Sheri
Fink, MD, PhD, Visiting Scientist
FXB Center Visiting Scientist Sheri Fink has worked with humanitarian agencies in the U.S., Balkans, the north Caucasus, Central and Southeast Asia, southern Africa and the Middle East, responding to emergencies including Hurricane Katrina and the December 2004 Asian earthquake and tsunami. She has evaluated relief operations and performed public health research for non-governmental organizations, the American Red Cross and UNICEF. Dr. Fink has conducted health-related human rights research in Kosovo, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories for Physicians for Human Rights and in the Balkans as a fellow of the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Fink wrote the award-winning book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs, 2003), about Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is a regular contributor on global health issues to BBC/PRI’s The World, and her articles have appeared in mass media publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Discover as well as in scientific journals including JAMA, the American Journal of Public Health, and Health and Human Rights. Dr. Fink has reported extensively on the HIV pandemic in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, and has produced several reports on children and AIDS.
Dr. Fink is a senior fellow of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Dr. Fink lectures frequently at universities on health and human rights and holds degrees from Stanford University School of Medicine (MD 1999, PhD 1998), and the University of Michigan (BS 1990).
