Team
Get to know our team of faculty and staff committed to ensuring that everyone lives a healthy life on a thriving planet.
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Team
Get to know our team of faculty and staff committed to ensuring that everyone lives a healthy life on a thriving planet.
Banner photo courtesy of imagesofempowerment.com
Senior Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health
As a founder and director of the Stanford/Yale Global Health Scholars Program, Dr. Barry has sent more
than 2,000 physicians overseas to help strengthen health infrastructure in low-resource settings. She is an investigator in two NIH-HEPI (Health Professional Education Partnership) grants at the University of Zimbabwe and the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In addition, she is part of an NIH consortium sending researchers overseas as Global Health Equity Scholars. She launched the Women Leaders in Global Health conferences and WomenLift Health, a leadership accelerator for women working in global health. Dr Barry received the Elizabeth Blackburn Award for mentorship of women in careers in medicine and the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Consortium of Universities of Global Health.
Associate Dean of Global Health, Center for Innovation in Global Health
Dr. LaBeaud is a physician-scientist, epidemiologist, and professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. She studies the epidemiology and ecology of domestic and international arboviruses and emerging infections, with an interest in the vector, host, and environmental factors that affect transmission dynamics and spectrum of disease. She currently heads a clinical research lab focused on better understanding the risk factors and long-term health consequences of arboviral infections, specifically Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, dengue fever, yellow fever and Zika, and the most effective means of prevention. Her research is community-engaged and seeks to define and then disrupt the underlying structural determinants of health. She studies the human health impacts of climate change including research focused on innovative solutions to the global plastic pollution crisis. Her current field sites include Kenya, Grenada, and Brazil. She recently launched a nonprofit, the Health and Environmental Research Institute- Kenya which is an initiative focused on Kenya to inspire community education, new research, policy change and grass roots activism in environmental health issues.
Director of Research, Center for Innovation in Global Health
Dr. Luby’s research interests include identifying and interrupting pathways of infectious disease transmission in low-income countries. He works primarily in Bangladesh but also has projects in Western China and Liberia. His ongoing work includes 1) assessing the impact on health and child cognitive development ofscalable strategies to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene; 2) efforts to better understand the burden of disease from typhoid fever and evaluating approaches to reduce that burden; 3) developing and evaluating interventions to reduce the risk of a Nipah virus pandemic; and 4) evaluating the impact of the Bangladeshnational vaccine program on the burden of pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae type B infection.
Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health
Amanda Marr Chung, DrPH, has 20 years of experience in global health, working in academia and the non-profit and private sectors. In her prior roles, she has focused on capacity strengthening, leadership and management, and monitoring and evaluation. At UCSF, she was the PI on a project in Zimbabwe to integrate male circumcision into routine primary care to prevent HIV. Amanda’s experience spans the areas of immunizations, maternal and child health, HIV, eye health, and malaria in ten countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She also launched the American Indian Sight Initiative for Seva Foundation. Amanda co-developed a bottom-up systems change framework used by health programs in Eswatini, Namibia, and Zimbabwe and co-founded a South African non-profit organization to scale this work with her South African, Zimbabwean, and British partners. She is a member of the WomenLift Health 2023 North America cohort.
Amanda is a graduate of Princeton University, where she majored in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She received her MPH in Community-Oriented Public Health Practice from the University of Washington and her DrPH from UC Berkeley.
Amanda lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. In her spare time, she enjoys running, cycling, skiing, backpacking, and traveling with her family.
Research CoordinatorÂ
Ola serves as a research assistant for Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health supporting different efforts in education and research. She has been involved with vulnerable populations in different capacities for more than 10 years. Ola’s areas of interest include forced displacement with focus on refugees, and women’s health. Her passion for global health and refugees stems from her personal experience in armed conflict and her own journey as a resettled refugee. Previously she served as the regional coordinator for International Services at the American Red Cross where she mostly worked with refugees and immigrants. She supported the establishment of the Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Health Initiative (RAHI) at UCSF that focuses on research, education and community engagement and she serves as both a steering committee member and research coordinator. Ola earned her B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley. She also holds an M.S. in Global Health Sciences from UCSF. She is fluent in English and Arabic and has a big interest in different languages.
Executive Assistant
Cristina has 15+ years of administrative and operations experience. She worked for UCSF for four years before joining Stanford University. She worked for Radiation Oncology for two years and Stanford Humanities and Sciences for eight+ years as an executive assistant and office manager supporting the principal investigator and executive director. Cristina earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management with an emphasis in Banking and Finance from Saint Paul College in Manila, Philippines. Cristina speaks three languages: Tagalog, English, and Spanish (not fluent). Her personal interests include spending time with her granddaughter, hiking and exercising, reading, cooking, volunteering, and more.
Program Manager, SASH
Kelsey Fisher serves as the Program Manager of the African Scholars in Global Health Program for Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health. Kelsey returned to Stanford in December 2023, after nearly a decade managing programs to improve health equity, livelihoods and education access, with a focus in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most recently, Kelsey managed a portfolio of health systems strengthening programs at GAIA Global Health, where she managed GAIA’s scholarship and fellowship programs for nursing students and new graduates in Malawi. Before getting started in international development, Kelsey worked in Academic Services at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where she supported faculty and curriculum planning.
Kelsey has a B.A. in Communications from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo) and an M.S. in Public Administration from San Jose State. She is passionate about health equity and improving education access in hard-to-reach areas. In her free time, Kelsey loves exploring San Francisco, hiking, running, seeing live music, and spending quality time with family and friends.
Associate Director, Education
Yosefa Gilon serves as the Associate Director, Global Health Education for Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, supporting all global health education initiatives. Yosefa joined Stanford University in 2014, where she managed short-term international programs at the Bing Overseas Studies Program. One of the programs she managed was the Community Health in Oaxaca course, an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students interested in community and global health. In 2019 she joined Stanford’s Computer Science Department where she managed international computer science education programs. She joined CIGH in 2022.
Yosefa has a B.A. in Psychology from U.C. Irvine and a M.A. in International Education from the School for International Training. She is very passionate about education equity and international education and has facilitated experiential education opportunities all over the world. While serving as the Logistics Director for THINK Global School, a traveling high school, she lived and worked in Argentina, Bhutan, Ecuador, Germany, India, Japan, and Thailand.
She is very excited to be collaborating with people across the university and beyond to bring global health education opportunities to the Stanford community.Feel free to reach out to her about anything global health education related.
Communications Manager,
Jamie Hansen joined the Center for Innovation in Global Health in the fall of 2021. She serves as Communications Manager, helping to amplify the work of the center and its fellows through strong storytelling and multimedia communications.
Before coming to Stanford, Jamie worked as director of communications at the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) between 2015-2021. In this position, she developed SCOE’s strategic and crisis communications capacity, supporting her organization and the 40 school districts of Sonoma County through numerous crises and communications initiatives. This included responding the physical and mental health impacts of numerous devastating wildfires and navigating school policy during a global pandemic.
Prior to working in communications, she covered education and the environment as a print and multimedia journalist. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford and is accredited in public relations.
Jamie lives in Santa Rosa with her husband and two young daughters.
Program Coordinator
Check back soon for Rose’s bio.
Digital Outreach Assistant
LourDrick Valsote (‘24) is a junior at Stanford majoring in Human Biology with a concentration in Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience. His global health interests center around how policies can be implemented to promote better health and education outcomes in urban and rural communities in his home country of the Philippines. He serves as Social Media and Digital Outreach Assistant, sharing the work of CIGH and its fellows through digital communications.
At Stanford, LourDrick currently serves as Design and Publicity Co-Chair of the Pilipino American Student Union and Co-President of Stanford Taekwondo. He also works in the Knowles Lab, where he researches forms of pediatric epilepsy. In his free time, LourDrick can be found skateboarding around campus and filming videos for his YouTube channel.
