Laura Janneck, MD, MPH, FACEP

Laura Janneck is an emergency physician and the Director of Immigrant, Refugee, and Global Health in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). In this role, she works with colleagues at CHA to develop policies and practices to improve care for immigrant patients. She also collaborates with health and law professionals across greater Boston through the Health and Law Immigrant Solidarity Network, responding to the challenges immigrant and refugee patients face with a cross-professional, multi-institutional, grassroots and advocacy-informed approach.

She was previously the Country Director for sidHARTe in Rwanda where, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, she guided the development emergency medical systems across the country. Dr. Janneck studied human biology at Brown University, medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and global public health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed residency at the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, where with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative she focused on urbanization and humanitarian emergencies. She has also been involved in food security and HIV research in South Africa, critical care in northern Uganda, and educational collaborations with the American University in Beirut, Lebanon.Dr. Janneck is currently the Secretary of the Section of Social Emergency Medicine within the American College of Emergency Physicians, and is a member of the Social Medicine Consortium.