Hannah Jones was a rotating fellow at Tsehootsooi Medical Center in Fort Defiance, Arizona and at Muso in Bamako, Mali (2018-2020). She was born in Botswana and grew up in Malawi and Kenya. She left the warmth of Africa to study International Relations at Tufts University in Massachusetts. While at Tufts, she spent a year in Paris learning French and re-examining her career goals. After graduating, Hannah worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. However, she eventually decided to take the plunge and pursue a career in medicine. So, she returned to Massachusetts to complete the pre-medical requirements, while also working at a Boston-based ophthalmology practice. She attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and stayed in the city to complete her internal medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Throughout this time, she took every opportunity to expand her global health horizons, including trips to Cameroon, Eastern and Southern Africa and Haiti, as well as being involved in the CDC Ebola response training workshops in Aniston, Alabama. She also did a rotation on the Navajo reservation in Kayenta, Arizona, which helped solidify her goal of becoming a HEAL fellow after residency.

Field of work: Community Health Work, Internal Medicine, Public Health

Areas of interest: Infectious Disease