PIH's Dr. Louise Ivers honored by University College Dublin

	Dr. Louise Ivers examines a patient in Haiti.

PIH's Dr. Louise Ivers, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and at Brigham and Women's Hospital's Division of Global Health Equity, was recently honored as the 2011 Distinguished Graduate for University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland. The award is presented annually to a UCD alumnus who has made an extraordinary contribution to medicine in their field. 

Currently PIH’s Senior Health and Policy Advisor, Dr. Ivers has focused her career on implementing health programs, and is interested in improving the delivery of healthcare in resource poor settings, the provision of care to the rural and urban poor, and patient-oriented investigation that offers solutions to barriers to healthcare. Dr. Ivers has been working with PIH in Haiti since 2003, implementing HIV and women’s health programs, and later serving as Country Director for PIH. Following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, she took on the role of Chief of Mission for PIH in Haiti, where she led PIH’s humanitarian assistance response and rebuilding efforts.

Past recipients of the UCD Distinguished Graduate Award include Dr. Hugh Brady, the current president of UCD.