Center Welcomes New Global Health Fellow, Dr. Lily Yan

The Center for Global Health warmly welcomes Dr. Lily Yan as its newest Global Health Fellow.

The three-year Global Health Research Fellowship trains physicians for careers in academic global health research. The majority of the time is spent conducting mentored research at one of our international sites in Haiti, Tanzania, Brazil or India, and the fellowship also involves courses in research methods and teaching and clinical services at Weill Cornell NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Yan received her MD from Stanford University.  In medical school, she worked in Cambodia on emergency care, and spent a year as a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow at CIDRZ in Lusaka, Zambia working in rural primary care clinics on hypertension and contraception. She completed a combined internal medicine - preventive medicine residency at Boston Medical Center, as well as a Master of Science in Health Services and Systems Research at the Boston University School of Public Health. In residency, she led projects on the quality of maternal care in public facilities in Zambia, the impact of poverty on visit adherence in rural Haiti, the diabetes care continuum in Thailand, and the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the diabetes care continuum in the US.

Dr. Yan is interested in non-communicable diseases in low-income countries and will be joining our team’s cardiovascular disease work in Haiti with GHESKIO.