Our Leadership
Melding medical education with the real world
Madiha Abdel-Maksoud
Global Health Track Director
Dr.
Abdel-Maksoud, MD, PhD, MSPH, is a physician and researcher who completed her medical degree in Egypt from Tanta University School of Medicine, and her PhD degree in Epidemiology from the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Public Health. She is an Assistant
Professor at the Departments of Epidemiology (CU Anschutz School of Public Health) and Pediatrics (CU Anschutz School of Medicine). She is also the Director of the MPH concentrations in Epidemiology and in Global Health at the CU Anschutz School of Public Health. Prior
to obtaining her PhD degree in Epidemiology, Dr. Abdel-Maksoud taught, practiced medicine, and did research in Egypt. After finishing her PhD degree, Dr. Abdel-Maksoud spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow studying the racial/ethnic differences
in obesity and its biomarkers. Her work in obesity earned her an award from the prestigious Obesity Society. She is a chronic disease epidemiologist, and her global health work is currently focused on child development projects in Guatemala through
the Center for Global Health. She is also investigating the barriers and facilitators of cancer screening among the US Muslim community to develop culturally sensitive interventions to enhance the cancer screening practices of this population.
Reem Hanna, MD
Global Health Track Associate Director
Reem Hanna, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at CU Anschutz School of Medicine and adjunct faculty at the Center for Global Health. She currently practices as a hospitalist and addiction medicine specialist at the University of Colorado, Anschutz campus. Dr. Hanna received her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh and completed internal medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She was part of the Global Health and Underserved Pathway, and spent a significant amount of her training in Mozambique. Dr. Hanna’s passions encompass medical education and global health, and she founded and directs the Internal Medicine Residency Global Health Pathway and the Hospital Medicine Global Health scholars program at the University. Her research has focused on health equity, medical education, and gender disparities.
Our Steering Committee
GHT Steering Committee
Striving to provide GHT students with the best global health education, the Global Health Track and its leadership believe in the importance of constantly working to improve all aspects of the track. The Steering Committee is a group of track students that work in conjunction with the track director to create a community of globally minded health care providers and help make the Global Health Track and its work as successful as possible.
Steering Committee Members
Class of 2025
Class of 2026
Class of 2027