Careers in Global Health - Dr. Hwang
Michelle Rose Meyer
Tomorrow Dr. Hwang will be speaking in S-214 at noon. Burritos are back this week!
Dr. Jimee Hwang is a medical epidemiologist with the Malaria Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently seconded to the Global Health Group (GHG) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also a Commander with the U.S. Public Health Service. In her current position, she is the CDC team lead for the President's Malaria Initiative in the Greater Mekong Sub-region and Ethiopia. She works with numerous implementing partners in various countries to provide technical assistance in the areas of surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, and operations research. Her recent projects have focused on various aspects of malaria case management e.g. antimalarial drug resistance monitoring and optimizing case management policies, surveillance systems and interventions focusing on malaria elimination, and conducting large scale surveys. She trained in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at CDC. She obtained her AB from Dartmouth College, M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, MPH from University of California, Berkeley, DTM&H from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at UCSF.