Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH

Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH

Director, Emergency Health Systems Program
Director, Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative
Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH

Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Assistant Professor of Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He also serves as the director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Brigham, director of the Lavine Family Humanitarian Studies Initiative at Harvard, and director of the Emergency Health Systems Program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He completed the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Brigham, Emergency Medicine Residency at University of California San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital where he was chief resident, medical and public health degrees at New York Medical College, and undergraduate studies at the City University of New York’s Hunter College. He has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, was a New York City paramedic for ten years, and works to strengthen emergency care quality and access around the world through local and regional partnerships.

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