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Mona Haidar, MD, MPH

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About Mona Haidar, MD, MPH
Dr. Haidar is a Research Fellow at the Global Health Delivery (GHD) project and Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (DGHSM). Before coming to Boston she worked in Lesotho as Director of the Bobete clinic for the HIV Rural Initiative of Partners In Health Lesotho. She is currently working alongside GHD and DGHSM faculty on research and academic products designed to train global health delivery instructors and implementers. Meanwhile, she is developing a social medicine curriculum to be implemented at Lebanese American University in Lebanon, where she will return to assume a faculty position upon the conclusion of her fellowship.

Dr. Haidar received her MD from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon in 2003; she also completed her clinical training in Internal Medicine there from 2003 to 2006. She expects to receive her Masters in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health in 2009.

Read an interview on the GHD Website about my work in Lesotho: http://globalhealthdelivery.org/blog/?p=274

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Academic
  • Physician

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  • Global Health Delivery Project
    Website: http://globalhealthdelivery.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project is working to systematize the study of health care delivery, to disseminate new learning to practitioners, and improve health care delivery in resource-limited settings.
  • Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
    Website: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/ Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: DGHSM is an interdisciplinary basic science department focused on both teaching and conducting research about the social, cultural and moral aspects of illness and health care, with a special emphasis on reducing health disparities and improving the quality of medical care. Central to the mission of the Department is an effort to address significant global health problems affecting resource-poor societies and underserved American communities. Members of the Department develop innovative interventions for dealing with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, mental illnesses, and drug abuse in resource poor settings.
  • Lebanese American University
    Website: http://www.lau.edu.lb/ Type: Academic Institution Country: Lebanon About: The Lebanese American University is a multi-campus career-oriented institution which prepares students for responsible living, fully aware of the rich heritage and multiple needs of their respective communities. With two campuses in Beirut and Byblos, the university is at the crossroads of many interacting educational systems.
  • Partners In Health - PIH
    Website: http://www.pih.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: Partners In Health, co-founded by physicians Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, serves millions of poor patients in nine countries, providing them with extensive health care and social services that address the root causes of poor health. By successfully proving that providing comprehensive, community-based medical care for complex diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis is not just possible but essential, the organization has helped bring about significant changes in global health policies and practices.

Work Location(s)

  • Lebanon

Language(s)

  • Arabic
  • English
  • French

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