Interested in global public health issues? Join us as we hear from Sarah Angel Markwardt and Miriam (Mimi) Frisch from Magee Womancare International and Partners in Health respectively.

Miriam (Mimi) Frisch is originally from Buffalo, New York. Mimi graduated from University of Pittsburgh in 2015 with a Bachelors of Philosophy in International and Area Studies focused on global health and urban studies with a minor in economics. Her thesis focused on socio-demographic risk factors on dengue fever incidence in Buenos Aires. Previously, Mimi spent one year working in Rwanda as a Global Health Corps fellow, where she worked for the Rwandan Ministry of Health as the Nutrition Program Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in Burera District. She provided programmatic support to the Burera District nutrition program, and analyzed all nutrition data for the district, providing feedback and guidelines to health centers to improve nutrition education and malnutrition monitoring. Her work was recognized by UNICEF and was presented as a potential model for implementation across Rwanda. Currently, Mimi works for Partners in Health in Liberia, as the Staff Operations Officer in Maryland County, where she is responsible for building and managing systems and staff to improve efficiency and delivery of operational services of the organization. In her free time, Mimi enjoys traveling, cooking, eating and running.