Mentor - Gregory Karelas, MSc
Thematic Areas: Health Governance, Health Systems, Social Determinants of Health, Migrant Health
Biography
Gregory Karelas is a faculty lecturer at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and a medical student at Columbia VP&S. Since 2002, he has worked to develop health systems in South Asia, East Africa and the US. His work has included directing a free district hospital in rural Nepal, developing HIV policy in the US and Rwanda, and building community health programs in inner-city New York. Gregory has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, and was a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he received a MSc in Medical Anthropology.