Global Health Institute

GU faculty, students, staff, and alumni who wish to attend in person may email globalhealth@georgetown.edu. To attend virtually, please use this link.

Luisa Ferrari is an emerging global health professional whose work spans public health, policy, and international health systems. In this conversation, she will share insights from her experiences at the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reflecting on her practicum and internship work while an undergraduate student at Georgetown University.

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Luisa Ferrari (NHS’20) is the senior policy director of the Parkinson’s Foundation. Previously, she served as a congressional relations account manager at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She also worked as special assistant to the agency's deputy director/chief strategy officer. Ferrari’s early career included experience at the World Health Organization and U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

John T. Monahan, J.D., is a senior advisor to the Georgetown University Global Health Institute, a professor in the Department of Medicine, a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and a senior scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.

This event is hosted through Georgetown University’s Conversations in Health: Global to Local class, which invites global health professionals to Georgetown’s campus to engage in discussions regarding their career paths and expertise.