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Global Health and International Development - Adria Armbrister
Happy Black History Month - We talk with Adria Armbrister about her illustrious career in Global Health. It's a candid conversation about race and global equity and whether international development can work.
She is currently a Foundation Representative at the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), a small U.S. Government agency that provides grants to community-based
organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Armbrister also maintains a consulting practice under which she has provided expertise for the Pan
American Health Organization/World Health Organization, UN Women, UNICEF Ethiopia, the Global Health Council, and Chemonics, among others. Since 2018, Dr. Armbrister has also been an instructor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman
School of Public Health Columbia University in the City of New York. Previously, she worked for nearly a decade
as a Social Development Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), most of which she was stationed in Colombia and Peru. Dr. Armbrister holds a BA in history-sociology from Columbia College, Columbia University; a master’s degree in International Relations and Economics from SAIS Johns Hopkins University; and a PhD from the Mailman School of Public
Health, Columbia University.
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By Host: Soraya SenosierHappy Black History Month - We talk with Adria Armbrister about her illustrious career in Global Health. It's a candid conversation about race and global equity and whether international development can work.
She is currently a Foundation Representative at the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), a small U.S. Government agency that provides grants to community-based
organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Armbrister also maintains a consulting practice under which she has provided expertise for the Pan
American Health Organization/World Health Organization, UN Women, UNICEF Ethiopia, the Global Health Council, and Chemonics, among others. Since 2018, Dr. Armbrister has also been an instructor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman
School of Public Health Columbia University in the City of New York. Previously, she worked for nearly a decade
as a Social Development Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), most of which she was stationed in Colombia and Peru. Dr. Armbrister holds a BA in history-sociology from Columbia College, Columbia University; a master’s degree in International Relations and Economics from SAIS Johns Hopkins University; and a PhD from the Mailman School of Public
Health, Columbia University.