“For too long, philanthropic discussions have focused on making donors feel good. The Center is about something radically different: focus on impact. It’s about being an honest broker of the information required to link financing to impact.”

Katherina Rosqueta
Executive Director

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Carol A. McLaughlin, Md, mph
Research Director, Global Public Health

Contact: carolmc@sp2.upenn.edu

Carol A. McLaughlin is the research director for global public health at the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania. Carol is an infectious disease doctor who brings a longstanding commitment to global public health issues. She has been involved in a wide variety of programs in both the U.S. and the developing world including community-based health interventions in Central America and Mexico, field research on emerging viruses with the CDC, clinical programs in Thailand and Vietnam, and public health work addressing antibiotic resistance in cholera and malaria. She most recently served as an HIV medical attending at the Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, through the Penn Program in Botswana.

She received MD and MPH degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine and School of Public Health, respectively. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, with a B.A. in Public and International Policy.

Other Affiliations:

Faculty Fellow, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics