Lisa Adams: Building Geisel Global Connections

April 8, 2014

As a field of study, global health didn’t exist when Lisa Adams,MED ’90, Program Coordinator of the Dickey Center Global Health Initiative, was a Dartmouth medical student in the late 1980s. Nor were there programs available to help shape the experiences of students like Adams who were interested in working with medically underserved international communities—students were left to their own devices.

Working in Albania changed the trajectory of her career. “It was my life-altering experience,” she says. “The cross-cultural aspect of care, together with the dire needs, were compelling to me—it was an experience that I’ll never forget.”

Learn the complete story of how Dr. Adams found her path to global health by reading stories in Dartmouth Now and by Geisel School of Medicine.