMS

Global Health as an Integral Part of Medical Education

The Global Health Center strives to reach all medical students at Mount Sinai, integrating global health teaching into the core medical school curriculum. For students committed to working with underserved communities, the GHC offers elective courses, seminars, and workshops in current global health topics. Students design and implement research and public health projects at international and domestic partner sites.

For more information about global health opportunities for medical students, click here.

 
Global Health Residents

For residents in a variety of specialties (Pediatrics, Medicine, Med/Peds, OB/GYN, Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry) who are dedicated to a career in global health, the Global Health Center offers an intensive curriculum and an extended period of field work. Through mentoring and career guidance, the GHC supports these graduate physicians towards careers committed to the care of the underserved.

For more information about the Global Health Residency Track, click here.
 
Global Public Health

The Global Health Center has established a Global Health Track within the Mount Sinai Masters of Public Health program, overseeing the curricular and practical activities of the MPH candidates who are dedicated to the health of underserved communities. The program aims to graduate public health professionals who are able to design, implement, and evaluate public health interventions in resource-poor settings.

For more information about the Global Health Track in the Masters of Public Health, click here.

 
Health and Human Rights

This program provides opportunities for students, residents, fellows, faculty and staff to engage in activities related to the concept of health and human rights as well as broader aspects of human rights advocacy. Program strives to develop a model for the incorporation of human rights training into medical education.

For more information about the Program on Health and Human Rights, click here.

 
PARTNERS

The Global Health Center works closely with domestic and international partners to provide opportunities for educational exchange and collaborative research, training, and public health projects. Currently, the Global Health Center maintains relationships with academic institutions and non-governmental organizations in North Dakota, Nicaragua, Argentina, Brazil, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, and India.

For more information about our partner sites, click here.

 
The Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute

The Global Health Center is excited to announce a new collaboration with the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute at Mount Sinai. This new research institute builds on Mount Sinai’s internationally recognized expertise in infectious diseases, including influenza, HIV, dengue, Ebola, and hepatitis C. Our partnership with the Institute provides opportunities for our trainees to work with world-class scientists on disease research and much-needed vaccine and drug development.

For more information about the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute, click here.

 
CONFERENCE
Each year the GHC hosts a regional conference for medical students, physicians, and other interested professionals. The topics are timely- for example, in recent years we focused on health impacts of global environmental change and the health consequences of the war in Iraq.

For more information about our annual conferences, click here.
 
PEOPLE

Directors:

Ramon Murphy, MD MPH [ramon.murphy@mssm.edu] Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, is the Director of Uptown Pediatrics, a practice serving the community. After completing a pediatric residency at Babies Hospital, he completed a residency in Community Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has worked at the Adolescent Center of Mount Sinai for 19 years, and recently Co-Directed with the Children's Aid Society a grant from the Mulago Foundation to establish an ongoing Community School in East Harlem. Dr. Murphy has received annual recognition as one of the top pediatric clinicians in New York and the Humanitarian Pediatric Resident award is named in his honor at Mount Sinai.

Natasha Anu Anandaraja, MD [natasha.anandaraja@mssm.edu] is a Pediatric Attending at Mount Sinai Medical Center and is faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Masters in Public Health program. She is a pediatric specialist for the NYC DOH Bureau of Tuberculosis Control. She attended medical school in New Zealand and completed her pediatric residency at Mount Sinai. Dr. Anandaraja has trained in Tropical Medicine and management of humanitarian emergencies. Over the last 10 years she has worked with international non-governmental organizations on rural primary health care and disaster relief in Sri Lanka and India. Her areas of interest include child survival, emergency humanitarian relief, and nutrition.

Sigrid Hahn, MD [sigrid.hahn@mssm.edu] is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and is also faculty of Mount Sinai's MPH program. She attended medical school at NYU and completed her residency training at Mount Sinai. She is interested in injury and violence in low and middle-income countries, and is working on an injury surveillance system in Honduras. Dr Hahn is faculty advisor to the student groups Medical Students Making Impacts, and Surveillance and Action against Injury and Violence.

Nils Hennig, MD PhD [nils.hennig@mssm.edu] is Assistant Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Co-Investigator in Mount Sinai's Fogarty Institute funded AIDS International Research Training Program in Argentina. Dr. Hennig obtained his medical degree and PhD in medical anthropology from the University of Cologne, Germany, completed a residency in Pediatrics at Elmhurst Hospital, a residency in Community and Preventive Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the Nicholas A. Rango HIV/AIDS fellowship at the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute and the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Hennig worked for years as Medical Coordinator and Program Officer for Doctors Without Borders in emergency situations in Liberia, Afghanistan, Angola, Sierra Leone, on long-term projects in tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, research on malaria in Sierra Leone, and in advocacy and as medical advisor in the USA. Dr. Hennig continues international relief work, advocacy and training for Doctors Without Borders, MENTOR and other agencies.

Jonathan Ripp, MD [jonathan.ripp@mssm.edu] graduated from Yale University School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. After residency, he spent a year working at a hospital for an underserved Native American community in Alaska. Dr Ripp now works clinically with the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program. He is Faculty Director of the Advancing Idealism in Medicine Initiative, a program dedicated to the promotion of idealism and humanism.

Ramin Asgary, MD, MPH, CTM&H [ramin.asgary@mssm.edu] graduated from Tehran University School of Medicine, completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Social Medicine at Montefiore-Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and his Preventive Medicine/Clinical Public Health fellowship at Mount Sinai. He completed his MPH in Refugee Health/Management of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies in Columbia University, and a MPH in Community Medicine at Mount Sinai. His area of interest/expertise is in international humanitarian assistance and relief work with emphasis on refugee situations. Dr. Asgary has worked as medical coordinator/program officer with Doctors without Borders since 1997 for Afghan refugees, and in Georgia, Russia, and war-torn area of Abkhazia, Sudan (Darfur), and Somalia/Kenya borders. Since 2001, he has been evaluating torture survivors in a human rights clinic, teaching clinical human rights, and advocating for asylum seekers. Dr. Asgary is currently a teaching faculty in the Dept of Preventive Medicine-MPH program, and the Global Health Center.

 
Other Faculty:

Roy Brown, MD, DTM&H, MPH

Daniel Caplivski, MD

 
Advisors:

David Muller, MD

Angela Diaz, MD, MPH

Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc

 
Program Coordinator:

Jenifar Chowdhury, MPH [jenifar.chowdhury@mssm.edu]

 
HOW YOU CAN HELP

The Mount Sinai Global Health Center relies on private support from individuals, foundations, and corporations. To make a gift, or for further information, please contact Dr. Sigrid Hahn [sigrid.hahn@mssm.edu].

 
PUBLICATIONS

For a list of publications and presentations of projects and research funded and supported by the Global Health Center, click here.