Sara Selig, MD, MPH

Physician

Boston, Massachusetts

United States, North America

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Cohort Year:

2017

Bio

Dr. Sara Selig is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School. She has spent more than two decades advancing health equity in the US and globally including working with the Ministries of Health in Zimbabwe, Egypt and Kenya.

Sara co-founded the Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) Program, the US affiliate of Partners In Health (PIH) focused on achieving health equity among American Indian/Alaska Natives. She serves as Senior Technical Advisor with PIH supporting Indigenous, city, county and state Covid-19 responses teams to implement more equitable responses as well as stronger and more equitable public health systems.

Dr. Selig received her BA from Oberlin College, her MD from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and her MPH from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She is a graduate of the Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine at BWH.

Professional Interests & Expertise

Advocacy,Coaching and Mentoring,Community Health,Community Organizing,Community Partners,Disease Control and Prevention,Health Systems,Healthcare Innovation and Transformation,Indigenous Health,Non-Profit,Outreach and Education,Policy/Advocacy,Public Health,Quality Improvement,Research, Measurement, and Evaluation,Rural Health

Organization

Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment (COPE) Program

Learn more about Sara's work:

Webinar

Ask the Expert - Centering the Patient Voice in Research

Journal Article

Implementation of the Navajo fruit and vegetable prescription programme to improve access to healthy foods in a rural food desert

Journal Article

No Equity, No Triple Aim: Strategic Proposals to Advance Health Equity in a Volatile Policy Environment

See All of Sara's Work