Lori DiPrete Brown

Lori DiPrete Brown has been engaged in global health education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for fourteen years, where she serves as a Distinguished Faculty Associate in the School of Medicine and Public health and the School of Human Ecology. She is an Associate Director of the Global Health Institute at UW-Madison. DiPrete Brown began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras, where she lived and worked in a residential program for teenage girls who had been orphaned or...See more

Lori DiPrete Brown has been engaged in global health education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for fourteen years, where she serves as a Distinguished Faculty Associate in the School of Medicine and Public health and the School of Human Ecology. She is an Associate Director of the Global Health Institute at UW-Madison. DiPrete Brown began her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras, where she lived and worked in a residential program for teenage girls who had been orphaned or abandoned during childhood. Her subsequent global health practice, research, teaching, writing and public speaking has focused on providing quality health care and social services that address the needs of women, children and historically marginalized populations in low-resource settings. DiPrete Brown has collaborated with international agencies including the U.S. Peace Corps, USAID, the Pan American Health Organization, WHO, Care, and Save the Children. She has worked with partners to strengthen systems of care fifteen countries around the world including Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, Cameroon, and Ethiopia. DiPrete Brown holds degrees from Yale University, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Harvard Divinity School. In 2012, she was awarded the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Dean's Teaching Award for her contributions to global health education. She blogs about global health and social change, and has written a novel about her work with young women entitled Caminata: A Journey. Blog: ... See less