Claire-Cecile Pierre

Instructor in Medicine, Associate Director of Division of Service Learning, Harvard Medical School; Executive Director, Center for Local and International Partnerships, Cambridge Health Alliance

Dr. Pierre, born in Haiti, is a summa cum laude graduate of Howard University’s six-year combined accelerated BS-MD program. She trained in Internal Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance and served as Chief Medical Resident. Her medical career focuses on health care improvement and the use of information technology to support safe and effective patient centered care. At the Cambridge Health Alliance, she serves as Clinical Director of Quality Informatics and in this role works with Analysts and Clinicians on technology tools that can be used to support care. Dr. Pierre is also interested in international policy and health disparities, and is the first and current Executive Director of the Center for Local and International Partnerships — an effort that uses community based participatory model (CBPR) and multidisciplinary collaborations to improve the health of communities locally and internationally. In this role she has worked in South Africa, Zambia and now in Haiti where she supports Presidential Working Groups aimed at engaging members of the public, academic, private and NGO sector in the development of national policies. Dr. Pierre is also an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School where she serves as Associate Director of the Division of Service Learning.