Cindy Haq

14/10/2024 20 min Temporada 2 Episodio 8

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Dr. Cynthia (Cindy) Haq is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Irvine.  She has practiced as a family physician, teacher, and champion for health equity in the US, Pakistan, Uganda, and Ethiopia for more than 40 years.  She treasures time with family, friends, and in nature. 
 Cindy Haq was Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, Irvine with a lifetime commitment to primary health care, community health and family medicine. She has developed programs in Pakistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, with the World Health Organization, and with governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Previously at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health she was the founding director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute.and created and directed the Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health (TRIUMPH) 
She has received numerous awards and honours including two Fulbright scholarships, an American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) President’s Award and Exemplary Teaching Award, a Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) National Excellence in Education Award, two Arnold Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine awards.