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 […]

Dr. Troy Jacobs of USAID delivers a lecture on increasing child survival in low resource environments. Dr. Jacobs serves as adjunct faculty in the department of Pediatrics at Children’s National and George Washington University School of Medicine, as well as Senior Medical Advisor for pediatrics in the Office of Maternal-Child Health (MCH) & Nutrition at […]

Drs. Postels and Golitko will lead a presentation on malaria in children with interactive case discussions. Dr. Douglas G. Postels, MD, is an associate professor of pediatric neurology at George Washington University and Children’s National Hospital. Dr. Postels has worked in global health since 2009 and has completed and ongoing patient-oriented research projects in western, […]

Dr. Lance Chilton will lead this presentation on caring for Afghan families immigrating to the United States. Lance Chilton MD, FAAP practiced pediatrics in New Mexico for 45 years before retiring 6 years ago. He practiced on the Navajo Reservation, in private practice and for the university, working with underserved children, many of them immigrants. […]

Dr. Nadia Hashimi will lead this cultural sensitivity training. Dr. Hashimi is a pediatrician turned novelist who draws on her Afghan culture to craft internationally bestselling books for adults as well as young readers. While doing her fellowship in Emergency Medicine at Children’s National Hospital, Dr. Hashimi began crafting stories that drew on her heritage […]

Sarah Cady, LICSW and Amina Khan, MD will lead this discussion on caring for minors who are refugees. Sarah Cady brings over 20 years’ experience working with foreign-born populations in the education, health, and refugee resettlement arenas. She began working with refugees in Baltimore as an AmeriCorps VISTA organizing a refugee youth program. She has […]

Drs. Henna Qureshi and Arshia Qaadir of Inova Health System present on the social determinants of health and policy for resource allocation in immigrant and refugee health. Arshia Qaadir is a pediatrician at the Inova Cares Clinic for Children in Falls Church. Prior to this, she was a community pediatrician in private practice for several […]

Dr. Jacqueline Firth at USAID will be discussing global health policy. Jacqueline Firth, MD, MPH, is the Branch Director of the Pediatric and Maternal Clinical HIV Branch at USAID. Dr. Firth received her Medical degree and Masters of Public Health from Tulane University. Following over two years as an adult and pediatric tuberculosis specialist in […]

Dr. Kristen Breslin will be leading a case discussion on respiratory illness in resource limited environments. Kristen Breslin, MD, MPH, is an attending in the Divisions of Emergency and Hospitalist Medicine at Children’s National. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed her pediatric residency at the Boston Combined Residency Program. She […]

Join us for a session on an issue central to global health led by Dr. Nathalie Quion. Nathalie Quion, MD, is currently the Medical Director of Children’s Health Center at Adams Morgan and Shaw. She is a faculty member of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics and provides technical support and advocacy to the Community […]

Dr. Jennifer Chapman will be leading a case discussion on two of the most central issues in global health, diarrhea and dehydration. Dr. Chapman is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending and Director of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship at CNHS.  She now also coordinates the gPEM (Global Pediatric Emergency Medicine) Program at Children’s National, and […]

This session will be led by Dr. Steve Wall of Save the Children US. Dr. Wall is a pediatrician and neonatologist. For over ten years, he has been the Senior Advisor for Technical Support with Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives program, a global newborn health initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. […]

Children’s National’s Dr. Barbara Jantausch will be leading this practicum on malaria prophylaxis. Dr. Jantausch is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at CNH and a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Barbara Jantausch is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s National Hospital and […]

Dr. Kathy Ferrer, GHI’s education director, will be giving this lecture on Global HIV. Dr. Ferrer is an attending physician in the Pediatric Hospitalist Division and the Special Immunology Section of the Infectious Disease Department at CNH. Currently, she is the Education lead for the Children’s National Global Health Initiative and serves on the Global […]

Dr. Xiaoyan Song will be giving this presentation on infectious diseases in a global setting. Xiaoyan Song, Ph.D., MBBS, M.Sc., is the director of the Infection Control/Epidemiology at Children’s National Hospital and an Investigator in the Children’s National Research Institute. The epidemiologist infection control program is involved in surveillance, prevention, and control of infection. Dr. […]

Join us for this interactive training session and advance your preparedness and clinical skills for emergency situations in resource limited areas. Led by Dr. Kristen Breslin at CNH. Dr. Kristen Breslin is an attending in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children’s National. She is a Global Health Faculty Mentor for pediatric residents. She volunteers […]

Dr. Scott Norton, Chief of Dermatology at Children’s National, has a lifetime of experience providing dermatological care in resource limited settings. In addition to his role at CNH, Dr. Norton is on the faculty at George Washington University, Georgetown University, and Howard University. He maintains clinical privileges at the National Institutes of Health and Walter […]

This session will be led by Dr. David Diemert. Dr. David Diemert is Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine (primary) and Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine (secondary) at GW. Additionally, he is the Clinical Director of GW Vaccine Research Unit (GW VRUS), which is a collaboration between the School of Medicine and Health Sciences […]

Join us for this discussion on ethical dilemmas in providing care in resource limited and multicultural environments. Led by a team of experienced medical professionals at CNH in a range of departments: Drs. Kathy Ferrer, Damilola Akani, and Stacey Stokes. Dr. Ferrer is an attending physician in the Pediatric Hospitalist Division and the Special Immunology […]

This is a closed session for the in-person pediatric residents however the training utilizes the online SUGAR curriculum, which stands for Simulation Use for Global Away Rotations. This curriculum offers simulation experiences and preparation tools for international medical experiences and will be lead by Drs. Tania Ahluwalia, Brian Lee, Jennifer Tran, & Jennifer Falcon of Children’s […]

Dr. Lindy Fenlason is a Senior Nutrition and Capacity Building Advisor at USAID/Public Health Institute. She has over twelve years of clinical and public health experience including seven years spent in resource challenged settings in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Fenlason’s work has been focused on best practices in clinical care and […]