GHOPE Faculty

Dr. Appenteng was born and raised in Ghana, where she first became aware of how limited resources negatively impact health outcomes. Her clinical rotations in Ghana and Tanzania strengthened her interest in building the capacity of pediatric emergency systems. These experiences led Dr. Appenteng to conduct a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines for traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and a pediatric TBI epidemiological study using trauma registry data from Tanzania. Most recently, she has been involved in medical education and simulation aiming at improving the recognition and management of acutely ill and deteriorating children at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana. Her research interests lie at the intersection of education and implementation science within pediatric emergency settings around the world. She also is interested in fostering international collaborations through medical education to improve pediatric emergency medical care.

Dr. Aurora’s global health work focuses on improving care for adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease through research, education, and health system strengthening. He collaborates with institutions in Tanzania, Brazil, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya to strengthen transition-of-care programs (transitioning from pediatric to adult care), develop contextually appropriate clinical tools, and support implementation science initiatives. As an Honorary Lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania, he also provides regular educational lectures and mentors trainees in hematology. His work also includes international research collaborations on sickle cell disease complications, development of transition toolkits, and consultation on clinical research and registry development to improve outcomes across diverse healthcare settings.

Dr. Berkowitz started his global health career in Ethiopia teaching resuscitation and emergency care to pediatric and emergency medicine residents. This experience led to his involvement in new pediatric emergency and critical care medicine fellowship programs in Addis Ababa. He has done both in-person and remote teaching as well as fellow mentorship for these programs. Since that time, he was given the opportunity to become co-director of a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, where he currently spends most of his time abroad. He, along with colleagues, is helping to create champions in the field of pediatric emergency medicine in their home countries who will go on to oversee education as well as be leaders in policy making in the region.

Dr. Choudhary is a pediatrician with an academic focus in global child health and vaccine hesitancy. She leads an interdisciplinary course for medical students, nursing students, and undergraduate students on clinical perspectives in global health at Emory University and is a co-investigator with Dr. Lavanya Vasudevan’s Collaborative Hub for Immunization, Implementation Research, and Policy lab studying childhood vaccination timeliness in rural Tanzania. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, she was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Division of Global Health Protection at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through which she provided technical assistance on the COVID-19 response to the U.S., Guatemala, and Thailand governments. Dr. Choudhary’s academic and research interests focus on implementation strategies to improve vaccine uptake and expanding access to quality pediatric primary care globally.

Dr. Dubick is a pediatrician who completed fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases and recently joined the Emory Pediatric Infectious Disease Division as junior faculty in July 2026. He has a longstanding interest in global health research, education, and clinical work. He was a participant in Emory’s Global Health Residency Scholars Program during residency and fellowship. His research focus is pediatric infectious respiratory disease with an emphasis on pediatric tuberculosis (TB). He has multiple active TB-related research projects with collaborators in the United States and Ethiopia.

Former Botswana Peace Corps volunteer, now passionate academic clinician educator specializing in the care of critically ill children. Career foci revolve around multidisciplinary education of trainees at all levels, excellent care of critically ill children, and the enhancement and improvement of patient safety in the PICU.

Dr. Fanny completed residency and fellowships in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Global Health at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital and holds an MPH from Emory Rollins School of Public Health. Her work focuses on pediatric health systems and capacity strengthening using quality improvement methods in francophone West Africa, including co-directing an AAP ICATCH-funded triage implementation project in Côte d’Ivoire. Dr. Fanny is an active leader in global health education—co-developing the AAP Global Health Education for Anti Racism and Decolonization (GHEARD curriculum), serving as education co-chair for the AAP section on global health, and publishing on anti-racist, decolonizing approaches to global health training. She is multilingual (English, French, Spanish, Bambara/Dioula) and maintains clinical and quality improvement collaborations in Cote d'Ivoire and the United States.

Dr. Flynn has a strong interest in medical education and is the Program Director for the Pediatric Track of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship as well as the Associate Director for the GHOPE Global Health Pediatric Residency Track. She has collaborated with global colleagues at St. Jude’s Children Hospital to develop Adapted Resource and Implementation Application (ARIA) guides for Palliative Medicine topics. As an affiliate member of the Midwest Consortium of Global Child Health Educators, she has collaborated on a variety of education-based projects including the development of a comprehensive curriculum to support implementation of rigorous post-rotation debriefing with trainees following global health away rotations. The resulting Understanding Needs in Post-rotation Activities and Coaching Kit (UNPACK) modules consist of peer-reviewed activities to address five critical elements of a robust debriefing program: learner preparation, structure of debriefing programs, strategies for supporting emotional and cognitive debriefing, facilitating mental health support, and providing feedback.

Dr. Fauntleroy-Love is a neurodevelopmental disabilities pediatrician. Her research uses implementation science to improve access to care for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities in resource-limited settings, with a current focus on developing and evaluating caregiver-delivered and mobile health interventions. Her work has been conducted primarily in partnership with Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and the AMPATH program in western Kenya. In addition to her research, Dr. Fauntleroy-Love is committed to advocacy efforts that promote inclusion, reduce stigma, and expand equitable access to developmental disability services for children with disabilities and their families.

Dr. Greenbaum created the Global Health Committee of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology (ASPN) when he was ASPN President. He has been a research mentor for pediatric nephrologists in India and Egypt. Dr. Greenbaum has participated in formal teaching courses in India, Bhutan, and Vietnam, and provided in person lectures to physicians in Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Lao, and Bhutan. He has a formal partnership sponsored by the International Society of Nephrology with Vietnam National Children’s Hospital in Hanoi and has hosted visiting physicians from Vietnam (3) and Egypt (2). Dr. Greenbaum provides a monthly zoom journal club/case conference with the Hanoi program, and provide prn consultations with Lao, Bhutan, Cambodia and Vietnam. Finally, he conducts clinical rounds and he staffs clinics when visiting Lao.

Dr. Ha has scholarly interests in global medical education, disaster preparedness, and humanitarian emergencies. She regularly delivers workshops on pediatric trauma and mass casualty readiness, including annual lectures in Vietnam and Guatemala alongside prior work in Japan. Active in international leadership, she serves as a liaison for both the International Federation for Emergency Medicine's Pediatric Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group and the European Society for Emergency Medicine's Pediatric Branch. Additionally, she is one of the visiting faculty members for the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Muhimbili University in Tanzania.

Dr. Shenila Lallani is a pediatric hospital medicine physician with interests in global child health, quality improvement, and health systems strengthening. Her global health work has focused on improving the quality and safety of inpatient pediatric care in low-resource settings, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. She previously worked in Malawi as a global health resident and continues to collaborate on international pediatric quality improvement and research initiatives. Her scholarly work includes development of quality measures for complications of severe malaria in hospitalized children using consensus-based methodologies and collaboration with international partners. She is also involved in national efforts through the AAP Section on Hospital Medicine Global Health Subcommittee to develop global health curricula and strengthen training opportunities for pediatric hospital medicine fellows.

Jacob Lepard is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta with a specific focus in congenital malformations, fetal intervention, and spasticity. He completed a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship at Harvard in 2018-2019 in which he focused on surgical education for endoscopic management of infant hydrocephalus in Southeast Asia, and particularly Vietnam. Since that time, he has continued working in multiple other countries via NeuroKids (NeuroKids.org). Neurokids is an NGO focusing on neurosurgical education for hydrocephalus and spina bifida in low- and middle-income countries. He is currently also working in partnership with colleagues in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to continue pediatric neurosurgical capacity building in Northeast Africa.

Dr. Lupo is the Lucky Jain–Raymond Schinazi Distinguished Professor in Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, where he co-directs the REACH Center and is a member of the Winship Cancer Institute. His research focuses on the genetic, genomic, and environmental drivers of pediatric cancer, with a long-standing emphasis on Latino/Hispanic children in the United States and across Latin America. He co-leads the NCI-funded Reducing Disparities in Acute Leukemia (REDIAL) Consortium (U54CA302464) and serves as a PI on complementary NIH awards to reduce disparities in outcomes for Latino children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and other pediatric conditions. He has worked with colleagues to define how germline variation (including in ARID5B and GATA3) and Indigenous American genetic ancestry shape ALL susceptibility, subtype, and treatment response in this population. He has shown how neighborhood context, such as residence in a Latino enclave or near the U.S.–Mexico border, influences minimal residual disease and survival. As chair of the Children's Oncology Group Epidemiology Committee, he works to build the cohorts, training pipelines, and global collaborations needed to advance equitable pediatric cancer genomics.

Dr. McThenia’s early experiences in healthcare policy and a community health internship in Fort Portal, Uganda in community health sparked her initial interest in health care in low-income countries. A pediatric residency rotation in Botswana on the oncology service further exposed her to the specific challenges and opportunities in providing hematologic and oncologic care in resource limited settings. Now, as a pediatric neuro-oncologist and pediatric neuro-oncology fellowship director, she aims to encourage and assist pediatric trainees, especially pediatric residents and oncology fellows, to engage in global pediatric oncology research, education and advocacy in hopes of reducing the significant worldwide disparities in childhood cancer survival.

Dr. Morris is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine and the Director of the Center for Clinical and Translational research (CCTR). The CCTR’s mission is to promote pediatric clinical research in order to improve child health, and global health is a CCTR priority. Dr. Morris is deeply committed to advancing global health through innovative, evidence-based approaches to sickle cell disease (SCD) and nutrition, two areas that profoundly shape health outcomes in underserved populations worldwide. Her partnership with clinician-scientists in Abuja, Nigeria led to a successful phase-2 randomized controlled trial of arginine therapy in children with SCD hospitalized for acute pain, where children treated with this nutritional supplement experienced improved pain, decreased need for analgesics and a nearly two-day decrease in hospital stay compared to those who received a placebo. A multicenter phase-3 trial of arginine therapy for patients with SCD and acute chest syndrome is under development, and includes a site in Kenya, working closely with GHOPE Director Dr. Chris Rees.

Dr. Murray is a board-certified emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine physician with an academic focus in global health education and improving emergency care for underserved populations. She is a professor at Emory University School of Medicine where she is the director of the Global Health and Equity Office. Prior to joining the faculty at Emory, she lived and worked full-time in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where she partnered with Tanzanian physicians and nurses to build sustainable education systems in emergency care and help patients get to those services. She served as core faculty in the first emergency medicine residency program in East Africa at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Over the two decades, she has continued to partner with Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences faculty, and in 2025, they started the first pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program in Tanzania. Dr. Murray’s academic and research interests focus on improving emergency care for children in all settings, optimizing global health partnerships, and health professions education.

Dr. Rees is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, an attending physician in the pediatric emergency department, the director of the Global Health Office of Pediatrics at Emory (GHOPE), and a research scientist in the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network, which is a nine-country research network aimed at reducing childhood mortality in regions with disproportionately high rates of under-5 mortality. Chris is also a regular research consultant to the World Health Organization. He joined Emory University in late 2021 after completing a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine and global health at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he served as chief fellow. Prior to his time in Boston, he was a resident and chief resident in the pediatrics and global child health residency program at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. His research is focused on developing novel methods to prevent childhood mortality in low- and middle-income countries. He has led, and collaborated on, several multi-country extramurally supported, studies in both the US and in several low- and middle-income countries. Chris is highly committed to building research capacity and mentoring junior scientists throughout sub-Saharan Africa. His research has been supported by the United States National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation, and other private foundations.

Dr. Rule is a global health educator and maternal-newborn implementation scientist. She directs the GHOPE global health track for the Emory-Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric and Combined Pediatric residencies. Dr. Rule completed both her pediatric residency and combined pediatric hospital medicine and global health fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Rule is an avid curriculum developer and has been a leader in a myriad of national curriculum projects including AAP-GHEARD, IPACK, SPACK and locally developed the immigrant and refugee health elective. Dr. Rule has held a myriad of current and past national leadership roles including chair of the APPD Global Health Learning Community and the co-founder and chair of the AAP GHEARD committee. As a researcher, Dr. Rule has led implementation science and community participatory studies in a variety of local global and global settings. Most of her current work is as part of the Safe+Natal Tool-Kit team where she combines newborn expertise with implementation science to better care for mothers and babies in vulnerable communities from rural Guatemala to Clarkston, GA.

Dr. Scheurer’s work focuses on identifying the risk factors for cancer and the factors that lead to better treatment outcomes and survival among children, adolescents, and young adults in resource-limited settings. He has worked with colleagues in Uganda, Malawi, Botswana, and Tanzania over the past 10 years. He has also mentored students, fellows, and junior faculty conducting research around cancer in these countries.

With a focus on neonatal global health, Dr. Setty is dedicated to advancing capacity building and strengthening health systems in resource-limited settings. Her work centers on improving quality of care and neonatal outcomes through a combination of research, clinical support, education, and mentorship. A graduate of the Rollins School of Public Health and Global Health Track of the Emory Pediatrics Residency Program, she maintains active leadership roles within Emory’s global health initiatives, including being the neonatal lead for the Emory-Muhimbili National Hospital (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) partnership. She is also the founder and co-leader of the Children’s Hospitals Neonatal Consortium (CHNC) Global Health Focus Group, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange among Level-4 NICU institutions around the world.

Dr. Suchdev is a physician-epidemiologist and global health leader whose work focuses on maternal and child nutrition, health equity, and strengthening nutrition measurement systems in low- and middle-income countries. He has more than 20 years of experience spanning public health research, global health program leadership, medical education, and pediatric clinical care. From 2022 to 2025, he served as the lead epidemiologist for the CDC Central America Office in Guatemala, leading efforts to address public health challenges affecting vulnerable populations across the region. His research on micronutrient malnutrition, anemia, and infectious diseases has informed World Health Organization guidelines and country strategies to improve the health of women and children globally.

Dr. Thomas’ global health work focuses on building community-based partnerships that support refugee and immigrant health. She is coordinating an ongoing partnership between Emory and Refugee Family Literacy working closely with educators and families to address health education needs. In this role, she helps design and lead resident experiences within the refugee and immigrant health elective, including opportunities to give talks, engage directly with children, and better understand the social and cultural contexts of care. Her efforts center on creating meaningful, longitudinal experiences that foster cultural humility and community engagement among trainees. Through this work, she aims to strengthen connections between academic medicine and local refugee communities while promoting equitable, family-centered care.

Dr. Zanoni is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Emory University and serves as Medical Director of the Ponce Family, Youth, and Pediatric Clinic at Grady Health System. After completing a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, he worked in Botswana and South Africa from 2006–2012. His research focuses on developing and implementing interventions across the HIV care continuum for adolescents living with HIV. His current work includes adolescent-friendly services, peer navigation, long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy, and the use of social media and artificial intelligence to improve health outcomes for adolescents with HIV.