After finishing her undergraduate degree in Political Science (International Relations concentration) and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California Berkeley with a certificate in Human Rights, Dr. Leff completed medical school at Ben Gurion University School of Medicine in Israel and Emergency Medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic. She completed a research year with the Yale Emergency Medicine Global Health Section. She was the resident representative to the Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA) of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and has served as co-chair of GEMA’s humanitarian and pediatric emergency medicine task forces. She received the 2023 GEMA Young Physician Award. During residency and her first year as a pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Boston Children’s, she has been instrumental in the development of a novel Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Critical Care training program as well as an innovative trauma activation and training program in Kumasi, Ghana. She has contributed to emergency medicine training and research in Israel, the Palestinian West Bank, and Bolivia. Building off her work with multiple non-governmental organizations in the human rights and humanitarian sectors in the Middle East while completing her education, she plans to continue working to improve pediatric emergency care in regions of conflict during her fellowship.

After finishing his combined Medical Doctorate at Texas Tech El Paso and Master of Public Health at University of Texas Health,Dr. Dodderer entered pediatric residency at Boston Children’s Hospital. While in residency, he continued global health work by serving as the pilot resident rotator of the newly launched Indian Health Services collaboration with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in Eagle Butte, SD. He also worked clinically and taught pediatric residents at John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia,which houses Liberia’s only pediatric residency program. Now as one of the combined pediatric emergency medicine & global health fellows at Boston Children’s Hospital, Joshua has focused his research in investigating differences in pediatric mortality rates and health outcomes for children in conflict-affected and socially/institutionally fragile countries. He has also collaborated with the International Medical Corps in Amman, Jordan to provide pediatric emergency-focused training and education to local hospital providers serving the Syrian refugee population.

Dr. Jarjour received her undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Global Health Technologies from Rice University in Houston, Texas. As a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), she completed the Care of the Underserved and Global Health Tracks, spending time in Gaborone, Botswana, with the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative and Global Hematology Oncology Program of Excellence. Dr. Jarjour completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of Colorado. She earned a Diploma of Tropical Medicine at BCM and obtained the Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health. Following residency, Dr. Jarjour spent 2 years in Texas working as an urgent care pediatrician, while teaching at the BCM National School of Tropical Medicine. She started her Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in July of 2023. She is currently conducting a research study on the use of point-of-care lung ultrasound as a tool to improve the diagnosis of pneumonia in children in the Emergency Department. During the upcoming academic year, Dr. Jarjour will be working with the Margaret C. Ryan Global Health Program to help develop global health partnerships in graduate medical education and pediatric emergency medicine readiness.

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After finishing her undergraduate degree in International Health at Georgetown University, Dr. Mottla completed medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine and pediatric residency within the global health track at Children’s National Hospital. Dr. Mottla completed a Masters in Public Health in Humanitarian Health at George Washington University. During her first year as a pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Boston Children’s, she has contributed to developing a novel two-day pediatric trauma training course for healthcare providers in Ukraine. She looks forward to further growth of the training initiative as it transitions to a locally run program for sustainability, as well as expansion of the training to other humanitarian settings.

Sonia piloted a novel self-assessment tool to evaluate pediatric emergency care  capacity in resource constrained countries. This tool, developed in collaboration with partners in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, and Washington DC, aims to address the lack of dedicated assessment tools for pediatric emergency care in these settings. By operationalizing existing standards from the WHO and other international bodies, Sonia’s project provides hospitals with valuable insights into their emergency care capacities, identifying areas for improvement and offering resources to enhance care. The tool is currently being piloted across several African hospitals, with plans to expand and validate it further. Sonia’s leadership in this project and her contributions to mixed methods research, including her acceptance at the Pediatric Academic Society and completion of a Harvard Catalyst course, underscore her commitment to advancing pediatric emergency care globally.

Before attending and receiving her MD from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Gabler earned an MSc in Global Health Sciences and a DPhil in Public Health through the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Her DPhil her research focused on health-seeking behaviors and health service delivery in rural Nepal. After medical school Dr. Gabler completed residency at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where she was awarded a certificate in global health excellence for her clinical work in Tanzania. During pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, she completed a project to assess concordance with clinical practice guidelines for the workup and management of common pediatric conditions in the John F. Kennedy Medical Center’s Emergency Department in Monrovia, Liberia. It is the hope that this project will serve as a first step towards the development of more robust regionalized clinical support tools to assist providers working in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Dr. Junior completed her fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2023.  During her fellowship, she spent a month serving as a pediatrician in Liberia, was a teaching assistant in a social medicine course at Harvard Medical School and contributed to a publication on decoloniality in global health.  In 2023, Dr. Junior became a pediatric emergency medicine attending at Lurie Children’s Hospital and splits her time working as a pediatrician abroad with Doctors Without Borders.

During fellowship, Dr. Mills was a pediatric technical lead on several emergency care projects and contributed to multiple initiatives in pediatric emergency care in India, Palestine, Nigeria, Liberia, Ukraine, and the United States. In 2021, Dr. Mills was the recipient of a Radcliffe Institute Accelerator Workshop Award and was a guest editor for a special edition on Palestinian Health in the Health and Human Rights Journal.  Dr. Mills co-founded and is currently the  co-director of the Palestine program for Health and Human Rights, a  partnership program between the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at  Harvard University and the Institute of Community and Public Health at  Birzeit University. Dr. Mills completed the MPH in Global Health program at  the TH Chan Harvard School of Public Health.

Chris A. Rees, MD, MPH is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, an attending physician in the pediatric emergency department at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and a pediatric research scientist with the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network, which is a multi-country surveillance program that generates detailed information on causes of deaths in children aged <5 years in high-mortality areas in seven countries.

He joined Emory in 2021 after completing a combined fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Global Health at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Chris was selected as chief fellow and was appointed as clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School during fellowship. Chris completed his residency and chief residency in the Pediatrics and Global Child Health program at Texas Childrens Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. During that time, he spent a year in Malawi providing clinical care to children with HIV, as well as conducting research on HIV-related outcomes among children and teaching residents and medical students. Chris received his medical and master of public health degrees with an emphasis in Global Health from the University of Utah.

Chris's research interests include developing novel ways of identifying children at risk for, and developing methods to reduce, mortality in low- and middle-income countries, elucidating research priority gaps, improving issues around research collaboration in global health, and reducing pediatric healthcare disparities and inequities in the United States. Chris has served as a research consultant to the WHO and UNICEF-Liberia through which he has collaborated on multiple prospective studies assessing outcomes among children in low- and middle-income countries. He is the principal investigator on an externally funded, ongoing, prospective study evaluating post-discharge outcomes in Monrovia, Liberia and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.