Michele Barry, MD, FACP

Administrative Appointments

• Senior Associate Dean of Global Health, Stanford University (2009 - present)
• Director of Global Health Programs in Medicine, Stanford University (2009 - present)
• Director, Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program, Stanford University Site (2009 - present)
• Health Consultant Overseas Programs, Ford Foundation (1995 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Humanitarian Award, Migration and Refugee, Catholic Services (1981)
• Fellow, Kellogg National Leadership (1987-1990)
• Scholar, Zimbabwe, Kapnek (1987-1988)
• President, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2001-2002)
• Leah Lowenstein Award, Yale School of Medicine (1992)

Professional Education

Community & International Work

• Stanford Global Fellows, Africa, Borneo 

Research Interests

Michele Barry, MD, FACP is the Senior Associate Dean for Global Health and Director of Global Health Programs in Medicine at Stanford. She also serves as the health consultant for the Ford Foundation overseas programs. As Director of the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholar Award program, she has sent over 1000 physicians overseas to underserved areas to help strengthen health infrastructure in low resource settings. As a past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, she led an educational initiative in tropical medicine and travelers health which culminated in diploma courses in tropical medicine both in the U.S. and overseas, as well as a U.S. certification exam. Dr. Barry is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Science and is past-Chair of the Interest Group on Global Health, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the IOM. She has been listed in Best Doctors in America and recently joined the Board of Directors of the Bill and Melinda Gates funded Consortium of Universities involved in Global Health (CUGH).
Areas of scholarly interest include global health workforce, clinical tropical medicine, emerging infectious diseases, problems of underserved populations and globalization’s impact upon health in the developing world.

Publications

• Talking Dirty-The Politics of Clean Water and Sanitation Barry M, Hughes J.. NEJM. 2008; 359 (8): 784-787
• The Tail End of Guinea Worm - Global Eradication without a Drug or Vaccine Barry M, NEJM. 2007; 356 (25): 2561-2564
• Suburban Leptospirosis: Atypical Lymphocytosis and Gamma-delta T cell response. Barry M, Wisnewski A, Matthias M, Inoye S, Vinetz J.. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2006; 43 (Nov 15): 1306
• Presidential Address - Disease without borders: globalization's challenge to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: A call for public advocacy and activism. Barry M, Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2003; 69 (1): 3-7
• The International Health Program: The fifteen year experience with Yale University's Internal Medicine Residency Program. Gupta A, Wells C, Horwitz R, Bia F, Barry M.. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1999; 61 (6): 1019-1023