 Molly McNairy, MD, MSc's interest in global health and social inequality began when she was an undergraduate. The suffering she witnessed while working in a shelter for homeless teenagers in downtown San Diego, providing acute medical care in Brazil, and immunizing village children in Niger radically changed her perspective of the world and defined her sense of purpose in it, inspiring her to become a physician. While attending medical school, she spent four months working in rural India, where she designed and implemented a comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment model. The obstacles she faced in obtaining political and financial support compelled her to pursue further education in the fields of health policy and economics and, as a student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she developed an interest in health systems and operational research. As a Global Health Equit resident, Dr. McNairy looks forward to additional training in academic health and social policy and to addressing preventable human suffering in resource poor settings. Dr. McNairy earned her BS in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. In 2004 she received her MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in 2005 she received her MD from Harvard Medical School. Her research experience includes conducting operational research on health systems factors influencing HIV clinical care in resource-poor settings for the Clinton Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative, designing site-specific clinical algorithms for the delivery of antiretroviral therapy for Partners In Health, and evaluating the United State’s existing programs targeting chronic asthma, lead poisoning and toxic molds as part of her work as a Burch Field Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina. |
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