Marie Donahue

Biography

Marie Donahue is a Teaching Professor in the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame and Director of the Global Health Minor. She has developed and taught numerous global health courses and has supervised research projects and experiential learning for undergraduate and graduate students. Prior to her work at Notre Dame, she worked in global health programs in nine African countries and Haiti. This work has included partnering with the Haitian Ministry of Health as Director of the Notre Dame Haiti Program, focusing on lymphatic filariasis; developing programs for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and pediatric HIV care funded by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); health systems strengthening in Rwanda for the Clinton Health Access Initiative/PEPFAR; and providing care as an Ebola Response clinician for Partners in Health in Sierra Leone.

As a pediatric nurse and nurse practitioner, she worked with children and families at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (infant-toddler medicine), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (pediatric oncology), South Boston Community Health Center (pediatric primary care), and New York Presbyterian Medical Center and Harlem Hospital Center (maternal and pediatric HIV). While at New York Presbyterian, she served as the research coordinator for the NIH-sponsored, Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trails Group (PACTG), which pioneered therapies for children with HIV and the elimination of mother-to-child-transmission.

Her research interests include social determinants of health, maternal-child health, HIV and TB, health systems strengthening, pediatric palliative care.

She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Catholic University of America, a Master of Science in Pediatric Primary Care from Columbia University, and a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.