Join Triangle Global Health Consortium one Monday each month for Mentor Mondays to learn from North Carolina leaders in global health!
Each Mentor Monday will take place as an online webinar and will last around 45 minutes. Mentors will each share:
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Information on their background, career path, and current work
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Important lessons learned
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Their thoughts on the most valuable skills for working in global health
Presenting Mentor
August 19, 2019
Dr. Laura Hoemeke has more than 25 years of experience in global health leadership, advocacy, communications, and program design and management, including 15 years of residence in Francophone Africa and short-term assignments throughout East, West, and Central Africa. She is currently an independent consultant, a senior consultant with Clear Outcomes, and an adjunct professor at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. Laura has significant experience in health policy development and analysis, program design and management, advocacy and communications. She is an internationally recognized and invited public speaker, trainer, and facilitator. For many years, Laura’s passion has been working with countries to help strengthen their health systems. She has technical expertise in family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and malaria control, as well as good governance, decentralization, health financing, and community health.
At IntraHealth International, starting in 2003, Laura served as the Regional Director for West and Central Africa based in Dakar, Senegal, overseeing country programs and successfully launching several new programs in the region. She then moved to Kigali, Rwanda, where she served as Director and Chief of Party of the Twubakane Decentralization and Health Program which has been recognized by the US government and the government of Rwanda for its dramatic improvements in the delivery of health services and dramatic reductions in maternal and child mortality. At IntraHealth’s headquarters in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Laura served as the director of communications and advocacy, helping to build a high-performing communications team and to grow IntraHealth’s advocacy unit and institute advocacy skills throughout the organization.
Laura has a doctorate in health policy and management from UNC’s Gillings Global School of Public Health and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Laura completed her undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, where she received a BS in journalism with from the Medill School of Journalism. Laura is professionally fluent in French and Sango (the national language of the Central African Republic).