Emily Wroe

Emily Wroe serves as the director of implementation and design with the Massachusetts community tracing collaborative at Partners in Health (PIH), and an associate physician in the division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Wroe has been on the PIH leadership team for the contact tracing program in Massachusetts guiding the initiative on training, protocols and design, data systems, and linking the vulnerable communities with resources during the pandemic. Her early global health work was with PIH in Rwanda doing research on adherence to HIV medications and assisting with operational planning for a new district hospital. As a resident at the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity (GHE) and Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Wroe worked in Malawi to expand a program on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and improve TB screening initiatives. Wroe also served as the GHE residency’s first chief resident. Following her residency, Wroe moved to Malawi as PIH’s Chief Medical Officer, working closely with the Ministry of Health to strengthen health care delivery in the rural district of Neno. In 2018, Wroe transitioned to supporting national policy in Malawi and in southern Africa as NCD Synergies’ associate director of policy & implementation, co-chairing Malawi’s National NCDs and Injuries of Poverty Commission.