Spring 2024 Introduction to Global Child Health Course

This session will be delivered by Crystal Bateman, BSN, MSN, PCP of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Crystal Bateman, MSN, BSN, PCP, is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner on the Medical Services Team, in the Division of Health for the Unaccompanied Minors Program (DHUC), Office of Refugee Resettlement, in the Administration for Children and Families at […]

Dr. Carrie Golitko will be giving this course’s lecture on malaria with interactive case discussions. Dr. Golitko is the Medical Director of the Global Health Initiative here at Children’s National Hospital. After completing her residency at Brown/Rhode Island Hospital she moved to sub-Saharan Africa to work for Texas Children’s Hospital Pediatric AIDS Initiative for 8 […]

Dr. Stacey Stokes, the Course Director, provides 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 […]

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 […]

Dr. Mattia Chason leads this case discussion on caring for children with fever in resource limited settings. Dr. Chason is an attending pediatric hospitalist at Children’s National Medical Center for the Mid-Atlantic Kaiser Permanente Medical Group. He recently graduated from the Children’s National Health System Pediatric Residency program and was awarded a certificate in Global […]

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 […]

This session on WASH will be led by Lindsay Denny of UNICEF. Lindsay Denny is a global health and WASH expert, currently working as a consultant for UNICEF-HQ on the Healthy Environments for Healthy Children Team, where she develops recommendations for the integration on WASH and health programming. She is also an Associate Director of […]

Join us for a session on an issue central to global health led by Dr. Ante Wind. Dr. Ante Wind is a pediatric hospitalist at the National Institutes of Health where she manages the care of clinically complex patients with rare diseases requiring cardiorespiratory monitoring who are undergoing medical treatment under research protocols. Dr. Wind […]

Dr. Cyril Jacquot is Director of the Hematology Laboratory and Associate Director of Transfusion Medicine at Children’s National. Join us for this interactive session on malaria from an expert in the field!

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 […]

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, Eiman Abdulrahman, and Stacey Stokes. Dr. Ferrer is an attending physician in the Pediatric Hospitalist Division and the Special Immunology […]

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. Leah Greenspan Hodor is board certified in both pediatrics and neonatal medicine, and has extensive experience working in Global Health with a focus on newborn health in Sub Saharan Africa, India, and Haiti. Dr. Greenspan has developed, trained and implemented programs both in the rural and urban settings teaching medical professionals life-saving skills in […]

Jeniece Alvey at USAID will be delivering an introduction to nutrition in global health with a focus on immigrant families. Jeniece Alvey currently serves as a Nutrition Advisor at USAID in the Bureau for Global Health, where she contributed to the management of the project SPRING, and is a member of the team for supervising […]

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 feature a discussion about careers in global health led by senior program specialists at USAID and Children’s National researchers and providers with extensive experience in global health. Troy Jacobs, MD, MPH, FACP Dr. Jacobs serves as adjunct faculty in the department of Pediatrics at Children’s National and George Washington University School of […]