Morgan Chessia Espérance, MD

Morgan Chessia Espérance earned her ScB from Brown University in 2005, and her MD from Harvard Medical School in 2011. As an undergraduate, Morgan was a Swearer International Service Fellow and spent two summers volunteering at Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in rural Haiti. After graduating from college, she worked for the Batey Relief Alliance in the Dominican Republic, running a mobile clinic that provides primary care and AIDS treatment to Haitian migrant workers. She then returned to Haiti to work for the Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team, where she started a project that rehabilitated three public clinics and trained community health workers in the northwest. During medical school, Morgan wrote a teaching case for the Global Health Delivery Project about the scale-up of Antiretroviral Treatment in Zambia. She also spent a month volunteering with Partners in Health at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince following the earthquake. Additionally, she has collaborated on several research projects with The Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) that aim to understand and improve retention of HIV-positive patients in treatment programs.  As a Global Health Equity Resident, Morgan plans to pursue her MPH and to continue to improve health care delivery in Haiti.