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Christopher Rees

  • SOM: Peds: Emergency Medicine
    Assistant Professor
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Overview

Chris A. Rees, MD, MPH is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, an attending physician in the pediatric emergency department at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and a pediatric research scientist with the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network, which is a multi-country surveillance program that generates detailed information on causes of deaths in children aged <5 years in high-mortality areas in seven countries.

He joined Emory in 2021 after completing a combined fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Global Health at Boston Childrens Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Chris was selected as chief fellow and was appointed as clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School during fellowship. Chris completed his residency and chief residency in the Pediatrics and Global Child Health program at Texas Childrens Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. During that time, he spent a year in Malawi providing clinical care to children with HIV, as well as conducting research on HIV-related outcomes among children and teaching residents and medical students. Chris received his medical and master of public health degrees with an emphasis in Global Health from the University of Utah.

Chriss research interests include developing novel ways of identifying children at risk for, and developing methods to reduce, mortality in low- and middle-income countries, elucidating research priority gaps, improving issues around research collaboration in global health, and reducing pediatric healthcare disparities and inequities in the United States. Chris has served as a research consultant to the WHO and UNICEF-Liberia through which he has collaborated on multiple prospective studies assessing outcomes among children in low- and middle-income countries. He is the principal investigator on an externally funded, ongoing, prospective study evaluating post-discharge outcomes in Monrovia, Liberia and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Academic Appointment

  • Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • M.D. from University of Utah School of Medicine
  • M.P.H. from University of Utah School of Medicine, Division of Public Health

Research

Publications

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