Global Health Pathways Series: Darlisha Williams
Darlisha Williams is a project manager in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Minnesota. She graduated with an MPH in Epidemiology in 2006 from the UMN School of Public Health, and completed a 3 year fellowship with the Centers for Disease Control which focused on Maternal and Child Health and HIV policy. She has worked in the field of global health since 2005 on projects including reducing rates of waterborne diseases, and polio eradication in Tanzania. She lived and worked in Uganda for 8 years, coordinating several multi-site, randomized clinical trials involving HIV associated meningitis before moving back to Minnesota in 2019. Her main interests are project implementation, management and program evaluation in global health settings.