Drs. Dami Akani and Stacey Stokes, the Fall 2021 Course Directors, provide a brief introduction to global child health and outline the week ahead.
Dr. Stacey Stokes is an attending in the Division of Hospitalist Medicine at Children’s National Hospital. Her global health career has included work in South Africa, Guyana, India and Haiti. Current international work involves yearly visits to Port au Prince, Haiti to provide inpatient clinical care and medical education to Haitian pediatric residents through Project Medishare. She has a special interest in international and local global health resident education and current work is surrounding growth of an e-module learning platform for global health education. She is co-director of the Global Health Curriculum at Children’s National Hospital and is available as a global health mentor for CNH residents.
Dr. Akani is a Pediatric Hospitalist Attending in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Children’s National, as well as, an instructor of Pediatrics at George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is the co-director of the Fall 2021 Introduction to Global Child Health Course. She is also a member of the pediatric Intern Selection committee and the Intern Selection Diversity Subcommittee here at Children’s National. She completed her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Global Health at the Harvard T.H. Chann School of Public Health followed by the medical degree at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She then completed her internship and residency training in general pediatrics at Children’s in 2020. She has a particular interest in medical education and global health workforce development with a focus on Africa.
