Michelle Morse, M.D.

Michelle Morse, M.D., majored in French in college while completing her pre-medical requirements, with the idea of becoming involved in medical work in West Africa. As a medical student, she spent a month volunteering at a pediatrics clinic in Guatemala where she assisted in clinic operations, inventory, and educational classes. This experience left her with a deeper desire to discover the root causes of a country’s health problems, and between her third and fourth years of medical school she spent a year in Botswana researching better ways to diagnose patients with tuberculosis. While in Botswana, she witnessed the importance of public health interventions and their impact on health at a population level, and this reinforced her commitment to fight for equal access to health care. As a Global Health Equity resident, Dr. Morse hopes to gain the public health training necessary to fight tuberculosis and HIV as well as to integrate more primary care and women's health into global health infrastructure.

Dr. Morse earned her B.S. in 2003 from the University of Virginia. In 2008, she received her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her research experience includes assessing better ways to diagnose tuberculosis in patients with a non-productive cough, assessing the prevalence of Cryptococcal pneumonia, and cost-effective methods for diagnosing HIV in infants.