Michelle Niescierenko, MD, MPH
Associate Physician in Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine; Director, Global Health Program
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Michelle Niescierenko, MD, MPH
Associate Physician in Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine; Director, Global Health Program
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Services
Languages
English
Education
Undergraduate School
Ithaca College
2002
Ithaca
NY
Medical School
University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
2006
Buffalo
NY
Internship
Boston Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center
2007
Boston
MA
Residency
Boston Combined Residency Program (BCRP)
2009
Boston
MA
Fellowship
Boston Children's Hospital
2015
Boston
MA
Graduate School
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2016
Boston
MA
Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics (General)
American Board of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)
Professional History
Michelle Niescierenko, MD, MPH is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician, director of the Global Health Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Health Specialist with Avenir Analytics. The Boston Children's Global Health Program works to improve child health globally through partnerships for clinical quality improvement, education, research and advocacy in over 30 countries around the world. ??Avenir Analytics health focus on high quality humanitarian health systems interventions.
She has experience in pediatric care and program development in China, Bolivia, Lesotho, Guatemala, Liberia, Indonesia, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Syria. In Liberia she provided pediatric humanitarian aid in the immediate post-conflict setting partnering local remaining infrastructure to US academic institutions for the last 10 years. Through these partnerships, sustainable programs for health system rebuilding including physician education and care for vulnerable children were developed in Liberia. During the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak she lead the Liberian hospital public health response utilizing a rapid deployment of training done by local healthcare workers. This work continued into Liberia’s recovery phase with implementation of a national program for hospital quality improvement and emergency care training. Her particular areas of interest are in the provision of healthcare in humanitarian settings through system development, the development of emergency care systems for children as well as the role of children in humanitarian crises.
Publications
Development and Internal Validation of a Risk Assessment Tool to Identify Neonates at Risk for 60-Day Hospital Readmission in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Monrovia, Liberia. View Abstract
Strategies Used by Children's Hospitals During the 2022 Viral Respiratory Surge. View Abstract
Designing, implementing and evaluating multidisciplinary healthcare training programmes in the wartime humanitarian context of Ukraine. View Abstract
Recent Progress and Current Challenges in the Care of the Child Around the World. View Abstract
A novel tool for assessing pediatric emergency care in low- and middle-income countries: a pilot study. View Abstract
Expanding trauma education during war: pediatric trauma fundamentals training in Ukraine. View Abstract
Morbidity and unplanned healthcare encounters after hospital discharge among young children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Monrovia, Liberia. View Abstract
Derivation and Internal Validation of a Novel Risk Assessment Tool to Identify Infants and Young Children at Risk for Post-Discharge Mortality in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Monrovia, Liberia. View Abstract
Identifying neonates at risk for post-discharge mortality in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Monrovia, Liberia: Derivation and internal validation of a novel risk assessment tool. View Abstract
Pediatric procedural sedation in African clinical settings: A mixed methods study of African providers' sedation practices. View Abstract
Predictive value of clinician impression for readmission and postdischarge mortality among neonates and young children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Monrovia, Liberia. View Abstract
Association of State-Level Tax Policy and Infant Mortality in the United States, 1996-2019. View Abstract
Systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic value of four biomarkers in detecting neonatal sepsis in low- and middle-income countries. View Abstract
Cash transfers and nutrition education to improve dietary diversity among children aged 6-23 months in Grand Gedeh County, Liberia: a cluster-randomized trial. View Abstract
Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis among surgical patients: results from a retrospective observational study at a public hospital in Liberia. View Abstract
"I Want to be President of Liberia": Reflections on Pediatric Cancer Management in West Africa. View Abstract
A Prospective, observational cohort study to identify neonates and children at risk of postdischarge mortality in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Monrovia, Liberia: the PPDM study protocol. View Abstract
Implementation of a pediatric early warning score tool in a pediatric oncology Ward in Palestine. View Abstract
Where there is no local author: a network bibliometric analysis of authorship parasitism among research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa. View Abstract
The Impact of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Improvements on Hand Hygiene at Two Liberian Hospitals during the Recovery Phase of an Ebola Epidemic. View Abstract
Pediatric nurses' perceptions of preparedness for global health fieldwork. View Abstract
Emergency Medicine Training Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review. View Abstract
Understanding the Predictors that Contribute to Liberian Health Care Workers Feeling Protected From Ebola While at Work. View Abstract
Improving Pediatric Academic Global Health Collaborative Research and Agenda Setting: A Mixed-Methods Study. View Abstract
Importance of authorship and inappropriate authorship assignment in paediatric research in low- and middle-income countries. View Abstract
Strengthening healthcare workforce capacity during and post Ebola outbreaks in Liberia: an innovative and effective approach to epidemic preparedness and response. View Abstract
Neglected tropical diseases in children: An assessment of gaps in research prioritization. View Abstract
Academic Medical Support to the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Liberia. View Abstract
Partnerships for Global Child Health. View Abstract
Health-Care Access during the Ebola Virus Epidemic in Liberia. View Abstract
Surgical Care in Liberia and Implications for Capacity Building. View Abstract
Academic Institutions' Critical Guidelines for Health Care Workers Who Deploy to West Africa for the Ebola Response and Future Crises. View Abstract
A Successful US Academic Collaborative Supporting Medical Education in a Postconflict Setting. View Abstract
Sign me up: rules of the road for humanitarian volunteers during the Ebola outbreak. View Abstract
Advances in pediatric dehydration therapy. View Abstract
Insuring the uninsured: A student-run initiative to improve access to care in an urban community. View Abstract
Medical Students Providing Access to Health Care in an Urban Free Clinic View Abstract
Bilateral Breast Reconstruction with TRAM Flaps: Do the Ends Justify the Means? View Abstract
Insuring the Uninsured: a medical student run initiative to improve access to care in an urban community View Abstract
Evaluation of preventative fungal treatment in fathead minnow (Pimephales Promelas) larval survival and growth View Abstract
Effect of habitat degradation on the repruductive success of the fathead minnow (Pimephales Promelas) View Abstract
Evaluation of preventative fungal treatments in fathead minnow (Pimephales Promelas) larval survival and growth View Abstract
The Role of 17 Beta-estradiol in the female fathead minnow (Pimephales Promelas) reproduction in relation to stress View Abstract