Director, Global Health Innovation, MGH; Prof Harvard Medical School and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
MGH, Harvard
Medford, MA, United States
Thomas F. Burke, MD, FACEP, FRSM is Director of the Global Health Innovation Lab at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Burke has pioneered several award-winning scientific advances and thereafter translated them into policy and practice.
Dr. Burke has extensive experience as a leader in the global health arena since 1994, with a focus on maternal, newborn, and infant survival since 2004. Dr. Burke has led a research program focused on postpartum hemorrhage for the past 14 years and is the founding member of the International Federation of OBGYN (FIGO) working group on postpartum hemorrhage and a member of the FIGO childbirth committee. Dr. Burke has authored of over 140 scientific manuscripts and two books. He is often invited to speak at high profile forums and leading universities around the globe. Dr. Burke is a senior faculty of the Harvard University Center for African Studies and an active member of the Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee. On June 3, 2019, in a joint UK and India government ceremony in the House of Lords, Dr. Burke was bestowed the title, “Lord of the Planet in Medical Sciences”. In August of 2019, the Indian government honored Dr. Burke with an “Award for Excellence in Maternal and Child Health in Rural India”. Dr. Burke has opened several film festivals and has been profiled for his work by BBC, NPR, FOX Television, ABC, CBS, the London Financial Times, the New Yorker, the Seattle Times, and the Boston Globe, among other news outlets. Dr. Burke is President of the Ujenzi Charitable Trust and the Vayu Foundation, and is a founding board member of Vayu Global Health Innovations, a Public Benefit Company.
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