 I am pleased to announce the appointment of Alexandra (‘Lexi’) Nolen, PhD, MPH as Director ad interim of UTMB’s Global Health Education Program and Co-Director of the School of Medicine’s Global Health Track, along with Dr. A. Clinton White. Dr. Nolen previously served as Associate Director and has provided leadership in expanding global health education and opportunities for UTMB students, including the development of the Global Health Interprofessional Core Course-a partnership with the •synergy• program that includes faculty and students from all four schools. The global health education program will report to the Office of the Provost.
 Dr. Nolen’s experience in global health and health disparities is extensive. In addition to her ongoing role as the Director of UTMB’s Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, she previously served on the Secretariat of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, which focused on reducing health inequities. She also served as Coordinator of the Global Equity Gauge Alliance, a South Africa-based non-governmental organization focused on health equity initiatives in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Under the Division of Health and Human Development at the Pan American Health Organization, she led an initiative to advance research and programming on issues of health equity for the organization. She has experience coordinating community-based research and interventions as well as policy development on issues of health disparities and public health in a number of countries. She has undertaken research with the Karolinska Institute as well as Equinet (the Regional Network for Equity in Southern Africa) and has received grant funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the Swedish International Development Agency, the Karolinska Institute, and the NIH. She has edited, authored, or co-authored three books, four book chapters, and 16 articles and commissioned manuscripts.
Dr. Nolen is also a Steering Committee Member of the Galveston Global Health Consortium and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine, and Associate Faculty in the Institute for the Medical Humanities.
Sincerely,
Garland D. Anderson, MD
Executive Vice President and Provost
Dean, School of Medicine
Thomas N. and Gleaves T. James Distinguished Chair
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