The Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Emergency Medicine Global Health Fellowship prepares physicians to become pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) physicians and leaders in global health and international emergency systems. Fellows develop a broad range of clinical, research, teaching, and administrative skills in program design, implementation science, humanitarian aid and disaster response, emergency systems development, health program administration, funding, cross-cultural collaboration, international public health, and human rights.
This fellowship is designed for pediatricians or emergency medicine physicians who are interested in careers in global health and/or humanitarian response, academic international pediatric emergency medicine, and/or medical leadership and research in international health.
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Amundam Mancho is a 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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Sidney grew up in Vermont and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in Global Health and Health Policy from Harvard University in 2014. As an undergraduate, Sidney conducted qualitative research in Rwanda and Tanzania on the effectiveness of NGO Government partnerships in healthcare systems. She then worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company, which included time working on strategy for the University for Global Health Equity in Rwanda. She attended medical school at the University of Vermont where she served as a member of the University of Board of Trustees. As a pediatric resident in the BCRP, she was in the global health pathway and conducted research on effectiveness of telemedicine in remote critical care settings.
Dr. Niescierenko is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Public Health physician and founding Chair of the Global Health Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. The Boston Children's Global Health Program is partnership-based, working to improve child health through research, program implementation and education globally. She has experience in pediatric care, public health and health systems building with host country governments in more than 30 countries, on 5 continents as well as with the WHO, the World Bank, US CDC, USAID and various global non-governmental organizations. Her career focus is on building sustainable systems in fragile economic, humanitarian and conflict settings. Most recent work includes Liberia, Nigeria, Ukraine, Iraq, Palestine, Indonesia and India.
Dr. Mary Mottla is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and public health practitioner. She co-directs the Boston Combined Residency Program Global Health Scholar’s Pathway & Global Health Academy, as well as the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Global Health Pathway. Dr. Mottla is also a member of the Children in Crisis program, which works to address critical health needs of crisis affected children and youth in humanitarian contexts in collaboration with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. During undergraduate and medical school at Georgetown University, and residency at Children’s National Hospital in DC, she contributed to several research, health advocacy, and medical education projects through partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa, Central & South America,and South Asia. Her global health career focuses on the development of evidence based knowledge and practices in order to effectively deploy sustainable, high quality pediatric care to meet the needs of children in humanitarian crises.
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