International Health Policy Careers: Perspectives and Advice from Four Princeton Alumni

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Nov 15, 2023, 4:30 pm5:30 pm

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Come join as four Princeton alumni discuss their international health policy-focused career paths and offer advice to current students. Kim Bonner Dube ’08 *12, PhD, MPA is an epidemiologist in the CDC's Demand for Immunization Team in the Global Immunization Division. Erin Ferenchick ’00, MD is a medical anthropologist, consultant, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Cathy Nguyen *04, MPA is a senior HIV Strategy Advisor for the Office of HIV/AIDS at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Julie Whittaker *17, MPA is a Program Quality Technical Advisor with Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The event will be moderated by Dr. Alyssa Sharkey, Lecturer at the School of Public and International Affairs.

 

Kim Bonner Dube ’08, MPA ’12

Epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Global Immunization Division. Past experience at Doctors Without Borders, Tanzania Ministry of Health, and Oregon State Public Health Division. Former Princeton SINSI Fellow.

Erin Ferenchick ’00, M.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. Former Primary Health Care Advisor at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Past experience with the International Rescue Committee, World Health Organization, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

Cathy Nguyen, MPA ’04

Senior HIV Strategy Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of HIV/AIDS. Past experience with the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Doctors Without Borders, Africare, and the U.S. Peace Corps.

Julie Whittaker, MPA ’17

Program Quality Technical Advisor with Catholic Relief Services. Experience leading humanitarian and development activities in Sudan, Yemen, Palestine, and Iraq. Co-founder of the Jusoor-Amal Scholarship Fund, and former Fulbright Scholar in Jordan.

 

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  • Center for Health and Wellbeing
  • Global Health Program

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