The Dean is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Anne McCarthy to the position of Director, Office of Global Health. Please join him in welcoming her to the team!
Dr. Anne McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Ottawa Hospital. She is actively involved in Tropical Medicine and International Health including the development of prevention and treatment strategies for malaria and recommendations for travel related, vaccine preventable and emerging infectious diseases. Dr. McCarthy is the National Coordinator of the Canadian Malaria Network in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Travel Medicine Program and chairs the malaria subcommittee of the Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel. She is the current Chair of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) Research Committee. As well, she is the Director of the Action Global Health Network in Ottawa, Canada (www.actionglobalhealth.ca).
Her educational interests include undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching in infectious disease, travel medicine, tropical medicine and global health.
Her clinical interests include directing the Tropical Medicine and International Health Clinic at the General Campus, clinical infectious diseases with emphasis on infections in the intensive care unit, transplant patients, as well as malaria and tuberculosis.
Her research interests include infections in compromised hosts, implementation of vaccine delivery programs within a healthcare setting, studies on antimalarial drugs - including tolerability and interactions with concurrent medication (such as antiretroviral drugs for HIV), vaccine efficacy, and compliance with travel medicine recommendations.