Dr. Lisa V. Adams
Faculty AdvisorAssociate Dean
Professor of Medicine Director
Dr. Lisa V. Adams is the Associate Dean for Global Health and a Professor of Medicine (Infectious Disease and International Health Section), of Epidemiology, and of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth. She is also the Director of Dartmouth's Center for Global Health Equity. In all her roles, she develops and oversees cross-cutting global health programs involving faculty, staff, and students. She also teaches global health courses to undergraduates, public health, and medical students. Her area of expertise is international tuberculosis (TB) care and prevention, with a focus on pediatric TB and TB/HIV healthcare delivery. 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 is currently leading several collaborative training and research programs with academic and community partners in Windhoek, Namibia, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Kigali, Rwanda. She is also the co-chair of "Accelerating Indigenous Health and Wellbeing: the Lancet Commission on Arctic and Northern Health.
Zorica Radanovic (Co-President)
Zorica (pronounced Zo-ritz-ah) Radanovic is a second-year medical student who grew up in Des Plaines, IL. She earned her BA in International & Global Studies from Middlebury College, then completed a fellowship with Lwala Community Alliance in Kenya. It was there that she found her true passion for global health after witnessing firsthand how a community-led organization leveraged community health workers to transform health systems. From there, she went on to work in global health supply chain in Cameroon and eventually found herself working with Evidence Action's Syphilis-Free Start program, providing technical assistance on program development, policy change, and data management to Cameroon, Liberia, and Zambia. She’s excited to explore global health through a clinical lens with GHS. At Geisel, she has become involved with SHARe VT, local harm reduction efforts, and maternal health research. Her identities as a first-generation college student, immigrant, and former refugee have deeply shaped her commitment to global health. Outside of school, she enjoys cooking, live music, and board games.
Arpie Bakhshian (Co-President)
Arpie earned her BA in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Wesleyan University and is currently a medical student at the Geisel. Her passion for global health has led her to work in Armenia, collaborating with healthcare teams in maternity clinics and providing support in communities along the Armenian border. These experiences have deepened her commitment to improving healthcare access in resource-limited and conflict-affected settings while learning from local providers and communities. Arpie looks forward to continuing to advance equitable healthcare through clinical care, research, and sustainable international partnerships.
Jack Tietjen (Speaker Events Coordinator)
Jack Tietjen is a second-year medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. After his Peace Corps service was canceled due to the pandemic, he pivoted and became a respiratory therapist, spending several years at Massachusetts General Hospital and training as an ECMO specialist. That experience began his interest in global health, disease prevention, and tuberculosis eradication. Through Geisel's Global Health Scholars program, he’s working toward global health equity by contributing to tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria research including improved monitoring and assessment, and treatment alternatives like long-acting injectables for MDR-TB. He’s also helped found Dartmouth's Partners In Health Engage chapter, focused on grassroots advocacy across campus. He hopes to connect his clinical background to more equitable approaches to pulmonary disease worldwide.
Inaya Hasan (Community Service Liaison)
Inaya is a second-year medical student originally from Leesburg, VA. She earned her BA degree in both religious studies and biology from the University of Virginia (Go Hoos!). She became drawn to Global Health as a child, as she navigated her own family's immigration stories from Pakistan and their hardships navigating healthcare in a foreign country. Throughout college, she volunteered her time at the Charlottesville Free Clinic, where she was exposed to the realities of uninsured and often neglected refugee families. During her time at Geisel thus far, she has happily engaged with various communities through undertakings such as Project Salud pop-up clinics and qualitative research regarding underrepresented populations in the U.S. healthcare system. She is honored to serve as the community service liaison for GHS this year.