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Marcel Durieux

Director of eGlobal; Professor of Medicine Emeritus, School of Medicine

Marcel Durieux, MD PhD, is emeritus professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia. He has been involved in global health work in East Africa for more than 15 years, providing medical education in Tanzania, Malawi and Rwanda. For about a decade he oversaw UVA student travel to Rwanda through the Center for Global Health Equity. He also did two missions with Doctors Without Borders in the Central African Republic. Currently, he works on providing remote international engagement opportunities for students through the eGlobal program with the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. In addition, he has developed the Global Partnership Essentials program to help provide UVA students with more in-depth theoretical and practical preparation prior to work and travel in low-resource settings. His current research focuses on developing AI-driven methodologies to give clinical providers in low-resource settings digital access to their clinical data.