Rebecca Cook, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health
AMPATH-Mexico Clinical Team Leader, Department of Population Health
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
About
Rebecca Cook, M.D., M.S., has combined specialty training in internal medicine and pediatrics from Massachusetts General Hospital and master’s degrees in global health science and medical anthropology from Oxford University. She has clinical, teaching and implementation research experience in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique and Liberia).
Prior to joining the team at Dell Medical School, she served as the director of clinical services and medical education for Partners In Health Liberia, where she helped to develop the first rural training program for family medicine residents and intern doctors, and she led the PIH clinical team in partnering with the Ministry of Health in Liberia in rebuilding the health system after Ebola.
She is currently the clinical team leader for AMPATH México, helping to establish a long-term, reciprocal partnership with a medical school and public sector health system in Puebla, Mexico.
While in Austin, she is a medicine-pediatrics hospitalist attending at Dell Seton Medical Center. She teaches and mentors medical students and residents, and she partners with faculty members across the UT Austin campus who are interested in global health. She has an interest in health system transformation and implementation science to reduce health inequities as well as training the next generation of health professionals to transform health care delivery.