Based in Boston, Kris has joined CHC in September 2008 and will assist CHC in program expansion and in health care delivery integration of its programs. Kris has MD, MPH, DTM&H degrees and is on staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital as an Inpatient Clinical Educator in the Department of Medicine. He trained in the Harvard Combined Program in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and is a faculty member of Harvard Medical School. He is on the MGH Executive Committee for Global Health, is a Faculty member of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and is the first CIMIT Global Scholar. In October 2006, he assumed the role as Program Leader of CIMIT’s Global Health Initiative directed at developing effective catalyst health technologies for low-income countries. He attended medical school at Vanderbilt University as a Justin Potter Scholar and, in 1996, was a US Fulbright Scholar to Australia where he completed a Masters of Public Health Degree in Epidemiology and International Health. In 2003, Dr. Olson was the first Thomas S. Durant Fellow in Refugee Medicine during which he obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in London before spending most of 2003 working in refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese Border. In 2005, he worked with the American Refugee Committee in Darfur. Since 2005 he has worked as a consultant with the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Tsunami-affected regions of Sumatra. He has also worked on health projects in Cambodia and Kenya.

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