Posts by Louise C. Ivers, MD
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Medical Grand Rounds: Global Experience with the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned from Public Health Responses in Haiti, Malawi and Vietnam
On March 4, 2021, the Department of Medicine held a virtual Grand Rounds on COVID-19. Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, interim chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, and experts from the local Boston medical community, spoke about the global experience with the virus. They shared lessons learned from Haiti, Malawi and Vietnam.
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Medical Grand Rounds: COVID-19 in Low-Resourced Settings—Reaching for Global Health Equity
On March 19, 2020, the Department of Medicine held held its second virtual Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19. Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, executive director of the Mass General Center for Global Health, along with other members of the Greater Boston and world medical community, presented on the global effects of the pandemic and helping countries that have inequities of care.
Biography
Dr. Louise Ivers is executive director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, an associate professor of global health and social medicine and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, an associate physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Mass General, and an associate physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). She is special advisor for Partners In Health (PIH), an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care and social services to poor communities around the world, supported by research and advocacy. She completed medical school at University College Dublin, Ireland, residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a fellowship in infectious diseases at the combined MGH/BWH program. Dr. Ivers also earned a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a master of public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a research doctorate in medicine from the National University of Ireland.
