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Lisa V. Adams, MD

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Professional Interests

Dr. Adams is a thought leader with expertise in global health equity and tuberculosis care and delivery. Her interests include global and domestic health equity, equity in global partnerships, and decolonizing global health. Her work in tuberculosis is focused on international and domestic TB care and prevention, optimizing TB care delivery, TB program monitoring and evaluation, pediatric TB, and TB/HIV.

Grant Information

PI of Dartmouth's HIV Training Grant from NIH/FIC, 2018-24: Dartmouth-Boston University HIV-TB Research Training for the Infectious Disease Institute at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

Courses Taught

Dartmouth College: Global Health and Society (Dartmouth College, Geography 21.01); Essentials of Global Health Research (INTS 87.1);

Geisel School of Medicine: Patients and Populations (M2 year); Global Health Delivery: Mycobacteria/TB lectures in Scientific Basis of Medicine course; Case Studies (elective); Introduction to Global Health (elective )

Biography

Dr. Lisa V. Adams is the Associate Dean for Global Health, Director of Dartmouth’s Center for Global Health Equity, Director of Global Initiatives in the Office of the Provost, and Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Disease and International Health at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. In all her roles, she designs and leads interdisciplinary and collaborative global health programs engaging faculty, staff, and students. She also teaches global health and mentors undergraduates, medical, and public health students. Her technical area of expertise is international tuberculosis care and prevention with a focus on pediatric TB and TB/HIV healthcare delivery.

She has worked in domestic and international TB care and prevention for over 25 years. As an international TB technical advisor, she has worked in over a dozen countries to provide technical assistance to Ministries of Health and numerous nongovernmental partners. She has published extensively on her TB and HIV research and on global health equity and education. At Dartmouth, she also teaches global health and mentors undergraduates, medical, and public health students. She is engaged in research on TB and HIV care and is leading a major training initiative through the DarDar Programs, a collaboration between Dartmouth and Muhimbili University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Since 2012 she has led Dartmouth’s faculty participation in the Rwandan Human Resources for Health Program, a major medical education initiative. Her recent focus has been on developing equitable partnerships and her popular 2019 TEDx talk is entitled Global Health Partnerships: Check Your Privilege at the Border.