Craig Spencer
Craig Spencer MD MPH is the Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center. He divides his time between providing clinical care in New York, teaching graduate students in the Program on Forced Migration and Health, and working internationally in public health and humanitarian response. He has worked in Africa and Southeast Asia as a field epidemiologist on numerous projects examining access to medical care and human rights, including measuring mortality and maternal health in Burundi, child separation in emergencies in D.R. Congo and South Sudan, hepatitis E surveillance response program in Chad, and coordinating Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) national epidemiological response in Guinea during the Ebola outbreak. In addition to his international public health work, Craig has provided medical care in the Caribbean, Central America, West and East Africa, and most recently abroad onboard a MSF medical search and rescue boat in the Mediterranean. From 2019-2022, he served on the Board of Directors for Doctors Without Borders USA.
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