Eleanor Semmes, MD, PhD is a pediatric resident who earned her BA in Political Economy and BS in Neuroscience at Tulane University and MD/ PhD at Duke University’s Medical Scientist Training Program. Her PhD research at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute focused on defining maternal-fetal immune responses to congenital CMV infection to guide vaccine development. Through the Duke Global Health Institute, she also completed a doctoral certificate and fieldwork with a pediatric oncology group in Mwanza, Tanzania to help improve clinical care, build local research capacity, and advance cultural awareness of childhood cancer. Dr. Semmes plans to integrate global health into her clinical training in residency and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship as well as future research endeavors related to her interests in early life immunity and vaccinology.

Faven Russom was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. She attended William and Mary earning a degree in Neuroscience with a minor in Africana studies. She completed her medical degree at Eastern Virginia Medical School where she dedicated herself to working with underserved communities and promoting diversity in medicine. During her time there, she served as Vice President of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), led a mentorship program for underrepresented high school students aspiring to medical careers, and served on the board of an organization focused on assisting eligible patients with Medicaid enrollment. She then moved to Boston where she is currently completing her pediatric residency in the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy (LEAD) track at the Boston Combined Residency Program. Her background as the daughter of Eritrean immigrants and experience with Global Medical Brigades have profoundly shaped her perspective on healthcare and her pursuit of a career in global health. Outside of medicine, she enjoys arts and crafts projects, reading and exploring new restaurants.

Matthew Nagy is a 2nd-year pediatric resident in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. Originally from the Midwest, he completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees in public health at the University of Michigan, where he developed an interest in addressing inequities through his work in the Childhood Disparities Research Laboratory. During his graduate studies he spent time in rural Burundi, evaluating local interventions aimed at improving maternal and child health, and continued this work throughout medical school at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. His clinical and research interests lie in pediatric hematology-oncology. As part of the Margaret C. Ryan Global Health Program, he hopes to partner with the local community leadership to build sustainable healthcare models that enhance capacity for diagnosing and treating pediatric malignancies globally.

Amundam Mancho is a third-year pediatric resident in the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track (LEAD), as well as one of the global health residents. Her hometown is Mount Olive, NJ. Throughout her educational journey, her global health interests and experience includes systems strengthening and capacity building in resource limited environments, diabetes prevention in Southeast Asian populations, vaccine advocacy for communicable diseases including malaria in pediatric patients, and educational advocacy for elementary school children through her non-profit Footprints'. She aspires to be a clinical expert at the intersection of advocacy, health equity, and global health. Her clinical work is primarily focused in Western Africa, specifically in Cameroon and Ghana.

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Kendall Carpenter is PGY-3 in the Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP). She attended Bowdoin College for undergrad where she studied Neuroscience and English. Between college and medical school, she spent a year working at a pediatric HIV clinic in Gaborone, Botswana, writing curriculum for the clinic’s psychosocial support department and doing research on factors influencing diagnostic delays of pediatric cancers in the country. She then attended Harvard Medical School and T.H. Chan School of Public Health where she obtained her MD and MPH in Global Health and interned at Harvard Humanitarian Institute (HHI) where she focused on social impact storytelling and implementing an educational distribution and impact assessment of the How I Live documentary, a film about closing the global survival gap for childhood cancer. During residency, she has worked closely with the pediatric oncology team at Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence (BCCOE) on projects specifically looking at sarcoma epidemiology and outcomes within Rwanda. She plans to pursue a career in pediatric oncology with a research focus on global pediatric oncology and communication research.

Sitarah Mathias is a third-year pediatrics resident at Boston Childrens’ Hospital and A Global Health Pathway resident with interests in global health, neonatology and nephrology. During residency, she worked with the Global AIM Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the World Health Organization on reviewing evidence of different antibiotic combinations to update WHO Guidelines on the treatment of young infant sepsis. She is also a resident research collaborator with Cloudphysician Pvt Ltd, India, a tele-ICU company. She is currently working on characterizing neonatal AKI (Acute kidney injury) and its risk factors in Cloudphysician’s tele-NICU cohort in India.