Alexandra Leader, MD

Director of Global Health at Eastern Virginia Medical School, pediatric emergency medicine physician, public health advocate

[Alexandra Leader, MD @AlexLeaderMD]

EVMS Global Health is grateful for the community faculty members who support our efforts to improve health care in a multilingual and multicultural world!

[UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @Refugees]

25 million refugees are generously hosted by countries around the world.

These are the countries that have stepped up for those who have lost everything.

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

Today, The Lancet Group announce a new Diversity Pledge expressing our commitment to increasing representation of women and colleagues from low-income and middle-income countries among our editorial advisers, peer reviewers & authors #DiversityandInclusion https://t.co/8KW1Qg4Gv8

[Women In Global Health @womeninGH]

Great commitment @TheLancet | The leadership at the top has been full committed @richardhorton1 @jocalynclark @DrZucc & many more are doing their part to transform the culture in #globalhealth #STEM for greater diversity & inclusion. #genderequity #LancetWomen #WomeninGH #GH5050

[UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @Refugees]

🚨 The monsoon rains in Bangladesh place hundreds of thousands of refugees at risk. Here’s why emergency training is vital 👇

[Alexandra Leader, MD @AlexLeaderMD]

14 EVMS Global Health Summer Scholars return to Norfolk and present collaborative research on infant safe sleep in the DR, Kenya, Belize; pediatric sepsis in the DR; GU surgical outcomes in Senegal. Global health leaders in the making!

[Alexandra Leader, MD @AlexLeaderMD]

Proud to be representing the EVMS Refugee Health Initiative and talking about our mental health research at Virginia’s 2019 Conference on Refugee Resettlement #evmsglobalhealth