Michele Barry

rdf:langString Michele Barry

rdf:langString Michele Barry

rdf:langString Michele Barry

rdf:langString [Bryn Mawr College, [Albert Einstein College of Medicine]]

rdf:langString *Internal medicine *Tropical diseases *Emerging infectious diseases

rdf:langString Founder of WomenLift Health-a global leadership program for women in global health

rdf:langString Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases

rdf:langString Michele Barry is a professor of medicine, and director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and Senior Associate Dean for Global Health, both at Stanford University, where she entered after 28 years working at Yale. She specializes in tropical medicine, emerging infectious diseases, and in the globalization induced health problems of low income countries. Barry is an advocate for women's rights in the medical profession. She wrote the first policy for maternity leave in the Department of Medicine at Yale. Later, she created the Women Leaders in Global Health Conference, first held in Stanford in 2017. The following year she was the recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal by the American Medical Women's Association. Through the Center for Innovation in Global Health, Dr. Barry has allocated funding from donors for global health initiatives and research. She works in Planetary Health and is an advocate for directing attention to this field.