Sussana Oad, MD

Sussana Oad, MD is a second-year Global Health Fellow at Mount Sinai Morningside/West. She completed residency training at Kendall Regional Medical Center in Miami, Fl. Prior to fellowship, she worked on projects in Ecuador, Peru, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic as well as projects locally that involved hepatitis and HIV screening and linkage to care.  As an immigrant herself, she has a great interest in refugee and migrant health, humanitarian/disaster relief, and healthcare access and equity both locally and globally. She is currently obtaining her Master of Public Health at CUNY School of Public Health. Since starting fellowship, she has worked in Tijuana providing care and social services to individuals at the US/Mexico border, collaborated to develop the MAPS program (a program linking undocumented immigrants in New York with linkage to care and social services), and volunteered with the Human Rights Center to perform forensic medical exams for those seeking asylum. Additionally, she has worked in Botswana creating and teaching a modified PALS course through the Initiative for Medical Equity and Global Health (IMEGH) and assisted with continuing WHO BEC work in Mwanza, Tanzania.