Christine is an Assistant Professor in the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Yale University. She completed her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has a Master of Science in Tropical Medicine and International Health, and Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Her past professional work has focused on health disparities amongst minority populations in the U.S. (including refugees) and Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR). In addition to joining faculty in the DEM for the 2015 year, she was also selected as one of twenty Yale Public Voice Fellows for 2015-2016 from across campus with publications in a variety of outlets such as Time, Huffington Post, The Hill, among others.
Going Outside Your Comfort Zone – Writing for the Public Sphere
Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTM&H “I’m nominating you for this…”, my chair’s email began. I gulped. Past emails that began like this typically required asks of me that had pushed me way outside of my comfort zone. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m no stranger…
