Lisa Adams

Dr. Lisa V. Adams is the Associate Dean for Global Health, Director of Global Initiatives, and a Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Disease and International Health Section at Dartmouth. She is also the Director of Dartmouth’s Center for Global Health Equity. In all her roles, she designs and leads interdisciplinary and collaborative global health programs engaging faculty, staff, and students. She also teaches global health and mentors undergraduates, medical, and public health students. Her technical area of expertise is international tuberculosis care and prevention with a focus on pediatric TB and TB/HIV healthcare delivery. As an international TB technical advisor, she has worked in over a dozen countries to provide technical assistance to Ministries of Health and numerous nongovernmental partners. She leads several collaborative training and research programs with academic and community partners in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Kigali, Rwanda, and Mbabane, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). Her recent focus has been on developing equitable partnerships and her popular 2019 TEDx talk is entitled Global Health Partnerships: Check Your Privilege at the Border.