Dr Maureen Achebe

Maureen Okam Achebe, MD, MPH is Clinical Director of Hematology at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Associate Professor of Medicine and Global Health Equity at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Achebe is the director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Center at BWH. She is a member of the American Society of Hematology Consortium of Newborn Screening in Africa (CONSA) conducting newborn detection and early intervention in SCD in Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria, Uganda and Liberia. She is assistant director of SCD integration for WHO’s NCDI PENPlus program, an integrated care delivery strategy in LMICs and is on the Executive Committee for St. Jude’s Global Hematology Registry aimed at facilitating quality improvement, advocacy and funding for SCD. Dr. Achebe conducts multi-center clinical trials including gene therapy trials in SCD. She mentors trainees at HMS and co-led Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas (ANPA) ECHO Project with SCD experts in Nigeria and in the diaspora.