Anne Erickson grew up in Oakland, CA as the daughter of a teacher and a social worker. Her interests in rural and global medicine started in high school, when she spent two summers volunteering in Honduras and Panama with the nonprofit group Amigos de las Americas. She went on to take a gap year prior to college to work on public health studies in India, Mexico, and Brazil, further solidifying her interest in international medicine and especially in women’s health. She got her B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University. After college, she completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Mozambique, during which she studied the barriers to providing high-quality surgical care at district-level hospitals. She returned to Stanford for medical school, and then moved to Seattle, WA to complete her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Outside of medicine, her interests include rock climbing, distance running, and generally being in the outdoors! She is very excited to be joining the HEAL community, and to be working in New Mexico and Rwanda!
