About: Louise Ivers

Louise Catherine Ivers is an Irish and American infectious disease specialist physician. She is faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, executive director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, and Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Ivers began working in global health in the mid '90s as a medical student in Dublin, with a focus on addressing social justice by advancing access to health. In 2003 she joined with Haitian leaders to scale up primary care and HIV treatment in Haiti with Zanmi Lasante, the Haitian sister organization of Partners In Health. As a survivor of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and during the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak, Ivers led major humanitarian and public health r