Michele Barry

Michele Barry

Michele Barry
Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases, Stanford University
Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health 
Senior Associate Dean for Global Health 

Freeman Spogli Institute Senior Fellow 
Woods Institute for the Environment Senior Fellow

Michele Barry, M.D., FACP, FASTMH, is the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and Senior Associate Dean for Global Health. Dr. Barry is the founder of the Gates-funded nonprofit WomenLift Health, an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Council on Foreign Relations, and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair Emerita of the Board of Directors for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, and past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She has written on the impact of COVID-19 on female academics amongst other areas of scholarship in tropical diseases, human and planetary health as well as global and refugee health.

Recommended Related Readings

Finkel, M. L., Temmermann, M., Suleman, F., Barry, M., Salm, M., Binagwaho, A., & Kilmarx, P. H. (2022). What Do Global Health Practitioners Think about Decolonizing Global Health?. Annals of Global Health88(1), 61. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3714

Moyer, C. A., Abedini, N. C., Youngblood, J., Talib, Z., Jayaraman, T., Manzoor, M., Larson, H. J., Garcia, P. J., Binagwaho, A., Burke, K. S., & Barry, M. (2018). Advancing Women Leaders in Global Health: Getting to Solutions. Annals of global health84(4), 743–752. https://doi.org/10.9204/aogh.2384

Talib, Z., Burke, K. S., & Barry, M. (2017). Women leaders in global health. The Lancet. Global health5(6), e565–e566. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30182-1

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