Louise Ivers

Ivers joined the non-profit organization, Partners In Health (PIH) in 2003 as a clinical director as it began its collaboration with the Haitian government. She helped expand the organizations reach across Haiti from a three-room clinic to several new buildings including a clinic that contains examining rooms, a laboratory, a pharmacy, a small inpatient ward, and isolation rooms for TB patients.^[1] During her time in Haiti, the country suffered a cholera outbreak and earthquake.^[3][4] Following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, she was appointed Chief of Mission for PIH and subsequently led a major humanitarian and public health response, resulting in increased access to HIV and TB treatment.^[5] In recognition of her efforts in Haiti, Ivers was honored as the 2011 Distinguished Graduate for UCD^[5] and the recipient of the Bailey K. Ashford Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.^[6] Ivers later published a paper in 2015 showing that PIH's intervention and vaccine distribution slowed the spread of cholera in villages north of Saint-Marc.^[7] From 2015 until 2017, she was a member of the executive leadership team at PIH responsible for global strategic implementation and served as a technical advisor to the World Health Organization and the Haitian Ministry of Health.^[8]

In 2019, Ivers was elected a Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation^[9] and was the recipient of the Leadership In Public Health Practice Award.^[10] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ivers and Wilfredo Matias published an op-ed "calling out fundamental weaknesses in the country's public health data systems, which are unable to capture accurate data on where, why and how the virus spreads in real time."^[11] She later urged the Governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, to speed up the rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations.^[12]

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