Catalina González Marqués, MD, MPH

Dr. González Marqués works as an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in their Division of Global Emergency Medicine and Humanitarian Studies and is an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She joined the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative as the Associate Director of the Emergency Care Systems program. In her global health work, Dr. González Marqués has worked as both a consultant and humanitarian response physician for International Medical Corps during various humanitarian emergencies including the Caribbean, Philippines and most recently in Ukraine. She also worked in Rwanda on emergency care residency development. Her academic interests focus on the continued development of locally appropriate emergency and injury care in resource denied settings and the reexamining and addressing of current academic power structures and colonial histories pervasive in global health and humanitarian aid in order to build equitable partnerships.