Hannah graduated from the University of Alberta with an MSc in Public Health. She wrote her thesis on hospitalized patients' experiences utilizing an acute care needle and syringe program. She was most recently employed as a research coordinator within a research team integrated into a large, urban hospital and a data coordinator for several community-based supervised consumption services. In her free time Hannah enjoys cycling, gardening, and exploring sustainable ways to live and travel.

Global Health Research Interests: Diabetes, HIV/AIDS, Public Health, Pulmonary Medicine, Tuberculosis

Country: Brazil

Global Health Research Interests: Cancer, Education and Training (Capacity Building), Surgery

Country: Kenya

Rondi M. Kauffmann, MD, MPH is associate professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery and serves as the Surgical Director of Vanderbilt's Center for Experiential Learning and Assessment and Associate Program Director for the general surgery residency program. She is the inaugural Vice Chair for Global Surgery. 

Rondi graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in physiological Sciences and a minor in cultural anthropology from UCLA and completed her MD/MPH degrees at the University of Minnesota, where she pursued her MPH thesis research in Paris, France and Dakar, Senegal. 

At VUMC, her global health leadership roles include Director of the Global Health Outcomes and Access Leadership in Surgery (GHOALS) program, co-director of the Kijabe-Vanderbilt Research Methodologies for Healthcare Providers Course, co-director of the Vanderbilt Collaborative for Global Health Excellence, and directs Vanderbilt International Surgery's (VIA) collaborative efforts with AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kijabe, Kenya. She is an elected member of the Association for Academic Surgery's Global Affairs Committee. She chairs the Affiliate Committee of the Association for Academic Global Surgery and the Global Surgery Taskforce through the Association for Program Directors in Surgery. Her research focuses on global surgery and capacity building through global surgical education. 

She is board certified in General Surgery (residency: Vanderbilt University Medical Center) and Complex Surgical Oncology (fellowship: City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center). Her clinical expertise is in the care of patients with melanoma, soft tissue malignancies, and breast cancer.