Jacquet Named Medical Director of Child Family Health International

Gabrielle A. Jacquet, MD, MPH, FACEP, assistant professor of emergency medicine, has been named medical director of Child Family Health International (CFHI), a non-profit organization providing more than 30 Global Health Education Programs in 10 countries. Jacquet, an attending physician and director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), and assistant director of global health programs at BUSM, will assist with pre-departure training and research as well as curriculum development.

Jacquet’s background includes extensive work in medical education, strengthening emergency care in resource-limited settings and global health research. She is the managing editor of the department’s Public & Global Health Annual Newsletter (to be published in summer 2016). Most recently, Jacquet has focused her time on founding and serving as course director for the newly released Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health, a series of open-access, interactive courses available at edX.org.

Jacquet received her medical degree from the University of Vermont and holds a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her emergency medicine residency at Denver Health Medical Center and fellowship training in International Emergency Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins.

Founded in 1992, CFHI (http://www.cfhi.org) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides global health education experiences and community empowerment in underserved communities around the world.  More than 30 programs broaden students’ perspectives about global health and more than 8,000 students have participated in CFHI programs to date.