Director Global Health Program, Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending, Boston Children’s Hospital Assistant Professor Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Michelle Niescierenko, MD, MPH is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician, director of the Global Health Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. The Boston Children's Global Health Program works to improve child health globally through partnerships for clinical quality improvement, education, research and advocacy in over 30 countries around the world. 

 She has experience in pediatric care, quality improvement and program development in China, Lesotho, Guatemala, Liberia, Laos, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Syria. In Liberia she provided pediatric humanitarian aid in the immediate post-conflict setting partnering local remaining infrastructure to US academic institutions for the last 10 years.

Through these partnerships, sustainable programs for health system rebuilding including physician education and care for vulnerable children were developed in Liberia. During the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak she led the Liberian hospital public health response utilizing a rapid deployment of training done by local healthcare workers. This work continued into Liberia’s recovery phase with implementation of a national program for hospital quality improvement and emergency care training. She has conducted hospital system quality assessments in Lebanon, humanitarian health response capacity assessments for the WHO and consults for the World Bank African Centres of Excellence Program. Her particular areas of interest are in the provision of healthcare in humanitarian settings through system development, the development of emergency care systems for children as well as the role of children in humanitarian crises.