Meet Our Team

Lisa V. Adams, MD (MED ’90)
Director, Center for Health Equity

Dr. Adams is the Associate Dean for Global Health and a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Disease and International Health at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. She oversees Dartmouth College’s Global Health Initiative at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and is the Director of Global Initiatives in the provost’s office. In all her roles, she develops and oversees cross-cutting global health programs involving faculty, staff, and students.

Dr. Adams has worked in domestic and international TB control for over 25 years. At Dartmouth, she teaches global health equity to medical and college students. She has been a co-investigator on several clinical and operations research trials on TB and HIV care delivery through the DarDar Programs, a collaboration between Dartmouth and Muhimbili University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In 2012, she spent 6 months in Rwanda as Geisel’s lead to launch the major medical education initiative, the Rwandan Human Resources for Health Program. She is currently leading several collaborative training and research programs with academic and community partners in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Kigali, Rwanda, and Mbabane, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). During March 2020-August 2021, she served as the co-chair of Dartmouth’s COVID-19 Response Task Force. Dr. Adams is a 1990 graduate of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.