 MaryCatherine Arbour, MD’s formative experience in international health took place prior to medical school, when she worked as an anthropologist in an HIV hospice in Lima, Peru. There, she witnessed loss of life that could have been prevented, if not for the poverty that kept her patients from accessing the treatment they desperately needed. This, as well as the time she spent caring for HIV-positive patients in Burkina Faso, compelled her to pursue additional training in international health. As a Global Health Equity resident, Dr. Arbour hopes to gain the skills necessary to implement change by designing treatment programs, evaluating healthcare outcomes and performing operational research. Further, she hopes to teach and inspire others who enter medicine in hopes of providing a service and helping others.
Dr. Arbour earned her BA in Biological Anthropology from Swarthmore College in 1995 and her MD from Harvard Medical School in 2005. Her international research experience includes studies of international migration and its effects on culture in Latin America, the development of peasant agriculture within the context of globalization in Chile, and methods to assess the primary care infrastructure in post-tsunami Indonesia.
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