Bernice Dahn, a physician trained in public health, was named Minister of Health of Liberia in June 2015 during the ongoing Ebola crisis after serving as the Deputy Minister of Health and Chief Medical Officer of Liberia for eight years. She is now leading her country’s efforts to restore routine health care services, which were severely affected by the outbreak of Ebola in 2014-2015 and to build a resilient health care delivery system. Since 2005, she has also served as an Assistant Professor for Public Health at the M. Dogliotti College of Medicine, University of Liberia.
“When I think about our days at the UW in 2001/2002 as Population Leadership Program (PLP) Fellows and then in 2004 as an MPH student, remembering that those years were the very difficult war years in my country, I can only reflect on how supportive you all were during my study years at the UW to ensure I completed successfully. It’s hard to fully express how I feel about it, so I thought to just say thank you to all of you my UW family and a special gratitude for the PLP program that helped to reshape the way I work and made me what I am today.”
