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Dr. Charlene Brown graduated with a BSE from Princeton and a dual MD/MPH degree from Harvard. While at Harvard Medical School, she sat on an admissions subcommittee and served as a premed tutor for Harvard undergraduate students, writing the composite letter of recommendation for her advisee. She has been advising premedical students and sitting on career panels for many years, including at an OldPreMeds National Conference.
Dr. Brown completed residency in internal medicine at Harvard before heading to DC for a diplomacy fellowship at USAID. She completed a second residency in public health and general preventive medicine through Emory and is both board-certified in preventive medicine and a fellow in the American College of Preventive Medicine.
Dr. Brown’s career has ranged from oversight of clinical services (Deputy Health Commissioner) to drug safety (FDA) and global public health (USAID). Now an ed-tech entrepreneur, her innovations transform clinical learning for frontline workers.
Internal medicine at Harvard / Diplomacy fellowship at USAID
As a public health doc, Dr. Brown has traveled to nearly twenty countries in Africa and Asia. Despite high community levels of hesitancy and stigma, she’s designed interventions to increase the demand for HIV testing services and care. Her concept of a "patient" is usually a population like a city or a workforce.