Division of Global Health Equity

Jennifer Furin, MD, PhD, is an anthropologist and infectious diseases specialist with expertise in the treatment of HIV and MDRTB in resource-poor settings.  She also serves as Associate Director for the Howard Hiatt Residency in Internal Medicine and Global Health Equity.  

An expert on the social roots of infectious diseases, she conducts training, consultation and research on the application of qualitative and ethnographic methods to management of complex health interventions in resource-poor settings. Dr. Furin is responsible for the design and oversight of several ethnographic studies relating to systems and scale-up in community-based management of HIV and MDR-TB.

Dr. Furin received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California and her MD from Harvard Medical School. She completed an Internal Medicine residency at the Brigham, followed by advanced training in Infectious Diseases at Case Western Reserve University. She divides her time equally between the Brigham and Women's Hospital and field sites in Peru, Haiti, and Russia.