emerging leader finalist:
Jenna Mueller
Learn more about Jenna Mueller below, see our other Ward Cates Emerging Leader finalists, and cast your vote to help choose our 2019 Ward Cates Emerging Leader Award winner. The winning individual will be profiled on the TGHC website and in communications materials and will be presented with the award at the Triangle Global Health Consortium's annual Award Celebration on May 7 at Top of the Hill Restaurant in front of many of the top regional leaders in global health.
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Dr. Ward Cates
Each year the Triangle Global Health Consortium recognizes emerging leaders in North Carolina who have demonstrated significant promise and a commitment to improving the health of the world's communities. We are excited to announce our three 2019 finalists and celebrate their leadership, innovation, and spirit of collaboration!
Jenna Mueller, PhD
Dr. Jenna Mueller is a biomedical engineer who works with the Center for Global Women’s Health Technologies at Duke University to develop low-cost devices and therapies to improve the management of cervical cancer in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). She worked with a multidisciplinary team to develop the Pocket colposcope, a low-cost, portable device to screen women for cervical pre-cancer at the primary care setting, and conducted studies to demonstrate its impact in 1000 women in 8 countries. Additionally, she is spearheading a new program to develop low-cost therapeutics for cervical pre-cancer and received a K99 award from the NIH to do large animal trials before moving to patient studies.
Jenna began her career at Rice University where she developed a passion for global health through working with a team to develop a “Diagnostic Lab in a Backpack”. The backpack is aimed for use by medical outreach teams in LMICs to better equip them to provide care for patients in remote locations. She spent eight weeks in Lesotho evaluating the backpack’s efficacy and visiting remote clinics to gather feedback about its design. Her experience in Lesotho propelled her to continue her education at Duke University where she completed an M.S. and Ph.D. in biomedical engineering with a doctoral certificate in global health.