Education and Career
Kerry graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a major in biology. While a student at Yale, she played for the varsity lacrosse team. After graduating with her bachelor's degree, she went to the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she received a master’s of science in health policy, planning and financing. While in London, she was a Fulbright Scholar. Afterwards, she attended the Harvard Medical School from where she graduated with Honors. There, she interned with the Vaccine Fund of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, founded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where she conducted a study on immunization in Ghana. She later studied and advised on government relations for health and development in Rwanda.
She has continued work in international health and has collaborated on projects in Haiti and Rwanda through the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. She is also actively working on public sector partnerships in Uganda through Massachusetts General Hospital. She finished a residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2010 and is now in fellowship for Critical Care.
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