In the rapidly growing field of global health education, looking at the effects and effectiveness of global health immersion on participants, host communities, and the larger health equity movement is essential.
Dr. Gieseker with CFHI Medical Director Dr. Jessica Evert
Karen Gieseker PhD, MS joins with a passion for research and evaluation. Karen will be analyzing the outcomes of , as well as mentoring international partners to increase capacity building for research and assessment within and between our . Karen brings experience as the previous Director of University of Colorado’s and the Evidence-Based Medicine Thread. She is currently adjunct faculty at University of Denver and and is pursuing a Masters in Theological Studies. Previously, Karen has worked at the and completed its prestigious . Karen is dedicated to transformative global health immersion and ascribes to the following humanistic mantra:
“The only real voyage consists not of seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others- in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees.”
-Marcel Proust
CFHI warmly welcomes Dr. Gieseker and is enthusiastic about the skills she brings to our organization.
Posted by: Jessica Evert, MD
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